Macs on Microsoft Networks

Read this article.

If you work in network support for Windows, sooner or later it’s bound to happen. You’ll be sitting quietly at your desk, and someone will walk up with a long list of questions about their Apple Macintosh computer. How do we connect it to the existing network? How will users access file shares, print, browse the Internet, and use e-mail? What do you do? You don’t know anything about a Mac beyond plugging it into the wall. In a perfect world, you could plug in any device and go to work. Unfortunately, it’s a little more involved than that. It isn’t as hard as it sounds, though, nor is it as difficult as it used to be. Just remember that there is more than one way to peel an Apple!

This article includes information on:

• Services for Macintosh
• Native OS X Support for Windows networks
• The Apple OS X Active Directory Client (and ADmitMac)

Email “Spamming” and Email “Spoofing”

Here is a snip of a great article explaining Virus Spoofing from www.lse.ac.uk:

Email-distributed viruses that use spoofing, such the Klez or Sobig virus, take a random name from somewhere on the infected personís hard disk and mail themselves out as if they were from that randomly chosen address. Recipients of these viruses are therefore misled as to the address from which they were sent, and may end up complaining to, or alerting the wrong person. As a result, users of uninfected computers may be wrongly informed that they have, and have been distributing a virus.†

If you receive an alert that youíre sending infected emails, first run a virus scan using McAfee (see documentation for further information). If you are uninfected, then you may want to reply to the infection alert with this information:

ìYour virus may have appeared to have been sent by me, but I have scanned my system and I am not infected. A number of email-distributed viruses fake, or spoof, the ëFrom’ address using a random address taken from the Outlook contacts list or from Web files stored on the hard drive.î

But keep in mind that a virus alert message is quite often auto generated and sent via an anti-virus server and so replying to the original email may not elicit a response.

Google on your cell phone.

Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Just the answers you’re looking to find. Hopefully!

Here’s how:

1. Enter your query as a text message. See some sample queries.
2. Send the message to the US shortcode 46645 (GOOGL on most phones).
3. Receive a text message (or messages) with your results, usually within a minute. Results may be labeled as “1of3″, “2of3″, etc.
4. To get Google SMS help info sent directly to your phone, send the word ‘help’ as a text message to 46645.

To get business listings try something like:

• Enter what you want to find. You can search for either a specific business (Pizza Hut) or a general service (pizza).
• Make sure to include both a city and state, or a zip code with your search terms.
• If you want to make sure you get Google Local results, put a period between the business name and the location (‘pizza.10013′ or ‘pottery barn.boston ma’)’.

Sample queries:

• pizza new york ny
• home depot 10013
• home depot.10013

To get residential listings from PhoneBook

To see residential listings, use any of the following combinations as your query:

• first name, last name, city and state
• first name, last name, state
• first name, last name, area code
• first name, last name, zip code
• phone number, including area code
• last name, city, state
• last name, zip code

Sample queries:

• john smith palo alto ca
• 650-555-1234
• B Walsh, 90210

To get defenitions of words
Find definitions for a word or phrase on the Web:

• Enter ‘define’ followed by the word or phrase
• Or use the shortcut ‘D’ before the search terms
• Google SMS is not case sensitive, so ‘D’ and ‘d’ are the same

Sample queries:

• define prosimian
• D Gordian knot
• d crepuscular

There is lots more

• Search Result snippets (send “g” before search items)
• Calculator
• Area Code look up
• Zip Code look up

Go to sms.google.com to find out more and get on their mailing list.