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Aka the script that I should have made ages ago. This is a combination of multiple parts that tool me a while to realize. When I first started using Munki I was created a custom script for every lab of computers. Sure it didn’t take too much time but it added up real quick. Eventually I ran into a [post] on using one of the fields of Remote Management to write your ClientIdentifcation key for munki. This script/package was born. It is a payload free package but it does the job for me. Currently I have it in my Firstboot package (link post or mention upcoming post). This also means if I have a old machine that someone took off the network for over 6 months and hasn’t been getting my updates, that never happens in EDU, it is one package to make sure it is in compliance with munki and now will get all the new updates it needs.

Section over using 2Do app, mention Time Management for SysAdmins book.

Using Apple's wiki as a documentation tool…now using Confluence. Screenshots.

https://github.com/MiteshShah/miteshshah.github.io

https://miteshshah.github.io/guide/guest-post-guidelines/

NOTICE:
If you use Dropbox moving the home directory does "funk" up Dropbox settings. I have found the easiest solution is to rm ~/.dropbox. After this is complete users will need to re-sign into Dropbox to start syncing files.

The data types and how to calculate them. These are more powerful then Apple's SysPref GUI.

Useful for profiles and puppet. Pmset handles this differently

Other solutions
https://github.com/google/cauliflowervest
https://github.com/grahamgilbert/Crypt
Believe the Casper suite has a solution built in.

I needed a solution that end users could use to enable/disable FileVault on their own. At the same time I didn’t want to use a MasterKeychain but needed a backup solution just incase someone forgot their password.

This solution is a very edge case but does the job for my environment.

https://github.com/dayglojesus/filevaultsetup

Want to use Lightbox or Fancybox to make images larger on a click.

Just thought you miss this one
Refer: https://github.com/MiteshShah/miteshshah.github.io/blob/master/_config.yml#L61
https://github.com/MiteshShah/miteshshah.github.io/blob/master/_layouts/compress.html

https://github.com/tbridge/munki-in-a-box but with Docker. Have to write the docker idea out first....then document.

Idea behind this is a half prod ready docker setup that demo's / links all Munki products.

Shouldn't be too hard to include the following products:

• Munki (repo)
• Sal
• Munkireport
• Munkiwebadmin
• Moscargo
• Imagr (repo)
• Imagr server (reporting)

Yes, that's three reporting systems.

For ideas
https://github.com/lava/dockermail

Idea from Thomas Frank http://collegeinfogeek.com/my-favorite-tools-and-apps/

1password
Tower (old SourceTree)
VMWare Fusion
MunkiAdmin
Prose.io
Dropbox
Arq (backup)
Feedly
2Do (covered shortly in my Organization Tips & Tricks for SysAdmins)
Github issues (how I am using on this blog)
Waffle.io
Trello.com

iOS

Runkeeper
Breeze
Calm
Seven

Others have wrote about it...now it's my turn. For some unknown reason VMware Fusion was working flawlessly. Then it just stopped netbooting. Thought it was my vagrant workflow of using bsdpy. But I wasn't able to get in from my Production NetBoot Server. Then I remember the hw.model feature of VMware....

So after that was solved...lets test Imagr locally....100% virtually.

https://twitter.com/bruienne/status/263455723864875008

http://macops.ca/customizing-hardware-model-filters-for-netboot/

How to hacky solution to allow a newer computer to run an older OS. Located at /System/Library/CoreServices/

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/98315/what-does-boot-efi-actually-do

I should borrow how he is creating it.

https://github.com/alukach/alukach.github.io

Office 2016 for Mac has had LOTs of changes. A overview for someone that can't keep up with the best practices from the MacAdmins Slack channel.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3666003/how-i-can-translate-uppercase-to-lowercase-letters-in-a-rewrite-rule-in-nginx-we

Should work great for images
https://github.com/jekyll-assets/jekyll-assets

• Setup
• custom modifications
• reasoning (why use zsh over bash)
• Screenshots of my theme (easy to see where I am in git folders)

http://ajacevedo.com/2012/enable-spell-checking-in-code-comments-for-textmate-2/

//start rant

If you are already using Github to host your source code STOP hosting your compiled binaries on in a different location. Gibhub has a /releases/ tab for each project. You are able to upload dmgs, zip files, pkgs, and even raw binary files if needed.

By keeping your compiled apps on Github you no longer have to deal with broken links, it is easier to find the "version" of your app. Plus we can see the source code related to each release.

