Worried about Free Disk Space?

Over at Macintouch, a user has contributed an Applescript that will display when the amount of freespace on the drive, drops below a preset limit. tell application ‘Finder’ — sets up variables set theSize to capacity of startup disk — total size of disk set freeSpace to free space of startup disk — amount of […]

Have Windows automount a Macintosh File Share

One method to setup a Windows drive letter mount on is to use the command line interface.  The Net Command controls a large number of windows functions, including File Share (Net Use), Printing (Net Print), Time Syncronization,  Account information, and much much more… For our purposes the Net use command, would look like this: net […]

Security? I don’t need to be secure… Do I?

Why does your Information Technology team tell you not to turn on that Web server, or leave SSH turned on when your not using it?  Because they want you to be secure… Here’s a perfect example… Mar 30 16:14:06 68 sshd[2933]: Did not receive identification string from 96.10.82.114 Mar 30 16:21:57 68 com.apple.SecurityServer[24]: checkpw() returned […]