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“For some time, Juniper has been agressively trying to win converts from Cisco. Not only ...”

“When connecting to a server from Mac OS X, what name will your system use ...”

“At some point, you may find that you would like to remove all episodes from ...”

“Podcast Producer works by publishing video to an RSS feed known as the Podcast Library. ...”

“I just can't help myself. Every now and then I get a bug up my ...”

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“LANDesk stores its data files in the /Library/Application Support/LANDesk/data directory. However, there is a uuid ...”

“PresSTORE has a Synchronize module, that can be used to copy data from one location ...”

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“It's pretty common to use keys for ARD for shuttling data back and forth. In ...”

“The netsh command can be used to manage network interfaces, control routing and one of ...”

“ The last book (far right, Enterprise Mac Managed Preferences) is fresh, exciting (to me at ...”

“Using Mac OS X, one of the most trivial things (provided you have permission) is ...”

“Ever wonder what the Internet would be like if you could see it in person? ...”

“One of the best features of Mac OS X Server is the built-in blog and ...”

“In place of the former Arise! Bookstore, there is a Nerd Party going on until ...”

“DeployStudio has the ability to rename volumes as part of a standard workflow. These are ...”

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“There are a lot of versions of the popular perl scripting language out there, and ...”

“Final Cut Server has an option to archive and restore assets. When archiving an asset, ...”

“One of the tools in the iCal -> iCal Server troubleshooting toolbelt is to debut ...”

“When you're integrating Final Cut Server with other products, you often find yourself writing scripts ...”

“As of version 8, Retrospect uses port 22024 when the Retrospect Console needs to communicate ...”

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“Final Cut Server devices are locations where files are stored. Locations are then set using ...”

“Deploying iCal Server across a large number of systems at first seems somewhat time consuming. ...”

“When scripting login events for Mac OS X, there are a number of ways to ...”

“There are a number of ways to handle quotas in Mac OS X Server. To ...”

“I seem to remember that Google once made a promise to do no evil. This ...”

“Yesterday I showed a way to get the serial number from a Mac OS X ...”

“During various automations in Mac OS X it helps to grab some key unique identifiers ...”

“Haven't had much time to read, but now that I have a couple of books ...”

“Minneapolis has a HackerSpace located at 3119 E. 26th Street in Minneapolis, MN 55406. Monthly donations ...”

“Now that all of the Peachpit books are available for 10.6 Certification purposes I thought ...”

“When I'm running a script that might be somewhat time intensive I like to check ...”

“LeftHand Storage uses the cliq command line for configuring their devices. cliq isn't necessarily interactive ...”

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“Fast User Switching allows a user of Mac OS X to switch accounts without logging ...”

“I got this press release and thought it was pretty interesting. It's just a cut/paste, ...”

“Recently I have been getting a lot of questions about what the status of some ...”

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“The Promise Vtrak is the only officially supported platform that can be used to provide ...”

“In Xsan 2, MultiSAN was introduced. MultiSAN allows you to assign different sets of primary, ...”

“Posted a little article on Xsanity about the new press releases from Active Storage regarding ...”

“A video on a big steel mousepad, full of "awesomeness." Thanks to Chris for pointing ...”

“Sometimes you can bite yourself a little when you experiment around with things. I installed ...”

“Perhaps it's time to write a book for the iPad? ”

“I've read a number of reports over the past couple of days that indicate the ...”

“ Thanks for the link, David.”

“Yesterday I looked at using diskutil to repair the permissions on a boot volume. You ...”

“When the iTunes Store came out if you had told me that they would end ...”

“When new versions of operating systems come out sometimes articles need to be updated. It's ...”

“One of those security things that pops up every now and then is to use ...”

“As my most recent information seems to now be on Amazon I have wrapped that ...”

“The 8th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is being held at the Westin by ...”

“Brace yourself, 'cause I'm a tool (or don't brace yourself if you've read much of ...”

“I see a numer of environments that are running routine defragmentation scripts on Xsan volumes. ...”

“I've noticed a couple of occasions where data corruption in Xsan causes a perceived data ...”

“Note: I had previously written this article for Mac OS X 10.5 but have put ...”

“Recently I've been looking at a lot of log files. And sorting through them can ...”

“The bless command can be used to read your currently blessed operating system in Mac ...”

“I recently wrote up an article on some of the new malware safeguards in Snow ...”

“I've seen a number of Xsan environments spewing tons of errors in regards to Spotlight ...”

“MySpace won't die. Good. Competition breeds innovation and if social networks are to continue to ...”

“When you are researching various property list settings for applications then you are likely to ...”

“I have been known to occasionally ask what build number of Mac OS X that ...”

“You click on an icon in the dock that brings up a grid of the ...”

“I like to send the command, control and other system keys to hosts that I'm ...”

“Got an email today informing me that Gmail will be dropping support for Internet Explorer ...”

“Following an argument I recently had over iPhone security I thought I would post easy ...”

“Apple has been interfacing with YouTube for some time. They have provided YouTube integration into ...”

“MacWorld put up the most awesome video ever, from a number of speakers that will ...”

“McNealy no longer has an executives page on Oracle.com. He also sent To be honest, this ...”

“Posted a little article on the XsanDebugged tool over at Xsanity. Thanks to Aaron for ...”

“A proxy caches content, much like your web browser will cache web data in order ...”

“Pete Carroll will be sorely missed by USC fans. I have now gained a little ...”

“I talk about home automation occasionally, but I almost exclusively talk about leveraging home automation ...”

“With Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x, Mac OS X Server, Xsan, Final Cut Server ...”

“A number of commands available for finding positions that you want in a line and ...”

“RSS feeds are pretty darn useful for a lot of things. And WordPress makes them ...”

“My last article showed how to interface with the clipboard in Mac OS X. Windows ...”

“I now have an Author Page at Amazon. Not sure why I'm just now getting ...”

“I did a quick little article on the GroupLogic offering for Mac OS X and ...”

“See the Zimbra site for more information: http://www.zimbra.com Mail has to live somewhere - might as well ...”

“One of the challenges that we face when building a large Xsan for video environments ...”

“I have mentioned Z-wave a few times on this site, especially since getting the Wayne ...”

“Did you know that System Preferences is a 64-bit application? Stands to reason, but one ...”

“My Collaboration Services MacLab session at MacWorld was just reduced down to $199!!! To sign ...”

“Ever need to distribute a whole lot of flash drives? Need to copy data to ...”

“jQuery is also a great solution for interconnecting various graphical elements and making them do ...”

“jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use at this point, finding its way ...”

“Here is a quick list of my favorite 10 Firefox Add-ons: AdBlock Plus - Block annoying ...”

“Krypted.com turns 6 today. Since December 2004 there have been over 1,500 posts, more unique ...”

“The shoutbox has been removed from the sidebar. I agree with a poster that it ...”

“Let's see how this turns out. I added a shoutbox along the sidebar of the ...”

“In addition to getting a theme for Windows that makes it look more like a ...”

“That's all I have for today! ”

“Originally Posted to the 318 TechJournal: 318 has open sourced our mergeSafBookmarks python script. This tool ...”

“One of the things that has plagued me since my first phone is that I ...”

“defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YESYou You can get a Quit menu for the Finder by ...”

“You can get a bit more real estate out of smaller screens in Mac OS ...”

“Well, I have no clue why but I decided to setup the feeds and friends ...”

“I'm now doing my own URL Shortening using the Pretty Link plugin for WordPress. For ...”

“Fixed the similar articles feature not working, then fixed the fact that this broke the ...”

“iTunes is doing a special on 20 free songs for the holidays meaning that you ...”

“Originally Posted to the 318 TechJournal 318 has decided to open source our ASR Setup Tool, ...”

“You can send Command keys (aka - Open Apple and Closed Apple) through Apple Remote ...”

“I am starting to get a lot questions on how to change the default browser ...”

“The new location options in networksetup are pretty interesting and while I've mentioned them in ...”

“Sorry for the unexpected downtime. Site is now back up and online (and added to ...”

“When driving by the Aveda Institute one day, my wife pointed out to me that ...”

“At the bottom of the sidebar, you will now find badges for my pages on ...”

“There are a variety of simplistic tasks that can be performed to optimize a Windowz ...”

“When it snows in Minneapolis, it snows on Krypted.com (OK, not always, but when I ...”

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“WordPress uses MySQL as a back-end. I've seen a number of scenarios where someone was ...”

“In case you haven't seen them there are a number of groups for Mac OS ...”

“LDAP is included, by default, installed on every copy of Mac OS X. For Mac ...”

“It's a random Friday. The radio on my central AirPort stops working. I reset the ...”

“Some iPhones can have a problem with some Exchange servers due to the fact that ...”

