Category: Amsys Blog
Amsys blogs; technology advice, tips and tricks for users of Apple hardware and software.
Apple Announces Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
Apple has determined that a small percentage of the keyboards in certain MacBook and MacBook Pro models may exhibit one or more of the following behaviours: Letters or characters repeat unexpectedly Letters or characters do not appear Key(s) feel “sticky” or do not respond in a consistent manner Amsys will service eligible MacBook and MacBook […]
VMware Takes Headline Sponsorship of the Mac Administrator and Developer Conference
VMware has taken headline sponsorship of the Mac Administrator and Developer Conference, running from 20th-21st February at the VUE entertainment complex Leicester Square, London. The event draws together the best Mac admins and developers from across Europe and features a speaker panel comprising experts from across the globe, including many of the world’s foremost experts […]
Want to write a book? Armin Briegel Talks Self Publishing macOS and iBooks
Want to write a technical book to share your knowledge with the Mac community? Armin Briegel has done just this. He’s authored two books on macOS which he self-published on iBooks. We caught up with him just before Christmas 2017 to ask him about his experience and to share tips with aspiring authors. You can […]
This Marketer is in Awe
Wow! Doesn’t time fly? With the sights, sounds and smells of London’s O2 still fresh from this year’s MacAD.UK conference, the Early Bird reservations for 2018 went live today. Wow. Already? Of course, I knew it was coming. not least because I’m part of the marketing team and I’ve just spent a week in my […]
Guillaume Gète Gives the Lowdown on Diskmaker X
MacADUK is fast approaching and we’re now nearly full. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been contacting Amsys customers to make sure they don’t miss out on what is literally a once a year opportunity. A few people have asked us what is different from last year’s show. The short answer is everything. A few […]
Mac DevOps with d3
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 […]
Advanced Mac Software Deployment and Configuration
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 […]
State of logging
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 […]
Introduction to PyObjC at MacADUK 2017
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. […]
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 […]