Disk-Arbitrator - Mount disks read-only on macOS
Disk Arbitrator is a Mac OS X forensic utility designed to help the user ensure correct forensic procedures are followed during imaging of a disk device. Dis...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Disk Arbitrator is a Mac OS X forensic utility designed to help the user ensure correct forensic procedures are followed during imaging of a disk device. Dis...
Read post →I don't use Skype very often, but when I went to use it recently, it couldn't see my FaceTime HD camera. I'd go into Skype > Preferences and in Audio/Video a...
Read post →After upgrading the Apple Remote Desktop client on a number of machines, and using the new 3.9 version of the Remote Desktop app, some machines have started...
Read post →I recently had an issue where a domain-joined machine with Windows 7 was unable to have new users log in. Anyone who had an existing account on the machine c...
Read post →This is pretty obscure stuff - I'm putting it here so I can refer to it later down the track when I've completely forgotten what I did. In Canto Cumulus, you...
Read post →As Apple have removed PPTP VPN support from macOS Sierra (10.12 and iOS 10) I'm changing clients over to L2TP over IPSec VPNs instead. Once the VPN server is...
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Read post →I recently needed to have a script execute on a daily basis - previously this would have been a task for cron however it's been deprecated (yet still all the...
Read post →$UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-livei...
Read post →Synology DSM lets you do some pretty complex things with permissions on files and folders, however occasionally things can get a bit mixed up and it's diffic...
Read post →Apple's built-in Preview app has long had a way that you can reduce the size of a PDF by recompressing and downsampling the images in the PDF. Simply open a...
Read post →This information is condensed from Håvard Siegel Haukeberg's blog over at https://haukeberg.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/disable-pin-code-when-joining-azure-ad/...
Read post →When you join a Windows 10 machine to Azure AD, the user account you use to join to the domain is automatically given local administrator permissions to the...
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Read post →Ever since Apple were forced to ditch Samba due to their changing the licensing to GPL3, we've been stuck with a second-rate SMB implementation on OS X and S...
Read post →I've been trialling Bidsketch as a more efficient way to get written proposals to my clients. I don't write a huge number of proposals, and am prone to reinv...
Read post →I've had a couple of clients come to me recently after their WordPress site was pwned. Sometimes you're able to use a tool like Wordfence to clean it up and...
Read post →I recently needed to establish an ad-hoc ssh connection to a server behind a firewall. I didn't control the firewall and couldn't get a port mapped through i...
Read post →I don't know why it is, but SMB on OS X Server is slower and less reliable than the AFP that it replaces. Despite Apple making it the default for OS X to OS...
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