Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-05-24

No quiet before the storm with this year’s WWDC. After macOS 10.14.5 and iOS 12.3 dropped last week, we got new MacBooks Pro with a decent speed bump this week. Their keyboard only got minor changes, but Apple has also announce a Keyboard Service program.

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News and Opinion

MacAdmins on Twitter

  • Timo Perfitt: “If you are interested in the Twocanoes MDS slides, exercises, or links from my roadshow, this tweet is for you! https://t.co/AZ8rJcafCD”
  • tlark: “Want to try to get rid of Adobe products? It may not be possible, but there are alternatives… ”
  • Edward Marczak: “Or you can go all in and just not allow 32-bit execution: sudo nvram boot-args="-no32exec"… ”
  • John C. Welch: “I was just thinking, at random about Macworld Expo, and I realized why its end, and the end of end-user/consumer-focused computer shows in general are a bad thing. What happens when all computer shows are for devs or industry “insiders”?” (Long thread)
  • Minko Gechev: “A bash function I use constantly on airports: function changeMac() { local mac=$(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//') sudo ifconfig en0 ether $mac sudo ifconfig en0 down sudo ifconfig en0 up echo "Your new physical address is $mac" } Unlimited WiFi ”
  • Timo Perfitt: “Turns out that the plural form of ”Mac“ is ”a murder of Mac computers“.”

Bugs and Security

Support and HowTos

Scripting and Automation

Apple Support

Updates and Releases

To Watch

To Listen

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