I don’t usually get too excited about firmware updates, mainly because the things they fix rarely tend to affect me, for whatever reason. But the last Leopard Graphics Update from a few weeks ago has actually caused me some problems. Two, I believe, to be precise. The first problem I’ve had may or may not [...]
I did it. Yes, I finally did it: I went and pissed off Time Machine. I’ve been using the Staff Backup drive for my Time Machine backups, see. And that drive needs a certain amount of free space for any large chunks of data that staff might create during any given day. So when Time [...]
Every now and then, when I connect to a network share, the window opens with its top slightly behind the menubar. This has been happening at least since Tiger, and I half expected it to go away in Leopard. But it hasn’t. What has changed in Leopard, however, is the menubar, which is allegedly translucent. [...]
If you’ve been using Software Update (like I have, up ’til the other day), you’ve probably missed one of the new features of Leopard: Installer Certificates. Major updates from Apple now come with certificates of authenticity. So, for instance, download the standalone Mac OS X 10.5.2 installer and launch the package in the Installer application, [...]
So here’s the plan, as it stands right now. (Yes, I have a plan already! Yes, that was quick.) First, build an image that’s good for all workstations (laptops, staff machines, standard workstations, etc.) throughout the lab with: Base OS (Mac OS X Leopard 10.5) A DHCP network connection Apple applications Adobe applications Drag-and-drop applications [...]
So I’m sitting in my office, waiting for the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard update to show up in my Software Update, and it just isn’t happening. And at some point I realize, “Hey, maybe it just hasn’t been downloaded to our Software Update Server yet.” Yes, we run our very own Software Update Server [...]
My big, fat, self-assigned new project — or, as I like to call it, the bug up my butt — is system roll-outs. That is, I realized at some point two things. One, I am managing way more computers than ever before, and way more than I realized; and two, the scope and variety of [...]
So there’s an incredibly annoying and puzzling behavior in Mac OS X with regards to duplicate computer names on the LAN. Most Mac Admins probably know what I’m talking about. Here’s the deal: Let’s say you have a Mac Pro on your home network named Spanky and it has an IP address of 192.168.1.25. Let’s [...]
So I really like Leopard. It’s nifty, but not without it’s problems. I thought I’d take a minute to post some of the issues I’ve had with the new OS. So far I’ve only had a few complaints. Actually, my initial experiences were quite positive. I did an Archive and Install, preserving user and network [...]
Our home account server — the one all our network users’ home accounts live on — mounts via NFS. I’ve already mentioned one of the improvements with regards to this behavior in Leopard, namely, autofs. But I just discovered another. See, that NFS mount I’m always talking about, well, it’s a Linux RAID — Fedora [...]