Archive for November, 2004

Let SystemStarter do your dirty work for you

No need to remember how to start/stop a process on your own if a good StartupItem was written for it.

Have you ever noticed that Office 2004 installs fonts all over the place? You can use this handy script by Arek Dreyer to remove them after they have been installed.

(Ed. note: You can remove the DoFonts file from the Office folder to keep it from installing them in the first place.)

Download the script here.

The MacEnterprise.org (formerly MacOSXLabs.org) group will be presenting an Apple Remote Desktop 2 In-Depth Webcast on Tuesday, November 16 at 1:00 pm EDT. Nader Nafissi, Server Software Product Manager at Apple, will be presenting on recent changes to ARD 2 available in the most recent update, 2.1.

We will also have three more Apple on hand to give presentations on how to use ARD 2 in more interesting ways. You’ll learn much more about leveraging the ARD SQL database to track machine changes, the Send UNIX command, and streamlining mass Macintosh deployments using SQL and PHP.

For more information on how to watch this WebCast, please visit the MacEnterprise.org website:

http://macenterprise.org/

Note that the broadcast ID needed to view the webcast has changed to ‘macenterprise’!!

Allow each of your users to have unique spam settings using Amavis and LDAP.

With a little bit of work you can allow each user to customize their SpamAssassin tag and kill scores using either their LDAP user records, or just by hand-editing the amavisd.conf config file.

Who needs Exchange? With MRBS you can do your resource scheduling for less.

A walk-through of how to set up and configure an interesting open source meeting room, or other resource, web-based scheduling solution.

Updated PHP and GD install instruction

Dale Walsh has submitted updated installation info which includes PHP5 and a more informative gd_info() routine.

UPDATED 12/05/2004