To continue the theme started by my colleague Darren who celebrated his 10th year at Amsys. I thought I’d double it and blog about my 20 years at Amsys! Yes, earlier on this year (in May) I celebrated spending 2 whole decades working for Amsys – spreading the Apple love. For those that may be […]
An inevitable by-product of Apple’s success is the emergence of people looking to target any vulnerabilities they can discover. Over the last month or so two new serious vulnerabilities that could affect your Mac have come to light. The first vulnerability is a computer worm named “Thunderstrike 2”. This worm is a proof of concept […]
Want your Mac repaired or serviced but need it for an important deadline or presentation? We’ve got you covered. It’s been a few months since the launch of our Apple walk-in repair centre in Soho. Along the way, we have looked at how we can increase our service offering and continue to provide a high-quality […]
Hi all. As I sit here, at a hotel in the Cotswolds (another ‘stay away’ consultancy project), drinking a locally brewed Ale (Stroud Brewery’s Budding Pale Ale, should you ask) I find myself contemplating spending almost ten years of my life at Amsys. Come the 4th July 2015, I’ll hit that milestone. In case you’ve […]
Earlier in the year I met with a friend of mine from digital transformation experts Adapt2digital. I was greatly impressed with what they were doing, even though I was slightly baffled. I completed a Digital Engagement Map (DEM), which is a piece of software they have created to assess digital competence, readiness and identify actions […]
Remember your server’s internal IPv4 address 10.0.0.1? How about FE80::1 or even 2001:ACAD:DB8:A::1/64? Don’t panic. It’s not that bad! Let me explain. The so familiar IPv4 addresses like 192.168.1.1 will be around for a very long time be we start seeing these FE80::290:2BFF:FE23:4381 along with them. This is an automatically assigned IPv6 address. It is […]
Hi all, A slightly different blog this time. As some of you will know, this week it’s National Apprenticeship Week; a governmental initiative celebrating the positive impact that apprenticeships have on businesses and individuals. So I thought I’d share the path that I took with Amsys; from Apprentice to Director. My Story Leaving school, I […]
If like me you regularly access System Preferences to change settings then the following tip may help you open System Preferences quicker. Open System Preferences using Keyboard Shortcuts: On your keyboard use ALT + F2, which opens up the Display system pane. Then use CMD + L, which will change from the Display system pane […]
I have found myself recently experiencing a couple of Macs which would not allow me to repair the directory or permissions in Disk Utility, or erase/partition the drive with an error such as: ‘Disc erase failed couldn’t unmount disc’ or ‘Disk Erase failed with the error: Couldn’t unmount disk.’ Even trying to use Network Deployment […]
By Richard Mallion We are delighted to announce this years Amsys Macintosh System Administrators Conference. The event aims to bring together technical support professionals from Apple and cross platform environments to share news and views and discuss everyone’s favourite technology! The Macintosh System Administrators Conference will be held over a full day and will incorporate a mixture […]
