mind the explanatory gap

http://www.lavenderhell.com
The things that go on inside her head…

Posted on September 29th, 2009 under macosxserver. Comments: 2

So even though we have reasonable packages out there for Puppet and Facter, some people prefer to install this sort of thing through MacPorts, the closest thing we have to a third-party packaging repository on OS X.
Anyway, Puppet and Facter are both out now.

nigelk@sillymidon [/Users/nigelk]
$ port search puppet
puppet @0.24.8 (sysutils)
Puppet is a configuration management solution.
nigelk@sillymidon [...]

Posted on March 30th, 2009 under macosxserver. Comments: 2

http://blogs.adobe.com/OOBE/
I’m really glad to see they’ve done this, but am still reserving judgment until we actually see some results from it…

Posted on February 12th, 2009 under macosxserver. Comments: 1

I poked around a bit looking for something that did this, and couldn’t find anything, apart from some sample code using a private API to send the display to sleep, so I whacked that into a screeensaver.
https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/misc-sw/files/SleepSaver.saver.zip
This does use a private API and thus could do anything. No warranties, may destroy your machine, etc etc [...]

Posted on January 31st, 2009 under macosxserver. Comments: 7

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html
This is really just going here so I can find it again as I can never remember what keywords to search with to find it and I often need to refer to it.
AAAAA+++ Excellent TechNote Would Read Again kthxbye

Posted on January 24th, 2009 under macosxserver. Comments: None

Posted on January 9th, 2009 under macosxserver. Comments: 2

Presentation here:

Posted on January 9th, 2009 under macosxserver. Comments: 4

So as host, ping, nslookup, dig etc don’t use the same resolver path as the rest of the OS, we used to always use lookupd for this.
It’s not exactly the most obvious solution in the world, but since lookupd, netinfod and memberd were all rolled into DirectoryService in 10.5, we now use dscacheutil to do [...]

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 under macosx, macosxserver. Comments: None

And along similar lines to the afp548.com article on this, Greg Neagle written a similar piece describing how he’d use it in his environment (and it even has screenshots …).

Posted on February 8th, 2008 under macosxserver. Comments: None