snow leopard

Spotlight Indexing

Shell commands to control Spotlight indexing on volumes.

To only turn off indexing on a volume:

sudo mdutil -i off /Volume/drivename/
To Turn off indexing and remove indices on a volume:

sudo mdutil -E -i off /Volumes/drivename/
To only turn on indexing on a volume:

sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/drivename/
To turn on indexing and rebuild indices on a volume:

sudo mdutil -E -i on /Volumes/drivename/

How to execute scripts when a user logs into, or out of, an OS X workstation.

Create a hook:

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/script

See what the login hook is set to:

sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook

Collection of assorted issues that came up deploying some OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" iMacs.

Adobe Acrobat Crashes on OS X With Network Account - an alternative way of achieving this solution, since we have OS X Server, was to use MCX to automatically redirect the folders for network users:

Action - deleteAndCreateSymblink Destination Folder Path - /Users/Shared/9.0_x86/ Folder Path: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/9.0_x86

Installing ImageMagick on OS X 10.3 (Panther) and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Recommended Libraries

libtiff

wget http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz tar zxf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz cd tiff-3.8.2 ./configure make sudo make install
libjpeg

wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz tar zxf jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz cd jpeg-7 ./configure make sudo make install

ImageMagick installation
To get the latest version of ImageMagick:

SquidGuard

SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the proxysoftware Squid. There are two big advantages to squidguard: it is fast and it is free.
NCurses Disk Usage

A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface, aimed to be run on a remote server where you don't have an entire gaphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection. ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.
WPKG

WPKG is an automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.

It can be used to push/pull software packages, such as Service Packs, hotfixes, or program installations from a central server (for example, Samba or Active Directory) to a number of workstations.

It can run as a service to install software in the background (silent install), without user interaction.

It can install MSI, InstallShield, PackagefortheWeb, Inno Setup, Nullsoft, other software installers or .exe packages, .bat and .cmd scripts and similar: no more repackaging to perform software installation.

WPKG is open source software.
opsi

opsi (Open PC Server Integration) the Open Source client management system
Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.