BBEdit turned 25 years old this week! Congratulations! (I will have a few thoughts on that later.)
I also posted a sneak peak on my next book: “macOS Installation for Apple Administrators”
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📰News and Opinion
- BBEdit: Not Quite Bare Bones – Andrew Johnston, TidBITS
- MacOS monitoring the open source way – Michael George, Dropbox Tech Blog
- Should you use shutdown or reboot in the command line? – Howard Oakley
- T-Mobile owner battles dataJAR over magenta logo – BBC News
- An Enterprising Future – Mike Kaply
- New and Improved macOS Native Software Management – Naveen Pitchandi, VMware End-User Computing Blog
- The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers – Erich Schubert
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- BBEdit: “On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software released the first commercial version of BBEdit.”
- Yoann Gini: “Apple really need to make DEP evolve to include SAML support for MDM authenticated enrolment. This login/password field is way too limiting for modern corp…”
- Dean Hager: “Jamf Software has hit a major milestone. All 10 million are Apple devices. It’s our mission. Thank you again #JamfNation!…”
- Anthony Reimer: “Big warning to hobbyists using FileMaker for personal databases: new licensing in v.17 increases prices for non-Advanced users and deprecates Runtime. If you have v.14+, upgrade to 17. It might be your terminal version. 1/2” (thread)
🔨Support and HowTos
- Preventing alarms from going off on MDM’ed iPads – Alan Siu
- How To Extract Legacy FileVault-Encrypted Files on macOS 10.13 High Sierra – Apple Tool Box
- MGMT300, Office for Mac, First Run and Activation – Paul Bowden, Microsoft
- Install P5 on the Jellyfish – DAM SAN
- Upgrading from ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 6.7 via SSH and esxcli – Rich Trouton
- Lab Nauseam – Dawn of the DEP – Neil Martin
- How to free up system storage in macOS High Sierra – The Sweet Setup
🤖Scripting and Automation
♻️Updates and Releases
🎧To Listen
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