So you've gotten ok with scripts, or at least have tasked yourself with sorting through and in some cases slinging around plain text files. You've even heard about this Github thing, maybe you've already made an account, maybe you're even digging in to it more often.
If you're like me, you love autopkg. You don't even want to perform web searches for download links anymore. I'm told there are certain things that can't be automated. But, when I first saw that many recipes could follow roughly the same format, I thought to myself 'we have to go deeper'(BUMMMMMMM!BUMBUM!
Thanks to all the great presenters at PSU MacAdmins this year and @frogor (Michael Lynn) on twitter, here is a partial list of presenter slides that were posted to Twitter under the #psumac hashtag: Modular Image…
Pepijn Bruienne is this weeks Master of Ceremonies, with Charles Edge along for the ride. Beside hot-button, buzz-worthy subjects like LA USD's iPad deployment and BYO(Apple)D, they find time to talk football and the perils of public speaking.
AFP548 has always been about community: like-minded folks found their way to the Apple platform, and some of us even made a career out of supporting "Enterprise at your own risk"(copyright Nate Walck.
A new Flash Player has come out and it is worse than before or perhaps the Adobe CS Suite is nuking itself randomly. What do these issues both have in common you might ask? The answer is that you've not told Adobe about your issues.
A new FileVault 2 escrow app has been released recently and offers a good alternative to Califlower Vest. The app is called Crypt and it is Graham Gilbert's baby. Crypt has both a client and a web app (which is django-based).
With OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion came some new Unix commands that are very handy. Among them is pgrep and pkill, which rolls grep into the ps command so you no longer have to pipe ps to grep in order to find a running process.
I usually get quite a lot of unsolicited feedback about Adobe's installers at MacWorld or WWDC (and even better, unguarded, feedback at the Thirsty Bear around closing time) but this year without an IT Track at WWDC (grrrr) I stayed home.
I had a hard time finding a step-by-step procedure for setting up OS X Server Wiki with Active Directory Integration (aside from just setting authentication to plain text on the Apple site) so, I wrote the following procedure.
