Articles by: Nate Walck

The PSU MacAdmins 2013 Call for Proposals has been open for around a month, so get your proposals in before it is too late.  If you are not sure what to talk on, take a look at their Call for Proposals page to get an idea for a session.  If […]

Hardware filtering has been around for a while with the NetBoot service, but until recently you could get away one or perhaps two NetBoot sets to cover a whole range of models.  With Lion and Mountain Lion, the compatibility breakdown became a lot more complicated where some Intel Macs were […]

On the newest version of Server.app (2.2) there is a new service called Caching.  Clearly it is for caching things, but what exactly and how? Get a first look at this new service over at Noel Alonso’s blog. Nate WalckNate is a Systems Reliability Engineer at Dropbox, Inc in San Francisco, […]

If you need to add permissions to files or folders beyond User, Group or Other, then ACLs are the answer.  You can have super fine control over files and folders with ACLs and assign them based upon any number of users and groups.  Erin Scott over at the 318 has […]

Several people have posted in the forums as well as on the MacE mailing list wondering where Mike Bombich’s Mactips went.  When the new website rolled out, some of the old content had been removed by request.  Due to how many people asked about the Mactips section, we talked with […]

With the advent of Gatekeeper, OS X now uses the quarantine extended attribute to warn you that the file or application was downloaded from the internet.  This can be an annoyance for end users if you are offering files or applications to them and the quarantine attribute is present on […]

Once you start using Terminal on a regular basis, you learn many tricks to make life easier and more efficient.  Some of these tricks include setting an alias for commands as well as having bash use color when cruising around the CLI.  The 318 Tech Journal has some helpful tips […]

While Xcode is a single .app that is very easy to deploy, there are several support packages that must be installed when you first launch Xcode. If your end users do not have admin rights or it is for a lab setup, it is ideal to have all these packages […]

Now that AppleTVs are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise and education, Apple has added Profile support for them.  You can now manage certain aspects of the AppleTV using Profiles.  One such aspect is wireless configurations, including 802.1x profiles for secure networks.  Check out the details on how to apply […]

Sick of that error message popping up whenever an app is opened for the first time on your machine?  Are your end users going crazy because of this?  Fear not, there is a way to suppress these warnings.  Tim Sutton has a post that explores exactly where these settings are […]