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This is getting a lot more interest than I expected, so I’ll just let you know that: After a lot of to-and-fro with customer support, I spoke to a director at the company. The director disavowed any wrongdoing on FastMail’s part. I received a full refund, even though I used the service for two months.Continue reading FastMail: the Final Chapter
For reasons I won’t go into until amicably resolved, I can no longer recommend FastMail. If you are serious about email, you need to self-host. FastMail may have a good technical service, but their customer support is lacking. For this reason alone, I cannot recommend them.
Recently I noticed that my ten-month-old Retina MacBook Pro was sluggish. I’d read reports and heard anecdotal evidence that Yosemite was running slow for people, even on the latest hardware, so I figured I’d get to the bottom of it. The immediate culprit was a process called UserEventAgent, which was chewing up more CPU thanContinue reading OS X Yosemite – the strange case of /.MobileBackups.trash
Edit: 19 November 2014. I can no longer recommend FastMail. You can read the original article below.
Tonight, I scheduled Windows Updates on a customer’s server, and decided to sit through the process myself. After the 1.9GB of downloads to support 31 updates had downloaded and installed, I pressed the “Restart” button on the Windows Update dialogue box, and waited. And waited. And waited. Normally, this server is responsive to Remote DesktopContinue reading Windows Updates gone awry
Caustic, no-holds-barred, foul-mouthed, and a delight, and we’ll miss her. The opportunity to see her in April makes this less sad. So long, Joan. Give ’em hell up there.
I ran into an interesting problem recently, which I only resolved today though a bit of trickery. With the release of OneDrive, Microsoft replaced the existing SkyDrive application on OS X with a new binary. It still refers to the same ~/SkyDrive folder on the file system, but it’s definitely different. One of the majorContinue reading Symbolic links and Microsoft OneDrive on OS X Mavericks
Six-One or Up is the latest post I’ve written on Born SQL’s blog. This piece talks about the end of life of Windows XP and Server 2003 R2, and why you should upgrade.
Edit 2024-07-05: Yikes. This is reposted without permission from Neil Gaiman’s Journal, from an entry titled “in the wee small hours of the morning” (7 June 2006): Hi Neil, I’ve been a fan of your work for awhile now and I just came across your site. I’ve had this nagging question, about authors, stuck inContinue reading “The art isn’t the artist” – Neil Gaiman
I have been forced to retire [email protected] due to the incredible amount of spam that it receives. While most of this ends up safely in my spam folder, eliminating the address will stop almost 600 spam emails a week from existing. If you want to send me email, don’t do it on that address 🙂Continue reading Retiring an email address