I was doing some tech reading today and found an article from AFP548 that says 2nd and 3rd Generation Apple TV’s support an iOS profile for Wi-Fi settings. It makes me wonder how much of iOS is being leveraged in an Apple TV. At any rate, here are the links… Read more »
I am not sure how many people use this but I think a few environments would find it handy. If you are responsible for a large number of Mac computers and need to run Full Disk Encryption this may be of some help. The script will assist with the automation… Read more »
UPDATE to 3.0 – Check this out first. http://musings.silvertooth.us/2013/05/recovery-partition-creator-3-0/ UPDATED to 2.0.5 – THIS SCRIPT DOES NOT WORK WITH FUSION DRIVES… YET Alright folks, here is the latest version. Please be sure to read this entire post before running the script. I have added an addition that will now check… Read more »
Hi all, I finished the script yesterday and did a quick test in a VM to make sure it actually worked. I still need to test it with Lion in case my changes broke that piece. I will post the script and workflow as soon as I get back from… Read more »
As part of the myriad of things I deal with, configuring and maintaining a couple of Cisco ASA 5520’s is one of them. After doing a major network migration from hosted network equipment to in-house equipment I ran into a few issues. I did have some serious help from a… Read more »
A few people have been wondering if my Recovery Partition Creator works with Mountain Lion. Unfortunately I have not been able to test it and I haven’t seen any posts from Apple about restoring the recovery partition. For now I would advise that you don’t use the Recovery Partition Creator… Read more »
Upgrading to Mountain Lion. Is it bad when your installer has negative minutes then suddenly says 20 mins remaining. So now my 34 min install is going to be close to 54 mins. Me thinks Apple has copied a Windows feature. I call it the “predictably unpredictable installer progress indicator”…. Read more »
I decided to post a picture I took last night of the Golden Gate Bridge. My blog was feeling lonely and needed some love so this was the best I could do 😉 I took this from a lookout around Battery Spencer on the way to the Marin Headlands. The… Read more »
Alright folks. I have version 1.0.5 of the script done. It isn’t the most beautiful thing but it gets the job done. I think I added enough checks into the script that will make you aware of any possible reasons it will fail and if it does for some reason… Read more »
So I have been thinking about how to escrow the file vault recovery keys that are generated from cauliflower vest. At first I thought I should just try and re-create the Google App Engine instance that is needed to work with all the tools but I quickly realized that I… Read more »