“Some time ago, I did a little article for Xsanity on using Xsan with removable ...”

“Sorry, I can't help it. That whole "iPhone Security Problems" thread I've seen on a ...”

“Posted a little whatnot on FCS 1.5.1 over at Xsantiy, here. Hope you enjoy!”

“Songsmith + David Lee Roth: the downfall of western civilization or brilliant. I believe the ...”

“Previously we looked at installing Git on Mac OS X. Now let's take a look ...”

“The latest Git works swimmingly on the Mac. To download it you can curl it ...”

“It's always a sad day in Athens when one of the line goes down: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/19/georgia.university.mascot.dead/”

“That's all I really have to say: database ...”

“And the best part about QuickTime 10 is... Screen recording. Long a task that required ...”

“When you are using Podcast Producer, whether you are looking in your log files on ...”

“THIS CAN BE A VERY DANGEROUS COMMAND, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. I've been seeing ...”

“The University of Utah's Mac Manager Meetings podcast on iTunes.”

“Friday the 13th November 13, 2009 represents the day that the 1,500th post goes online ...”

“The xsanctl command allows you to manage basic events on an Xsan. The following options ...”

“If you're addicted to your mobile device, be it an iPod touch or an iPhone, ...”

“Great. Now Kevin Smith is going to be speaking at MacWorld! Really?!?! How do you ...”

“Mac OS X Server admins may wonder where it went in Mac OS X 10.6. ...”

“According to an email I just got from Apple: If you've installed the Apple TV 3.0 ...”

“AppleInsider did a sweet writeup on the new iPod touch that is rolling into Apple ...”

“OK, last one of the day (sorry, I've been a busy beaver). Safari takes a ...”

“As with EMC, Compellent allows you to manage servers, volumes, server folders, volume folders, views, ...”

“One thing that Apple seems to have down pat in their documentation and troubleshooting methodologies ...”

“Managing print queues can be an easy or a complicated task. But when troubleshooting queues, ...”

“QuickTime is a great application. But it just doesn't do everything. But because Apple realized ...”

“One thing to try, especially if you get an error that Mac OS X is ...”

“I've been experimenting with some of the new developmental stuff in Moodle 2.0. The first ...”

“Artbox allowed you to generate Final Cut Projects. But that was a feature lost when ...”

“Podcast Producer will automatically generate a poster frame for each video that is generated. The ...”

“You can publish screencasts directly to your Twitter feed using screenr, a nice little website ...”

“I know I typically stick with fairly technical stuff on this site. But there's a ...”

“A Clariion can be managed using the /opt/Navisphere/bin/navicli command. You can obtain information about the ...”

“Metadata cartoon over on 318: http://www.318.com/techjournal/xsan/318-on-metadata”

“I was recently building some scripts to alternate shadow copy storage locations (long story). In ...”

“Information about the exploit: Wacky Security Flaw Patch thyself: Adobe's Mac patch site Adobe's Windows patch site That ...”

“In Mac OS X 10.5-based Open Directory (or higher) and Apple Remote Desktop 3.3 (or ...”

“Earth Album is a great little site that allows you to merge Google Maps and ...”

“Pardon my dust while there's a little reconstruction and moving to a new host going ...”

“iPhone Firmware 3.1 is great, unless you want to tether, which the tethering page at ...”

“Occasionally Blackberries go down. Not one or two, but all of them. Sometimes (albeit rarely), ...”

“Mac OS X Server has a RADIUS service. The Cisco MDS 9000 is becoming a ...”

“The pipe (|) character is used to combine multiple commands. A pipe is a temporary ...”

“Troubleshooting the network is faster and more thorough when it is done using the command ...”

“Likewise 5.3 supports Snow Leopard at 32 or 64 bit! Likewise Open 5.3 is open ...”

“For a brief period in time Media Temple was doing virtualized Mac OS X Server ...”

“Almost wrote this up again and then realized I already did once (sure it was ...”

“Mac OS X Server comes with a number of DHCP options available; most notably the ...”

“For those that have not yet used it, the App Store has a little application ...”

“The Bunny Clogs are coming back to Minneapolis, and now in support of an upcoming ...”

“Eggplant has released an update of their regression testing platform. And to make things easier ...”

“In DNS, recursion references the process where a name server will make DNS queries to ...”

“You have a fairly large Open Directory environment and you go to add the 33rd ...”

“The term Adaptive Firewall can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. ...”

“If you've been upgrading Xsan from version to version without doing a nuke + pave ...”

“If you're planning or preparing for an upgrade to Snow Leopard then there is likely ...”

“In case you were unable to make it to Sweden for the talk, here are ...”

“All 3 of the Snow Leopard titles I'm working on, editing or in one case ...”

“I did a little article for afp548 that was posted while I was out of ...”

“Pickled herring, salted licorice, sports I don't comprehend and a language I don't speak. At ...”

“The two attached files are a sample checklist and a sample backup calculator to be ...”

“Can you say virtualization? How about "better together"? Do you care about Hyper-V or Windows ...”

“In order to bind a Mac OS X Server to eDirectory it's more than likely ...”

“As promised in the article on colorizing the terminal, let's look at how to customize ...”

“While troubleshooting some issues with a Screen Saver that just wouldn't fire up. Even when ...”

“Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (Athens, Georgia), I worked in ...”

“A short contribution I made to afp548 on the new mcxrefresh command in Snow Leopard. ...”

“You can use Home Sharing on iTunes to build an iTunes Server! Feature request something ...”

“Drobo + 4 1.5TB Disks = 6TB of storage for ~$730 Perfect for iSCSI targets and ...”

“Recently, I did an article for afp548.com where I explained that you can import a ...”

“systemsetup is a great little command, for setting date and time, for wake on LAN, ...”

“The directory services command line (dscl) command can be used to create a group. Here ...”

“Utility or restore partitions are often meant to be hidden for users. The setfile command ...”

“~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist has a nifty key called 2880\FirstRun\SetupAssistCompleted which, when set to an integer value of ...”

“In Mac OS X 10.6's Open Directory, when you add ManagedClient to managed preferences you ...”

“Kerberos.app + Snow Leopard = Ticket Viewer. I'm not sure what the point of ...”

“I posted another article on Snow Leopard/Snow Leopard Server at afp548.com. This one is ...”

“As you may have noticed, I'm posting a lot about where tools have moved or ...”

“If you grew accustomed to using Directory.app in Leopard and you're thinking about an upgrade ...”

“I did a little article for afp548 on how the new malware protection stuff in ...”

“The Command Line Fibre Channel Management and Setting up the Network Stack from the Command ...”

“An article on ZDNet that states that Snow Leopard has anti-malware built into it (thanks Dee-Ann): http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4104&tag=nl.e589 Side ...”

“It's official: Snow Leopard will be shipping on August 28th, a full month ahead of ...”

“MacSysAdmin 2009 will be held in the Burgårdens Konferenscenter in the center of Göteborg, Sweden. ...”

“I've been asked by a number of people whether or not we will be updating ...”

“When it comes to system imaging, the most important aspect is to be methodical.  If ...”

“Quick & dirty, needed to loop through some servers to look at the logical volumes ...”

“Whether you're going from Open Directory to Active Directory or from Active Directory to Open ...”

“It is not uncommon to end up with a number of shares on a server, ...”

“Samba can be a PDC, allowing Windows clients to join a single line domain name ...”

“I don't think I've actually used the caps lock key in years. Well, scratch ...”

“Open up My Computer and click on Folder Options in the Tools menu.  Then click ...”

“Let's over-simplify this: Twitter is a very popular site.  FriendFeed is kinda' similar.  Facebook is a ...”

“You get rewards for buying things on credit cards, consistently shopping at the same chain ...”

“I published an article up on AFP548 on how directory services plug-ins work.  If you're ...”

“I have added a Google Latitude embedded image that shows where I am at. ...”

“OpenSolaris 2009.06 is the next generation of the OpenSolaris, the Open Source Solaris that has ...”

“Tim Burton + Johnny Depp + Alice in Wonderland = Great Potential ”

“Once you’ve completed the setup of a DeployStudio server you're going to want to use ...”

“Microsoft released Service Pack 2 to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac earlier this week.  Once ...”

“Well, then you might never have to give up your teen spirit... ”

“It's fairly easy to take an application installer in Mac OS X and repackage it. ...”

“If you weren't able to make it out to San Francisco for WWDC then you ...”

“You can delete an IP address from the arp table using the arp command along ...”

“These days it seems like there's a low-cost or free alternative to everything up on ...”

“Engineers without Borders is a non profit with over 300 chapters in the US. ...”

