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I just recently set up users and roles in Drupal, and now can set specific roles to specific users that create accounts on my site.  If you would like to contribute any blogs, or other technology driven content to my site please contact me, and sign up.

Let me know what you are interested in and I can set up a role for you on my site.

Thanks

Tom

Drush is a command line tool built for drupal users.  It allows me to administer my site through easy command lines.  Need to update the database and modules?  Do so from the command line.  I had issues with drush not wanting to run because it said my php-cli was not the right version.  So, after looking into it, I noticed that my web host, has every version of php cli installed under the sun.  So the binary was most likely just confused.  To fix this I simply aliased the drush binary to the proper version.

So I didn't touch my site for a good two months and I come back to find like over 1,000 comments of spam.  Google Analytics is telling me my site is averaging around 30 unique visits a day, and now I wonder how many of those were spammers?

Oh well, cleaned out the spam manaully, then enabled a module that requires user interaction to post comments.  Anonymous people can still post their thoughts and opinions bu they will need to input the characters they see in that distroted image from now on.

Now, that I have had more time to think about it, I would like to point out the pros and cons of Apple enterprise products.  The first thing that comes to mind when I think of what is lacking in OS X Server and enterprise set ups is printing services.  OS X Server really does not have any good printing services at all.  There are third party, and of course if you have any other integrated directory services running like AD or ED you can try to use their printing products as well.

Hello everyone.  This will mark part 1 of my 3 part blog series about being an Apple System Administrator in a large enterprise type environment.  I will first talk aobut my transition from Novell/eDirectory and Windows 2003 server/Active Directory over to OS X and Open Directory.  The pros, the cons, what I like and what I have experienced.  The second part will be about working in a large laptop deployment, like a 1:1.  I work for a school system which gives every student a laptop, so we are a complete 1:1.  The second part will also be about working in education and how it directly affec

Google has released it's own very first open source web browser called, Chrome.  However, there is no love for Linux, Unix, or OS X users.  This beta is for Windows only.  I guess from a developer standpoint Windows may be the hardest platform to conquer.  You have too much to worry about when it comes to security since Windows is targeted the most out of any platform.

My work had a problem.  They needed several hundred slim profile machines due to limited space in offices for a certain deployment.  The only machine spec'd for what my boss thought would be good and with in our budget were these Gateway low-profile slim all-in-one computers.  Due to manufacturering restraints Gateway was unable to produce enough of these computers.  So one of my bosses, Eric, decided to look elsewhere.  We already had some of these 17" Acer LCD monitors laying around and we got a good bulk deal on more if need be.

I am currently now tweaking how my website looks and adding more content as I go.  I think I have the back end set up for what I want to do mostly so only the design aspect and the content are what is left.  I have added more scripts to the scripts section and am working on my deployment document from our summer project this year.  I am almost done, and will continue working on it these next few weeks.
 

Currently working 50 to 60 hour weeks on our summer projects. We are reimaging and migrating 6,000 Macbooks to OS X 10.5.3 this summer. I have two mobile image servers set up, and configured them to work with the Casper Suite from JAMF Software. I have two Intel Xserves configured as mobile image servers 1 and 2. I set each of them behind a router running NAT so they can still go over the WAN and hit the JSS and grab auto run data, but at the same time keep them off of any managed switches.