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Category archives: Work
Securing Mac OSX
I’ve not had a chance to read through this in detail yet, but I was just sent a white paper from Corsaire about the security built into OSX (10.4 and 10.5) and some hardening guidelines. At first glance it looks like a good doc and might be worth a read. Securing Mac OS X Leopard …
First impressions of an iPhone newbie
After a few weeks waiting, O2 finally shipped an iPhone 3G to me on Tuesday, so I’ve spent a good few hours fiddling with it over the past few days. I thought I’d post up a few thoughts, really for my own benefit in keening some notes. Compared to the Windows Mobile phones I’m used …
Emailing iPhone configurations
Yesterday I was having a conversation with someone about the iPhone configuration utility and heard a comment asking why the iPhone allows settings to be emailed to the device. What they meant was that if your device is un-configured it wouldn’t have any email accounts to receive the settings – a chicken and egg kinda …
Apple Mac’s in Active Directory
I just found this pretty good video on the apple site describing – at a high level – Mac integration with Active Directory. http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/activedir/apple/ For someone from a Windows background (like me) it’s worth a look. It’s also interesting to see the difference in style between the Apple and MS. Given the brand personas of …