10.6

Lay the groundwork for a smooth Snow Leopard upgrade

So I am now also writing for TechRepublic’s new Mac blog. Same format as with the Linux tips, but they’re geared towards “macs in business”. Should be interesting and give me something else to write about as well. So my first foray here is Lay the groundwork for a smooth Snow Leopard upgrade, which looks [...]

Kerberos support in OS X 10.6 is a huge step backward

Last month I got Kerberos working quite nicely on my macs, thank-you-very-much. This week Apple wrecked it by making Kerberos an absolute nuisance. It wasn’t bad in OS X 10.5.. a bit annoying to setup but the tools were adequate. In 10.6 they threw away the half-decent GUI and gave us a crap dummied-up GUI [...]