Category: Presentations
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Software Update: Where We’re Going, Where We’ve Been
Normally, this is where I’d put my slides, but my slides weren’t the drawing factor of this talk. Unlike my keynote, I also didn’t write the whole talk out ahead of time, so I don’t have some magnum opus to post here like I did yesterday for the keynote. That’s okay, though, I do have…
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Keynote at X World: Running After the Ice Cream Truck
Hi. I’m Tom Bridge. For 20 years, I worked in IT. First for an education non-profit, then for a consulting company, where I handled Apple-facing IT for small and medium enterprises. Our biggest customer had thousands of people and dozens and dozens of interrelated system. During that time, we developed software to support their businesses,…
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Notarization Follow-Up and Video
This summer, I gave a talk at the Mac Admins Conference at Penn State, focused on Notarization, called The Loyal Order of Notaries. It was a lot of work to put together the talk, and I spent more time on it than I have any talk I’ve ever given. I am proud of the work,…
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Mac Admins Talk: The Loyal Order of Notaries
The Notarization of binaries with Apple Notary Service is a fascinating topic worth exploring, and in this year’s talk at Mac Admins, I delved deep into the subject. The current version of macOS now requires all kernel extensions not just to be signed by their authors, but to be notarized by the Apple Notary Service.…
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Slides from Munki Mistakes Made Right
Talking about the mistakes you’ve made in your career isn’t something a lot of people want to do. I spent an hour doing it today at Penn State, specifically about my Munki environments and how we’ve learned and adapted as an organization. I’ve expanded this talk since February, and it includes a conversation about how…
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Slides from “Fighting With Physics: A Wi-Fi Workshop”
It was an incredible pleasure to present our workshop yesterday, “Fighting With Physics: A Wi-Fi Workshop”. We covered a lot of ground, answered a lot of questions, and broke a lot of old myths about Wi-Fi in the process. We’ve provided our slides below as a teaching aid to carry with you, as they often…
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Munki Mistakes Made Right, a Mac AD UK Conference Presentation
Thanks very much to the folks at Amsys for having me out to London to present my talk this year at MacADUK, called Munki Mistakes Made Right. Over the last few years, I’ve done probably 25 munki installations, in groups as small as a few clients, or as many as a hundred. There are always…
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Testing iOS 10 & Sierra in Your Environment
Last night, I presented at MacDMV on the importance of Testing iOS 10 and Sierra in your environment. The slides and presenters notes are available as a PDF Download. You can also watch the presentation below via Facebook video. The presentation begins about 3:30. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmacdmv%2Fvideos%2F1808220239413548%2F&show_text=0&width=400 Testing Sierra and iOS 10 is incredibly important, because you…
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MacDevOps YVR 2016: Securing Munki
Below are the slides for my 2016 Talk at MacDevOps on Securing Munki. The talk was a good way to revisit what I’ve done with Munki in a Box and discuss some of the maybe not-so-great choices that were made along the way to get to where we are now with the security branch. The…
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Cascadia IT Conference Training: Fundamentals of Wi-Fi
These are the slides from the presentation with Chris Dawe of Wheelwrights LLC, at Cascadia IT Conference. The slides broke out into four clear sections: Part 1: A Brief History of 802.11 Part 2: Jargon & Terminology Part 3: Wi-Fi Network Design Part 4: Tools & Troubleshooting