A couple of recent media items to note. The first is the Enterprise Desktop Alliance has released a new version of their annual Mac in the Enterprise survey. It can be found here: Apparently someone from CIO Magazine (one of the few that I read routinely) picked up on the release and did an article on it, which can be found here. While he agreed with many of the points from the survey he also seemed to be a little critical that integrating Macs into enterprise environments was all about TCO reduction. Some great points in both and whether you agree with the methodology or message of either, it’s still…
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Rube
Thanks for the link, David.
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More repairPermissions
Yesterday I looked at using diskutil to repair the permissions on a boot volume. You can also use diskutil to repair the permissions on a non-booted volume provided that there is a valid Mac OS X installation on that volume. To do so you would simply provide the path to that volume rather than to the blessed boot volume. For example, if the disk that we mentioned in the previous article were called Seldon and it was in a host booted to target disk mode then you would simply provide the path /Volumes/Seldon as before: diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/Seldon In the event that you are scripting and want to take into…