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Cool Stuff Found, DOCSIS 3.1, and The Backup Tango – Mac Geek Gab 674

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Your questions answered, as always, including several unresponsive Macs and how to fix them, Life after CrashPlan, Problematic iCloud syncing, and moving your media libraries. Cool Stuff Found kicks things off, though, with lots of great stuff that you'll love. Plus, a healthy competition about internet speeds between your two favorite geeks is in there, too! Press play and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 674 for Sunday, September 10, 2017
  • 00:01:53 Bill-Mouse and Keyboard don’t work on Startup
  • 00:06:38 Andy-CSF-IMAPSync
  • 00:10:09 Kurt-CSF-Terminal Help Sites
    • https://www.explainshell.com/
    • http://www.shellcheck.net/
    • http://man-k.org/
    • http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
    • OpenZFS on OS X
    • Don’t forget “man man” from Terminal to learn more about manual pages.  For example, “man -w” shows path to man pages
    • 00:14:22 Dave-CSF-The Dropbox Drobo Arq Tango
    • 00:16:16 Dave from Houston-CSF-Fakespot
    • 00:17:56 Bob-CSF-672-Carbon Copy Cloner Internet Backup
    • 00:19:48 Zack-CSF-Bluelounge Jimi USB Port Extension
    • 00:22:20 Lawyer Jeff-CSF-Tech Restarter
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    • 00:33:08 DOCSIS 3.1 Modems are available!
      • NETGEAR CM1000
      • Motorola MB8600
      • Arris SB8200
      • DOCSIS-PIE
      • QAM vs. OFDM
      • What are Comcast’s provisioned speeds
      • 00:52:51 Bill-672-CrashPlan 5TB Migration Limit
      • 00:55:30 Jürgen-672-Life after CrashPlan
      • 01:00:24 Rob-Replacement for Crashplan Local backups
      • 01:03:39 Bill-eero does not maintain LAN when WAN goes out
      • 01:06:00 Ken-673-Use Parallels Access for Remote Access
      • 01:07:23 Michael-673-Screen Sharing with Messages
        • Messages for Mac: Share your screen or another user’s screen in Messages
        • 01:09:26 Todd-673-Telling iTunes and Photos about Moved Libraries
        • 01:15:40 Ian-iCloud Syncing won’t start
          • Use `ping` to diagnose your network
          • 01:20:07 Paul-iCloud Sending Mail Fails
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