“Google Wave is Google's Open Source online collaboration solution - html5 is pretty bad-daddy...: ”

“Windows Keys: Alt+ Enter: shows properties for selection Alt+ Esc: switch between applications in the order they ...”

“Apple killed the Xserve RAID a couple of years ago.  But the technology that went ...”

“If you have a web host that supports cPanel (a number do) then moving to ...”

“Due to load, the site is being moved to a new server. As such, ...”

“The economy sucks.  There is no doubt that any and every company is taking a ...”

“I use Windows 7 in a virtual machine most of the time and occasionally I've ...”

“Often times you will want the Mac OS X Setup Assistant to run post the ...”

“By default, when you are using Time Machine in Mac OS X, every time you ...”

“In Mac OS X, diskarbitrationd is the process that handles mounting disks when they are ...”

“In WordPress there are tags, such as the ones you see at the bottom of ...”

“I recently put up a post on using hdiutil to create disk images in Mac ...”

“I just love this kind of stuff even if I really don't have time for ...”

“I've rolled a few Mac OS X Servers into production either sitting on top of ...”

“Password Monitor is a somewhat new look on a tool that has been in production ...”

“American Express killed my card. But I'm glad. You see, the address of ...”

“It's not that we're going to do anything difficult here.  But we're going to take ...”

“Earlier today I posted on how to activate the screen saver from the command line. ...”

“The ScreenSaverEngine.app that is located in the  /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ directory can be used to invoke the screen ...”

“One of my favorite parts of my job is to act as an outsourced CTO ...”

“According to Reuters, MySpace is about to lay off around 1/3 of their staff, which ...”

“mkpassdb is the command line front end for the Password Server in Mac OS X ...”

“Data Domain appears to be the next casualty of the swift consolidation of IT vendors. ...”

“In corporate mergers and acquisition land transition periods can be difficult when they're not managed ...”

“The Backup Exec agent is fairly similar between Mac OS X and Linux. The ...”

“Nothing kills me more than going to a new site and finding the username I ...”

“Geek Dinner, including PowerPoint Karaoke up Topanga in LA on June 19th. RSVP here ...”

“Spotlight indexing is automatically disabled in Mac OS X Server and automatically enabled in Mac ...”

“Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a team of Microsoft ...”

“There's now an organization for those involved in cloud computing in Los Angeles.  It's LA ...”

“I'd still like to have a better way to have a centralized iTunes media server. ...”

“I've had a few people ask me in the past few days how to disable ...”

“FileMaker has now released their certification track for FileMaker 10. They also now have ...”

“Check out glennz.com for some cool iPhone wallpapers and some great t-shirts too! What ...”

“If you're down with the Casper Suite and you are gonna' be in SoCal then ...”

“OK, probably not new but oddly enough, this one is new to me.  Control-Alt-Escape launches ...”

“Cellebrite has a solution that can unlock the passcode on an iPhone or iPod if ...”

“StorNext for Windows comes with many of the same commands that are available with Xsan ...”

“Made some changes to the site to hopefully make it run more optimally (both for ...”

“I have been a .Mac/MobileMe subscriber for a long time. But until recently I ...”

“There are a number of tasks that a little EFI trickery might require.  If you ...”

“There are a number of Xsan troubleshooting scenarios that seem to call for uninstalling and ...”

“When a large company loses email and other services the help desk is abuzz with ...”

“If you click on a file, folder or image in Mac OS X and then ...”

“In a previous article we looked at how to upload Final Cut Server content to ...”

“The dsenableroot command can be used to enable the root user and assign it a ...”

“If you are a Safari user and you have a MobileMe account then you can ...”

“There are tons of ways to download movies from YouTube, but this is likely the ...”

“Xsanity just posted an article I did on customizing the Final Cut Server Webstart. ...”

“In an earlier post about SSH security, I mentioned using an application for using SSH ...”

“Since I already started down this path, we can also push out information for a ...”

“There are a number of man pages in Mac OS X that don't show up ...”

“May 21st at the Bulldog in NE Minneapolis - MinneSec.  Provided I'm allowed by the ...”

“I have mentioned creating a self destructing script or launchd item a few times in ...”

“Mac OS X clients can be integrated with Novell's eDirectory out of the box for ...”

“ZFS is coming to the Mac, according to the Apple website.  But it isn't here ...”

“I'm not gonna' lie to you, I'm a pretty lazy admin. As such, I ...”

“When I'm on the road, I use a Sprint Sierra card. I used to ...”

“Well, yet again I'm out of town for MinneDemo, in Uptown Minneapolis. It will ...”

“Render farms, cluster nodes and other types of distributed computing often require using a lot ...”

“In the IT industry we can often discount certain technologies off-hand simply because they don't ...”

“There is a lot of talk about "the cloud" in the IT trade magazines and ...”

“In Windows, when you have connected to a share, as with a mapped drive letter, ...”

“Open up Google Maps and search for 8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA. This is ...”

“Mac OS X 10.5 supports SMB signing.  But if you have some older operating systems ...”

“There are a number of reasons you might choose to change the location of your ...”

“No, I'm not getting all teary-eyed about something...  Instead I'm thinking about changing the modification ...”

“The Mac OS X program, Address Book uses sqlite3 to store information.  The actual database ...”

“Yesterday I posted about Randomizing the Software Update Server for Mac OS X. I ...”

“ Getting through all of the dependencies for certain Perl modules can be hairy. To give ...”

“I pretty much leave my computer on and open all the time.  And more than ...”

“On a NetApp you can determine the disk speeds for drives in your Filer using ...”

“The selected logfile does not exist. Ran into an interesting little problem again, where the iCal ...”

“In Exchange 2007, the Client Access Server (CAS) role accepts connections from clients in order ...”

“There's nothing that makes you faster with navigating around any GUI-based OSen than keystrokes.  Navigate ...”

“The ESX firewall can be managed from the command line. If you login over ...”

“Playing with Sandbox can be tricky. The other day my own box (luckily one ...”

“Each controller of a NetApp FAS will typically have two network interfaces. Provided I ...”

“I am one of those weird techies that just likes a phone that works. ...”

“One reason not to disable virtual memory on any Windows boxen is that you might ...”

“Safari 4 has a predictive search option, as was previously available with various 3rd party ...”

“Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon in the registry and then change the value of the AllowMultipleTSSessions ...”

“Maybe it's too many years at Defcon, maybe it's just trying to make shirts I ...”

“A few months ago I noticed that a pretty hefty percentage of my visitors came ...”

“The basic steps to use BRU, Tivoli, Atempo, Bakbone and PresSTORE are all covered in ...”

“GroupLogic announced that Extreme Z-IP would have support for DFS in Q1 2009. Well, ...”

“For more information check out the Google Group. And if you haven't been to ...”

“I'm an author (well, an engineer who writes about what I do). And when ...”

“Daylite 3.9 is actually a fairly substantial update from 3.8. This mainly stems from ...”

“Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6 have a multitude of ways to ...”

“Looks like some pirates in Sweden are running for office in the European parliamentary scene ...”

“Spotlight has a nifty integration of keystrokes (or the Command keystroke at least).  Simply perform ...”

“A hashing function is used to calculate a hash value.  If you insert a file ...”

“Mac OS X can boot differently than to your default startup disk with the use ...”

“Still out of the office, so still posting not-so-technical stuff.  The latest on my radar ...”

“In the /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc directory (you can sub your version for the one listed here) you ...”

“It's official.  Retrospect 8 is now available for purchase and upgrade at the EMC Insignia ...”

“Thanks to my dad and his mad Cpanel skillz, the site is back up.  Apologies ...”

“New users on a Mac have a certain set of default settings that are copied ...”

“I've been saying for some time that something is going to happen with Sun.  They're ...”

“Power Management is handled using the pmset command line utility, which I covered in a ...”

“The other day I saw someone remove the Dashboard icon from the Dock as a ...”

“The apropos command is used to search for strings in the whatis database.  The whatis ...”

“From time to time we will end up writing shell scripts that do a number ...”

“Every hardware network adapter has a unique MAC address.  However, they're not always what they ...”

“Troubleshooting automounts can be a particular pain at times. Beyond verifying that you can ...”

“Endianness is the bit/byte ordering (thus aka byte ordering) used to store values, typically in ...”

“According to a recent O'Reilly Radar report, the fastest growing category on the iTunes App ...”

“Xsan 2 does remove some of the limitations that you encountered with Xsan 1. ...”

“By default, the maximum number of files that Mac OS X can open is set ...”

“If you have a server running Lights Out Management and you're Full Disk Encrypting the ...”

“The Dell Mini 9 comes with a small solid state drive, not a massive amount ...”

“SFT (Safari Forensic Tools) is a collection of command line tools that can ...”

“Z-wave is a meshed fabric technology that enables devices with a Zensys chip embedded in ...”

