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For security, a number of services may use SSH keys for authentication rather than a standard username/password. Some services include: - SSH - GitHub -…

I've recently had the pleasure of testing a few large scale storage systems and my co-worker and I needed to come up with a number of tests to determine…

One of the more difficult situations I've been a part of the past few years is trying to figure out why a computer on a network starts randomly using a…

CloudFlare is a rather well known web services and security company that MANY public companies use for hosting and website reliability. Unfortunately, it…

One of the commands built into OS X is md5, a way to create a simple 'fingerprint' of the contents of the file. The idea is you can verify whether a copy…

Quick Terminal command for those one off applications that need to be deployed via a .pkg installer: For example, if you have EazyDraw 8 currently…

Ran across a customer who was asking about wanting to use a custom printer preset as the default preset. Normally, OS X doesn't have any setting that you…

Ever get stuck with a system where all the various network interfaces don't seem to work or act right? Wifi just doesn't seem to find any networks, or…

Recently dealt with an issue where a user had notes stored in Notes.app, but randomly lost them all! The problem came up that they were stored 'On My Mac'…

Beware: long winded tech post coming up... Working for a company that deals in managed services makes life interesting when a new customer comes calling.…

In case you are using an uptime monitor such as uptimerobot.com, you may want to monitor your primary firewall, in our case a Sonicwall. However, its a…

For the most part, Server 5 has been a pleasant upgrade, but there was one rather major change that caused some headaches, especially when third-party web…

It is not very common to see this, but if in a rare circumstance you are hosting a zone file in house for your DNS, but it is sharing the same domain as…

DeployStudio has become far and beyond one of the most indispensable tools in my tech arsenal for multiple Macintosh deployments. It makes it incredibly…

Life just got much more interesting... Something amazing happened that made me want to actually take some time to write about it. People who know me…

New command to flush DNS caches in OS X Yosemite:

More tech stuff. Say you are managing tens or hundreds of OS X computers, and have a new MDM server in place, but don't want to have to go to each machine…

So I ended up getting Silver for an Imperial Stout I had brewed last year in the latest Hangar 24 Homebrew Competition (Hangar 24 Brewery). This is the…

So I recently got my hands on a Cold Bruer from bruer.co, and I'm kinda smitten. Coffee is a huge staple of my morning, so I've gotten into the habit of…

So anyone who supports Apple or Unix computers REALLY needs to look at using Watchman Monitoring. Its just a tiny client that runs in the background and…

We use a Bomgar Appliance for remote access for our contract customers. Its a very nice piece of hardware, supplying some nice security for remote access…

So I wrote this for CR as a piece to explain the basics of Certificates. Obviously, if you've ever attempted to create and embed a certificate into a web…