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Tim Perfitt of Twocanoes Software has put together a nice video showcasing the thirty years of Macintosh models. I’ve owned eight of them, mostly portables.  How about you? Read more about the video on the Twocanoes blog. Samuel KeeleySamuel Keeley can frequently be found in ##osx-server on Freenode, or on […]

It’s always great to get help from a community of your peers, and our recent survey was an attempt to start having us all check in every once in a while as a group with data about how we maintain and provide management for our customers. Inspired by questions about […]

UPDATE: We’ve gotten 100 responses, which is great! …And also the limit on the form we used 🙁 Sorry! Thanks to everyone who responded, I’ll clean up the results and make a follow-up post soon. In the meantime all the data can be seen and downloaded here: https://afp548.wufoo.com/reports/afp548-2014-productplatform-poll/ Allister BanksAllister lives in […]

A vacation for your ears comes mid-winter as Pepijn Bruienne in thunderstorm-y Michigan returns to join Mac Admin (and new father) Derick Okihara in not-snowy Hawaii. Arek Dreyer and Ben Greisler get a shout-out each, DeployStudio goes down main street in a cab, and we even kick it old-school as […]

To All Sydney Mac Admins, Our 2nd Meeting of the year is scheduled for the 26th February. We have a booking at 6pm for the Fulton Room at Hart’s Pub, Corner of Essex & Gloucester St, The Rocks. Don’t miss out on a great opportunity to get together with your […]

Seb Nash makes his hosting debut, joined by Luis Giraldo of Ook Enterprises. They talk about how Luis got to where he is, consultants as salespeople, and the perils of wireless deployments at tech conferences. Launching his product MonkeyBox gets a fair amount of airtime, and we see some of the […]

To All Sydney Mac Admins, After the success of our inaugural meeting in December 2013, we have actually booked a room for the January Meeting. We currently have a booking at 6pm for the Foulton Room at Hart’s Pub, Corner of Essex & Gloucester St, The Rocks on Wednesday 29th […]

John Kitzmiller is putting together a group of Mac admins in the Chicago area. These meet ups are a great way to get to know others in our community, and I have had a great time at similar meetups like MacBrained in San Francisco. If you are in the Chicago […]

Hey folks, Through a quite unexpected streak, we were able to produce and release 6 episodes of season one of the AFP548 podcast every two weeks up until now – our thanks go out to all those who’ve listened, and just as much thanks for those who participated in experiments […]

Justin Rummel and Tom Bridge have created a new Mac Sysadmins Group called MacDMV. Patterned after successful sysadmin groups in other cities like MacBrained in SF and NSCoders in Seattle, this will be an opportunity to get together with your fellow admins and consultants from the greater DC area to […]