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 the whole DNS Poisoning exploit. It’s kindof amusing…
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Mac OS X: adplugin and printers
To find all the printers you have available through Active Directory: dscl ‘/Active Directory/All Domains’ -list /Printers PrinterURI
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Interview Tips: July 2008
Time Management. Whether they ask during the interview or not, all employers will look kindly on the interviewer who has good time management skills. Feel free to point out instances where you were able to manage your time effectively to bring success to a given situation. You can even work this into the answer for various other unrelated questions, although make sure to still answer the questions you were asking about.
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LoanShark iPhone App
OK, I know this doesn’t really sound like something you’ll need in the field. Well, it isn’t. Unless of course you’re in the field in between looking at houses, which I am these days. So what does this little bugger do? Well, it can figure up payment, interest, amortization, track progress of mortgages, car loans, credit cards, etc. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=286069264&mt=8
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Mac OS X: Training Spam Assassin
Mac OS X Server’s built-in spam filter is Spam Assassin (sa). This article describes methods for teaching Spam Assassin how not to encounter false positives. First, man sa-learn and read about the command in it’s man file. Once you have done so, here are some tips for using sa-learn: sa-learn –ham teaches spam assassin that a message is not spam. sa-learn –spam teaches sa that a message is spam spam assassin learns based on files. Files are in the mbx or mbox format. Append–mbox or –mbx on the command to teach it based on these file types. To scan a folder for files to use, just use the * key for…
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iPhone App: Whois
Do a Whois of your (or anyones) domain. It’s not a terribly complicated app, but then it is a buck… http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288162206&mt=8
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Mac OS X Server: AutoFS
AutoFS is greatly improved in Leopard. To set up an automounting sharepoint in Leopard, use Server Admin from /Applications/Utilities. We described how to setup a share point in this article: Mac OS X Server 10.5: Sharing Files the New Way Once you have set up your share point then you may want to make it an automounting share, or you may want it to automount and not be visible for users, as in the case of a home directory automount. To create the automount you would browse to a folder from File Sharing and once shared, place a check mark in the box for Enable Automount. From here, click on…
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Windows XP: Deploying Policies for Microsoft Office
You can set various policies for Microsoft Office. When you install the Office Resource Kit (orktools.exe) you will be able to go into the Start->Programs->Microsoft Office Tools-> Microsoft Office Resource Kit -> System Policy Editor to do so.
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Windows XP: Managing Policies for a Single Workstation
Not all environments are Active Directory. If you have a smaller Mac OS X Open Directory environment with a PDC you may want to leverage policies if you don’t have the more complicated needs of AD. This can be setup in your image and then pushed out from there, but will not update dynamically as is otherwise possible when using a netlogon share and adm files. From Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP there are two utilities that can be used to create policy lists. The first is Group Policy Object Editor, gpedit.msc. The second is secpol.msc. For the purposes of this document we will use gpedit.msc as it…
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Mac OS X Server: Disable Roaming Profiles Globally
To disable roaming profiles you can just edit the smb.conf, adding a blank path to the logon path setting disables roaming profiles. So just add this line to your global /etc/smb.conf settings: logon path =