Ruminations of a consultant. Sometimes ingenius, often …
Here is a little script I put together to automate some actions I have after Plex has recorded a show for me. It isn’t perfect, I am sure it needs some work, but it works well enough for now. Any feedback would be appreciated. Below is a quick list of what it does and what you…
Minor update to fix a few Sierra issues. It probably won’t help everyone but give it a shot. The download is found on the Downloads page. Chris
Not sure how many folks need something like this but here it is anyway. Just a simple applescript that will query the SCutil command to see what search domains are available. Assuming that your Kerberos or Active Directory servers are configured with the same domain name that is handed to you via DHCP (they should…
Hi All, Thanks for your patience with Recovery Partition Creator. My last update was 4.0.3 which solved some of the issues people were having. That said, the main… error still plagued some folks. The one thing that seems to be consistent is that the “mainDrive/Partition” error seems to pop up much more often (possibly all…
For those interested in setting up CrashPlan on a NAS but want an easy way to manage the CrashPlan service on your NAS as well as the CrashPlan service on your local Mac I have created a little script to make life easier for you. If you only run CrashPlan on your NAS then this…
Updated to 4.0.3 Hi all, Thank you for your patience waiting for the bug fixes. I think I squashed a few of the bugs though I am sure more are out there. At any rate here is 4.0.2. Hopefully the “maindrive” bug so many were getting is now gone. Cheers, Chris Recovery Partition Creator…
Update: I know there are a few bugs causing some issues for a handful of users. I am trying to get a better testing environment setup so I can troubleshoot the problems (running out of disk space made this difficult). As soon as I get this squared away I hope to find the bugs and squash them. …
I know many have been waiting patiently for this release. After some extensive testing on a VM and my own production laptop I feel pretty confident I can release 4.x. So, later today I will post the final version up for those of you to use. This version is almost a complete re-write so it…
Hi Folks, Sorry for the long delay. It has been a busy last 6 – 9 months. I have re-written a bunch of the recovery partition creator in hopes that it is a bit better at handling the newer version of OS X. I hope to release it soon but need to do a bit…
In case you happen to use vsphere to manage users and want to use FreeIPA as the source for user and group info below is a synopsis of how to get basic functionality working. Choose OpenLDAP – Configure as appropriate cn=users,cn=accounts,$SUFFIX cn=groups,cn=accounts,$SUFFIX Users should work without a hitch. Groups are a bit more complicated and…