Category: Blog
Amsys blogs; technology advice, tips and tricks for users of Apple hardware and software.
OpenSSH updates in macOS 10.12.2
Prior to macOS Sierra, ssh would present a dialog asking for your passphrase and would offer the option to store it into the keychain. This UI was deprecated some time ago and has been removed. Instead, a new UseKeychain option was introduced in macOS Sierra allowing users to specify whether they would like for the passphrase to be stored […]
OS X El Capitan Training: New OS X and iOS Courses
So, Apple recently released their latest OS X version codenamed ‘El Capitan’. Which means it’s that time of year for my fellow trainers and I to test and release updated versions of our range of OS X El Capitan Training and iOS courses. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been testing and updating […]
Securing wireless networks – a few tips to protect your business
It is nice that I can take my laptop from one room to another when I am in the office, not to mention removing some of the cables and adapters from our desks. But wireless networks come with some vulnerabilities that we must consider carefully. To help with this I’ve made this guide on securing […]
Casper: Launch Apps Only For Certain AD Users
This is another of those, ‘a customer asked for a solution and a I wrote a script that I want to share’ posts. This customer runs a ‘Pcounter’ pull printing solution. This requires that their local application be launched at login for a user, but this site had two different applications (one configured for students […]
An Introduction to Python – Part 3 – Amsys
Welcome to the third part of our introduction to Python. If you haven’t done so already, you take a look at the previous parts – Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In part 3, we are going to look at strings. Strings In any script or program you may write, strings are very important. They can be […]
CCK2: Download Location Changes
Hi All. Just a quick one to point out that Mike Kaply’s amazing CCK 2 solution (I owe that guy so many beers!) will now only be available from his website here. He has made this decision to reduce the amount of duplicated work to make the extension available on both his site and addons.mozilla.org. […]
Creating a modular deployment build for Education
In this blog post I’ll be describing the process we use when creating a modular deployment build for education, specifically labs of Macs. This is a unique setup that is in some ways a little old fashioned, but requires a number of devices to be deployed with a uniform setup that can be re-deployed easily […]
An Introduction to Python – Part 2
Welcome to the second part of our introduction to Python. If you haven’t done so already, you take a look at part 1 here. In part 2, we are going to look at variables and some basic operators. A simple description of a variable is something that can hold a value and that value may/can […]
Eddystone – an alternative to iBeacon
Here at Amsys, we are big fans of iBeacons. iBeacons can enhance your iOS apps to make them location-aware. We have a few blog articles explaining how they work; you can read them here and here. Google has just announced their alternative to iBeacons, called Eddystone, which while very similar to iBeacons adds a few different […]
Setting Users to Non Admin
For years, I’ve been running Mac deployment projects for companies and schools. In a lot of cases, we’re asked to set the users to be non-admins. Lots of people have said to me that setting users to be non-admins can cause a lot of problems, so I thought I’d make the switch and try it […]