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Ok first off, if this is the wrong place, I apologize. I am working full time now for a job I was a light "consultant" on before (basically just whatever tiny leftover tasks the regular IT guy had). My main role is tech support, so while I'm pretty ok with the basic ways a windows network functions, I'm not a formally trained network technician and I often lean heavily on internet guides. Before I came on, against my advice, they bought a Lion server for an offsite location because the mac server is tiny and space is a concern at this location. They wanted it to be an active directory server for the location Windows 2008 style. Since every other machine they own is a windows pc, between the previous IT guy and I, we were unable to get it to function in that capacity. The machine is now basically serving as a glorified NAS at the remote location, and a tool to theoretically manage our iphone profiles (as far as I can tell none of the company iphones ever ended up getting managed). Basically that long preamble is to set up the question: is there a way I can integrate this into the main, main site network more? I seem to remember reading that Open Directory could sync with Active directory. Would this allow us to manage the users at the remote site? I've tried to google but what I hit is either useless, old, or way over my head. I am sure this is too big a question to get too into depth to here, but pointing me towards some beginner guides for this sort of thing, recommending some books, or just giving me some terms to get google to give me this information. I don't know how to make a windows server sync up with a remote server either, to demonstrate my lack of expertise on this issue. Rick fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Jun 8, 2013 |
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Can I tell the App Store to quit bugging me about a certain update? I'm not going to update Xcode, but I get reminded every week.
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Jun 8, 2013 20:36
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Bob Morales posted:Can I tell the App Store to quit bugging me about a certain update? I'm not going to update Xcode, but I get reminded every week. Expand "more" if you see it in the App Store, then you will be able to right click on the app and select "Ignore Update" or something like that.
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Jun 8, 2013 20:49
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Rick posted:Basically that long preamble is to set up the question: is there a way I can integrate this into the main, main site network more? I seem to remember reading that Open Directory could sync with Active directory. Would this allow us to manage the users at the remote site? It's been a while since I'd used Lion, but yeah, you should be able to join it to the domain and have it act as a domain controller from Server.app. It may be buried as the version of Server.app in Lion was decent for basic tasks but needlessly opaque for more advanced ones. If you dig around on Apple's support site, they should also still have PDF documentation about how to do it. I'll see if I can find it and edit a link in.
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Jun 9, 2013 00:12
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Molten Llama posted:It's been a while since I'd used Lion, but yeah, you should be able to join it to the domain and have it act as a domain controller from Server.app. It may be buried as the version of Server.app in Lion was decent for basic tasks but needlessly opaque for more advanced ones. Thanks, even if you can't the Apple site is pretty decent resource and the knowledge that such a thing is possible makes me feel like I'm not wasting my time.
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Jun 9, 2013 06:12
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Rick posted:Thanks, even if you can't the Apple site is pretty decent resource and the knowledge that such a thing is possible makes me feel like I'm not wasting my time. Why not just install some flavour of Windows server on it via boot camp? Or is there something you need osx for?
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Jun 9, 2013 09:55
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trinary posted:Github wrote and open-sourced a thing that may help: http://boxen.github.com/ Very cool, thanks for sharing
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Jun 9, 2013 13:41
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I finally took the plunge recently and bought a Mac. I'm currently in the process of transferring my files from my old Windows box to the Mac, and I've generally been able to figure out what I've needed to, but now I've run into a bit of a question: how do I sync wallpapers to my iPhone? On Windows, I used to manage my photo library manually into folders, so I just had a folder for iPhone wallpapers. However, on the Mac I'm wanting to use iPhoto (despite the apparent reams of hate it gets), and it seems kind of wrong to me to put wallpapers there. But is that my only option? Is there anything fancy I can do with Dropbox (which I've poked around in to no success)?
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Jun 9, 2013 16:15
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I have a wallpaper folder in Drop box. Whenever I want to use an image I export it to the camera roll. Clunky, but without the ability to specify arbitrary folders in addition to iPhoto albums it does get the job done.
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Jun 9, 2013 16:28
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Axiem posted:I finally took the plunge recently and bought a Mac. I'm currently in the process of transferring my files from my old Windows box to the Mac, and I've generally been able to figure out what I've needed to, but now I've run into a bit of a question: how do I sync wallpapers to my iPhone? All Dropbox does is sync files back and forth, there's no reasons you can't stick wallpapers in there and have them be accessible on your iPhone.
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Jun 9, 2013 16:34
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I just use iPhoto. I made an album for iPhone photos, and select them from there.
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Jun 9, 2013 17:42
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WWDC thread is up and will be opened in the morning, if you want to bookmark it now.
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Jun 9, 2013 22:03
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For some reason f.lux seems to make my second monitor not work. gfxcardstatus says it never shifts into the discrete cpu (But i'm not sure if 'doesnt detect second monitor' causes the non switching, or the other way around). Am I the only one who gets this. This is during the day at full brightness too.
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Jun 10, 2013 02:23
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This is bugging the hell out of me. How come, every time I right-click on the desktop to get to the Desktop and Screen Saver preferences, I have to do it twice before the preferences application actually starts?
