• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Extended Wireless Information in OS X

    Hold down the Option key when you click on the AirPort icon in the menu bar: You can then see the SSID, channel, security, RSSI, transmit rate, etc. The airport command is now located at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport so this would be similar to: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -I

  • Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment,  Network Infrastructure,  Windows Server

    Using the ExtremeZ-IP Command Line

    When you are configuring ExtremeZ-IP as a print server, you will need to set up and configure each printer. However, if you already have setup and configured printer queues for the Windows server, you can import existing queues into ExtremeZ-IP. This can be done programatically via the ExtremeZ-IP EZIPUTIL command line tool. EZIPUTIL has a number of options, whereby the SERVER option is used to configure global settings for ExtremeZ-IP, VOLUME is used to create, edit and delete print queues and PRINT is used to manage shared print queues. Each of the options also has a number of switches for the feature(s) that are being managed. These are structured as…

  • Mac OS X

    Changing Volume Silently

    When you turn the volume on a Mac up or down you end up hearing a tone indicating the volume level. If you hold down the Shift key while you’re changing the volume then you won’t hear that tone. Kinda’ fun. Also, if you hold down the Option key when you change the volume level you will bring up the Output tab of the Sound System Preference pane.