Month: April 2010

When I started playing Bioshock on my ageing Mac Pro, I found that the graphics card (a Nvidia GeForce 7300GT, apparently) was so poor by today’s standards that the game was practically unplayable. I therefore decided to get a new ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card. Despite the fact that Apple say this card is for recent Mac Pros (Early 2009 or Early 2008), it works fine in my original Mac Pro (2006).

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Although I’ve got our Mac mini server nicely set up now, there are occasionally things I want to do on users’ Macs which can’t be done or don’t work properly via Server Admin and Workgroup Manager. However, one of the wonderful things about having an office environment consisting entirely of Macs (rather than Windows PCs) is that you can just SSH into them and write Bash scripts which can be triggered by cron (or, better still, by launchd.

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