It is super easy as well: just tag a git commit from there you are able to create a release.

//end rant

Fix:
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/local/asus instead of just a chgrp -R www-data /usr/local/asus

Stop typing endlessly long commands. Create shortcuts that you can type fast and move to all of your computers.

• Setup
• .alias
• .bashrc
• .bootstrap

• creating the service
• short overview of how I use Automator
• upload templates for removing spaces, prefixes, etc

With Adobe CC 2015 I am having issues with machines removing their license resulting in less than ideal situations.

Submit a bug report http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html.

Munki On Demand packaged Bandaid, plus testing.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/create-license-file.html

Look into this:

https://github.com/jhshi/octopress-post-revision

Staying calm in a stressful environment can be hard. I found a few methods to truly help me relieve the stress: meditation (calm app), running, breathing exercises, and yoga.

Getting started with any of these can be quite simple. Couch to 5K. Taking five deep breath. But I would like to talk to you about meditation and an application I found recently called calm.

Add a slight gradient in Jekyll as a background. Or maybe make it dual tones. The solid grey background isn't really doing it for me anymore.

Mention Graham Gilberts firstboot...
included packages
why use a bootstrap package

https://webmention.io/dashboard
https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.io

The initial landing page looks fine. Need to add another line for GitHub Issues/Waffle.io.

Should do a line break.
Followed by a simple one paragraph describing what role that particular component serves.

Add a section for why static?. (This might need to be a post)
Why not use Wordpress or other CMS type websites?

Need to add css for the table view? or it might be my markdown compiler. Currently tables look awful on my site.

More powerful than whatever I am currently using??

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-archives

Plus an import script to migrate current data to docker instance. Turned out to be a bit more complicated than initially thought.

How bad do you want it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ#t=75

Why do we fall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmVOuLgFB0&spfreload=10

HabitRPG

2Do Application

SelfControl

Add a pre-commit hook to exit out if the code isn't up-to-date with the Github source branch.

Evidently this is confusing. Seeing as how many users do not use choice files often.

1. Creating the XML
2. What the three options are/what the mean
3. Applying the XML choices with installer command
4. Using choice files with munki

sudo installer -pkg Desktop/Microsoft_Office_2016_Installer.pkg -applyChoiceChangesXML Desktop/office2016_no_onenote.xml -tgt /

Find my Mac stores keys as a binary plist inside of the nvram of your Mac. I've looked at this before {insert link to old post} however let's look at getting those values out....details nvram needs to store lots of data in one key so Apple is using the "data" type to store a plist. Go through process to retrieve the data.

At this current time my notice blocks are not ideal. The colors do not work well together and are quite difficult to read.

Desired output: https://mmistakes.github.io/skinny-bones-jekyll/articles/sample-post/?select_element=1&password=#notices

Code: https://github.com/mmistakes/skinny-bones-jekyll/blob/master/_sass/_notices.scss

Notes:
I've looked at good code and bad code. Java, Python, ruby, bash, html, etc. It's all pretty much the same when it comes to commenting your code.

Needs to be concise and descriptive.

This means if a section of your code can't be commented in a brief sentence or two you are likely writing bad code. These comments not only help you but others. When you have to go back to a project 5 months later are you going to remember that the output from some command output was an integer but you needed to be a string value for your particular application?

Need to pull in latest changes from master branch and see what got added in the jekyll3 branch
https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/tree/jekyll3

• Need to get all the tips in markdown
• A short paragraph mentioning "we all forget the basics..." here are the writing tips I find the most useful when writing

Create subdirectory of /photos for cool images. Below are some examples:

http://jonasforsberg.se/photos.html
http://photos.zachholman.com/

Would like to utilize Flickr if possible. Currently, have the flickr single picture plugin working.

Want to add a Button to each page using the blue button.

More information can be found here

Figured Github has Issues build in...why not use it for notes.

Want to remove the page excerpt from displaying. Move date to the front of the line

Example:
Oct 12 - Page title here

Site example

A quick guide on using Google Domain's ability to create email alias' while using CloudFlare as your NameServer. It's pretty simple however I just wanted to show the DNS records.

A little guide to walkthrough the steps as I was thinking about it incorrectly at the start.

https://domains.google.com/registrar

https://www.cloudflare.com/a/overview

It is worth moving this repo to git lfs? Images directory is currently 22 MB.

https://git-lfs.github.com/

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git-lfs/git-lfs#326