Somewhat slow week for MacAdmin news. The new year is still ramping up.
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On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- The Few Remaining Uses of the Word “Macintosh” – Adam Engst, TidBITS
- Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again – Marco Arment
On Twitter
- Steve Hayman: “Happy 40th Birthday to one of my favourite Unix features, the Shebang! Dennis Ritchie introduced the two-character #! sequence – which tells Unix how to execute a script file – 40 years ago today.”
- Carl Ashley: “Interrogating a preinstall script for a package. It’s doing naughty things. This is just a sample. What package sins keep you awake at night, macadmins?… ” (Image)
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- Apple Content Caching and You (Setup and Advanced Options) — Dan Jones
- Watch that space: More fun with Unicode in file names – Howard Oakley
- 2019 Mac & macOS Updates to Apple’s Tours (com.apple.touristd) – A. Orlebeke
- Using SCCM to Deploy Windows 10 (Boot Camp) with Winclone 8 – Twocanoes Software
- Analysing JAMFSoftwareServer.log Messages – Ben Toms
- FCP7 to FCPX – DAM SAN
- Finding Java and Identifying Vendors – Marriott Library – Apple ITS |
- Restricting access to the Crypt GUI in AWS – Graham Gilbert
Scripting and Automation
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