Working in the higher education sector, where your financial years have to be planned out pretty far in advance, the good thing with Apple’s recent policy change around announcing new hardware is that it allows you to budget for it for testing purposes. So, when Apple’s new flagship machine for professionals, the iMac Pro, was […]
By Chris Lasell Speaking at MacADUK on Weds 8th February at 10:15am Ahhh, “DevOps”. To quote from Wikipedia: DevOps […] is a term used to refer to a set of practices that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure […]
Practical Approaches for Identifying and Fixing Issues by Tim Sutton, Concordia University Most of us are in the business of helping people in organizations use computers to get their work done. Computers are nothing without the software they run, and so it follows that many of us are also in the business of managing desktop […]
By Henry Stamerjohann and Éric Falconnier During WWDC 2016, Apple announced the new Unified Logging system. One common, efficient logging mechanism for both user and in kernel mode This system can be found on iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS. On macOS, since Sierra, it supersedes Apple System Logger (ASL) and the Syslog APIs. Log events […]
by Greg Neagle, Sr. Systems Engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios: Many systems administrators rely on scripting to help them get their jobs done. Scripts can help perform a complex task in a repeatable manner, or perform a task over and over; perhaps on many, many machines. There are many scripting languages to choose from. […]