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From my blog at: http://mikesalsbury.com/mambo/content/view/162/2/ Like any UNIX based operating system, OS X has a pretty versatile command line. You can do quite a lot with it. For example, I've written scripts that backup an OS X system to a server. Using the SSH capability, I can...

A corrupted OS X font cache will cause all sorts of layout and display problems with fonts. Unfortunately there's no simple tool or utility available with OS X by default for cleaning up a font cache. That's why I developed a script to clean up a machine's font cache and force a reboot (which...

The users whose Macs I administer often ask me if I can retrieve a slightly older copy of a file they've been working with. For example, on Wednesday morning they might be asked to restore a paragraph they were told to delete on Tuesday. Ideally, they'd like to be able to bring back that file...

Being a lazy Mac Admin, I prefer not to have to visit users' machines in order to get relatively simple tasks done. For example, if I needed to setup a local account on someone's Mac so that someone else could use it, I wouldn't want to have to walk over to another building to do that. I also...

Last year I began implementing Mac OS X 10.3 at the company where I work. One of the issues I had to tackle was backup of client systems to a central server. I tried several off-the-shelf products but none of them were quite right. Some required the administrator to be logged in and run the...