We're trying to keep a good pace with these, and this week we have a little game: every time one of us says 'thing', take a drink. Thanks to Peter Bukowinski for the new artwork, Aaron Lippincott as always for mastering the audio, and Tiki for the sound effects.
Archived copy: The Frogor 45, Episode 1 - The Wrong Ocean by The AFP548.com Podcast (SoundCloud)The Frogor 45, Episode 1 - The Wrong Ocean by The AFP548.com Podcast by The AFP548.com Podcast; archived 2026-10-21. It's great to be back.
Just for those that didn't see this: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/news/2015/11/has-macupdate-fallen-to-the-adware-plague/ $ strings /Volumes/MacUpdate\ Installer/MacUpdate\ Installer.app/Contents/bin/AssetsChanger |…
As if you haven't heard, there's something new this month to cause drama on the Apple upgrade treadmill (just as nefarious as Slack dragging everyone's communication watering hole into the future). This time it's the coming System Integrity Protection and other tightening restrictions we're all dealing with.
As part of a security initiative to make distinct firmware passwords per machine and escrow them to Crypt's newly distinct 'secrets' database table, I came up with the idea to make an analogue to the Password Assistant you see in Keychain Access or the Accounts pane of System Preferences.
We at AFP548 would like to congratulate JAMF Software and IBM for their announced collaboration to provide management services to Apple customers all around the world. In one fell swoop, one of the oldest technology companies showed it was serious about supporting Apple's products, and here's to the notion that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Just a quick link to (your friend and mine) Shea 'G' Craig's blog for an update about the new Thunderstrike patches that came down with 10.10.4, head over there for the skinny.
This year many attendees of the Penn State Mac Admins Conference likened the experience to summer camp. I described it as the feeling of gluttony, and as I'm a bit of an enthusiast, I'm still recovering from intellectual overload.
Picking up where we left off with Jenkins, let's look at one possible workflow to get autopkg projects working. Specifically when paired with Munki, this requires a bit more thought, but the Jenkins 'workspace' model and sane use of variables allows us to make one all-purpose script for most contingencies we'd deal with.
Confession time: back when I was a consultant, I didn't always use best practices. I know - that's a loaded phrase anyway, but this wasn't good. My name is Allister Banks, and I set up autopkg to run as root with a launchdaemon.
