Category: Correction: Mac Pro, Clean Installs vs. Deleting Users, Create Installers with Terminal

Sometimes it comes in handy to have the ability to reinstall your OS without an active internet connection, which is required by the built-in recovery partition of your Mac. I have found a Terminal command that allows you to do just that. First, you will need the install image. This is available for download from…

Multiple customers approach our service counter weekly, requesting that their Mac be “completely wiped.” Normally, this means they would like their hard drive erased of all its content, and the appropriate operating system re-installed. I’m glad to perform this procedure or give the customer instructions on how to do it, but in many cases, it’s…

__Editor’s Note: The article, “Mac Pro PCI Express Slots”, featured in the “*last issue of Tech Tails*”:, was incorrectly attributed to Kyle S. Sorry about that, folks! This week, he offers some notes and corrections to the article that ran.__ I want to take some time to make a few corrections to last issue’s Mac…

When I was first hired at Small Dog, my position was but that of a humble retail salesperson. Every week, I’d eagerly read Tech Tails in order to glean new tricks and wisdom from our senior technicians, who reminded me of street-toughened cops but actually ate more donuts. It amused me that Liam Flynn, a…