Recent content by ktappe

Because this is great info if you want to script settings like this, such as a "firstboot" script for mass imaging & deployment.

@nightlifecj is correct: Fn-Ctrl-F1 has to be pressed first. This was driving me nuts and I thank him profusely (2 years late) for his post. That said, I still think it's silly that Apple makes us choose between convenient brightness controls and an easy keyboard shortcut to access menus. I...

A likely cause is a bad value being entered into the Automatic Proxy Configuration URL field. (This is inside System Preferences->Network->Proxies). Safari and the rest of the OS honor this field, but IE does not. Thus, if a bad value is in there it will disable the OS' connectivity but IE...