admin on August 12th, 2009

So, a friend of mine needed to test an email (SMTP) mail server and was writing something to do this in java when I mentioned that it could be tested via telnet.
Here are some of the commands that I’ve used previously:

Telnet to the mail server on the correct port (by default port 25) e.g. telnet [...]

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admin on August 7th, 2009

Recently, I had to go through this process to work out what to do when my friend’s Macbook wouldn’t start.
Here’s a reminder of the things I tried:

Start in Safe Mode. Do this by holding down the Shift key while starting. Release Shift when you see the Apple logo and this spinning thing.
Start in Single User [...]

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