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 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 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 PromptJul 27, 2016MAC address changes on the MacFirstly, that should read “MAC address changes on the Mac”. While this blog makes headings look super neat and keen, it does tend to CAPITALIZE EVERY THING w...
Command PromptJul 22, 2016MAC OS X AND TESLA API (PT. 2)When it comes to loading and working with with third party APIs for your car, it kind of goes without saying that there are some caveats to be considered. Fo...
Command PromptJul 15, 2016RAID and macOS SierraFirst – and it’s important to get this out of the way – I think “macOS” is silly. Yes, I know that we had iOS, which was fine because that carried the lingui...
Command PromptJul 14, 2016Sync Google Apps calendars across iOS devicesWe’re enthusiastic proponents of Google Apps. There’s an eternal, roiling debate over the assorted pros and cons of every online collaborative solution – Exc...
