Install and Setup mongodb on a Mac
I don’t write as much about what I do at my day job as I used to. I probably should, because it’s all still relavant to my older readers. One example of that is that I have published a lot of articles...
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Quick And Dirty Guide To Compiling Your Own Version Of An Open Source Xcode...
There are plenty of apps out there that can be beneficial to an organization, but don’t really make sense to live on an app store. This might be because the app uses private APIs, breaks acceptable...
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Can’t Schedule Reboots in Ventura: Mac Observer’s Gotcha
I was talking to Jeff Butts at Mac Observer yesterday and he mentioned something I hadn’t noticed: macOS Ventura removes the option to schedule an automatic reboot from the graphical interface. I...
View ArticleDisable Disk Image Verification On Mac
Sometimes you have to mount a whole lot of disk images (like a script that fires up 9,999 and proceeds to sing the bottles of beer on the wall song but instead transposes those lyrics with “disks...
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Secure Keyboard Entry on macOS
The Secure Keyboard Entry option has been in Terminal going back almost a decade. Secure Keyboard Entry was added as EnableSecureEventInput way back in Mac OS X 10.3 and was developed to protect the...
View ArticleDisable Safari Extension Updates During Development
I’ve been experimenting with Safari Extensions for awhile ( https://github.com/krypted/Word-Replacer-Safari-Extension ) and once we publish them we might need to continue to use an old version for...
View ArticleClear that QuickLook Cache
Seems like just yesterday that I first wrote about using Apple’s QuickLook from the command line. And yet it’s been eight years: https://krypted.com/mac-security/qlmanage/. qlmanage Guess time flies...
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Change Default Finder Views Using defaults
We can manage the way the Finder displays objects using the FXPreferredViewStyle key in the com.apple.finder defaults domain. There are four options in the Finder drop-down for view style and these...
View ArticleMacsysadmin 2020 Keynote Deck
I’ve decided that it would be awesome if anyone took any of my works and built on top of them. So I’m including the raw keynote deck and the pdf of the deck for my Macsysadmin talk this year. Please...
View ArticleThe Evolution (and De-Evolution) of the Mac Server
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View ArticleWeb Server Bash One Liner for Linux or Mac
The nc (or netcat) binary is useful for a variety of TCP or UDP operations. You can open a listener, proxy connections, open a connection to another device, and port scan a device. And you can do it...
View ArticleJamf After Dark Podcast: Conditionally Accessing All The Things
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View ArticleThe Origin Of The Blue Meanies
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View ArticleEpisode 136 of MacAdmins Podcast, Bare Metal with Chris Chapman
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View ArticleEpisode 128 of the MacAdmins Podcast: Apple’s Been Busy, with Jeremy Butcher...
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View ArticleEpisode 126 of the MacAdmins Podcast: WWDC After Action Report
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View ArticlePull TeamID and BundleID from KextPolicy in scripts
This type of thing is usually done interactively, but when I’m piping output that doesn’t work. So here’s a quick one-liner in bash for pulling the TeamID and BundleID from kexts out of the KextPolicy...
View ArticleMacAdmins: “Walk Softly But Carry A Mac Deploy Stick” with Tim Perfitt
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View ArticlePull iTunes App Categories via Bash
I love bash one-liners. Here’s one it took me a bit to get just right that will pull the Category of an app based on the URL of the app. curl -s...
View ArticleNFS. Not… Dead… Yet…
NFS may just never die. I’ve seen many an xsan covert to NFS-based storage with dedicated pipes and less infrastructure requirements. I’m rarely concerned about debating the merits of technology but...
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