February 2008

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• Uncategorized

  MCX vs the screensaver (and Leopard!)

  02.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  MCX vs the screensaver (and Leopard!): “With Leopard, Apple added a Preferences Manifest for the screensaver. In Workgroup Manager, in the Preferences management Details view, if you add /System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app, you import a bunch of useful preference manifests. Among them is one for the Screen Saver:”
  (Via Managing OS X.)
  

• Mac OS Server

  XServe Raid no longer available, Apple partners with Promise

  02.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  XServe Raid no longer available, Apple partners with Promise: “
  One of the features prominently touted by Apple in the new XSan 2 is its support for 3rd party storage solutions. It looks like there is a very good reason for that: Apple is no longer making the Xserve RAID. That’s right, if you head on [...]

• Site Related

  Cisco, Apple, and CDW

  02.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Its been a crazy week, and we’ve been running ourselves ragged in my district working with a new Cisco 802.11N network. Hence the lack of posts. I’ll be posting details of the endeavor this weekend and should resume normal posting next week.
  

• Educational Technology

  Google Fun and Prizes for K Through 12 Students With Prizes!

  02.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Google Fun and Prizes for K Through 12 Students With Prizes!: “
  Google has a new contest - create a logo! Go to Doodle 4 Google read about the original ‘doodler’ Dennis Hwang, register your school, find exactly what the requirements are, lesson plans, the template and more. Your campus tech person should have already [...]

• Educational Technology

  Five ways to improve technology in education - Download Squad

  02.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Five ways to improve technology in education - Download Squad:
  “While listening to Pogue briefly touch on many emerging trends and technologies like VoIP, improved text-to-speech, ‘Web 2.0′ sites, and ubiquitous wireless, it became clear from the audience gasps and collective jaw-dropping that educators are not keeping up with technology changes. Demonstrations of technologies that have [...]

• Educational Technology

  Using Google Forms in the classroom

  02.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Using Google Forms in the classroom:
  “I use Google Docs just about every day, as much of what I need on a regular basis is there and I often flit between computers. I was pleased to discover (or at least what I assumed to be a discovery!) the Forms tool as part of the sharing feature [...]

• Uncategorized

  Enforcing FileVault on local accounts

  02.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Enforcing FileVault on local accounts: “
  New in Leopard is the ability to protect an account with FileVault as it is being created. When creating a mobile account, you can check the box to use FileVault, and this setting is easy to enforce with Workgroup Manager’s preference management as part of the Mobility settings. [...]

• Mac OS Server

  Workgroup Manager: Best Practices

  02.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Part 3 of my 4 part series on Workgroup Manager. We’ve already covered an Introduction to Workgroup Manager, covered the Step by Step Instructions for common tasks. Now we are going to take a look at some best practices that will ensure you maintain and reliable and useful directory system. Also, in case you missed [...]

• Mac OS Server

  MCX, dslocal, and Leopard

  02.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  MCX, dslocal, and Leopard: “
  Recently on the MacEnterprise mailing list, several of us were discussing putting MCX records into the local directory service. This is an appealing idea to me, because we don’t use Open Directory, and I’ve never wanted to spend the political capital to get our LDAP schema extended to support MCX, [...]

• Educational Technology

  Macworld | Vex robotics let Mac students program wirelessly

  02.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Macworld | Vex robotics let Mac students program wirelessly:
  “Vex robotics systems are popular in elementary, middle and high schools, as a way of teaching students the principles of engineering and science, math and technology. It’s an open-ended robotics platform that lets users create systems that an do all sorts of things — kits include gears, [...]

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