Not so busy this week. I have the impression we are entering the calm before the WWDC storm.
I had already mentioned the 20-year anniversary of the iMac last week. However, I have to add this post by Horace Dediu of Asymco where he posted the best infographics on the topic.
I have added two more conferences to the list. X world in Sydney and MacTech in Los Angeles. I put up this list because there were quite a few announcements and schedules published in the last two weeks. I do not plan to make this a permanent section as the MacAdmins Podcast team already has a great list of events nearly every week.
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#! On Scripting OS X
- PLIST Editor
- Dutch MacAdmins Meeting: 8 June
- Demystifying
rooton macOS, Part 4 —The Authorization Database (this concludes my series on the root account on macOS)
🎤Conferences
- MacDevOps YVR – June 7–8
- X World, Sydney – June 27–29
- MacAdmins Conference at Penn State – July 10–13
- MacSysAdmin, Göteborg – October 2–5
- MacTech Conference, Los Angeles – Nov 7–9
📰News and Opinion
- My request for all the data Apple had on me was eye-opening – Jefferson Graham, USA Today
- How Long Do Hard Drives Last: 2018 Hard Drives Stats – Andy Klein, Backblaze
- Just in Time – Horace Dediu Asymco
- Last Week on My Mac: Is the macOS command line doomed? – Howard Oakley
- Contacts and People — Ryan Gray
- iOS 11’s Streamlined, Yet Extensible File Management – Federico Vitcci, MacStories (iOS centrix, but this is one set of features I would like to see ported ‘back to the Mac’)
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Tim Perfitt: “Getting ready to release Winclone 7 in the next few weeks and am really stoked about this release. Here is why. #winclone7” (Thread)
- Clayton Burlison: “Times when it is acceptable to message me with “I have a problem and need your help” on three different platforms within a time span of 20 minutes? Never is the correct answer.” (Thread)
- Julia Evans: “find” (click to see image, also check out her twitter for more great info graphics: kill, tar, sort & uniq, xargs, grep)
🐞Bugs and Security
- What do Security Updates actually fix? – Howard Oakley
- iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access – Juli Clover, Mac Rumors
🔨Support and HowTos
- The Joy of ssh: remote control and quick copying – Howard Oakley
- Detecting if a logged-in user on a FileVault-encrypted Mac has a Secure Token associated with their account – Rich Trouton
- Moving Beyond Scheduled Jobs to Event-Driven Workflows – Jeremy Baker
- How to enable logging in Outlook for Mac – Microsoft Support
🤖Scripting and Automation
♻️Updates and Releases
- Discovery 1.0 for Mac (Bonjour Browser 2.0) (iOS version)
- PLIST Editor 1.11 (Read my review.)
- Munki 3.3 Release Candidate 2
- Jamf Pro 10.4.1
🎧To Listen
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