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Archive for March, 2007

E-3 Visa Experience…

So after finding Andrew Pollock’s blog entry and Yasser Hamed’s info incredibly useful, I thought I may as well post some updates on a slightly more recent E-3 visa application experience.

For those of you who don’t know, the E-3 visa is a US visa that is only open to Australian residents. It’s essentially the same as the H-1B visa, apart from the fact that your spouse can also work in the US, it’s indefinitely renewable, and so far at least, you can’t apply for the green card while in the US on an E-3.

PSA: A fix to certain AFP problems…

Seeing as how half the visitors to this site still seem to coming here via AFP-related searches in Google… this is something I’d noticed a while ago, but simply started adding more RAM as I had more lying around.
Find operations on AFP servers can really slow down the system. Apple have now produced a nice [...]

Simple “Create Mobile User” utility.

So after a couple of people requested this on the MacEnterprise mailing list….
This is a really simple AppleScript Studio application that allows you to create a Mobile User Account with a local home directory other than “/Users/nigelkersten”.

To get started….

Open up the Xcode project.
Edit “ldapDomain” and “pathToHomes” to reflect your LDAP domain and where you want [...]