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Was a MacOS sys/network Admin for about 5(5 Mac, 7 Windows) years...gears more towards linux and windows at this point, but I am confident I can help in various areas of Mac/Apple networking from localtalk to the newest standards. Deal with more enterprise integration of Macs on PC networks/domains. Can help with iPhone settings in any area(hopefully!)

Experience in the area

Sys/Net Admin

Organizations

various

Publications

Just tech manuals

Education/Credentials

Undergrad degree IST

Past/Present Clients

various

What do you like about this subject?

Hungry for Knowledge!!!

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

Constantly Learning new technologies in the Operating System arena. It's all useful at some point in time or another.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Mac OS X is based off of BSD(Berkeley systems Distro) which IS UNIX!!! Macs are great machines (OS)...Need to license the OS again to gain momentum! Go Steve!!!

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

I did predict the Mac would move to a CISC(complicated instruction set computing) platform before leaving RISC(reduced instruction set computing) in 1995!

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2012-01-18 Backing up 2 MacBook Pros Wirelessly:

Yes you can with one, should be able to map the external to one laptop and use to backup the second. Instead of reinventing the wheel I will point you to a few good articles to acheive this. If ou need

2012-01-12 VMWare and Windows:

That is exactly why. Even though you use basically a tunneling pseudo adapter the server still sees the actual mac and network adapter. with the services turned off it does not correctly recognize the

2012-01-11 get ip address with mac address:

are you attempting to gain an ip address based off a mac address? A MAC address represents the physical identifier of a network adapter, while the IP address represents a logical device address on Internet

2012-01-11 Airport Exreme Routers:

I have noticed issued like this coming out of the woodwork many times without a reliable answer as to why this happens. The first thing I would do is reset the base station that is acting as a repeater

2011-09-14 WPA Key:

well you need to be able to log into the router itself through a web browser to find out what the wireless key is. You need to be hardwired to the wireless router and type the ip address in a browser such

 

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