• Articles and Books

    Facebook Pages

    Better late than never. Facebook pages for some of my books: Using Mac OS X Lion Server: https://www.facebook.com/osxserver Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator’s Guide: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-iPhone-and-ipad-Administrators-Guide/282217275233852 Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-Mac-Administrators-Guide/190363331102720 Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-Machine-In-Mac-OS-X-Lion/448356355230805 Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beginning-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-Server/371061802989330 Enterprise Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-Mac-Security-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard/221774031291627 Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Foundations-of-Mac-OS-X-Leopard-Security/550986454931475 Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book: https://www.facebook.com/TigerServerLittleBlackBook Will post a few more things soon. Thanks!

  • Articles and Books,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    A New Mobile Device Theme Too

    Last night, I made the site much simpler. Tonight, I modernized the feel as well for mobile devices as well. No more of that iOS 3 lookin’ interface. Now, it looks pretty similar to what the main look and feel is, just without the sidebar and squished into a more trim number of pixels. Hope you enjoy, if you’re the type that reads my stuff on a train from your phone. Not that I’m being presumptuous that people actually read what I have to say…

  • Mac OS X Server,  Ubuntu,  Unix,  WordPress

    WordPress Site Stuck In Maintenance Mode

    When doing updates in WordPress, upgrading the WordPress version or the Plug-Ins causes the site to enter into Maintenance Mode. While in Maintenance Mode, a message appears that says “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” rather than the actual site. Sometimes, especially if you’re using the automatic updating functions, an update might fail and the site may be stuck in Maintenance Mode. WordPress looks at the root level of a directory for some hidden files that can tell a site to operate in a different manner. If there’s a file called “.maintenance” then the site will display the message above. When an update of a Plug-in fails,…

  • Articles and Books,  personal,  sites

    A More Minimal https://krypted.com/

    I’ve wanted to redo https://krypted.com/ for a long time. And I finally had a good excuse: my wife and daughter went to sleep early tonight. So, phase one, a very minimal design. This kinda’ mimics my latest approach to a lot of things, but the site is far simpler, a little quicker and hopefully now that the bad design has less to say, I’ll end up getting back to having more to say. Anyway, I hope you like it and Happy 2013!

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Network Infrastructure

    The New Caching Service In OS X Server

    These days, new services get introduced in OS X Server during point releases. OS X now has a Software Caching server built to make updates faster. This doesn’t replace Apple’s Software Update Server mind you, it supplements. And, it’s very cool technology. “What makes it so cool” you might ask, given that Software Update Server has been around for awhile. Namely, the way that clients perform software update service location and distribution with absolutely no need (or ability) for centralized administration. Let’s say that you have 200 users with Mac Minis and an update is released. That’s 200 of the same update those devices are going to download over your…

  • Articles and Books,  Business,  cloud,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Apple's Customer Facing SystemStatus

    Apple now has a new system status page for their services, available at http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus. This site goes through many of Apple’s services and shows an indicator light for when they are up. Additionally, you can scroll down to the detailed timeline and see a historical account of what services are online. This is yet another step in Apple’s continued progress at providing more and more information to the community on, well, everything. This includes seeing Apple popping up at conferences here and there, most notably at Black Hat this year, publishing more kbase articles that detail problems and allowing more community involvement from some employees. A more open Apple is a…

  • Articles and Books,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Announcing: mountainlionserver.com

    OK, so I’m a little behind (what can I say, absolutely swamped these days!) on posts. I mentioned this on Twitter already, but it’s worth mentioning here as well. I’m involved with a new site, called mountainlionserver.com that takes some of the posts I did at https://krypted.com//wiki/a-guide-to-using-mountain-lion-server-mac-os-x-server-10-8 modernizes them and puts them into a much, much prettier interface. I’ll try and keep these up-to-date and expand them as time goes on, with the help of the good folks at Mac Mini Colo. Just in case anyone wonders (yes, I’ve already been asked), no $ has or will change hands, nor discounted hosting for the 3 servers I have at Mac Mini…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  personal,  public speaking

    MacTech Spotlight – Fall 2012

    Looks like I’m on the back page of the latest issue of MacTech Magazine (see Table of Contents at http://www.mactech.com/issue-TOCs-2012). And it turns out I’m not there for the reason I usually adorn the back page of magazines; I’m fully clothed and for the most part it’s technical: I’m the MacTech Spotlight. If I keep this up, I’ll be able to keep my clothes on full time in the future. Not sure what will happen to my spot at Sunset and LaBrea now, though… Anyway, despite featuring me, MacTech is a great magazine. Where else can you find information on Adobe packaging, QuickLook development, building a Squid proxy, HTML5 and…