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You can Download the Application ->here<- and the “Source” ->here.<-

I often teach classes to administrators who are new to the command line, I on the other hand ssh more then I sleep and so no matter what the class ( for better or worse ) I tend to throw one liners on screen every 10 mins . Because of this I often start class out by showing people how to make a simple “.command” file. The rational being that if they don’t think they’re going to remember the commands then just saving them in a file ( perhaps on a thumb drive ), will probably suffice while they are learning. If your not familiar with these files, they are a handy way to have a double clickable “scripts” , sans the hash bang i.e. #!/bin/bash or what could almost be referred to as a “batch” file. Creating one of these files is as simple as opening TextEdit.app changing the format to”Plain text” Format->Make Plain Text + Shift + T ). More »

Cool demo of Google Earth at WWDC07 spread across 18 screens using [TG Enhanced Chromium](http://tungstengraphics.com/TG%20Enhanced%20Chromium%20Mac%20OS%20X%20Press%20Release%20June%2011%202007.pdf) from [Tungten Graphics](http://tungstengraphics.com/).

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PowerPoint (gasp!) here for download

Many thanks go out to David Choi, fellow NW3D member, Indie filmmaker, and Maya Guru for his work in putting together the Maya Pre-Viz session for SIFF! Those that attended were treated to a very informative and useful session of how to plan and evaluate their own film projects. If the demand is there, we’ll probably do this session again sometime in the near future. For now, the attached PowerPoint presentation will have to do.PreViz in Maya for Beginners

Update: 8/20/2007 Zack has posted a guide to convert CS3 into a .pkg installer

The instructions in Official CS3 Deployment guide [PDF] are somewhat misleading, and in some cases just don’t include information that you need (of course, if you are using logen or other deployment tools to create a package, you can ignore this article, but this is a resource for those who want to see / use / implement the cs3 silent installer).

1. Understand the that “Silent” installer is just running the normal installer (you get an icon on the doc and everything) with the screen output and dialogs supressed. So instead of prompting on error, the app just quits, with no log or mention of why it did. For example, the installer fails if you have safari or firefox open, the normal install will prompt you with the error, but no mention of why the install failed shows up in the log.

2. It also fails if the installer is not run with Sudo or Root privileges. Again, no error message to tell you otherwise. (this is mentioned indirectly in the ARD part of the deployment guide, but nowhere else).

3. the “deploy over ARD” option is to just copy the installation files to the client machine, and to then push out the unix command from ARD to run the silent installer.
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For those of you out in intertube land who were at our Attainable HD event, I have uploaded our Keynote slides as a PDF for your reference. A note about the numbers in the pricing: each persons needs are unique, so use them as a reference, not a quote. More notes and articles pertaining to the event, and other video / film projects will be posted in the near future, once we are done decompressing from SIFF. Keep an eye on our blog for new postings.

Here is the PDF.

There are many compelling reasons to use SSL wherever possible on your server. We use and deploy Kerio MailServer quite frequently and there is extensive support for SSL certificates built into the product.

By default Kerio MailServer generates a self-signed certificate the first time it is setup. A self-signed certificate is good enough for some types of secure connections and does ensure that communications to and from the server are encrypted, but in many situations you will get errors stating that the certificate is not trusted because it has not been signed by a certificate authority. In short, the connection is encrypted but the other end of the client-server conversation has no way to ensure that your server is who it says it is unless the certificate is signed by a trusted certificate authority.
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like many who have come before, I have cut and paste the sample RSS widget and modified it for our feed. All I can say is I can fix Photoshop more then I can use it.

So start your dashboards as you can download it ->here<-

If would you like to contact me with comments or inaccuracies about this article, feel free but support requests will be ignored unless you would like to sign up for Iris Professional Services service. Thanks

Awhile ago I posted to the Mac OS X Server list a way for changing/setting the root password in Single User Mode i.e. without a install DVD handy and without having to start any deamons.I even found it the other day on Mr. Shoop’s site (Firefox: direct link Safari: index link) I thought I would write it up and talk about how it works and some caveats. I also included a little bit of of general information about “local” passwords More »

Here are my musings for the [contest](http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20070529101455887):

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