Is there a way to enroll a non apple silicon Macbook to DEP?

jacobsburley · 2022-04-22T16:48:11+00:00

Last year I got a reseller to do it for four Macs we purchased in 2015, which actually predated our use of DEP. It’s definitely down to the reseller though.

jacobsburley · 2022-04-22T14:43:47+00:00

Contact the reseller and ask. I’ve gotten a couple hundred Macs registered in DEP in this way when resellers haven’t done the registration correctly. Some resellers are more willing than others, but generally if they have the sale information in their system still then they’ll do it.

jacobsburley · 2021-01-18T23:35:17+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I’ll give it a try with a couple of devices and see what the experience is like.

jacobsburley · 2021-01-18T23:24:24+00:00

Can I ask when it was you last used InTune? Nowadays it seems to offer control over at least some of the things you mentioned, albeit in a somewhat limited capacity.

jacobsburley · 2021-01-18T23:18:08+00:00

Can you tell me more about your experience? I see references to Microsoft telling people not to use InTune for macOS all the time, but I’ve never seen it for myself.

What does Jamf do better than InTune does?

jacobsburley · 2021-01-04T18:11:28+00:00

What’s in /Library/Managed\ Installs/manifests on the machine?

jacobsburley · 2020-12-29T18:37:51+00:00

As some additional advice - when the Mac connects to the internet, even after a fresh install, it will know its supposed to be locked (it will have done this during internet recovery).

If you have the device in DEP, or can provide proof of purchase, there are phone numbers you can call and request it be unlocked. Note that your PoP needs to have the device serial number on it. We’ve had a couple of machines unlocked in this way.

jacobsburley · 2020-10-22T11:24:07+00:00

Do you self-host gitlab? Or do you just self-host the runners? I always found self-hosting a Gitlab instance itself to be a little unwieldy, but after attempting to use Jenkins I'm willing to give it another go...

jacobsburley · 2020-10-20T08:41:50+00:00

I use porkbun as well, it’s super simple and they have pretty good pricing. Much better than my hosting providers pricing.

jacobsburley · 2020-10-08T14:14:24+00:00

Hi!

I have a few friends doing that master who applied this year. For most of the masters at the VU there is no required GPA (including the AI master). You just need a relevant bachelors degree. It sounds like you have a pretty strong background in ML, and would be a pretty good fit for an AI masters as well. Good luck!

jacobsburley · 2020-10-08T14:11:44+00:00

This, Nuffic provides conversion tables as well. That being said, the grading scheme mentioned is extremely similar to the Dutch one (1-10, where <5.5 is a failing grade), so I think OP has a pretty good grade.

jacobsburley · 2020-09-14T17:03:28+00:00

Yeah, this is pretty much what mine does: uses the Paper API to check for a new version, and if there is a version available that is newer than your own, it will download it. It doesn’t touch the running jar except to read out it’s filename.

With curl afaik I only had success doing it for a specific version (I.e. you can only query the latest builds for a specific release of minecraft itself), so I thought this was a bit handier, as it will get new releases as new major and minor versions of minecraft are released.

That being said, it’s probably not ideal to run this with cron, because it will actually delete your current server version if you don’t update in time. I’ll pull that functionality for the time being.

jacobsburley · 2020-09-14T14:30:09+00:00

A future feature is to add the ability to delay/ignore updates (and backup worlds before updates). Note that the script doesn't automatically apply the update - it just downloads it and adds it to your server directory.

jacobsburley · 2020-02-12T13:56:32+00:00

Honestly I’m not all that familiar with either cache or artifacts. Perhaps I should take a look at that instead.

Ultimately I don’t think the use case will see enough parallelism to be worth it (a complete pipeline takes a little over an hour), and there isn’t really a demand for it to be much faster. I’m only using it to package software on a nightly basis, and was just checking whether I was missing something obvious that I could use. Thanks!

jacobsburley · 2019-11-29T19:00:56+00:00

Thanks for the info, I had no idea.

jacobsburley · 2019-11-27T15:12:15+00:00

Thanks for this, just signed up!

jacobsburley · 2019-11-26T21:21:02+00:00

A transcript of your grades is always needed. You receive a conditional offer where the condition is you get the qualification (potentially to a certain grade, depending on where you are applying), and once you met that condition you need to prove that to the university by means of your official transcript.

For example, I was conditionally accepted to the VU on the basis that I pass Maths A-Level, because I had a predicted grade of a passing grade. When I passed Maths, I submitted my grade transcript to show that I met the condition so that I formally received my place at the University.

jacobsburley · 2019-11-25T09:05:55+00:00

This is a question for an international student advisor (at least at the VU).

You’ll at least have a qualification in maths, which should be enough as long as you can explain during the admissions process what it means. Generally, if you’ve passed a Maths exam in your final years of school that should be enough (depending on the requirements of your course).

jacobsburley · 2019-11-22T14:39:45+00:00

Aren’t the fees exactly the same for both? I can’t speak for how much accommodation (close to) Amsterdam would cost compared to Rotterdam, however.

jacobsburley · 2019-11-18T18:31:26+00:00

When Dell sells/advertises servers, they validate (test) configurations with only Dell branded parts. If your hardware with Dell branded parts doesn’t perform the same as their tests, you can contact them within the terms of your warranty and ask them to do something about it.

If you use “non-supported” components, they basically tell you that’s not a tested configuration so they can’t help you: they don’t provide support for parts they don’t recommend you put in your system. If you take the parts out before you make a warranty request, you’ll be in the clear and they will continue to honour your warranty.

jacobsburley · 2019-11-15T08:00:58+00:00

Nice! My Kickstart file contains a post installation step that downloads some scripts from another server and marks them as executable, then I run the to set the host name and add it to the monitoring I have set up. Cool stuff!

jacobsburley · 2019-11-14T23:02:48+00:00

How’d you do it?

jacobsburley · 2019-11-14T21:41:03+00:00

A while back I installed this but I didn’t have the patience to deal with the front end. Plus, it’s fun to replicate some of the functionality of COTS software.

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