Thursday, 16 May 2024

File Naming Tips (dates)

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It is common for users (all of us) to want to put a date in the name of a file or folder to indicate when  it refers to and to ensure this i...
Tuesday, 14 February 2023

UK ISPs and (lack of) IPv6

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TCP/IP is the protocol used to access the Internet. Users may be familiar with IPv4 style numeric addresses which look like 192.168.0.1 - th...
Monday, 11 November 2019

macOS Catalina - How to uses imaging even though Apple don't want you to

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Apple have with each new version of macOS tightened the security and in general this is clearly a good thing. Apple have also removed a nu...
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Thursday, 17 October 2019

Auto-naming Mac computers using values from a database

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Long time Mac admins may have used a tool like DeployStudio to 'build' Macs before issuing them to users. DeployStudio can instal...
Friday, 9 November 2018

Apple REALLY don't want you to use Imaging anymore!

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Apple have for quite some time being warning Mac Admins to switch to using DEP as a means of configuring Macs instead of various forms of di...
Tuesday, 16 October 2018

UK - Dumb Boilers vs Smart Thermostats

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It is increasingly common these days for home owners to buy a 'smart' thermostat to control their central heating. Indeed arguably s...
Sunday, 5 August 2018

Extracting EFI firmware for standalone install in High Sierra

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When Apple released High Sierra they included built-in to the Install macOS High Sierra.app an EFI firmware updater as well. This was mainl...