Tag Archives: Mac Mini

May
28
2012

Book 9: DNS Management Guide

by Skippy

I use 123-reg as my domain registrar, I found this DNS Management Guide on there site. Its not a very big book; but it gives a nice quick overview to DNS, and gives examples of how to use different records. A records, CNAME records, MX records, nameservers…… confused? What will this guide help me with? This guide contains [...]

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May
28
2012

Book 7: Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office

by Skippy

Charles Edge’s “Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office” (published by O’Reilly books) is a good introduction into the setting up and configuring of Mac OS X Lion Server, its aimed at small workgroup installs, such as Home, SOHO, or Schools. If you’re considering a Mac OS X server for [...]

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May
18
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 3: Lion Server

by Skippy

Following  on from Parts one, and two, I now have a mac mini running OS X Lion, and will now be making Lofn into a Fulla replacement. Two small changes need to be made first though to make it less desktop like; and more Server Like (yes before installing Lion Server App). Power The single [...]

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May
17
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 2

by Skippy

Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283) with only 1 Gig of Ram  however I have bought 2 Gigs from Crucial with [...]

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Dec
22
2011

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 1

by Skippy

For the last few years I have been using a Mac Mini as my desktop; With Lion being released, and installed on my Mac Book Pro, now after using it for a while I want to use it on my mac mini as well; one of the annoying problems with it however is it requires [...]

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Sep
11
2011

DVD Ripping Work Flow

by Skippy

As Part of my attempt to reduce the amount of stuff I have, I have been ripping my DVDs to my Mac; this allows me to store them on hard drive; and not need to get the disks out all the time; Also it allows me to watch them on my mac mini, which has a dead [...]

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Oct
31
2005

My Shiney

by Skippy

A Mac Mini for £500 lets see what sort of PC upgrades I can do for under £500 CPU: AMD SEMPRON 64BIT 3300 + 1600MHz HTT/128K Memory: 2048 MB DDR400 PC3200 WITH LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2×1GB) Motherboard: FOXCONN 760GX WITH SIS760GX CHIPSET, 8X AGP, SATA, 3 PCI Graphics Card: 256MB GEFORCE 6600 8X AGP + DVI [...]

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