Taking advantage of free inflight wifi provided by gogo (for smartphones only) posting using the WordPress 2.9 mobile app.

Flew down to San Jose and rode with my parents (who flew into San Francisco) to San Luis Obispo for my Aunt’s wedding. I was the official photographer for the ceremony. Weather cleared up nicely for the big day, and didn’t get too hot. Sunday the next day was really nice and quite warm. I got to bury some cousins in the sand, but sadly didn’t get a chance to try surfing.

Sunday night we headed to the bay area and did the touristy stuff on Monday. Went and visited the Full House house in San Francisco, My old college roommate who works at google gave me and my dad an abridged tour of his workplace, small software company, you may have heard of, went shopping at the Apple Company store at 1 infinite loop, and drove by Steve Jobs’s old house in Los Altos. Then it was back to the San Jose airport, and here I am, blogging at 30,000 feet (not sure how high we actually are, just a guess).

And yes, OMG I want to do that. Makes me wish we got more than .5″ of snow in town here!

ARD Lock screen

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: Go into System preferences -> Accounts, and change your Full Name. You will then need to quit and relaunch Apple Remote Desktop.

Happy Mac Administrating.

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.