“I have been known to be a little harsh towards Sun.  This is because I ...”

“It's Friday and I'm feeling fairly non-technical after a call earlier today with actual end ...”

“In legal circles, spoliation means intentionally destroying or altering data in a way that destroys its ...”

“I just can't help myself. The first thing I do with a new toy ...”

“It is Friday, Feb. 13 at 6:31:30 PM (EST on the server).  According to the Unix ...”

“I finally got around to taking that Final Cut Server exam this week.  It was ...”

“I'm pretty sure this will be the first SCALE that I will not be attending ...”

“Wondering why I've been a little light on Xsan postings? I posted an article ...”

“Exchange/iPhone users, you've finally gotten the Google hookup. ActiveSync has been added to the ...”

“I am deep in the throes of moving into my new house. Which makes ...”

“A number of school districts and companies around the country are currently looking at buying ...”

“I've been asked by a number of people about using the Seagate Momentus FDE.2 or ...”

“So the more the merrier, right?  Another widget, this time dedicated to Final Cut Server ...”

“I am releasing the Xsan Monitor that I've mentioned as alpha code.  There are still ...”

“For a little while now my site has been automatically updating other sites when new ...”

“It seems like I get an invitation to join a different social network every day. ...”

“While this article is updating I'm on a beach somewhere in Mexico. One of ...”

“I posted another article at Xsanity last week, but forgot to mention it here.  You ...”

“The typical school lab: We want to update an image once a quarter or once ...”

“The first hour of Marshall Kirk McKusick's course on FreeBSD kernel internals.”

“Ever get the call from an ISP that a host on a network you own ...”

“Some projects are stranger than others. Today I embarked on reverse engineering a certain ...”

“Ninja's don't often get trojans, but pirates of Mac software just might... According to ...”

“Today I pulled down the Samba 4 binaries and installed it using the instructions the ...”

“I posted another article on Xsanity. This one started out as an article on ...”

“There are a variety of applications out there that will simulate web traffic. But ...”

“Captcha is a nice anti-spam technique for websites. By forcing a user to enter ...”

“The 1x10 VXA2 drives are kinda' popular with smaller Xsan installations. While they don't ...”

“Promise announced that they'll now be offering 1TB drives in their Vtrak RAIDs. While ...”

“I posted my second ever article to Xsanity. Find it here. Beau posted an article ...”

“After talking with the folks at Xsanity I have decided to try and open up ...”

“OpenSolaris + Open Storage + ZFS = Open Source storage.  Not that you can't just ...”

“I've only been attending MacWorld since a few years ago when I gave that talk ...”

“Promise announced a new firmware, support for terabyte drive modules and a new sleeker chassis ...”

“When getting ready for your certifications, it helps to know how prepared you are. ...”

“Parties tonight: The Kerio Channel Mixer is at the Fly Trap and the AquaConnect party ...”

“The Southern California Linux Expo has released the list of speakers for the seventh annual ...”

“MacDayLA is a new (or semi-new) mini-conference being held once a month in Los Angeles. ...”

“For those of you at MacWorld, the Xsanity party will be held Thursday night at ...”

“Unisys will be laying off 1,300 employees. The economy simply doesn't seem to be ...”

“This time of the year I can often be found watching Sports Center late at ...”

“It has now been 4 years since I started this darn site up.  Up to ...”

“Beau and I will be giving a talk at MacWorld on Friday. It will ...”

“The 10.5.6 update for Mac OS X Server has been out for a little bit ...”

“Well, it's that time of the year that I need to do a little spring ...”

“I first came across this thing a few MacWorld's ago. It was impressive then ...”

“In recognition of the massive quantities of snow in my back yard at the moment ...”

“Now that I've shown over the years how to setup an Xsan and iSCSI targets ...”

“While I despise Georgia Tech with every fabric of my being, following the loss to ...”

“SANS is offering a free preview of their Penetration Testing course on-line here.  I would ...”

“I was recently (er, a few minutes ago) monkeying with some software and jacked up ...”

“Not quite?  But the fact that they've been seeking legal advice on bankruptcy really isn't ...”

“ Iron Mountain will be offering network backup for the Mac in early 2009.  While the service is ...”

“It's not that it all started with Amazon, but they were certainly the ones to ...”

“I'm staying on the West Side of Las Vegas for the first time, to be ...”

“The economy seems to continue to get less and less optimistic.  Meanwhile, 10 Million iPhone ...”

“Lenovo has released the ThinkPad W700, a WiMax enabled laptop.  Sprint is pushing Xohm, their ...”

“I recently read an article in CIO magazine about the cost per gig per month. ...”

“So recently I was entering some codes online to see if I won something.  In ...”

“OpenOffice.org, the increasingly popular Office-like productivity suite is finally native on the Mac with the ...”

“Mono 2.0 allows .Net developers to use Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X.  Mono comes ...”

“Mike Bombich is retiring NetRestore: http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html ”

“To Disable Spotlight for Mac OS X you can stop the Spotlight processes from being ...”

“Xsan and the acfs (Apple Clustered File System) volumes that Xsan controls can be utilized ...”

“We've been working on an application that will repair corrupted Xsan volumes.  If you have ...”

“Atom, an alternative to RSS, is used extensively in Final Cut Server.  Atom allows one ...”

“HFS+ and resource forks.  Still a necessary evil.  At times I find that I need ...”

“Here's a good overview of Rancid from the recent UUASC meeting.”

“Immediately activate the screen saver in OS X by using this command: /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine & You can invoke ...”

“Windows 7 is slated for a 2010 release, although we could see it as late ...”

“Georgia won, but barely.  In a 42 to 38 win over Kentucky, Georgia could have ...”

“For the second time in two months I got stuck in Denver International for the ...”

“Advanced Camp was the ACN and PSP training event held by Apple in Lake Tahoe ...”

“The cloud just got even more useful for every day video environments.  Encoding.com offers a ...”

“Beating the University of Florida seems to be something that the Bulldogs can do rarely. ...”

“Using the find command is a little weird to people who are used to using ...”

“For the Cyber Defense Initiative, we just finished updating the security checklist for Mac OS ...”

“If you are getting Stripe Group Down errors in your Xsan logs then this usually ...”

“In a 52 to 38 win Georgia knocked off the 13th ranked team in the ...”

“A link sent to me by coworker Thomas about a couple of virtual thieves...   http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/23/teens-convicted-of-v.html”

“When you're trying to troubleshoot issues with Directory Services on Mac OS X sometimes the ...”

“Once you have created your SAN you will want to build a volume. The volume ...”

“So my buddy Nick Stokes had a project recently where he was migrating metadata out ...”

“Symantec has purchased MessageLabs for about $700 Million.  This move brings filtered services for spam ...”

“Microsoft is getting more and more picky about that product key and the Genuine Advantage ...”

“The George Lucas Educational Foundation has a new series on iTunes that explores technology in ...”

“Peer-to-peer networking can be very easy with Mac OS X.  But due to an issue ...”

“In this article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c7sa13.html Apple states that you no longer need to use the changeip ...”

“Your users sick of typing in their domain name in the OWA auth screen?  Well, ...”

“I got the following email from LOPSA (of which I am a member).  I'm at ...”

“So on 9/17/07 I posted that I'd be updating this site daily for the next ...”

“If you're a geek, especially one interested in what I've started to call scientific fiction, ...”

“It's not desperation really, more like what AmEx does to entice me to keep using ...”

“ACLs are great.  They allow you a ton of additional options with permissions.  But they're ...”

“The Southern California Linux Expo Call For Papers is open for SCALE 2009: http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/s7x_cfp”

“Companies simply cannot live without IT.  If a company is going to cut existing staff ...”

“From Slashdot: By John Howard (published Thursday, September 25, 2008) California's high-tech industry has won a ...”

“MacWorld tickets are on sale.  While I do not know who all the speakers will ...”

“Article on the 10 Most Mysterious Cyber Crimes: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331225,00.asp”

“These have been up for awhile but I found myself pointing them out to someone ...”

“In Windows Server 2008 you can use the Server Manager application to enable RIS (part ...”

“dsconfigad did not support signing of LDAP packets in 10.4.x.  However, this was an upgrade ...”

“Today I received a copy of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks from O'Reilly, for ...”

“I recently read an article that Solaris is a dead OS (or will be rather ...”

“http://www.quantum.com/ServiceandSupport/StorageCareLearning/Index.aspx”

“Importing ldf files is one way to extend an Active Directory Schema.  In 2003 you ...”

“The Google Search Engine is probably the top wonder in the Internet world.  Why, because ...”

“So we've been messing around with Check Point for awhile.  But we never actually had ...”

