Category: How To
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Mac OS X: Speed up Terminal.app startup
Being a sysadmin, I find myself in the terminal pretty frequently. And, since I’m using a Mac, I’m using the included Terminal.app. One thing that constantly annoys me is the fact that, the more you use the app, the more slowly it starts up. Like, there can be a ten second wait after the terminal…
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Migrating DHCP configuration to a MS Windows Server domain controller
My current office environment relies on MS Windows Server 2008 R2 system as its primary domain controller (PDC), handling Active Directory-based user management and authentication, DNS and DHCP services. We have a secondary system as backup, which stays in-sync with the AD and DNS services; DHCP is, of course, not activated on the secondary so as…
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Mac OS X: resolving keychain issues
My current work environment consists of mostly Macs authenticating against a MS Active Directory server (see my earlier post all about Joining Mac systems to Active Directory). One of the disadvantages of this setup – one that has prevented me from rolling out an agency-wide password expiration policy – is the fact that, when a user…