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Installing MunkiReport
What is MunkiReport MunkiReport is a web-based reporting interface for Munki clients. It’s cool to deploy a bunch of Munki clients, but it’d be nice to know how many are out there, and any errors or pending installs there may be on those clients. If you haven’t set up your Munki server yet, do that…
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À la carte Adobe CS6 Master Collection using Munki
Caveats This tutorial assumes you know some Munki basics already. If you don’t, check out Absolute beginner’s guide to setting up Munki (not monkey) first. I’m still in the early stages of figuring out different ways to package Adobe CS6 Master Collection (assuming a site license here) using Munki. It isn’t seamless, but it generally…
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Mounting an external drive when users are logged out in Mac OS X
Problem? In older versions of Mac OS X, you could create a special .plist file that auto-mounts disks even when a user isn’t logged in. You can see that (no longer working) procedure here. I don’t know exactly when support for that ended, but some people have suggested around Mountain Lion. (If you try it…
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Getting started with pygame on a Mac
There are a lot of pygame tutorials out there, but I haven’t yet found a simple, step-by-step how-to on how to just get pygame installed on a Mac, and then actually use it. So, hopefully, this will work for you. This example was done using Macs running OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Your mileage may vary.…
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Movie projects disappear after iMovie upgrade
When you upgrade to the new iMovie, there’s a quick prompt to update your old iMovie projects, but if you dismissed that and don’t know how to go back and update again… Go to File > Update Projects and Events…More info at Apple: Update projects and events from previous versions of iMovie in iMovie (2014)
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Don’t display last logged-in user at login screen for Windows
The Problem You may have noticed that Windows will remember by default the last logged-in user. This is supposed to be a convenience, but when you have a lot of users sharing computers, it will often add an extra step to have to click Switch User before entering a username and password. There are two…
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Adding a carriage return within a cell in Numbers
If you want to do a carriage return within a cell in Numbers (iWork), hit Option-Return on your keyboard. This will not work in Microsoft Excel (Office 2011).
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Troubleshooting AirPlay to AppleTV
This is less of a step-by-step tutorial and more of “this is a situation we encountered and what ended up fixing it… your mileage may vary” post. We had one laptop that had trouble connecting to one Apple TV in a classroom. My own laptop could AirPlay to it just fine. When the non-connecting laptop…
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Resetting a Windows password with ntpasswd
Proper Use Case You may encounter situations in which you have forgotten the administrator password on a Windows computer, and you need to reset the password. This tutorial will walk you through how to reset it using an open source tool called ntpasswd. Improper Use Cases If your Windows computer is joined to a domain,…
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How many times do you have to write zeros or random data to a drive to securely delete data?
Conventional wisdom says that you need to do many passes of zeros, ones, combination of zeros/ones, and then random numbers in order to securely erase a drive so that its data cannot be recovered. But is this true? The folks at HowToGeek make a good case for one pass of zeros being enough: HTG Explains:…