Monthly Archives: October 2009

Xephyr, RHEL5 and Mac OS X 10.5

By arfore | Published: October 28, 2009
When doing system administration it is often more convenient to connect to a server through some sort of remote connection setup rather than having to sit at a console in a datacenter.  The comfort of one’s office (or living-room) is often far superior in terms of noise and temperature than the environs of the datacenter [...]
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Adding an Active Directory group to local admin on Mac OS X 10.5

By arfore | Published: October 21, 2009
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

By arfore | Published: October 5, 2009
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 [...]
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FontBook, Spotlight and the mysterious spinning hard drive

By arfore | Published: October 4, 2009
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 [...]
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