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Corsaire White Paper: Securing Mac OS X

T.J. — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:09:52 +0000

I just ran across the Corsaire White Paper: Securing Mac OS X via Slashdot. It’s a good read, and mentions quite a few things that should be in place for a mac with critical data, software, or network access.

VoIP growls on OS X

T.J. — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:21:00 +0000

From Om Malik’s weblog:
If you love OS-X, then there is more good news coming your way, thanks to yeoman’s effort by Benjamin Kowarsch, the genius who developed an OS-X installer for Asterisk, the open source PBX system. (You can download it from here!) VoIP Weblog points out that Benjamin is now leading an efforts to create device drivers for Digium’s Zaptel telephony cards. The stability and ease of use of the OS-X platform, makes it ideal for VoIP some believe. More here! Also check out Scott’s primer on how to use Asterisk with the OS-X Address Book, and making cheap phone calls. It is not going to be easy, but quite do-able.

Script to ensure renaming of imaged Mac

T.J. — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:58:00 +0000

I ran across this interesting script that checks to make sure that a Mac has been re-named after imaging, and queries for a new name if it hasn’t. Neat little tool, and I think it supplements my vb script that renames our PCs after imaging to their Dell service tag #.

Mac OS X and Novell eDirectory Integration

T.J. — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:11:00 +0000

Following right on the heals of their article on Linux/eDirectory integration, this week’s CoolSolutions has a great story on Mac OS X and eDirectory integration. I’ve been wanting to give this a try for a while, since we’re still about 1/5 Mac.

It’s a very in-depth read, and doesn’t look like the process has become any simpler since I last looked into it. I’ve also heard of people hosing their Active Directory setups trying to do the same thing, so it’ll have to be done in a test environment first. I think this is a great example of something Novell should include ‘out of the box’ to really make its software shine. It would be a good reason (at least for me) to stick with eDirectory rather than migrate to AD or a pure Linux LDAP system.