So at our site, we have 63 workstations doing Time Machine backups to a Linux box (using netatalk). The linux box provided 30TB of RAID5 storage over 16 spindles of 2TB drives via SCSI. After about a month of backups the server started bogging down. It wasn’t unusual to see over 10 clients concurrently backing…

Solid feel-good movie to watch if you are feeling down.

Movie length: 45 minutes
Content: Clean.

Part 1 – Obtaining a push certificate Update 2-16-2016: Unfortunately “part 2” never materialized. We eventually switched to Meraki for our MDM needs (internal software worked fine, but I no longer had time to do programming at the job and we had to get an out of the box solution). However I have uploaded…

So, recently I discovered that a handful of our user accounts had their passwords compromised. Apparently this was from an outside source (maybe one of the many sites that have posted recently of hackers getting away with their databases). We found this via the mail server. One of our users mentioned that they were getting…

There are a few “bonjour gateway” systems out there. Aerohive has one, Cisco/Meraki has one, and many higher end WiFi providers have them built into their systems. I have looked at Aerohive and Cisco in action as well as the tech sheets of many others and they all seem to have the same flaw: there…

Very entertaining show about a group of kids working at the same restaurant and their adventures.

Number of seasons: 2
Episodes per season: 13
Content: Clean.

Really great show! Not a good choice for young kids but a very interesting storyline.

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 11
Content: Clean, but maybe too bloody for young children

Interesting show. That is about all I can say.

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 13
Content: Generally clean.

So, our SOP for migrating users to new computers is to create a disk image of their old computer. This is the very first thing we do. There are two reasons for this. First it gives us a safety net incase we do something really stupid that wipes out their original data before we have…

Just a quick note for anybody that has run into this problem. We bought 2 new HP LaserJet printers. A M601n model and a CP4025. When printing directly to them (via direct ethernet connection) they print perfectly fast, takes about 5 seconds for the printer to start printing and another 3 seconds for the first…