GraphPad Prism is a scientific application that, according to the vendor blurb, "combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization." It is licensed software, available in a number of flavours. Deploying and licensing the application is relatively simple, and GraphPad provide some helpful…
The short version The long version Packaging options Deployment considerations The short version: Deploying MATLAB_R2016a with Munki (Github) The longer version: MATLAB, from MathWorks, is a computing environment and proprietary programming language. It has many, many applications, but is primarily used for solving engineering and scientific problems. My organisation,…
I'm a simple person. Fortunately, here's a simple problem, with a simple solution. In my shop, for various reasons, we don't use Apple Remote Desktop as a support tool. However, I use it to connect to test machines from my Macbook. As those test machines are in shared offices, I…
Like many Mac Admins out there, my shop uses DeployStudio as a major part of its Mac deployment workflow. It is, clearly, a great tool, and one that, despite being closed source, sees issues and bugs addressed in a...timely manner. That was a little joke about time. I had…
or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Drink From The Firehose On 9th-10th February 2016, the Mac Admin and Developers Conference UK took place in London's St. James Theatre. While gatherings of Mac Admins are nothing new (see the sterling work of London Apple Admins), this is the first…