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Jun 10, 2013 08:11
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horse mans posted:This is bugging the hell out of me. How come, every time I right-click on the desktop to get to the Desktop and Screen Saver preferences, I have to do it twice before the preferences application actually starts? I have this same problem but when trying to change my background image 
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Jun 10, 2013 12:42
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kloa posted:I have this same problem but when trying to change my background image That's what I'm talking about. Desktop -> Right Click menu -> "Change Desktop Background..." It's so strange.
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Jun 10, 2013 13:05
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Granite Octopus posted:Why not just install some flavour of Windows server on it via boot camp? Or is there something you need osx for? That isn't a bad idea at all. I was under the impression that you could only do Windows 7 or 8 but I guess it's just a case where those are the only things officially supported.
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Jun 10, 2013 15:45
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I'll be seriously considering getting a new MacBook Air, depending a bit on today's announcement. This is an extremely low priority for me, but is the current Air decent for games at all? I would do very little, but I have always wanted to just play Starcraft and/Civ, but I never felt the need to get either a Mac Pro or whatever Windows device.
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Jun 10, 2013 15:53
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If the new air is refreshed with Haswell the graphics performance should be at least tolerable for those games.
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Jun 10, 2013 15:56
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EDIT: Apple ain't no bitch and used the HD5000, not HD4400, so existing benchmarks are for suckers like Acer.DarkJC posted:If the new air is refreshed with Haswell the graphics performance should be at least tolerable for those games. Duckman2008 posted:I'll be seriously considering getting a new MacBook Air, depending a bit on today's announcement. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-2012-review/6 Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jun 10, 2013 |
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Jun 10, 2013 16:08
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DarkJC posted:If the new air is refreshed with Haswell the graphics performance should be at least tolerable for those games. There are a range of Haswell graphics options. Everything should outperform HD4000, but some options are better than others. These graphics are a very rough guide, various sites have benchmarks that show the performance delta. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6926/intel-iris-iris-pro-graphics-haswell-gt3gt3e-gets-a-brand The point is, if you're considering your laptop for gaming, you'll want to pay very close attention to the CPU included to make sure you get 5000-series graphics rather than the 4000-series. Or something with a dedicated GPU.
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Jun 10, 2013 16:47
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There's different Haswell GPUs. I think the 15% improvement is the low level one, HD 4400, while there's also HD 5000 stuff available iirc, albeit with lower CPU clock rates. (efb)
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Just chiming back in to say the new air has HD5000 graphics according to the spec sheet.
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Jun 10, 2013 20:33
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I read the s "Mavericks" to be plural and it's confusing the poo poo out of me, anyone else?
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Jun 10, 2013 20:43
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Sea Lion would've been a much better name.
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Jun 10, 2013 20:45
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When they started mentioning California I thought they were going to adopt state names. USS Missouri? USS New York? OSX California! Perfect!
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Jun 10, 2013 20:52
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Mavericks is such a dumb name.
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Jun 10, 2013 20:59
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Bob Morales posted:Mavericks is such a dumb name.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I think it's fine but I also don't give a poo poo what my desktop OS is called. I do when you have to say it all the time. 'Are you on Mavericks?'
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Bob Morales posted:I do when you have to say it all the time. 'Are you on Mavericks?' Sounds like something a bad impression of Bill Cosby would say. "Are you on the Mavericks? Zip zop zoobaty bob ahhhhhh."
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Jun 10, 2013 21:19
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"Yes, I'm on MaverOSX."
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Jun 10, 2013 21:21
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That word is permanently associated with Sarah Palin in my mind.
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eddiewalker posted:That word is permanently associated with Sarah Palin in my mind. Wasn't there a Mavericks gang tag at some point?
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I'm calling it "ten nine". There is only one Maverick and he's got the need... the need for speed! Talk to me Goose!
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Jun 10, 2013 22:53
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Now that they're on (or soon will be) OS X 10.9, what will they call the next release? OS 11? OS XI? OS X 10.10? They've kind of painted themselves into a corner.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location) So OS X is now named after a beach which was named after a...dog. Take that, cats 
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Civil posted:Now that they're on (or soon will be) OS X 10.9, what will they call the next release? OSX is way too good of a name to get rid of. It just plain looks and sounds good. All of the letters are easy on the eyes, and the X adds that pinch of badassness to it. When you see that X on a banner, you know exactly what it's alluding to. It's a marketer's dream. 10.10, 10.11, 10.359 -- that poo poo is for devs and nerds, not the average consumer. I think OSX as a brand is here to stay. Butt Savage fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jun 10, 2013 |
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Jun 10, 2013 23:22
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Is there any way to get the 10.9 developer preview working in Parallels? I just tried it and it won't boot off the App store disk image.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Sea Lion would've been a much better name. I've got a feeling that if people just keep calling it sea lion, it could stick as a kind of nickname.
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I'm going to just continue to call it Mac like I always have, and most people do. Mavericks is kinda a dumb name, and i'm sad that they ditched the big cats naming scheme finally. They least they could have done was go with puppies. Mac OS X German Shepard.
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