DVD Ripping with Handbrake on macOS

Thankfully, optical drives are a thing of the past. Old mediums have a tendency to make a comeback but hopefully CD/DVD's go the way of zip disks, laser disks, and floppies. Never to be seen or heard from again. Long story short: I have a DVD, I…

How to download macOS Mojave

The direct link to app store is here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?ls=1&mt=12 The official Apple article is here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190…

Testing macOS Mojave and Munki

I started testing our deployment workflow this week with macOS 10.14. The first thing I do on a new machine is install munki, reboot, enter the client settings for munki, and then run sudo managedsoftwareupdate. Munki then runs and installs all the right things. But this time it didn&…

Cleaning up the Terminal.app prompt

The default settings on macOS’s Terminal.app show the last login and the name of the computer at the prompt line. With some simple adjustments, we can have a cleaner looking Terminal prompt. Remove the last login message 1. Open Terminal.app 2. Navigate to your base user directory…