Headless Mac Mini Servers are shitassdickassshitdung
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Via Wi-Fi, according to the article. There's probably an offline version too.
Neither of those options is particularly appealing if your fix count is in the hundreds. Or higher...
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Ow. That sounds... ow.
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Ow. That sounds... ow.
Yeah, it happened on my home domain first, and I forgot about it and a few weeks later it happened in another domain I help administer. That wasn't fun, as I was working on fixing it remotely, and when it switches to Public mode, Remote Desktop is automatically Firewalled.
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Ouch.
I think I missed that update somehow... Probably because I don't reboot my DC anywhere near as often as I should (hey, it's behind the NAT, OK?), so I probably got the hotfix for that update installed with the update itself......
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my DC
Well this probably doesn't affect those with multiple controllers I would think, but I can't be arsed to test and find out.
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I would certainly hope not... and actually, if your DC unjoins, and it's your only DC.... oh dang, yeah that's really gonna suck....
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your DC unjoins,
Well the problem wasn't that it un-joined, it was that it couldn't figure out that it was in the same exact network it is a controller for (ie if someone stole the physical machine and plugged it up somewhere else for some reason).
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This happens occasionally with my win 8.1 'server'.
And you can't force it to stop doing the auto detection thing,so it'll pop the ui dialog and essentially disable all communications. Annoying as fuck.
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There are zero ways to use it.
You can use it for automatically testing whether your software runs on OS X. That's why we have exact one headless Mac Mini at work. Which I can still SSH into, so I'm not affected. Phew.
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You can use it for automatically testing whether your software runs on OS X. That's why we have exact one headless Mac Mini at work. Which I can still SSH into, so I'm not affected. Phew.
We've got some that are used for running a very particular piece of software for evaluating mathematical models (of gene networks). Theoretically, it could be ported to some other OS that is more amenable to remote administration but ain't nobody got time for that, particularly as porting to anything else would require us to retest with lots of models to determine whether the results are still valid. They should be, but “should be” != “is” and the differences can hurt.
Throwing a bunch of more expensive hardware at a problem is cheaper than the staff time to be able to use cheaper hardware.
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You can tell OS X to not automatically update.
Yet I'm sure someone will figure out how to tell me how much worse Microsoft is at updates... any minute now...
Yeah. That.
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I have an old 2008 MacBook Pro refurbished from work as a build/test system for anything I'd need to test it runs on OS X.
Those Mac Minis are just burning through money sitting there. Though, isn't that what Apple is for anyway?
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I know reading thread things but this update was also pushed ignoring the auto-update settings...