Seth W. KennedyAug 13, 2019So, a man walks into a [Genius] Bar…By Dave On February 22, 2010 · Add Comment · In Tech Journal Self-recrimination is a surprisingly powerful motivator. I wondered into the State Street A...
Seth W. KennedyAug 13, 2019When Spotlight leaves you in the dark.By Seth On January 31, 2010 · In Tech Journal Spotlight, in the right circumstance, can be a life-saver. But what happens when Spotlight goes bad. When ...
Command PromptApr 9, 2018Hello. We no longer have a Facebook page.I hated Facebook from the get-go. Sure, everyone else was using it, and as my Mom was always keen to point out, I may be the kind of person who’d jump off a ...
Command PromptMar 31, 2018Migrating DNS from macOS ServerGreat guide on how to do this from Apple, available here. In short, it’s a pretty simple process. BIND has been the DNS source of choice for macOS for a long...
Command PromptFeb 26, 2018Migrating Data from the Apple Wiki ServerWe used Wiki internally for a year or two back in the early 2010’s – it was neat, clean and well-designed, but we long-since moved to throwing everything in ...
Command PromptFeb 20, 2018SAYING GOODBYE TO THE OS X SERVER File Sharing SERVICESort of. High Sierra and the latest Server.app saw the removal of File Sharing from the stable of goodies that OS X Server had at its disposal, and there’s n...
Command PromptFeb 16, 2018Saying Goodbye to the OS X Server Mail ServiceOf all the services hosted by OS X Server that are apparently going away, none fills me with greater joy on the occasion of its demise than the Mail service....
Command PromptJan 26, 2018Changes to macOS ServermacOS Server has – for the past few years – increasingly become the least-favored child in the Apple lineup. In the last half-dozen or so releases Mac admins...
Command PromptJul 25, 2017SSL, TLS and Alarmism.Excerpt from an email I received this morning from Harbortouch, entitled “POS Systems Are Now Useless”: “Considerable changes are being made to PCI requireme...
Command PromptJun 23, 2017Ch-ch-ch-changesHi. This is Dave. Pleasedtameetcha. I’m spending a lot more time doing behind the scenes, big-picture IT these days, and it’s an odd change of pace compared ...
Command PromptJan 5, 2017SIPI love my Tesla Model S. It’s a fabulous car and there are many fabulous and ultimately very boring things that I could say about it. It’s fast and quiet and...
Command PromptNov 1, 2016SMART ErrorsFascinating and informative article from the good folks over at Backblaze. Digging into the statistics of drive failure isn’t exactly an enjoyable way to spe...
Command PromptOct 27, 2016Things I Do Not Like About macOS – Get Off My Lawn Edition #443Two things. Thing one? This is the default setting in Finder Preferences: That’s right. Anything you leave in your Trash for more than thirty days will be de...
Command PromptSep 7, 2016Airpods (or “Why Should I Pay A Hundred and Sixty Bucks for Wireless Headphones That Will FallToday was Apple’s big Fall 2016 New Product Introduction and Pancake Breakfast Jamboree. As is traditional, we got treats and surprises that are no less welc...
Command PromptAug 12, 2016Two Step Verification and Two Factor AuthenticationTwo-step verification on the Mac has been a thing for a while now. It’s a solid level of protection for your Apple ID that requires you to enter a code when ...
Command PromptAug 5, 2016Per-App Cellular settingsQuick/useful post (hopefully). I have a friend – let’s call him David because that is in fact his name – who dabbles in iOS app development. As we’re been fr...
Command PromptAug 3, 2016Backblaze Q2 reliabilityAsk a dozen IT folks what they recommend for internal storage and you’ll probably hear a dozen different answers. Most of us have – at one time or another – ...
Command PromptAug 2, 2016Certification UncertaintySeth and I have been lax in keeping up with our shots of late. We’ve been busy (which is a good thing) and thus only just got around to taking the El Capitan...
Command PromptAug 1, 2016Excess BaggageI carry a bag around with me all day long that contains the following items: 1) Laptop 2) Notebook & pen 3) Water bottle 4) Business cards 5) Leather pouch f...
Command PromptJul 28, 2016One Billion.“Cupertino, California July 27, 2016 – At an employee meeting in Cupertino this morning, CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple recently sold the billionth iPhone...
