A Frustrating Journey
iTunes 11 was released recently. I had hope that it would address some of my frustration with iTunes. It didn't. All the old frustration remains and a couple new bugs arrived. My thoughts on iTunes and my plans for music moving forward. Read the rest »
I haven't been able to do a wireless sync between my iPad and iTunes since upgrading to iOS 6. The MacCast gave me a solution and this is it. Read the rest »
About 3:30PM ET today I got an alert that my site was down. Sure enough, it was not accessible. I logged onto my Linode management console and there was a notice that they were investigating a problem affecting my server, They problem was so recent that the status page hadn’t been updated with the incident yet, but it soon indicated a power problem was reported at the site. Long story short, utility power failed and the generators failed to kick in automatically so power was lost to some servers and [...] Read the rest »
I was getting a "File does not exist: /etc/apache2/htdocs" error in my default Apache error log. The error appeared every 5 minutes. All my sites were fine but this was getting annoying so it was time to do something about it. Read the rest »
April showers held off for most of the month, so much so that there were almost daily Red Flag Warnings for brush fires. But at the end of the month a nor’easter rolled in. While it dumped snow elsewhere, it stuck to water around here. April was another light month on the OS Quest. It seemed to fly by. Most of my work revolved around problems. Read the rest »
Rebooting my HP MicroServer after applying the April Windows Home Server 2011 was the start of the problems.Obviously a problem with Microsoft's patches, right? By the time I was done the software wa untouched and I had swapped the MicroServer. Read the rest »
I long loved iTunes as a music player. But everything else makes it bloatware in my opinion and that bloat causes problems to come and go. They came in the form of iTunes freezes the last couple of days. Read the rest »
My Cloudberry backup started failing a couple days ago, saying it couldn't find two file. It was a minor problem but it took some time to figure out. It was a lesson in mixing and matching file systems. Read the rest »
Another year draws to a close but it's just another month on The OS Quest. There was the usual mix of frustrations and a couple new pieces of hardware. And yea, a few words looking back on the past year. Happy New year! Read the rest »
This season's time change seemed to cause fewer problems than other recent changes. But it still wasn't problem free with my iPhone and some software having minor issues. Read the rest »