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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Adding an Active Directory group to local admin on Mac OS X 10.5
One of the standard methods of configuring Mac OS X in the enterprise has become known as the magic triangle or golden triangle. This is generally described as a setup involving Active Directory (AD) for authentication of the clients and services and Open Directory (OD) for managing the client preferences. The triangle comes from the [...]
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xmarks install interfering with Office Updates
While re-loading the OS and apps on my iMac at work, I ran into major issues whilst updating MS Office 2008. When running the first update, Office 2008 SP1 (12.1.0) I had no problems, however none of the other updates would run. I kept getting the error “You cannot install Office 2008 Updates on this [...]
FontBook, Spotlight and the mysterious spinning hard drive
Lately I have noticed that when browsing the web my external hard drive would spin up when there seemed no need. I had just given into the mysterious and not concerned myself with this until yesterday. After a few searches, I turned up a post on Apple’s discussion boards entitled Safari pauses & spins up [...]
Xephyr, RHEL5 and Mac OS X 10.5