Send your mac to sleep: macsleep (c) - from here

… bring pretty much any WOL-provisioned host back to life again: wakeonlan (Broken link http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/) (perl)

For admining OS X, here (Broken link http://www.bombich.com/mactips/commands.html)

The current gentoo ebuild has some issues with the latest version of smb_ldap tools which means that the config files (there was one; now there are two) are now installed in a different location (they have moved from the previous version that gentoo installed).

For more information, have a look at this bug.

This basically means that if you are upgrading you should expect to redo your configuration. As some basic hints the following may be useful:

• the majority of paramteres in /usr/share/samba/scripts/smbldap_conf.pm are now in /etc/smbldap-tools/smbldap.conf
• the authentication details that were in /usr/share/samba/scripts/smbldap_conf.pm are now in /etc/smbldap-tools/smbldap_bind.conf
• the parameters no longer have ‘$’s in front of them (so be careful if you are cutting and pasting)
• the scripts no longer have .pl extensions. For example: smbldap-useradd.pl is now smbldap-useradd so remember to change your smb.conf to this effect.

Good luck!

Web Developer (Broken link http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/index.php) is a rather neat toolbar component for Firefox or Moz.

I’ve been using LaunchBar for sometime now, but since the panther upgrade it never quite seemed the same. Now I discover Quicksilver (Broken link http://blacktree.com/apps/index.html?quicksilver/index.html) from BlackTree Apps (Broken link http://blacktree.com/apps/) which does the same job, but somehow feels nicer to use.

Stripes posted this (Broken link http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/tools.html) nice site full of usefull OS X specific command line tools

Right. We were having massive problems with DCOM authentication time outs and odd, occasional, browsing issues on the domain. Upgrading to Samba 3.0.2_rc2 (and I would hope 3.0.2 which was released today) fixed them all.

I occasionally get rpm commands hanging, they are only killable with a -9. This Redhat bugzilla entry offers a solution:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*.

Which seems to work…

Steve sent along this (Broken link http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/) useful collection of Mail and Eudora scripts

Windows update tells proxy servers not to cache its downloads. To get round this in squid, add the following to your acls:

acl windowsupdate dstdomain .windowsupdate.com
never_direct allow windowsupdate

never_direct tells squid to always try to get the object from cache even if the client specifically asks for it.

UPDATE: I found that Microsoft change the updates whilst keeping the old filename, and this will break if you cache the files. So the best solution is to use SUS (Broken link ~~http://microsoft.com/sus/~~).