Archive for March, 2010

Cleaning up after your Mac or how to kill ._AppleDouble and .DS_store

March 9th, 2010

I love my Mac but it’s not very “clean” when working on network shares. If you work in a heterogeneous environment and you connect your mac to network shares, people may complain about the Mac leaving what some folks call “mac dust”. Files like .ds_store and files that have ._ prepended to them with otherwise [...]

Howto Fix Webdav On Windows 7 64bit

March 4th, 2010

For the impatient, I’ll skip right to the solution. Use AuthDigest for authentication in your webdav server config. That’s the big issue with connecting. Windows won’t connect with Basic Auth. For more detail read on.
First let me say that I will be so happy when Microsoft finally flutters in to irrelevance. I use a Mac and [...]