@scottalanmiller said in macOS 14 Sonoma:

macOS Sonoma 14 has released this morning. Mac users can update now. I'm just about to kick off the update myself.

https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma/

No major features that I would call important in any way. but lots of little things.

Released yesterday. I upgraded to it with zero issues. I'll be using my laptop as my primary device today and tomorrow, so if there are any issues, I expect to find them. so far, nothing.

@jaredbusch Well that is one way to secure things......

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M1-proves-its-mettle-once-again-beats-the-AMD-Ryzen-9-5980HS-and-Intel-Core-i9-10980HK-handsomely-in-native-single-core-tests.526129.0.html

@StorageNinja said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup:

USB4 is TB3 compatible.

Intel removed licensing for TB3 as part of agreement to make part of USB4 spec.

That's great. The two have been way too close.

@Obsolesce said in Apple Mac Going to ARM RISC:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple Mac Going to ARM RISC:

RISC-V is seen as the future with more modern and more open design than ARM and zero security risks like ARM has. ARM is so risky, I'd never risk (pun intended) developing something new with it, only something old.

Oh yeah, forgot about that!

Still very low end devices, but moving up fast. I'm really excited to see the first SBCs and desktops built off of it.

@RojoLoco and that's what I appreciates about you RL.

@scottalanmiller Yep, I just wanted to share the configuration I use as my daily driver because it makes working in the terminal that much more efficient. The OP mentioned wanting something that was a bit slicker and more powerful, and I think in addition to your choice of terminal, your choice of shell and other tools contributes to having a better experience. I prefer FISH for my shell, and tmux is my terminal multiplexor of choice. ZSH is another great alternative shell as well.

@scottalanmiller said in Best SIP VoIP Softphone for macOS:

Got a couple of users on macOS that would like to set up a softphone on their desktops. In theory Linphone, Zoiper, X-Lite make macOS versions. Anyone have a reason to pick one or the other or have another option on macOS?

I use Telephone on my laptop and like it. Its pretty sparse, but it works well and is efficient.

@justal said in Create a New User on macOS from the Terminal Command Line:

@scottalanmiller Hi Scott, thanks for the post, unfortunately this works not on Mac OS X Mojave. I'm able to create a user but not able to login with this user account. It stucks after the login prozess. Is there any workaround?
Thanks!

I switched offices for a couple days to one where I'm on Ubuntu rather than my Mac. I'll look into it once I'm back to my Mac.

Worth noting that using rsync worked very well, but there were issues with the Outlook profile on the existing user workstation and the end result.

Not a huge issue for us as everything is stored in O365, but worth being mindful of if your email was hosted locally.

Also because of username convention changes, I had to set the ownership of the user profile to match the new shortened name.

@LilAng said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:

In Excel, use File > Save as web page, then attach the web page to your email message?

Yeah, we found that process. That's a pretty huge "fail" process.

@DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:

@dafyre said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:

@Dashrender said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:

@DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:

Yeah I kind of have an issue with this. . .

It's my device, if I want Joe from the mall kiosk to replace whatever in my device, that is my right to do, and I'd be the responsible person who risk the device being broken further or compromised with non-oem parts.

On the other side of the conversation I understand Apple's reasoning for this and it's sounds like they simply want users to use OEM only parts, but they use this guise of "for security".

Which also kind of irks me. . .

Why do you call it a guise? If Apple doesn't make the interconnect APIs available, who knows what those knockoff people are making.

I'm back to the point where the device should likely just hit you with a warning every 24 hours that you might have compromised shit installed - but I'm guessing that Scott and others will be against that level of frequency.

I'm against a one time notice of there being a perceived security issue in the device.

I'm not against a notification -- but every 24 hours seems excessive. Maybe a 30 second notification every reboot -- something that doesn't require any action other than waiting the 30 seconds.

But this is just an "you may have been" there is no proof that something has been compromised. Just the possibility because a non approved person or company has worked on property you own.

I think any notification that would force you to wait, period would be overly intrusive.

Right, you MAY have been compromised with Apple's own stuff, too. But they would "conveniently" not show a warning. Therefore the warning would have nothing to do with risk, and everything to do with FUD.

Here is the current Mac Pro, the top of the line system: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

Honestly, it's not impressive. This is not "power" hardware by any stretch. The price is high, but the gear in it is lackluster. They've not released a "power" product since 2013, what they released then was this which is pretty hampered, and they don't plan to update it until 2019 at the earliest.

It's not hard at all to see how an ARM-based system might compete really, really well here. Apple's "power user" hardware isn't on par with power users from the rest of the industry as it stands today and their refresh cycles are absurd so that anyone in their "power users club" has to already feel totally abandoned under the current model of things.

@wls-itguy said in MAC HD monitoring:

@scottalanmiller said in MAC HD monitoring:

@dustinb3403 said in MAC HD monitoring:

SodiumSuite would likely be a great candidate here.

It's silent (besides your installation) and it's free.

Other option could be Nagios or Zabbix

SS doesn't do email alerts (yet) 😞

If I wasn't aware of the trouble that Macs are giving you I'd downvote this response 😉

Ha, it's funny because it's true.

What you may need to do is log in to the Calendar's web interface on Google... then go to Settings.

Then click on the Calendar you need to sync... and then scroll to the bottom and get the "Secret Adddress in iCal format"

Then Link that one in iCal on the Mac... I think you add it by URL... But that should give you 2 way Syncing, not a one time import.

See the following for ideas as to how you can accomplish what you're seeking to do:

https://macmule.com/2011/09/08/how-to-map-drives-printers-based-on-ad-group-membership-on-osx/