“UGA beats ASU 27-10.  The Pac 10 has definitely seen better days.  On to Conference ...”

“The economy has seen better days in the United States.  It's only going to get ...”

“Seems like most companies start out manually installing their computers.  This works for awhile but ...”

“No, this isn't the new version of my wife (although there is a new version ...”

“Yes, you can apply an MCX against a local account easily using the -mcximport and ...”

“So there are tons of posts out there on the 'ole interweb about Google Chrome. ...”

“KACE, makers of the KBOX family of appliances can now provide centralized management of the ...”

“Steve Spurrier always does his best against Georgia.  Luckily his best didn't produce a win, ...”

“When using Mac OS X Server as a PDC you may find that you need ...”

“Been updating Blackberries in Exchange environments from 4.2 software to 4.5, mostly so they can ...”

“KBOX supports package distribution and inventory management for Mac OS X.  KBOX is more commonly ...”

“To disable the fstab file for Mac OS X, open the /etc/fstab file and then ...”

“There will be a book festival down at the Minneapolis Community & Technical College on ...”

“56-17 likely won't keep the Dawgs from dropping again in the polls considering what else ...”

“So ordb.org has been dead for awhile.  If you had an inactive server that was ...”

“I've not bothered covering Chrome much on my site because I'm pissy about not having ...”

“One of the first things you'll want to do to a newly installed system is ...”

“Wasn't really sure how Georgia would do facing a Big 12 opponent.  Solid.  35-14 win ...”

“Some New Features: Faster: Especially with scripts Web Slices: Alerts you when changes occur to sites Improved Search ...”

“The University of Georgia Bulldogs move to 1 and 0 in an easy win over ...”

“Since it's the weekend, let's leave the tech stuff out and just roll with something ...”

“Group Quotas enable limitation of how much data a given group can write to a ...”

“A couple of months ago I wrote about Using SetFile to Make Files Invisible. ...”

“If Final Cut Server stops making proxies for you then check the Qmaster app in ...”

“The new BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager v1.0.1 is now available at: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/#tab_tab_web_desktop”

“What you would like to see in the next version of Active Directory Users and ...”

“ Netatalk is an Open Source implementation of AFP. To get Netatalk you have to perform ...”

“Well, we knew it was possible, but we didn't know anyone would actually do it. ...”

“MSDTC failing over repeatedly.  Not good.  Look in error logs and find this lovely ditty: The ...”

“OK, now Joseph has gone off and impressed me again (I really shouldn't be surprised ...”

“You can customize what Time Machine does not back up by using the following plist: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist Simply ...”

“So if you set the RequireAdminToAddPrinters to false in the com.apple.mcxprinting MCX then you would ...”

“Politics.  Just don't talk about politics, religion or other things that simply don't matter during ...”

“You can use the adplugin to customize the amount of time a client is trusted ...”

“scutil is an app that can be used to get and set the ComputerName of ...”

“There are certain aspects of Mac OS X Server that it just isn't that great ...”

“Little dittie on installing GD in Mac OS X Server: http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/135/41/ http://www.kenior.com/macintosh/adding-gd-library-for-mac-os-x-leopard”

“So remember that feature in OS X that allowed you to compress your PDFs.  Well, ...”

“This Perl Module will allow you to call Objective-C code from within Perl.  Use this ...”

“Software Update Services allow your server to cache updates from Apple and then redistribute them ...”

“This article came out just as Black Hat was starting: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/black_hat_talk_on_apple_encryp_1.html Then this article came out a ...”

“ Ever wonder why those things you put into /System/Library/StartupItems and /Library/StartupItems start automatically?  SystemStarter. System starter ...”

“I'm working on reskinning this site I built using Joomla!: http://www.pktalumni.com”

“Have you noticed all those groups in Mac OS X with names that start with ...”

“When you're doing Xsan deployments you often run into situations where a serial adapter comes ...”

“In the article at http://www.macworld.com/article/134793/2008/07/apple_dns.html John Welch goes off on Apple for their delay in ...”

“To find all the printers you have available through Active Directory: dscl '/Active Directory/All Domains' -list ...”

“Time Management.  Whether they ask during the interview or not, all employers will look kindly ...”

“OK, I know this doesn't really sound like something you'll need in the field.  Well, ...”

“Mac OS X Server’s built-in spam filter is Spam Assassin (sa).  This article describes methods ...”

“Do a Whois of your (or anyones) domain.  It's not a terribly complicated app, but ...”

“AutoFS is greatly improved in Leopard.  To set up an automounting sharepoint in Leopard, use Server ...”

“ You can set various policies for Microsoft Office.  When you install the Office Resource Kit ...”

“ Not all environments are Active Directory. If you have a smaller Mac OS X Open ...”

“To disable roaming profiles you can just edit the smb.conf, adding a blank path to the ...”

“$3 Billion dollars is a lot of money, but I can't think of a company ...”

“ There are two types of services that launchd manages: launch daemons can run without a user ...”

“ Now if you're looking to push policies out from a centralized directory service that is ...”

“ If you want the "admin" group to map to the NT "Directory Admins" group, the ...”

“So there are a ton of modules out there for Joomla!, Mambo, WordPress and even ...”

“Ever wonder what the process is that manages Bluetooth on your machine?  Well, it's blued. ...”

“http://www.learningtree.com/courses/947.htm”

“When you're doing documentation for code it helps if the app you're using to document ...”

“Beware: if you proceed with this you will violate the EULA of Mac OS X. ...”

“Using Open Directory you can push out a key to stop the automatic Spaces switch when ...”

“When you're traveling it can be difficult to keep track of all those receipts.  Whether it's cabs, ...”

“So the traditional way to dump a directory listing to text is to use a ...”

“Latency is the bane of my existence.  Latency is the kind of thing you just ...”

“There are a lot of folks looking to upgrade Tiger OD to Leopard OD.  Here's ...”

“ So I recently pushed out an image after trying to connect to an AFP server ...”

“I have to admit, the all nighters I've pulled in my career probably netted me ...”

“Here are some pretty good list-serv's for people doing a lot of Deployment work: http://lists.psu.edu/archives/macenterprise.html http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/system-imaging https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/radmind-users ”

“The other day I had a client call wanting to restore four files from a ...”

“In Mac OS X Server occasionally the Directory Services daemon will just stop working.  To ...”

“For years we've been heavily leveraging Tripwire to perform localized HBIDS: http://www.tripwiresecurity.com/ But more recently we've been ...”

“Are you using Parallels?  Need access to a com port through one of those handy ...”

“OK, so you've got that shinny new Artbox, er, Final Cut Server installed and now ...”

“I was talking to this client one day and without thinking much of it, we ...”

“You cannot increase scope without increasing budget or removing other scope items...”

“Many a late night I've despised that with which this shirt displays...  http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/05/blue-shirt-of-death.html”

“Be mindful of your appearance.  Clip those nails, comb that hair and don't wear the ...”

“Ours is an industry rife with buzz words.  They seem to come and go with ...”

“Recently I had a scenario where I wanted to disable all of the menu items ...”

“OK, I know this doesn't really sound like something you'll need in the field.  Well, ...”

“So what do you get a geek like me to welcome the birth of his ...”

“So I started doing this whole PMP thing.  I got my hours out of the ...”

“They can explain it better than me: http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml (this has been fixed with the August 2008 Security ...”

“Do you use log notes in your Final Cut Pro projects pretty extensively?  If so ...”

“Outlook can talk to Open Directory to pull in Address Book information.  Let's just say ...”

“To find the GUID for the cedge user, use the following command: dscl . -read /Users/cedge ...”

“Recently we did a deploy of some Windows stations.  Well, they were kinda' Windows stations, ...”

“Recently I had a scenario where I wanted to disable all of the menu items ...”

“So it seems like the magazines and web sites of supposed IT pundits are abuzz ...”

“Is it possible that a client can build a Facebook app, deploy it and not ...”

“24,000 comments.  Pretty much all spam.  I think I have to disable comments now...  :( ...”

“There's a nifty little app called MAMP.  It allows you to distribute what amounts to ...”

“Does it make sense that Google would be forcing you to migrate to a Google ...”

“Not used to that whole launchd framework yet?  Check out Lingon.  It will let you ...”

“Let's say you bind a Mac to AD.  Let's say you have two NICs in ...”

“Sure, we want to see how much we're making overall and break it down.  But ...”

“www.babycenter.com.  It's a great site.  Especially when you're on the road.  Know what the baby ...”

“You know when you go to add a printer in Mac OS X...  Ever wonder ...”

“Need to clone some Windows boxen from your Mac, check out WinClone: http://twocanoes.com/winclone/”

“We're looking at buying a new house.  When I'm on the road there's nothing nicer ...”

