I've been meaning to mention: I'll be giving a talk about Macintosh managed preferences (related to the book) at the monthly Tri-State Chapter of the Apple Consultants Network.
This takes place on the 2nd of September at 6pm at Novaworks in NY. If you're an ACN member, I hope to see you there. If you're not and would like to attend, ping me via e-mail.
My book on Managed Preferences for Mac OS X has been released (Amazon Link).
Is it just me, or does everyone see this message when quitting Safari:
"Do you really want to Quit Safari? You have a 400 Windows open that contain a bajillion tabs!"
Yeah, I can keep going down the rabbit-hole of links as good as the next person. But that doesn't mean I don't ever restart my machine (on purpose, or, thanks to unstable code). When Safari gained the ability to "Reopen all Windows from Last Session," I was extremely pleased. Let's face it: Safari can sometimes die unexpectedly.
I can't seem to find this documented plainly anywhere, so, now it will be: when you set your MobileMe iDisk to sync locally, it now creates a sparsebundle disk image in:
~/Library/FileSync/(FS_identifier)/(MobileMe_username)_iDisk.sparsebundle
You may want this information so you can exclude this path from backups or know how to mount the image manually.
I'll be giving a presentation at the Tri-State meeting of the Apple Consultants Network titled, "Dev Tools for Sys Admins." I'll be recording this talk and have attached some resources here for those attending. Bring a laptop as portions will be hands-on.
***UPDATE***
Google is now placing snapshots of Chromium at:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/
So, I don't need to do this any longer. (And will now stop - please fetch LATEST from the aforementioned URL).
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Google's Chrome web browser has gotten some press, certainly, but that makes it all the more frustrating for Mac OS X users as there currently is no official build. You can certainly go grab the source and build it yourself:
Macworld 2009 has now come and gone. The biggest news, of course, is that Apple themselves have pulled up stakes and made this show their last. The question on attendee's minds: does this finish Macworld, too? I'm sure it does not.
Never realized that Peachpit put an entire sample chapter from Advanced System Administration on-line:
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1234969
It's actually a packed, practical chapter!
Courtesy of Peachpit, enjoy!
Virtualization changes everything. Well, at least, a lot of things. It is a huge change in the area of testing in particular. Being able to snapshot a test environment, abuse it, and easily return it to some known state is enormous. However, I'm having a problem getting OS X Server running under VMWare Fusion on the new MacBook Pro. Fusion itself runs fine. I can virtualize other operating systems. However, the combination of VMWare Fusion v2.0 (build 116369), OS X Server and the new unibody MBP doesn't work as far as I can tell.
