I’ve written lot of articles about computers. But none mattered. You see, I could have summed it all up in one simple, easy to digest piece of information: There are little men and women running around inside your computer. They take bits of data, in Bushels of 8 bits (a byte) from one place to another, doing maths and even run inside network cables to bring information from their homeworld, tehGoogle. These little men fly through the air so fast to bring you wireless that you can’t even see them. They’re really nice and you forgot about them for Christmas. That’s ok, they’re so little, they ate a crumb of Santa’s…
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https://krypted.com/ Turns 10 Today
Wow, seems like just yesterday I took down the old static page that was just a bunch of links I used to find stuff and went with a full-on WordPress site and published my first article. Doesn’t seem like I’ve been writing that long. But when I look at the over 2,500 posts on this site and the fact that I hit over 210,000 uniques last month, I guess it must be true. I’m so thankful that people want to read this stuff. And I’m really glad that I’ve been able to help a few people over the years. I hope the next 10 years are even better than the…
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10 Great Tax Apps From Bushel’s Blog
Tax season: the race is on towards April 15th, when your taxes are due! Some people have a nice sorted list of all their expenses, maybe even color coded. Others have receipts in a musty old hat. Some, have done no work in preparation. Either way, you’re still waiting for that W-2 so yo have some time. And we have some apps to help you start preparing for that fateful day, tax day: Read More About Bushel’s Tax Apps
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Childproof Your Mac
When I put a computer in my daughters room, I soon realized I could no longer watch over her shoulder as she worked away at school games, Minecraft and of course Civilization (after all, that was my first game). So much as I wrote an article a long time ago about child-proofing an iPad, now I’m writing about child-proofing a Mac. For me, I find that child-proofing is a bit like taking my kid to McDonald’s. I said never ever ever ever would I do this and then… Well, peer pressure, ya’ll… So if I have to do it, I figure someone else might. So here’s a quick and dirty guide to doing…
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Show Volumes On The OS X Desktop
I spent a lot of time on Windows a long time ago. And one of the things I got used to was having hard drives on the desktop. And I liked it. So when Apple took them off the desktop I started running these commands on new accounts only own systems. The other day when I gave them to someone, they said I should post them. So here goes… To show removable media (cards, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowRemovableMediaOnDesktop -bool true To show external hard drives (USB, Thunderbolt, firewire, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowExternalHardDrivesOnDesktop -bool true To show mounted servers (AFP, SMB, NFS, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowMountedServersOnDesktop -bool true…
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The 10 Most Popular Bushel Blog Posts of 2014
We’ve been super busy here at Bushel this year, launching a new product to help setup and manage Apple devices, and contributing as much as we can to the most excellent Apple community. And the community has been super good to us. So we decided to do a quick round-up of the 10 most popular of these posts that we’ve done so far! Discover The 10 Most Popular Posts of 2014 On The Bushel Blog
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Command Control Power Podcast
Recently, I had the pleasure of doing a Podcast with Command Control Power. We laughed, we cried and we talked about Yetis. Fun times. Check it out at 082: Interview with Charles Edge of JAMF Software and Krypted.com.
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Be A Good Patriotic American By Renting Sony’s The Interview
Recently I’ve read a lot of things about the attacks against Sony. I’ve read that they’re nothing more than extortion attempts by hackers that probably live in their parents basements (based on the fact that the initial demands didn’t mention North Korea at all). I’ve read they were orchestrated by China by people who felt North Korea was being picked on and couldn’t stand up for themselves. I’ve read highly unconvincing reports from the FBI that they were orchestrated by North Korea. No one really knows. I can send traffic to servers from anywhere in the world. Anyone can anonymize their web traffic as easily as using a ToR plug-in…
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The 12 Days Of Krypted
Merry Christmas ya’ll! On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me one 32 gig iPad On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me two bash one-liners On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three Red Hat servers On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four email blasts On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me five retweets On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me six regular expressions On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me seven lines of perl…
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Happy Holidays
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