“As many will already be aware, there’s no NetInfo in Leopard. So where are those ...”

“It sure is a good feeling to be the one that figures out the impossible. ...”

“Communication is the transfer or collaboration of thoughts, ideas and plans between individuals. It is ...”

“When an interviewer asks you technical questions then you can assume that you are going ...”

“Shared Memory Tweaking: 1GB Shared memory (set in /etc/sysctl.conf) kern.sysv.shmall: 262144 kern.sysv.shmseg: 32 kern.sysv.shmmni: 128 kern.sysv.shmmin: 1 kern.sysv.shmmax: 1073741824 ”

“Nice little article on evaluating the performance of your server: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1992”

“The Sharing System Preference has Screen Sharing and Remote Management.  Both control VNC.  You can't ...”

“In all versions of OS X previous to Leopard, access control restrictions were limited to ...”

“dirt is a new utility in Leopard that can be used to test Directory Services. ...”

“If you’re done with Task Manager then check out SystemExplorer at http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org. SystemExplorer is a ...”

“Assumption for a Domain Taster: If a domain can generate over $6.00 a year in PPC ...”

“The open and save dialogs can automatically have the expanded view opened by default rather ...”

“Creating and opening Files Running a vi command without a file name will open a new ...”

“If we were in the directory Desktop and wanted to backup all the files to ...”

“Hmmm...  Part of me was hoping not to have to deal with SBS any more... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/essential/sbs/default.mspx”

“OK, so this one is pretty easy.  You can use the hostname command to return ...”

“ Ever wonder if there's something else out there other than Exchange?  Well, if you are ...”

“Want to play with Virtual Machines but can't get ahold of VMware or Parallels?  Then ...”

“ So Exchange doesn't do journaling for public folders.  That's why we like this little nifty ...”

“http://www.macworldencore.com/online/presentation.asp?id=299&sessionTypeIdVideo=1&trackIdVideo=3&movieVideo=IT853.mp4&yearDate=2008”

“1000Base-LX/FX Gigabit Ethernet over fibre optic cable 1000Base-T 1000Mbps, All four pairs of Cat6 cable utilized at 250Mbps ...”

“Ya, it just doesn't really work that great...”

“If you do a fair amount of Blackberry Enterprise Server management then you're gonna' want ...”

“You just can't pilfer parts of other OSen whenever you feel like it.  If you ...”

“Microsoft is shipping servers sealed in a container later this year.  This is pretty interesting ...”

“When client systems need to search the server quickly you can enable Spotlight on the ...”

“Go figure, they need less CPU and RAM.  Very nice.”

“Banging your head against the keyboard trying to figure out why you can't get this ...”

“I guess this isn't a feature yet. Too bad. I've managed to copy ...”

“Keeping a log of everything done to a machine is kind of important. I ...”

“Business vs. technology.  Most employers these days are looking for candidates who can provide value. ...”

“If you have something that is a legitimate bug with Mac OS X then you ...”

“CD into the /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/macOS directory. Su and then run ./Finder. You'll see an ...”

“The other day I was sitting at a computer and I hit Command-Tab to shift ...”

“Be careful with keeping expenses used for work separate from those used for taxes.  You ...”

“about        View utility information. array       View or edit array information.  Create, edit or ...”

“The settings are to automatically mirror all Apple updates.  These updates are then provided over ...”

“Step 1 In order to enable a system to be used as a Task Server, open ...”

“Xsan stores the logs for a volume in /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/data/<Volume Name>/log/cvlog.  When you're trying to find ...”

“You can update the configuration information on your Xsan using the following command: cvgather -f”

“  A customer recently called asking us to expand the timeout variable for downloading files via ...”

“The snfsdefrag tool is used for Xsan defragmentation.  It can be run on a volume ...”

“AFP locks files by default.  With Xsan you want the cvfs to lock the files ...”

“http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161”

“The FS108P from NetGear isn't so bad...”

“Removing a record from LDAP: ldapdelete -h <YourDomain> -D”

“List those local users on the computer using this command: dscl localhost list /Local/Default”

“dscl localhost search /Search/Groups PrimaryGroupID <GroupNumber>”

“http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/gallery/index.xml?t=1&p=1&s=1”

“Stay on topic.  Remember that time is something many do not have.  When you get ...”

“Wanna' put some images in your blog without creating tons of traffic.  Well, consider dumping ...”

“When managing a Mac OS X Servers services one of the most important commands to ...”

“You can capture screenshots from the command line using the screencapture command. Basically just typing ...”

“What's this about Google Chrome I keep hearing?  Is Google really releasing their own browser?”

“http://www.legalmac.net”

“From Wikipedia: Software as a service (SaaS, typically pronounced 'Sass') is a model of software deployment where an application ...”

“Originally posted at http://www.318.com/TechJournal In the beginning, phone companies used names and not numbers to connect ...”

“Domains are like rabbits.  They reproduce quickly...”

“To reset the open firmware password you can either reboot while resetting PRAM 3 or ...”

“BWANA!  Once installed just type man:chmod, or man:sudo and the man page will be displayed ...”

“The MacBook Pro's wireless reception is relatively poor in comparison to the MacBook. The reason? ...”

“So what if you want to experiment around with other ad services other than Google. ...”

“So maybe you want to save all those iChats you have.  Well, open iChat, click ...”

“You can use the command line tool opfw to set open firmware passwords.  It is ...”

“Firewire gives direct access to a systems memory.”

“Bart is cool, but cabs are better...  Or so I think.  Usually.  If traffic to ...”

“By default, Mac OS X will simply give you a shell when you perform a ...”

“So I came across this link the other day: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1413551&tstart=321 It brought a smile to my face. ...”

“Granted it really doesn't matter any more now that they're not allowed, but if you ...”

“Check the following for services that don’t use hostconfig, launchd or cron: /Library/StartupItems/ /System/Library/StartupItem /etc/mach_init.d ”

“Ever get nervous in front of a crowd?  I had an interesting recommendation for this kind of ...”

“A metapackage is a set of packages distributed in one structure.  Each can have its ...”

“OK boys - you know and I know that your game simply doesn't net 1 ...”

“When you say "off the record" does it really mean off the record or does ...”

“Installing the VMware Tools rpm on the Guest OS might just fix that...”

“Getting to be a Microsoft Gold Partner is like learning to program in some languages. ...”

“Don't talk religion or politics with a client.  Especially if either is their business.  Double ...”

“The Xserve has a serial port and it's enabled by default.  You can disable by ...”

“So why don't we quit.  Hmmm...”

“I think I am suffering from "no football to watch depression."  I miss my Bulldogs.”

“In the /etc/sshd_config file is a line that says: #X11Forwarding no You can change this to: X11Forwarding yes That ...”

“One of the more common mistakes I see people make in the Mac OS X ...”

“OK, so you can encrypt disks, but not the startup disk - although if you ...”

“An offer isn't always a final offer.  Feel free to negotiate during the interview process ...”

“Step 1: Put up a post that asks "what can we do better."   Step 2: ...”

“So there is a guy about 40 feet up in the air chainsawing the top ...”

“ya' right...”

“dsconfigad can be used to bind to Active Directory from the command line.  Use as ...”

“Edit /etc/sysctl.conf as follows: net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack = 0 ”

“That's all for today (you understand, right?!?!).”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Screen Sharing is a great enhancement to Leopard. The ability ...”

“To set a password with OPFW: sudo OFPW -pass mypassword To set firmware mode to command mode: sudo ...”

“Starting to warm up to Pages.  Especially since I figured out that if you click ...”

“If you find yourself in Atlanta and want to have some amazing ribs, check out ...”

“Especially if it's a security forum: http://freaky.staticusers.net/ugboard/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=ffafd11c9531615d9e8e91f195aaa484”

“nidump password .”

“Well, mostly stuff for OS 9 but check it out anyway: http://freaky.staticusers.net/”

“To install SAINT, download it open up Terminal and set your working directory to the ...”

“Here's an article with a quote I gave to Robert Mitchell, reprinted at MacWorld.com: http://www.macworld.com/article/131502/2008/01/.html”

“This site isn't being updated enough.  Maybe I should start my own security site for ...”

“My tree is dying and the city says we have to remove it.  Sad.”

“Did ya' know you can Kerberize it?”

“Well, this is pretty straight forwardtail -f /var/log/system.log | grep ipfw”

“If you require Full Disk Encryption for all laptops in your organization then don't forget ...”

“Let's see - Colt Brennan vs. the Bulldogs.  Am I the only one excited?  I ...”

“Hiding an admin user is a fairly straight forward task in Mac OS X.  To ...”

“passwd can change passwords.  dscl can also change a password for an account (in this ...”

