• Minneapolis

    Minneapolis Breweries and Distilleries List

    I noticed a page go up on JAMF Nation inviting people to setup their own birds of a feather/mini-events. As with many cities, one of the things that’s great about Minneapolis is the vibrant craft brew movement here. So, I decided to build a list, with contact information and the distance to the Guthrie. Happy times setting up events. Or if you visit in the future, hope you find it useful! The list is available here.   Eventually I’ll try and write up a description of each. I omitted any place that isn’t actually a brewery, but there are some really great tap rooms as well!

  • Social Networking

    List of all the Swarm Stickers

    Yup, more social media weird lists. If you’ve ever wondered what you have to do to get that one sticker on Foursq… er, Swarm, here goes: https://krypted.com//utilities/list-of-all-swarm-sticker/. A few things I’ve learned about these things: You get stickers if you check-in through third party apps that have API plug-ins to Swarm (such as Untappd). You get stickers if you check-in through the Foursquare app instead of Swarm. The distance limitation for stickers seems to be removed (so if your GPS picks you up a mile from a spot and you are checking in there, you’ll still get a sticker if appropriate). There are no more levels of stickers/badges like there were…

  • Mac OS X

    Sessions For JNUC Getting Posted

    As the largest Apple IT gathering in the world rapidly approaches, we want to give you an early glimpse into the great presentations at the JAMF Nation User Conference (JNUC). We are excited to announce that we’ve added the first ten JNUC sessions to our site. With sessions for education and commercial organizations, you’re sure to find presentations to meet your needs. Highlights include best practices for preparing Macs for online testing, ways to bring Apple’s Volume Purchase Program (VPP) and Device Enrollment Program (DEP) to life in your environment, and methods for mitigating and addressing Mac security threats. Haven’t registered yet? There’s still time, but hurry. We’re nearing our capacity.  Secure your…

  • Apple Configurator

    Copy OS Updates Between Apple Configurator Machines

    One of the things that is awesome and sometimes frustrating about Apple Configurator is that when you do certain tasks, you end up updating the OS on devices. The reason this is awesome is that it allows you to centralize operations. The reason this can be frustrating is that if you’re on a limited bandwidth connection, you may find that you can’t do very basic tasks before downloading a large OS update. And if you’ve got a bunch of Apple Configurator workstations, and you are running a training session, this can get infinitely more annoying. In these types of lab environments, you’re in luck. If you have an ipsw (the iOS…

  • Mac OS X

    Every Mac Comes With Tetris, Pong, Snake, and A Weird Version Of Solitaire

    Emacs (not eMacs) is an open source project, bundled with every version of OS X. And it can’t be altered. I wrote about the Cookies recipe that Richard Stallman bundled with Emacs long ago. He also has some somewhat sexist dating tips and a bunch of other weird rantings that he bundled in there. But perhaps the best contribution is the games that Emacs comes with. These include doctor, dunnet (which would have been a great MMPORG), pong, snake, solitaire, tetris and the ever-so-popular gomoku. These games are located in the /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/play directory. But you don’t access the games directly. Instead, you use the emacs command. To get started, fire…

  • Bushel,  iPhone,  JAMF

    How Bushel Protects Customer Data

    How secure is your data on Bushel? Your data on anything is only ever as secure as your password. At Bushel, we take a lot of precautions to protect your data, including from ourselves. We time out your session, we encrypt your session on a per-transaction basis, and we encrypt your data while at rest on our servers (although consider it like the secure enclave in iOS, where we encrypt the data that needs to be encrypted – such as FileVault keys and activation lock bypass information). These basic precautions keep your communication with Bushel secure and prevent people from doing things like hijacking your session. Read My Article On…

  • Windows Server,  Windows XP

    Remotely and Silently Install A Windows MSI Via PowerShell

    One of the easiest things to do in OS X is to remotely run an installation package using the installer command. You can do some similar tasks in Windows, although the commands aren’t quite as cut and dry. The Start-Process command can be used to kick off an executable. Here, we will kick off the msiexec.exe and feed it an argument, which is the msi file to install silently. We’ll then wait for it to complete: {Start-Process -FilePath "msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList "/i TEST.msi /qb" -Wait -Passthru}

  • ChromeOS,  Ubuntu,  Unix

    Make Changes to the Chromium rootfs

    By default, the Chromium OS rootfs is read-only. If you boot the system in developer mode, you will be able to disable rootfs verification and modify existing files or write new files into the file system. Before you do this, note that your file system will no longer be verifiable (won’t checksum properly) and you’ll end up needing to restore a recovery image in order to get back to normal mode. So this might be a bit dangerous if you’re not using the device for something like regression analysis (why I needed to do this). To make the file system writeable, first fire up a command prompt via crosh, by using Control-Alt-T…

  • Articles and Books,  sites

    The Take Control Back To School Sale Is On!

    Take Control is here to support you! So through August 24th, you can add any number of our books to your Take Control library for 50% off the cover price. All our books are DRM-free and available in PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket (Kindle) formats, so you can read wherever, whenever, and on whatever device you like. Use this link to pick the titles you need to stay up to date: http://tid.bl.it/50-percent-off-back-to-school-sale-2015 (We expect everything to work properly, but if our newly redesigned site is overloaded by sale traffic, try again later in the day when things have settled down.) Remember, there’s no need to read a Take Control title from…