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Migrating Crashplan ProE

2016/09/07 By staze

crashplanproeFor about 5 years now, I have run a Crashplan ProE (at the time, just Crashplan Pro) server at my office. It ran on a server here in town, then a remote server as well (for offsite backup). This server largely stalled out at version 3.6, and has worked quite well, but had limited storage, so we basically only backed up the bare necessities (Documents and Desktop, no pictures, music, videos, etc). Which, while fine, isn’t exactly what Journalism faculty expect when they generate a lot of photos, videos, etc. =/

However, a couple years ago, central campus had enough pressure to start up its own CrashPlan offering. They chose to utilize CrashPlan’s cloud storage offering, which is great. It meant unlimited storage, at the cost of about $90/user (with up to 5 computers per user).

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Filed Under: Sys Admin Tagged With: Code42, CrashPlan, Macintosh

Annoying Mac Malware/Trojan

2015/01/02 By staze

InstallerJust a quick post since I just had to clean this damn software off a computer. It’s Genieo/MacInstaller. On the computer it was on, it kept downloading, and mounting a DMG with an Installer on it saying “Double click here” (see picture). No, that doesn’t seem sketchy.

The best info on uninstalling it I’ve seen is here. Obviously, if you don’t know what you’re doing, I wouldn’t suggest blindly following these instructions, but I don’t see anything that could go horribly wrong from any of this. Just make sure you’re deleting what it says to delete, and not something else… Mac’s are pretty resilient, but if you delete some things, it will cause issues.

In case you do see this, it looks like the primary vector this is spread by is fake Adobe Flash Player installers. Never, ever, just click a link asking to install/download Flash Player, or Java, or anything like that. Go through the effort of Googling or typing the address of the actual vendor (Adobe, Oracle, etc), and download from there. If your Flash player downloads from “www.thisistotallylegit.com”, it’s probably not.

Anyway, good luck, and death to Mac (and any other) Malware.

Filed Under: Sys Admin Tagged With: Double Click Here, Genieo, Installer.dmg, Installer.pkg, MacInstaller, Macintosh, Malware, Trojan

How to disable Chrome’s Print Preview in Chrome 20+ (on the Mac)

2012/08/04 By staze

Google introduced their Print Preview functionality back in the Chrome 15 days, and until Chrome 20 or so, you could go into “about:flags” and turn it off. In Chrome 20 or so, they took that option away. Now all the threads online are full of “just use the “Command-Option-P” crap ((Google seems to think Adobe had the right idea when they created their own Print dialog, when in fact, it’s really stupid. Augment the dialog, don’t replace it with something completely different than every other app)). While I rarely print, I do frequently “Save as PDF”, and I find the process, and output much easier/better using the system dialog.

But! It’s still there. Just not easy to set via the GUI. So, open up a terminal, and paste in the following:

defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -boolean true

And then quit and relaunch Chrome. Enjoy your native print dialog.

Thanks to the Chromium Admin documentation here. I knew this had to be there still for all us admin’s that want to enforce this stuff on labs, etc.

UPDATE: Google (Chromium) have killed this ability as of Chrome Version 39. This makes our lab environment very annoying as printers show up as “mcx_0”, etc. Not their actual names. Sad.

Filed Under: Apple Tagged With: Google Chrome, Macintosh, MCX, Print

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