“Raw mode.  That's how you edit the local directory store when the system isn't running. ...”

“To determine where a given change has replicated, use the following command: repadmin /showmeta "CN=username,OU=staff,DC=318,DC=com" <Name of ...”

“Confidence is confidence inspiring.  Be confident in an interview but not cocky.”

“How do I know what arguments were used when launching slapd? the /var/run/slapd.args file”

“http://code.google.com”

“Rookie mistake = renting a car in China Town...”

“To setup an Out of Office message with Kerio Mail Server, log into the web ...”

“Kerberos can be managed interactively using kadmin.loca or kadmin (which edits the default realm by default):  sudo kadmin.local  To ...”

“Join Zack and I, who will be representing 318 giving a presentation on Password Server ...”

“The maximum jobs per print queue is configured in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. # # MaxJobs: maximum number ...”

“A new user group in la for sysadmins: http://www.anmala.org”

“http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321046”

“Sometimes when you're setting up permissions for certain folders using Microsoft Entourage, the process will ...”

“So Apple says they don't allow you to download purchased items once they've downloaded the ...”

“After checking out all the various Course Management Systems or Content Management Systems with a ...”

“Note to self:  When staying at a Disney hotel keep in mind that there will be ...”

“Sure, I might as well jump on the Twitter bandwagon too... http://twitter.com/cedge318”

“From SecureMac.com: SecureMac has released a free utility called DNSChanger Removal Tool to remove the DNSChanger Trojan Horse, ...”

“So I was quoted in this article and thought it worth mentioning here or something... http://www.crn.com/storage/205600845”

“Fire up ARD through the command line: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/  Contents/Resources/kickstart”

“Browse to a specified folder using the Finder: Apple-Shift-G Here you could type in /var to go ...”

“So when you paste a photo/screenshot into Pages you can configure whether it stays where ...”

“So I've created a bunch of groups on FaceBook.  Groups for 318, Mac OS X ...”

“So 3 years now.  Seems like a long, long time.  But posting more now than ...”

“Is it me or has LinkedIn been saying they'll make the Groups feature better for ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The new MacBook Air was introduced at MacWorld with the ...”

“Georgia vs. Hawaii.  Solid victory, should result in a very high preseason ranking for the ...”

“What a great time of the year for football.  Really looking forward to the Georgia ...”

“Let's see, this printer can scan and print over wireless and be a fax.  Not ...”

“WAYYYYY faster than 2003, especially for the Mac.  :)”

“MAMP provides a portable LAMP-style environment for the Mac.  Easy to move stuff around, easy ...”

“Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to change the following line: net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit = 65535”

“That's all for today!”

“Build a monolithic image from packages: http://code.google.com/p/instadmg/”

“LOVE THIS!!! Rad Geek’s Projects - FeedWordPress Introduction FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content ...”

“lsof is a command that can be used to list all the open files.  You ...”

“http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb266932(EXCHG.65).aspx”

“I really wish UGA were playing in the SEC Championship game.  Whoever wins that might ...”

“During your interview make sure to ask questions.  These can be about the job at ...”

“For those interested in creating their own: http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/fanfaq.html”

“I'm pretty much one of those guys who, left to his own devices, hoards computer parts for ...”

“How many miles have I let expire?  How many flights did I not bother to ...”

“OK, so I'm barely using categories. But I really like Tags. So I'm ...”

“Various Spam Issues and the Appropriate Steps to Resolve Them:   Symptom: Users of the domain are ...”

“OK, so not terribly technical, but WTF with the return of 90210 and Knight Rider. ...”

“clear_list - Clears the current keylist  read_kt or rkt - Reads a krb5 keytab into the current keylist  read_st or ...”

“There have been a number of occasions when there is a Mac introduced into a ...”

“CryptoCARD can be used to provide 2 factor authentication.  This can easily be integrated into ...”

“Zterm is a terminal emulation package for the Mac.  You can use it to interface ...”

“Check out Check Point FDE for the Mac!”

“When you're in Seattle don't use an umbrella.  People look at you funny for that...”

“OK, RAID 5 is not a backup scheme.  Even with Direct Attached Storage you have ...”

“I would always create a service-specific (Atempo, Blackberry, GFM, Symantec, etc) account that is not ...”

“http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html”

“http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/macos_forensics/”

“Two utilities worth noting here, changeip and scutil.  You can check if your name and ...”

“I prefer ClamXav, easy-to-use, light, with a good detection rate, and detects Win and Mac OS ...”

“If you are interviewing for a job then research the company first.  Know what you ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Leopard Server and wiki. It’s cool and it works. But ...”

“Does a 31-17 win sound worthy of a little love in the polls?  I mean ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal So you need to empty your cache resolver, but you ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal For early Leopard adopters that don’t like the new look ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The default “skin” of the WebMail server (SquirrelMail) in OS ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Customizing the welcome message to new users of your iChat ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you want to enable the auto-population of buddy lists ...”

“If you want to have a script run when a user logs in and/or logs ...”

“24-13 wasn't a route.  But it is respectable enough given that they're not a bad ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you’re familiar with Managed Preferences in Tiger then you’re ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal So you selected Advanced Setup during the wizard while you ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Apple has been slowly winning over a lot of traditional ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal In Leopard the Top Menu Bar is fairly transparent and ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal So Ruby on Rails… What does this mean for me ...”

“45-20.  In the SEC that's a route.  I was worried to, to be honest.  They're ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal So you installed your new server and you’re having a ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal To answer all those questions like “How do I create ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal iWork ‘08 applications (Keynote, Numbers, Pages) and iLife ‘08 components ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you want to use an unsupported disk type for ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal ZFS was released by a team at Sun in November ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Mailbfr, spamtrainer and amavis-stats are great packages that fit into ...”

“44-34.  The Troy Trojans gave us fits compared to some of the other opponents we've ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal It seems like everyone wants to dabble in the Open ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal We’ve gotten a few questions from people asking how you’re ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal There’s an open source conference of sorts coming up in ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) can help to ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Monday, October 29th, 2007 - Intego issued a security alert ...”

“Ah, the memories.  Nights in Jacksonville, getting ready for the "Worlds Largest Cocktail Party" - ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you’re migrating to Leopard and Leopard Server then you’ve ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Slight change from how things were done in Tiger/Tiger Server, ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Installing Mac OS X is a fairly simple task to ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Casper is an incredibly useful tool for package deployment, maintaining ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal A key aspect of any groupware solution is the ability ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The Tiger Apple Certified Systems Administrator (ACSA) track allowed certification ...”

“It's just a terminology thing...  ;)”

“Bye weeks always make me sad.  I'm writing a bunch of articles to post for ...”

“Remember SEC fans, root for the team, then the conference and then for the teams ...”

“So there are actually 3 possible uses for Boolean variables in many cases.  The first ...”

“Always have a copy of your resume with you.  Some interviewers ask for it just ...”

“Yet another package-based management solution.  The monolithic image is dead.”

“So if you're in meetings 75% of the day then when do you get your ...”

“What is it about unranked teams in our conference.  We edged by them by 3. ...”

“"Don't be so proud of this Graphical Interface you've constructed; the ability to point and click ...”

“"GUIs are for people who point and grunt at their computers. Those of us who like ...”

“Tiger does not have any namespace support in dsconfigad.  So no multi-domain same account name ...”

“If you're making a bulleted list and you end an item with a period then ...”

“One-to-one NAT mapping per client if you really want this to work right...”

“How on earth do you let Phil Fullmer waltz into your house and put a ...”

“The API that Facebook has is awesome.  Not all the application developers are though.  Be ...”

“Now on Plaxo Pulse (how many more of these will there be)”

“http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.html  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html  http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html  http://wiki.videolan.org/Codec”

“Tivoli, Backup Exec, NetBackup - they don't backup resource forks.  So if you need your ...”

“It seems as though I have written the same article twice.  Can you find which ...”

“It's not just a great acronym.  If you want to put GUI wrappers around shell ...”

“45-17 is a solid win.  They didn't look bad though, expect better things from them ...”

“In Directory Access, click Services and authenticate.  Then select LDAPv3 in the list of services, ...”

“Kerberos uses keys to transmit information between hosts.  There are  session keys and service keys kept in the keytab ...”

“A realm is where the kerberos database is stored.  The realm lives on one computer (KDC) and  can ...”

“Mac OS X Server automatically takes the FQDN for the machine and uses that for the Kerberos ...”

“Download it here: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/”

“ssh -X serveraddress gui-tool”

“Overtime?  I thought the Tide's glory days had left with Bear Bryant.  Nick Saban, whether ...”

“Kerio leverages the OWA aspect of Entourage so if you open up OWA on the firewall then ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Some useful shortcuts for Safari users: Command-N opens a new Window Command-T ...”

