Tag: macos
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Why you should use FileVault personal recovery keys instead of institutional recovery keys
In my previous blog posts on FileVault, I talked about or showed how to use an institutional recovery key for FileVault encryption: Enabling FileVault Encryption for Client Macs Setting up deferred FileVault encryption Using a FileVault institutional recovery key to unlock an encrypted disk But in exploring FileVault further, I’ve found it’s much better to…
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Apple TV “the code is incorrect” error… when the code is correct!
We ran into a weird scenario where a user could not connect to Apple TV with a passcode. We tried all the usual troubleshooting stuff: Does it work with another computer? Yes, it does. Does it work with another user on the same computer? No, it doesn’t. Toggle Bluetooth? Makes no difference. Reboot the AppleTV…
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Script making Chrome the default browser on macOS
You would think it would be fairly simple to script changing the default browser to Chrome in macOS. It’s not, as far as I can tell! I’d love to be corrected on this. Script that changes Launch Services I wrote up a script that changes the default browser silently, but it works well only the…
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Installing macOS Sierra as a VirtualBox guest
It took me a while to track down a tutorial on this that actually works. To save you a little time, in case you want to try this (macOS guest on a Windows installation on a Mac computer), here is the working (as of this writing) tutorial: How to Install macOS Sierra in VirtualBox on…
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Enable SSL on your web server using Let’s Encrypt and Certbot
If you have a public-facing web server you manage and want to enable SSL on it (you should want to), you can generate a self-signed certificate… or you can use Let’s Encrypt as a certificate authority and generate a proper certificate. There are Certbot downloads for various Linux and Unix platforms (including macOS). If you’re…
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Anatomy of a no-image workflow
For some background on what a no-image approach to deployment is and its benefits, read Thick imaging, thin imaging, and no imaging macOS and “BUILDING” 2015 MACS. I tried a few approaches to no-imaging never-booted Macs, and I’m presenting here a way that worked for me, but you may very well have success with the…
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Seashore breaks with Sierra; use GIMP (or Photoshop) instead
For many years, GIMP didn’t have native macOS support (you needed X11 to make it work). Seashore wasn’t as fully featured as GIMP, but it was native. As of Sierra (macOS 10.12), Seashore just crashes when you try to launch it. R.I.P., Seashore. Fortunately, if you’re looking for a free alternative to Photoshop, GIMP is…
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Printopia Pro unofficially supports macOS Sierra
The last word Decisive Tactics has on Printopia Pro (as of this writing) is there were some fixes in June for issues in 10.7: Printopia Pro Release Notes Just in case anyone’s curious, I loaded Printopia Pro on a Mac running Sierra (10.12), and it’s running just fine. No official word from Decisive Tactics, but…