Category: 659: eWaste Roundup Recap, When Migration Assistant Fails, ASLServer vs. My Workstation

I wrote several weeks ago about an eMac with mysteriously disappearing disk space. The machine’s hard drive kept filling up to the point that the “Your startup disk is almost full” message would pop up persistently, even though no new files had been added to the drive in several days. The solution was to delete…

There are few things better than the joy of getting a new machine and walking through Apple’s convenient Migration Assistant that comes up the first time you boot your new Mac. In most cases the Migration Assistant does a wonderful job of taking all the data and applications from your old Mac and moving them…

Another year, another electronic waste roundup. With the help of about one hundred volunteers and financial support from local businesses and our vendors, we collected over 150 tons of electronic waste last Saturday. The previous two events were massively successful, if somewhat hampered by their location outside our Burlington store. Marketing manager Kali Hilke and…

Happy Tuesday, Mark Engelhardt called me last night and asking me to check out the Waitsfield offices after the fire alarm was tripped. I arrived a few minutes later to flashing lights, ambulances, fire trucks, and at least a dozen volunteer firefighters. Astonished and amazed that the volunteers beat me to the scene, I unlocked…