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Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
A message to Apple Fanboys & Girls
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009OS X Hanging At A Blank Desktop
Monday, August 10th, 2009I run into this one quite often, a user tries logging in to their account and all that comes up is their desktop background and the little blue spotlight magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner. From there on nothing happens. You can log on using a different account, but the account in question just refuses to work. Here’s how to fix it…
The Google vs Apple Plot Thickens
Monday, August 3rd, 2009It looks like Google CEO Eric Schmidt just resigned from the Apple Board of Directors citing conflict of interest. It looks like Apple denying the Google Voice app for no apparent reason other then they feel threatened by it.
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The truth is, it’s been a tangled web for some time as far as the relationship between Apple and Google goes. Sure, Schmidt sat on the board, the companies claim to be working on new projects, and Google Maps comes preloaded onto the iPhone, but over the past year, Google’s increasing move into Apple’s space, and Apple’s increasing desire to control every inch of that space have not been good bedfellows. It’s hard to imagine that Apple could maintain a completely healthy relationship with a direct competitor in both the phone and OS space for very long, and that’s to say nothing of Cupertino’s latest push into online document editing and management, which couldn’t have seemed very awesome to Schmidt and company. Oh, and there’s that matter of the antitrust case which is currently ongoing. Still, it’s a bit sad to see this power couple going their separate ways, though it does give us some hope that Google will begin a full assault with Android in earnest, because only sweet stuff could come from those efforts. If you’re interested, the full PR is after the break.
via Engadget
A good reason not to buy an iPhone
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009I’m gonna start right off by saying I have an iPhone, and I love it. I’ve had smart phones for years now and I can say without a doubt that the iPhone has been a game changing breakthrough.
Now I also have a T-mobile G1 and though it took me longer to get used to I honestly prefer it over my iPhone. I saw a great article on lifehacker that really sums up my dislikes of the iphone.
Apple just rejected the Google Voice iPhone application from App Store distribution, the most recent in a long line of questionable moves, and the message is clear: If you want a device that won’t lock you out of innovation, skip the iPhone.
I believe this is what you call “Thinking Different”?
The iPhone is a full-on computer in your pocket, and in many ways is more capable than your regular old PC. Imagine, if you can, that Microsoft tried dictating what browser you had to use on Windows. Oh right, that happened. Except they didn’t refuse to allow you to use any other browser just because it duplicated the features of their default browser. And as Wired points out, Apple is inviting all kinds of regulation with this kind of mindset. And it hasn’t just been about Google Voice:
You can read more over at lifehacker
Active Directory and Open Directory Integration – Part 1
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Recently at the company I work for we’ve been working on getting our Macs and PCs to all play nice together using the same repository for authentication.
We currently have an Active Directory domain in place with multiple domain controllers residing at multiple sites. All of our PCs are joined to the domain and all windows users have domain accounts. We also have multiple OS X servers at various locations functioning as standalone file servers. Each OS X server functions as its own user repository. In order for a windows machine to connect to one of the OS X machines an identical user account needs to be created to allow the windows credentials to pass through upon connection.
While this works in some scenarios at a certain point it becomes unmanageable. There are just too many accounts to keep synchronized. It becomes somewhat impossible to enforce an automated password change policy. So this was our problem and here are the steps we took to fix it.
