Jared: “I could totally see you doing this:”
And yes, OMG I want to do that. Makes me wish we got more than .5″ of snow in town here!
Year: 2010
Change “Screen locked by” name in ARD
Not sure how the chicken vs egg thing works out, but the previous Tech at Sheldon didn’t do much for managing Macs, so since I have a stronger Apple/Mac background, the Macs here are getting some newfound TLC from me. First step getting an disk imaging/ghosting system in place.
The couple of weeks it’s kind of been a side project to get a “Master Image” set up on a computer to use as a basis for creating more specific images. Yesterday I deployed the image for the first time onto 2 more computers (one for testing on another similar PPC system, and one on an MacIntel to install Intel/10.6 specific software)
I’m also testing to see how Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is going to work for myself and specific teachers who might need it. I noticed when you run Curtain (lock screen while managing computers) it displays the name of the person who locked it. Which led me to ask, where is it getting that name from?
It’s pulling the name from the ARD Admin’s long username in OS X. In my case that was my actual name. I was thinking I might want to change this to read “Screen locked by SHS Admin.” To make this change:Â Go into System preferences -> Accounts, and change your Full Name. You will then need to quit and relaunch Apple Remote Desktop.
Happy Mac Administrating. 🙂
New Job, for now…
After Labor Day this year, within 3 days I was interviewed, hired and started my first day of work as Technology Support Specialist III for Sheldon High School in Eugene. The school runs mostly Windows 7 with some XP computers, and everything is managed on 3 different versions of Windows server. Needless to say this will be a learning experience for me.
Also, as has been in the news this week, the 4J district and Unions are fighting over whether to add back furlough days as work days, which due to budget shortfalls, would mean they would have to lay off over 100 workers (mix of classified and certified). They of course let the newest hires go first, so we’ll see if this lasts past December 17. 🙂