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What’s in the Time Machine Update?
Here’s the meat of what gets updated: backup daemon helper & file vault image tool, loginwindow.app, Broadcom and Aetheros wireless kexts. Lotsa System.kexts: BSD, IOKit, Libkern, MAC Framework, Mach. The AFP filesystem plugin, metadata framework, the backupd launch daemon plists, … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Leopard, OS X, Packages
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Office 2008 fonts
A postscript to fonts (hehe), I wanted to mention how Office 2008 will replace your Apple supplied fonts with Microsoft fonts, placing them in /Library/Fonts Disabled. Well I like my Apple fonts just fine thank you, so for posterity here’s … Continue reading
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Office 2008 12.01 Update almost does it
So the Office 2008 12.01 updater came out, it’s got a whole lot of packages for each app and component with postflight scripts written in Python to clean up all the permissions: Mar 12 15:33:00 brunerd runner[8556]: postflight[8773]: setting ownership/permissions … Continue reading
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Applescript Language Guide for Leopard Released (Finally)
So just today I was this close to going on the Applescript mailing list to find out why the Apple Script Language guide for Leopard had yet to be released, despite being touted as “the essential guide for scripters and … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Applescript, Leopard, OS X
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ARD Security Awareness (Standard User can run root commands)
Did you know a Standard user can run commands as root via ARD? This seems really odd doesn’t it? Why would this be necessary? The thing that gets me is how in Tiger you had to explicitly grant each user … Continue reading
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