4. Time Machine-Server & Active Directory-Authentication

   We had some issues with our corporate Time Machine-Server lately and we possibly found a fix for some. As troubles arose, we soon scheduled a maintainance downtime and applied all pending software updates.

   All updates went through and we were running a fully patched Mac OS X Server 10.9 …

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5. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac AutoUpdate Credentials

   While I was on vacation I made some annoying observations with running Sophos Anti-Virus 9 on my Mac. Every time I have been connected to the internet (via mobile-networks preferably #edge or through slow dsl connections) Sophos Anti-Virus tried to update their definitions.

   So I started to dig around and …

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6. TimeMachine Exclusions

   TimeMachine bietet die Möglichkeit bestimmte Ordner und Dateien aus dem Backup auszuschließen. Der Benutzer kann dies selbst über die Systemeinstellungen > TimeMachine > Optionen steuern. Für den programmatischen Zugriff auf TimeMachine liefert Apple das Terminal-Kommando tmutil mit.

   Um einen bestimmten Ordner oder Dateien aus dem Backup auszuschließen, gibt es zwei Verfahren: Zum …

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7. Moving on

   For quite a while I had registered and hosted my domains with a cheap hoster (PHP, MySQL-DBs, FTP-Access and no custom DNS-config included). Now it is time to move forward and I switched all my stuff to Regfish, where a friend and I rented a virtual server.

   During the move …

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8. Python for SysAdmins links

   I started to learn more on Python and found some useful links:

   • Codeacademy: Python Track
   • Google: Python Class
   • Dive Into Python, Dive Into Python 3
   • Think Python
   • Session: "Practical Python for Sysadmins"
     • Video
     • Slides
     • Examples

   Using PyObjC:

   • MacTech: System Framework Scripting
   • StackOverflow: Python in Xcode 4 or Xcode 5
   • An …

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