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AutoDMG v1.3.126 Mar 2014: Here’s a quick release of 1.3.1 since a major feature didn’t make it in time for 1.3: thanks to the work of FireAllianceNX 10.7 support has been re-enabled, and there’s an update profile available for 11G63. And as there was a lot of code added in 1.3, it also came with its fair share of bugs. Thanks to Tim Sutton, Anthony Reimer, and dhandy0 the following have been found and squashed: Fixed a crash if... Read on →

AutoDMG v1.324 Mar 2014: Following a few betas to test the waters AutoDMG 1.3 is finally ready for release. For those of you that like building with the GUI the only new feature is that the 32 GB limit is gone as AutoDMG will now automatically create a larger image if you add large packages. The biggest news is for everyone who likes automation and reproducible workflows, since AutoDMG finally has a proper command-line interface. Not that everyone has... Read on →

Managing Java Security Site Exceptions With Deployment Rule Sets11 Feb 2014: Like many organization we have a few legacy systems that require Java to run, and as much as we’d like to replace them we’re not quite there yet. With 7u51 Oracle turned up the default security settings by another notch (undoubtedly a good thing!) and as a result it will no longer allow users to run unsigned applets without a security manifest. Users that have admin privileges can whitelist applets themselves, and there are some... Read on →

The joys of an Intel X25-M SSD in a MacBook Pro 15" (Early 2011)05 Feb 2014: I got my shiny new Mac Pro the other week, and I finally finished migrating everything from my old machine. A nice side effect was that I could move the SSD over from my old Mac Pro to my laptop, since it’s the last of my machines suffering from spinning rust. Heck, even my C64s and Amigas have flash drives these days. The early 2011 15" is easy enough to open up, and Thunderbolt target... Read on →

AutoDMG v1.2.117 Dec 2013: I’ve been working on implementing caching in AutoDMG, but the bugs kept piling up in the meantime. I decided to break the silence with a small bugfix release: Allow renamed InstallESD images (but they still have to match InstallESD*.dmg). Fix message regarding deprecated installers on 10.8. Fix a crash if the user’s primary GID doesn’t have a corresponding group. Fix deletion of multiple additional packages. I also published new update profiles for 10.9.1 and 10.8.5... Read on →