What are you bitching about and IPv6? Over the past several months, my company has been dealing with AD/OD integrations with Lion 10.7.2 and the customer’s environment is using “.local”. If you are not familiar with the history between “.local” and Apple computers simply put: they don’t mix. PERIOD. It all stems from Apple OS [...]
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Working With IPv6 and Mac OS X
What is IPv6? I don’t feel that anyone reading this in 2012 has never heard of IPv6. The easiest way to put it it’s a combinations of HEX values to make a big ugly “thing” that represents your computer. IPv4 was simple; four octets made up of a value from 0-255; thus 192.168.1.111. IPv6 takes [...]
Apple’s Built-in Anti-Virus: XProtect
Today, Intego announced of a new trojan designed for the Mac dubbed “DevilRobber”. You can read Intego’s site (or many other sites posting about this trojan), but I wanted to remind everyone that there is a built-in anti-virus software within updated versions of Snow Leopard (version 10.6.7 with Security Update 2011-003 OR greater) and Lion [...]
Remove Diginotar CA Certificate
First, I want to say thanks to Edward Marczak for his original post on how to remove the Diginotar CA Certificate, and his forward thinking about how to do this from a System Admin perspective. I wanted to add a few more bits of info to his post to better explain the security command. In [...]
Built-in Hidden Command Line Tools: Stroke and Airport
These tools are nothing new as they were available in Snow Leopard (and I believe Leopard, just can’t check), but they are fun little tools just in case you don’t have Apple’s Xcode [iTunes link] installed or MacPorts available on your computer.