Recently I woke up and my daughter was sitting on me watching something on the iPad. As I woke ever so slightly I realized that she was watching Transformers the movie on Netflix. I’m not typically a helicopter dad, hovering over her every move, but I did realize amidst the explosions that ya’, I might want to take some of the things I learned writing the book on locking these things down and put a few very basic measures in place to keep her from seeing something she shouldn’t. After all, she’s gotten about as good at navigating around the thing as I am (and these days she’s getting pretty…
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Managing iOS Devices with Apple Configurator
My traditional interpretation of Apple’s vision on how iOS devices are used is that everyone has an AppleID. That AppleID enables them to access their apps from any iOS device they own or Mac that they own. That AppleID enables them to access mail, contacts, calendars and even files through iCloud. That AppleID also allows users to remotely wipe their device through Find iPhone and track their friends iOS devices (as in social networking via breadcrumb tracking) through Find Friends. All of this “Just Works” in a consumer sense. And it even allows for a little sharing of content across devices you own. However, larger organizations need more. They need…
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Disable Xserve Keyboard Locking
When you use the key to lock an Xserve the keyboard and drive modules are locked into place. But in a number of environments only the drive modules should be locked and the keyboard itself should still be active. In order to disable this feature you can use the systemsetup command, leveraging the getdisablekeyboardwhenenclosurelockisengaged option (which by the way is one of the longest I’ve seen). If you run the following command and the keyboard locks when you lock the server then you should get a simple output of Yes systemsetup getdisablekeyboardwhenenclosurelockisengaged But if you swap the g with an s you have the option to alter the setting with a…