Introduction
DISCLAIMER: The contents of this post are mostly based on Manual Installation How-To. Thanks to Brent Davidson and Fabian Franz for writing such a nice HowTo and the beautiful open and free implementation of FreeNX, respectively.
I decided to use FreeNX instead of NoMachine’s own implementation due to the instability of the latter. Most of the [...]

The AutoFS service in Leopard, also known as automount, is configured by means of text files stored in /etc and the automount command-line utility. The standard automount configuration also allows for local directory service lookups and thus can also be configured by using Directory Utility.
The configuration of the automounter starts with the master configuration file, [...]

Yesterday I was trying to translate some text in German to English, like this one:
Für sämtliche Fragen rund um den Zürcher Verkehrsverbund steht Ihnen ZVV-Contact oder Ihre Verkaufsstelle gerne zur Verfügung.
And the text was translated to this:
For all questions about the ZVV you ZVV-Contact or sell your body to be happy.
I don’t know if I [...]

Introducción
En los sistemas convencionales, el votante se dirige a un colegio electoral, introduce su voto, en forma de papeleta, en un sobre, se identifica ante un agente e introduce su voto en una urna. Los sistemas tradicionales separan el proceso de autentificación del votante del proceso recuento de votos, de forma que éstos se realizan [...]

The firewall in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is confusing, to say the least. It is not enabled by default, which is a huge mistake, in my humble opinion. Also, the graphical user interface offers less flexibility than in previous version while trying to configure it. Besides allowing you to independently control the blocking of [...]

After experimenting with local files for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Directory Service, I read a hint on MacOSXHints name Manage users and groups using a GUI tool.
What this tip describes, basically, is that you can use Mac OS X Server Administration Tools to connect locally to the Directory Service running on Mac OS X [...]

New with Mac OS X 10.5 is the replacement of the old NetInfo architecture. The new component, Directory Services, is a highly configurable service that can use many back-ends to store, retrieve and abstract concepts like users, groups, machines or mount points.
Directory Services sports LDAP, Active Directory and Open Directory support, and also local files. [...]