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Standing Desk

At my work, I have a motorized standing desk. I was looking for apps that would remind me to stand and sit at regular intervals. In the long run, I want an app that conditions me, so it starts at standing for an hour a day for a week, then two hours a day for a week, and so on and so forth. I can’t find that app. Instead I made a quick AppleScript that will prompt me to change position every 45 minutes. set answer to “” repeat while answer ≠ “Quit” set answer to the button returned of (display dialog “Please rise.” buttons {“Quit”, “Okay”} default button 2)… Read More »Standing Desk

Doctor Who Serial 062 – The Sea Devils

What better use of being sick in bed than watching Doctor Who? Synopsis: The episode begins with a sinking ship and The Doctor visiting The Master in prison. OH. MY. GOD. The Master is actually running the prison he’s a prisoner in! Dum dum dum! Something is peculiar about that sinking ship, so The Doctor investigates, this leads him and Jo to a Naval base, from where they visit a “sea fort.” Their motorboat is exploded… by SOMETHING! Seven months later, I’m no longer sick in bed, and I find myself watching Doctor Who again.  Episode 3 began with a sword fight between The Doctor and The Master. It might… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 062 – The Sea Devils

NetGear ReadyNAS Time Machine Backup

It seems you cannot mount your Time Machine backup on a ReadyNAS device using normal credentials. Time Machine is segmented off with a special user. Which means I needed to restore my computer using Migration Assistant. It took FOREVER over wifi. However, I seem to be missing my Aperture Libraries. What’s the solution? Assuming it was backed up, I need to find the sparsebundle. It took a lot of searching, but I found it, and will share my brilliance with you in case you ever need to find it, too. /data/.timemachine To access: SSH in as root. Then copy the files to a SMB or AFP accessible directory. cd /data/.timemachine… Read More »NetGear ReadyNAS Time Machine Backup

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New Job, New Server

If you weren’t aware, when the month changed from June to July, I also changed jobs. I graduated from elementary school to high school. Today was the first day at my new job where I really had time to myself to do what I please. It was time to play with servers. The school already had a Hyper-V setup, so I installed a copy of Ubuntu and hit the ground running. Once I had the IP setup and SSH enabled, I was ready to go. First thing to install was Docker. $ wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh With that simple command I had Docker running on the server. For those… Read More »New Job, New Server

Yosemite Sam 10.10.3

In September, Apple released OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). September is not a good time to release a new OS from the point of view of a K-8 IT Manager. We need a few months before the school year starts to do testing, and that was not able to happen. In previous years I had waited until the following summer to upgrade. This year with the implementation of Munki at the school, I wanted to roll out 10.10 to staff and students as an optional install after 10.10.3 or 10.10.4 was released. During the Passover break, Apple released 10.10.3, and that release led to a major realization. Apple had patched a… Read More »Yosemite Sam 10.10.3

Doctor Who Serial 061 – The Curse Of Peladon

Synopsis: The planet of Peladon wants to join the Galactic Federation. While awaiting Earth’s arrival, a man is attacked, and the curse of Peladon is believed to be responsible, at which point The Doctor and Jo arrive. What I learned from this episode: If time travelling, don’t wear heels. OMG! King Peladon is played by David Troughton… yes, the son of former Doctor Patrick Troughton. So the delegate from Alpha Centauri is a giant jelly bean, and the delegate from Arcturus is a creepy spider head thingy. The Doctor and Jo climb up to the Imperial Palace and skulk around, only to find an Ice Warrior! However, it turns out that the Ice… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 061 – The Curse Of Peladon

Back to the Future Is The Future

Natalia’s shop Future Is The Future seems to be going well. Since my last photoshoot, we’ve done two others.

AutoPKGr

I’ve been using Munki at work for some time. Munki is a system for central management of package installation for OS X computers. It allows end-users to be forced installs from IT, and allows a catalogue of IT-approved installs that end-users can install themselves. It’s really handy. However, to manually add packages all the time, with constant updates from Google, Mozilla, Adobe, Apple, Evernote, and more and more, all my time would be spent searching for updates. Instead I use a command-line tool called AutoPKG which looks for updates from any program you specify (assuming a recipe has been created), and AutoPKG will download it and install it into your… Read More »AutoPKGr

Apple Canadian Settings through MCX

Background I was tired of looking at my end-user’s screens and calling up “Managed Software Center” rather than “Managed Software Centre.” I figured I would enforce both the system-wide language setting, as well as enforce keyboard layouts to include both Canadian English and Hebrew. Those are kept in two files. com.apple.HIToolbox.plist holds the Keyboard settings .GlobalPreferences.plist holds the language settings The leading . means that it’s an invisible file, but you can use the terminal to copy it to another location: cp ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist /PATH/TO/GlobalPreferences.plist If you notice that in the second path, I removed the leading . to make it visible. .Plist setup The keyboard settings file just need to… Read More »Apple Canadian Settings through MCX

Future Is The Future

Once upon a time, I did a mini photoshoot with my buddy Natalia. Now she is starting a clothing store and wanted pictures in a similar style. I CAN DO THAT! And I did… here, look at pictures. Visit Future Is The Future.