Mac OS X Stuff

We are bullheadedly trying to integrate Macs into this environment, despite the conventional wisdom (from Apple) that we should be integrating our existing infrastructure into the Mac environment. If Apple wants that kind of consideration, they'll have to be a majority here. As of November 2008, we had 230 supported suns, 180 supported Linux boxes, and 50 supported Macs.

With that in mind, I'll be adding tools and articles on issues we are now dealing with, and have dealt with in the past.

	Articles and Software

Articles

• Apple Scrolling - Which Way is Up?
• Bash "defaults" command completion
• Disks won't eject in Leopard
• User cron jobs broken in Leopard
• The Apple Logo in Unicode
• Tunneling afp through ssh
• Leopard paths and path_helper
• Our OS X management setup
• NIS and NFS - background
• Finder doesn't like automounting
• Leopard autofs Finder Crashes
• Leopard Trash and NFS homes
• Make Leopard work with passwd.adjunct

Software

• Convert richtext clipboard to HTML
• Find Terminal Sessions with AppleScript
• Find Safari Tabs with AppleScript
• osx2x for Leopard (with scrollwheel disabling)
• warranty script
• tunnelopen script for tunneled access to afp, vnc, http, and https.
• QuotaMonitorMenu has been improved
• autofs bugfix for NIS replicated mounts

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