I updated to OS X Lion a couple of days ago, and for the most part it was a smooth transition.

This is the first upgrade where Apple is using their App Store concept to distribute the OS, so it was a bit scary to hit “Purchase” and watch nothing happen for half an hour while Mac OS X 10.7 downloaded in the background.

There’s no real indication of anything going on unless you happen upon the “Purchase” tab in the App Store App (seems a bit redundant, doesn’t it?):

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App Store · Apple · Launchpad · Mac OS X · Mac OS X Lion · Macintosh · Microsoft Windows · Mission control center · Operating system · Scroll wheel · Scrolling

I got an email from Microsoft today (Office Insider) that included an article about how to add a calendar to Outlook that would give you the March Madness schedule in Outlook as an example of publicly shared calendars.

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Clients · Google · Google Calendar · ICal · ICalendar · Microsoft · Microsoft Outlook · WebDAV

The other day I got a notification from the Plesk control panel for Carticipate telling me that the user account was about to expire. I logged into Plesk only to find out that the disk on the VPS was full.

Now this was really confusing, since the entire Carticipate system consists of a web2py install, on Linux with a fairly small MySQL database, and the VPS had 20 gigabytes of disk space.

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Backup · Carticipate · Folder (computing) · Google · Hard disk drive · Linux · Plesk · User (computing)

I was on my way home from a business trip and wanted to print my boarding pass. Most hotels have a PC set up that is primarily for that purpose, and this one was no different.

The PC they provide is set up so that it wipes itself every time somebody logs in, which in theory protects you from somebody eavesdropping and/or stealing your information. The down side to this approach is that you’re stuck with whatever they decide is the right version of software to work with.

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Apps · Companies · Google · Google Chrome OS · Google Cloud Print · Google Doc · Microsoft · Microsoft Office

When traveling and trying to use the hard wire at a hotel, you may find that the provided Ethernet cable won’t work. This is because hotels typically have a very outdated infrastructure and are still running at 10Mbps.

Most new computers are set with network speed set to auto detect, but this relies on the hardware being able to handle that detection, which older, cheaper network boxes aren’t able to do.

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ContextMenu · Ethernet · Frankfurt · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · IPad · Juniper Networks · Mouse (computing) · Windows