If you know me, you know that I’m a huge proponent of Drobo. As of late, the frustration level with Drobo is increasing and it may have edged away at this enthusiasm. My most recent frustration came when I upgraded a drive in my Drobo to increase the usable space to more then 2TB. After the Drobo finished updating all of its partitions, I was left with a partition that was labeled ‘unallocated’ in the Drobo dashboard.

In trying to migrate from Firefox to Safari on all of my Macs, one thing that has bothered me is the inability to do 1-window browsing (i.e. opening all links in new tabs instead of new windows). After scouring the interwebs, I am still unable to accomplish this in Safari v4.0.4 and Mac OS v10.6.2. Even though there are multiple blog posts out there explaining a simple solution, it doesn’t seem to work on any of my machines.

For quite a while I’ve struggled with a ‘strict’ NAT when connecting to XBox Live. I’ve finally fixed this problem. Apparently, BE locks down their Speedtouch routers which creates this problem. The fix is simple: http://www.beusergroup.co.uk/technotes/index.php/Xbox_Live On top of this, you may need to forward some ports on your router: http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Thomson-Alcatel/SpeedTouch585/Xbox_Live_360.htm When I get some time, I will try to confirm the need for mapping ports.

Such an annoying problem, especially for connecting to GMail via IMAP. I constantly get the error: Too many simultaneous connections. The worst part is this has been known ever since Leopard shipped: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5820548 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1207290 Any fix, Apple? UPDATE This problem seems to date much further back then Leopard. I’ve found references to this same issue in late 2003 (v10.3!!), here: https://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031130150826388 Unfortunately, I don’t have access to server configuration as my problem is with GMail.

Recently, I upgraded my iPhone from a 3G to a 3GS and was planning on selling the 3G on Ebay. After listing it then going through the bidding process, a user named “charlesgaulle” had won. Immediately after the auction ended I noticed that this person was from France and my auction explicitly stated that this was to only be sold to someone living in the UK. Also, the person’s name (Branson Jean) doesn’t even match the username, which is when I started getting suspicious.

I know that much has been made of data and connectivity problems on AT&T in the States, but I’ve found O2 to be just as bad, if not worse. About once per day, even though I have full bars and am connected to 3G, my iPhone is unable to receive any data. Loading webpages doesn’t work, refreshing mail doesn’t work, connecting to the App Store doesn’t work, etc. This occurs for about 5 to 10 minutes at a time and can sometimes occur multiple times per day.