(Note: This guide is adapted from one I found buried in Google's cache, so I thought Ars might appreciate a more accessible, updated version.)<br><br><b>Introduction</b><br><br>We all know that OS X ...

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I did some searching around and it seems all the threads that cover this are from 2007 or earlier, so I hope its cool to bring this up again.<BR><BR>We just upgraded a couple of workstations at work ...