I’ve followed Amsys for awhile, with their training materials and the such. Now, they’ve published an interview with me. If you want to know what I think of skinny jeans, griffins and most importantly where you should (or should not) keep your weed, check out the interview here: http://www.amsys.co.uk/2013/blog/charles-edge-interview-part-1
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New Office For Mac Accreditation
Last week, MacTech released the news of a Microsoft Office accreditation currently in pilot for Apple techs with the following press release, announcing a half day course for the certification: NEW ACCREDITATION FOR APPLE TECHS: “MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC ACCREDITED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL” – Working together, MacTech and Microsoft are making available a new accreditation program for Apple consultants and techsFebruary 21, 2013 — Westlake Village, CA — Today MacTech, who publishes MacTech Magazine as well as produces live events, announced the event and city schedule to obtain Microsoft’s new “Microsoft Office for Mac Accredited Support Professional” accreditation. This pilot program is a half day long, and will take place the day prior to each MacTech…
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Watchman Monitoring Sponsoring https://krypted.com/
I’d like to give a big thanks to Watchman Monitoring for becoming the second sponsor of krypted.com. I like the fact that thus far, I’ve managed to keep all sponsorship talks within the Mac Admin community and hope this is a trend I can continue as time goes on. I also like the fact that it’s all products that I believe in! Watchman provides an excellent service, and if you haven’t had a chance to check it out then I encourage you to do so!
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My New Book on Apple Configurator
My next book, coauthored with Mr. TJ Houston, is now available. The rough draft was mostly complete the week of MacSysAdmin in Sweden. I announced the book at the conference and was busy at work after to get as much as possible complete. And after many an hour and month spent editing this book (props to TJ for doing a lot of the editing), it’s finally available on Packt Publishing. To quote the site, this is what the book is on: The Apple Configurator is an incredible piece of software which grants full control in mobile device management, but on a larger scale. The popularity of people taking their own…
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Grab The Currently Logged In User On OS X
You can ls /dev/console to see the currently logged in user of a machine. To do so: /bin/ls -l /dev/console You can also just grab the username, as follows /bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'
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Change Default Location of New Documents To Not Be iCloud
Recently I had to do a bunch of manual annoying tasks in Preview. And one thing I noticed was that the process was taking a lot longer because I had to change the location that the document was saving from iCloud to my documents. About 5 in, I went ahead and combed through my global defaults real quick and found NSDocuemntSaveNewDocumentsToCloud, in NSGlobalDomain, which controls the default setting for the target location of an object to go to iCloud. To disable, which makes the default location of new documents on your local file system, use the defaults command and set that key to false: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false…