Author: Christopher Scott
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Useful Tool of the Week: VCF-to-CSV Converter
This is one of those fringe-type cases, but I recently need to help someone get their contacts from one system to another. I found this on line tool, vCard to LDIF/CSV Converter, that made the job simple. All I had to do after that was to open the resulting CSV file into my favorite text editor (TextWrangler…
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Disable Mac OS X window zoom effect
I’m not a fan of cutesy transition effects that essentially do nothin more than slow me down. I found that I can speed up Mac OS X’ UI by disabling the window zoom effect seen whenever opening or closing a window. All it took was this one-line command from the Terminal: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled…
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LDAP query to an Active Directory server
Here’s a great way to test your *nix-based system’s ability to successfully query an Active Directory server from the command line: ldapsearch -LLL -H ldap://<ADserver>:389 -b ‘dc=<domainName>,dc=<topLevelDomain>’ -D ‘<ADdomain>\<userName>’ -w ‘<password>’ ‘(sAMAccountName=<shortName>)’