The below with apologies to Paul Simon…

Apple just released version 9.0.1 of the steaming pile we like to call iTunes. Still crashes. Crashity-crash-crash-crash. Crap.

Is iTunes the worst piece of software in the world today? Yes!

IceT demonstrates his method of Mac repair. Macisfaction. Not suitable for Mac lovers. Contains scenes of a distressing Mac nature. It’s one way of getting the hard drive out of a Macbook. Try handing that over to a Mac Genius. Other methods of Mac repair are available. Embedded below from YouTubular.

On the Mac you can change the DVD region code 5 times after which no more changes are “allowed”. There’s something fundamentally wrong with hardware that disables itself. Or hardware that essentially dictates to the owner (the owner!) what it can be used for. Anyway, some searching turns up the means to reset the code. The below applies to Pioneer drives. My Mac has a Pioneer DVR-117 drive there’s seems to be no specific firmware for this drive downloadable on the net but some searching on the forums makes it clear that we can use the DVR-108…

“Print file was not accepted (client-error-document-format-not-supported)!”

Here’s a page explaining how to make the sasl_passwd.db file used by Postfix when SMTP relaying mail.

We like to print invoices in a variety of currencies. There’s no setting in QuickBooks for this - it takes the system default… Well, most of the time. If you have your Region (International PreferencePane, System Preferences) set to one where the little yellow triangle shows up with the message about Unicode and WorldScript, the currency symbol is ignored. So, say I have China selected for no other reason than say I’m in China and billing in Yuan QuickBooks will use the $ (USD) symbol. I have to set the Region to ‘United States’ (not the Unicode one,…

I’m re-installing the latest in a line of sick iMacs after it has returned to us with new hard disk. I keep getting “perl crashed” messages appearing in the console when doing a software update and when trying to print with cups. The perl crash log tells us why: