• Football

    Rivalry week

    15-12, Georgia over Tech.  We did it and move to 8-4 regular season.  Someone’s going bowling and it might just be the Bulldogs!

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    Launch Safari with Tabs

    Safari, and the resulting tabbed browsing, can revolutionize the way you work with the web.  If you would like to keep the tabs in your browser, even if you don’t have a second tab (ie – if you’d like to test the size or look of your environment) then you can have the browser open with a single tab by default.  com.apple.Safari.plist has a number of settings that aren’t exposed in the graphical interface of Safari.  The AlwaysShowTabBar key can be used to set this behavior.  For example: defaults write com.apple.Safari AlwaysShowTabBar -bool YES You can undo this with: defaults write com.apple.Safari AlwaysShowTabBar -bool NO

  • Football

    Bulldog BYE

    No game today.  So must watch the other teams/conferences.  Sad.  From 5-0 to a bad downward spiral.  But there’s always next season.

  • Consulting

    Testing Restores on Backups

    We’ve attended plenty of events that preach the importance of backup, but rarely is it approached from what is essentially at the heart of data protection – data recovery. For example, did you know that DLT tapes (still the media of choice across the board) are designed to be overwritten only 5 times? According to our valued partners at SonicWALL, Inc., administrators report that they use DLT tapes an average of 12 times. Also, something like 73% of the backed up data surveyed, was unrecoverable!!! Point being, a backup is only as secure as its recovery plan. The recommendation here is to run periodic recovery drills to test the viability…

  • Football

    Georgia/Auburn

    Just when you thought you’d be 500 going into the end of the season you pull out a win against the War Eagles.  Georgia decisively beats Auburn 37-15.

  • Business,  Consulting,  Network Infrastructure,  On the Road

    VoIP 101

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal As the name implies, VoIP refers to voice or phone calls that traverse data networks using Internet Protocol (IP). This may mean that the calls are going over the Internet, or it may simply mean calls are traveling over privately managed data networks that are using IP to transport the calls from one location to the other. This represents a fundamental change or shift in transportation and routing of traditional voice services work over analog wires. With VoIP, the voice stream is broken down into data packets, compressed and sent to its destination using the Internet (as opposed to establishing a ‘permanent’ connection for…

  • Football

    Wildcats Beat Bulldogs

    I’m stunned.  We started the season 5-0 and in the past few weeks have dropped to 6-4.  Richt has got to get things under control.  Please, please, please don’t loose to tech.  🙁

  • Mac OS X Server

    CLI: Get and Set Mac OS X Server Serial

    You can use the serversetup tool in /System/Library/ServerSetup/ to set the serial number for a Mac OS X Server.  Provided the ServerSetup directory is your working directory you can then use the serversetup tool to configure the serial number ./serversetup -setServerSerialNumber “XSVR-105-000-N-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|Charles Edge|318” Once the serial number has been set you can then get the serial number using the following command no matter the working directory: /System/Library/ServerSetup/ -getServerSerialNumber