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macOS Sierra Beta

Apple has been seeding developer previews of macOS Sierra (10.12) since the Worldwide Developer Conference in June. I installed developer preview 6 and have been using that and version 7 since their release. Fortunately, everything seems to be running quite well. One of the features of 10.12 is Siri on your Mac. The one thing I use Siri for the most is the clock functions. Timers and alarms. I tried setting a timer on my Mac using Siri, and there’s no functionality for that in 10.12. Perhaps Apple will add this functionality. In the mean time we are seeing SiriKit being made available to iOS developers in iOS 10, so… Read More »macOS Sierra Beta

NetGear ReadyNAS Time Machine Backup

It seems you cannot mount your Time Machine backup on a ReadyNAS device using normal credentials. Time Machine is segmented off with a special user. Which means I needed to restore my computer using Migration Assistant. It took FOREVER over wifi. However, I seem to be missing my Aperture Libraries. What’s the solution? Assuming it was backed up, I need to find the sparsebundle. It took a lot of searching, but I found it, and will share my brilliance with you in case you ever need to find it, too. /data/.timemachine To access: SSH in as root. Then copy the files to a SMB or AFP accessible directory. cd /data/.timemachine… Read More »NetGear ReadyNAS Time Machine Backup

Yosemite Sam 10.10.3

In September, Apple released OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). September is not a good time to release a new OS from the point of view of a K-8 IT Manager. We need a few months before the school year starts to do testing, and that was not able to happen. In previous years I had waited until the following summer to upgrade. This year with the implementation of Munki at the school, I wanted to roll out 10.10 to staff and students as an optional install after 10.10.3 or 10.10.4 was released. During the Passover break, Apple released 10.10.3, and that release led to a major realization. Apple had patched a… Read More »Yosemite Sam 10.10.3