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Cocoa App: Animal Age

In an effort to learn more about Objective-C programming I have created a simple OSX Application that mimics one of my more popular widgets the Dog Age Widget. Its a native Objective-C Animal Age calculator that allows you to convert the ages of various animals against human lifespans and see life expectancies based on different breeds of animals. While this may not seem like an exciting or useful application I am using it as a tool to learn more about GIT how it works and also to learn more about...

Dec 19, 2013

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Cocoa Control: Print View

Apple has changed decades ago by introducing to the world single window applications. Ever since we have seen tremendous applications all taking advantage of this form. Functionality that compliments that form are things like window sheets, those cool pop-under windows that slide up and down from the top of the application top bar. Sheets magically show us controls when we need them and then whoosh them away when we don’t. Not surprisingly Apple has built in controls for system level windows to use this wonderful technology. However its not very...

Dec 14, 2013

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PXE Boot Clonezilla Live with Synology

I was excited to see that Synology have recently integrated a PXE solution in their latest version of Diskstation Manager – DSM 4.2 beta. This makes their NAS devices even more ideal in a home virtualisation lab as they are both cheap to buy and to run (the DS212 unit that I own consumes less than 20W in use), but also easy to configure and they offer a wide range of storage and network services such as CIFS / AFP / NFS / iSCSI, LDAP, PXE, TFTP, VPN, DNS. They...

Dec 9, 2013

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Install Zenoss on 10.9 Mavericks with VMWare Fusion

If you are a network (or systems) administrator, you know how crucial it is to have the right tools for the job. One of the toughest tools to really nail down is a network monitoring tool. Although there are plenty of such tools out there, they range from the over-priced to the under-featured. Where do you look for any sort of middle ground where features don’t lose out to price? Zenoss is an outstanding, enterprise-ready network monitoring tool that includes all of the features you are accustomed to finding in...

Dec 3, 2013

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Deploying Printers with Munki on 10.9 Mavericks

It is possible to add, remove and manage printers using Munki. You might be asking: Why add and remove printers using Munki? Why not just use Profile Manager? You can use Profile Manager to manage printer lists but the functionality is limited. One major issue with managing printer lists with Profile Manager is if you add a printer to an Profile Manager client’s printer list, and the driver file for that the printer isn’t installed on the client system, the printer will be added using the Generic Printer Driver. Even...

Nov 27, 2013

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Updating Munki Web Admin on 10.9 Mavericks Server

If your a fan and a user of MUNKI then you know what a great product it is and what community is behind it. Its backed by some of the largest companies around *(Disney, Google, etc..) and has consistently worked with all versions of OSX that have been around since Munki was created. The Munki client and admin tools requires Python 2.5 or higher with Objective-C Python bindings, which is included by default in Mac OS X. Munki is supported on Leopard through Mavericks. Many third party utilities have been...

Nov 23, 2013

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