sudo ditto –rsrc –acl path/to/old/machine/Users/ path/to/new/machine/Users/ That will do it. The Long Story: All my Macs are joined to Active Directory. Most are common area machines (labs, kiosks, etc) but a few have one or a handful of regular users of those machines. I needed to upgrade them to new machines, and transfer their accounts […]
Why the Mac App Store is Long Overdue
The Mac App Store
On this, the eve of the release of Apple’s desktop version of its wildly popular iOS App Store, I find myself very excited. Not for me, but for the many new Mac users who don’t quite understand how things work.
You see, in my line of work, I encounter many people who have Macs. I don’t call them Mac users, but people who own an Apple computer. Just as I wouldn’t call them Windows users if they didn’t understand how that operating system works, I don’t feel they know enough about how to properly use, manage and maintain a Mac to be given the title. Perhaps the biggest issue I encounter is that they have no clue how to install software. (more…)
Custom CS5 Icon
With the release of Adobe’s CS5 suite of applications, it was time for me to make a new folder icon. Enjoy! [Download]
Use The Terminal to Setup Apple Remote Desktop Computer Info #1
UPDATED: Since this writing, I’ve switched from Mike Bombich’s NetRestore, to DeployStudio. DeployStudio offers the ability to populate all 4 computer info fields after restoring an image, as part of an imaging workflow. I highly recommend DeployStudio for system imaging. Occasionally, I still use the method outlined below to tweak these fields. Part of my […]
Now Taking Suggestions
Since I’ve been getting a little bit of traffic here lately, I decided it was a good time to sign up for Skribit. Skribit is a service that was born out of an Atlanta Startup Weekend a few years ago, and helps bloggers cure writer’s block by letting their readers suggest ideas for new posts and […]
A Workaround for removing Western Digital’s SmartWare Virtual CD Partition
UPDATE 2: A Mac OS X version of the firmware update and VCD Manager are now available here. In my own test updating my MyBook Essential 1TB, both utilities worked perfectly. See the comments below for more information. UPDATED: It appears that Western Digital has released a firmware update and a utility called VCD manager, […]