“Interview I did with Stephen Northcutt of the SANS Institute: http://www.sans.edu/resources/leadershiplab/osx_security.php”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Cryptology is derived from the Greek words kryptos, which stands ...”

“Here's an article by Dean Shavit (formerly of MacTek) on tricking out your SquirrelMail: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.21/21.08/SquirrelMail/index.html”

“You are right - I have neglected my blogging duties.  So for the next year ...”

“UGA beats Western Carolina (no big shocker there).”

“Al Gore never said he invented the Internet.  However, he did say that he encouraged legislation ...”

“Despite the deep hatred for the in-state rival, I must admit that Georgia Tech has ...”

“Link to build custom servers with Dell: http://www.dell.com/business/servers”

“When you get a tax refund check, think about this: who will pay for this? ...”

“I setup this site for posting Mac jobs, projects, training and resume's to.  Let me ...”

“From the FTK Website: Forensic Toolkit® (FTK®) is recognized around the world as the standard in ...”

“We were supposed to be good this year!!!  :(  The 'ole ball coach has our ...”

“It's old, slow and really poorly designed (customizing profiles is actually a bug).  Facebook on ...”

“Make sure to keep eye contact with whomever you are interviewing with.”

“Now I have to figure out how to use the damn thing...”

“http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html”

“You can fully remove OD with the following command: slapconfig -destroyldapserver Warning - this will wipe all ...”

“Now do I get a cookie???”

“Really?  That can't be true, can it?!?!”

“As many environments will use multiple formats it is important to define the required bandwidth ...”

“ Setting up a Software Update Server if you are using Open Directory is a fairly ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The SANS Institute recently released a course by Charles Edge ...”

“I no longer want to hear that any politician is for or against something based ...”

“The Search Path in Mac OS X client can be used to define where your ...”

“I'm not sure why this keeps coming up, but you don't want to use your ...”

“Note to self: E1B.  That's the terminal and gate you want.  No waiting, no lines, ...”

“I'm often asked what I think of upgrading the firmware on servers and storage.  My ...”

“After text-mode or GUI-mode Setup completes, a message states that the computer will reboot in ...”

“So the the last article talked about an Apple-based preference.  But then I thought it ...”

“Interviewing is never easy.  But don't let them see you sweat.  Being able to hold ...”

“In Xsan you need to plan your LUNs carefully.  I've decided to call this process ...”

“Looking to suppress the iWork registration dialog?  Well, add /System/Library/CoreServices to your managed preferences and ...”

“You would be hard pressed to find another city that is as alive as New ...”

“If you're asked technical questions and you don't know the answer then it's OK to ...”

“Power Point still has more features, but Keynote is cleaner, easier to use and just ...”

“I'm not sure.  I mean he seems to embody many of the virtues I typically ...”

“I was helping someone out the other day and was VNC'd into their server watching ...”

“I have a Prius.  I love my car.  It's like driving around a little computer. ...”

“Technically speaking, Open Directory is an LDAP database that can be used to store information ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal When you’re active application is the Finder then check out ...”

“Portable Home Directories and Mobility are not substitutes for backing up your computers.  Think about ...”

“I was on the phone with someone earlier today and they didn't realize that they ...”

“There are a variety of Open Source solutions that can be used to monitor Mac ...”

“OK, so really.  Do all those roads really need those funky round-a-bouts?  I mean, if ...”

“Did you know that your AAA card gives you a discount on bail bonds?  I ...”

“Windows Mobile and Microsoft Exchange.  Windows Mobile still gives users an extremely feature rich environment ...”

“You can push out Open Directory bindings through DHCP.  This means that if anything happens ...”

“Chicago is a cool city.  Windy, sure.  But you already knew that.  The thing I ...”

“Interviewing is never easy.  But it can be a lot harder if you try to ...”

“In Mac OS X, the default format that screen shots are captured at are png ...”

“Disable sleep mode on a Mac laptop even when the lid is closed: http://semaja2.net/insomniax/”

“Edit the user record in the mysql.user table, giving it access to connect to the ...”

“The following link shows the compatibility matrix for StorNext Xsan support: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1517”

“There's usually a few different steps in the learning process for writing shell scripts.  The ...”

“OK, do they really suck that bad? I mean, on top of having a ...”

“http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/9036.html”

“The quicker you turn them in the quicker you get your money back.”

“Slow browsing issues can often be caused by poor wireless reception.  Sure, a lot of ...”

“To use the command line to install a package, use the following command: installer -pkg ./<package ...”

“There are two types of redirection: arguments and operators. An argument is provided to a ...”

“A pipe's command redirection used in Mac OS X and other *nix operating systems to send the output ...”

“Kill a pricessID forcefully.  For Example: kill -9 <PID#>”

“Limit process listing to those belonging to a given user by piping the output through ...”

“So don't call me and put me on hold.  It annoys me to no end.”

“You have two switches and you're thinking that you'll use the GBIC from your old ...”

“It's official, my next book will be on Mac OS X Security!!! Look for it ...”

“Even the national fraternity is trying to capitalize on the web: http://www.jesteronlinestores.com/phikappatheta/cart.php”

“Have you noticed how big Mac OS X has gotten?  Wonder why?  Well, for the ...”

“Lots of fireworks today.  Therefore, not much posting...  Sorry.”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Most screen savers just waste power. Might as well just ...”

“This is one of the most dumpy hotels I think I've stayed in for awhile. ...”

“For those that would like to see a graphical inventory of the files on your ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal For years, we’ve had issues with the fact that there ...”

“So you just installed that new Xserve and you are starting to notice that the ...”

“One of the biggest issues that a number of large environments have is controlling what ...”

“No one ever got fired for buying Cisco.  But, I recently saw a shop where ...”

“Let's face it: all the airlines suck now.  When my grandfather was with the airlines ...”

“Having lived in LA for a decade every time I go back I try and ...”

“Listing of Oracle commands: http://www.ss64.com/ora/index.html”

“Kerio has a variety of features available for mitigating the evil spam gremlins.  These include: 1 ...”

“You can use the pslist command to view a detailed listing of all ProcessIDs in ...”

“Extreme core switch http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/blackdiamond-8800.aspx”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Have you ever been looking for some files an you ...”

“Race, religion, sexual preference, family makeup and other items that are illegal to discriminate on just shouldn't ...”

“Consulting is an interesting job.  I often get asked "what makes a good consultant?"  One ...”

“The iPhone is a great phone.  It's also a great web browser and has a ...”

“I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Article about 318 on Apple.com, focusing on a project we ...”

“A regular expression "engine" is a piece of software that can process regular expressions, trying ...”

“So there's a handy little tool from VMware called vmrun that allows you to script ...”

“Planning an Xsan is perhaps the most complicated part of any deployment.  First, start with ...”

“When you're in Memphis you have to get barbeque.  I don't care if it's just ...”

“Incoming and outgoing mail are handled a bit differently from one another in Mail.app. This ...”

“Unzip items from the command line.  For example, if you wanted to unzip a file ...”

“When you're in Atlanta make sure to rent a car.  There are a lot of ...”

“You can monitor bandwidth utilization with SurplusMeter, a free download from skoobysoft (source code also ...”

“If you are out of hard drive space then you can't expect your computer to ...”

“   Set-acl Set Access Control List permissions from on a file (or object). Syntax ...”

“1 - Chicago 2 - Newark  3 - Dallas 4 - Miami 5 - New York (LGA) 6 - Chicago 7 ...”

“Personally, I would remove #6 from this list and maybe replace it with Orlando and ...”

“Woohoo, I don't have to make all my own any more: http://graffletopia.com/”

“Hit Apple-I on any page and then click on the security tab.  Right there in ...”

“Bootpicker is software that allows users to choose which OS installation to boot at startup. ...”

“Consultant $93,017 (up by 3.68%)  Full-time work at company $72,003 (up by 1.73% )”

“In Mac OS X you can use cron to schedule tasks but you can also ...”

“vmrun -T server -h https://myHost.com/sdk -u hostUser -p hostPassword -gu guestUser -gp guestPassword runProgramInGuest " ...”

“All volumes have a block size. In Mac OS X you can see a ...”

“To list the RAIDs on your current system use the listRAID option with diskutil.”

“When a LUN, Storage Pool and/or Volume gets too full then the SAN is going ...”

“If you want to make a program start at a certain time or always run ...”

“Toronto is a weird city.  It's like Chicago, but Canadian.  I think I like it ...”

“A Capacity Calculator for NetApp by Nicholas Bernstein of UUASC Download”

“http://www.mtmnet.com/visio_icons.htm”

“http://www.danlj.org/mkj/ttywatch/”