Mac OS X
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 [...]
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 ext [...]
Uninstalling Inquisitor
For those of you who are into browser plugins, you may have run across a plugin called Inquisitor. According to the website, Inquisitor:
speeds up your searches like no other
While this may be true after several searches I determined that I wanted to go back to using the default Safari search plugin features instead. Unlike the [...]
Configure AirPort Extreme MAC filter ACL
Today I picked up one of the new dual-band AirPort Extreme base stations at Best Buy. The reason behind the purchase was so that I could use 802.11n for my iMac and Apple TV while using 802.11g for my iPhone, since this should give me the best wireless throughput for my shared files to [...]
