http://curiousgene.com I have to write this stuff down somewhere Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:42:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes, OpenLDAP (a key component of Open Directory) will try to launch, and will find itself with a corrupted database. Naturally, when your LDAP server (slapd, which I always imagine as a daemon that constantly slaps you in the face) can't start, everything that relies on it will fail. That's ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=89 Took me a few minutes to figure this out, but I was trying to install a package with Casper Remote, and it was downloading (from all appearances) the package, but then could not verify the package, so it would fail. The logs were like so: Downloading http://my.jss:8443/Packages/MyPackage.dmg Verifying DMG... Error: The downloaded package ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=84 I was helping somebody set up a LogMeIn account the other day, and when we got around to testing, I figured I'd walk her through it. I told her to go to logmein.com. She opened up Internet Explorer, clicked in the little Google search box on whatever toolbar it was ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=81 I just signed up for an account on the website of my newest health-care provider. As a part of the process, I was given a choice: Have my password mailed to the address they had one file for me Answer a series of questions drawn from "public databases" and get a password ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=79 I can't decide how I feel about Google Wave yet. In some ways, it seems to me like they took Usenet and IRC, threw them in a blender with Gmail, and then threw the somewhat messy result into my browser. It's clearly still in beta. That being said, it's sorta cool, ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=72 By "strange places" I mean /System/Library/CoreServices, and by useful things, in this case, I mean Server Assistant. That's where it lives now, along with Directory Utility, and a few other useful things like Screen Sharing and Kerberos. This comes up because I needed to create some AutoServerSetup files, something I hadn't ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=65 I was setting up a fresh new Xsan the other day. All the systems were Intel-based, all of them were running Mac OS X 10.6, and we were installing Xsan 2.2. So I enabled Extended Attributes on the volume. So far, so good. Towards the end of the engagement, I had ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=68 Anybody who knows me knows I'm a Dodger fan. My priorities are, in order: My family Baseball Everything else I just thought you should know this before continuing. On July 10, Matt Kemp hit his third Grand Slam of the season. There was a lot of talk about this at the time, since the NL ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=62 I ran into a strange problem a little while ago, and it seems to be showing up more and more. What happens is, your Xsan clients suddenly can't mount volumes. Sometimes the mount point is there but the volume doesn't mount, sometimes neither, sometimes the volume does mount. It's all ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=56 Let's just assume that you have some Macs with an administrative account whose password needs changing. (There's so many possible reasons for this that hypotheticals are really unnecessary.) They've got ARD running, but actually controlling them, and using System Preferences to change the password: is time-consuming is also tedious means you might have ... http://curiousgene.com/?p=51