Backdoor HP Phone Number Here is the backdoor phone number to HP’s second level support 866-861-0450. This is for English speaking customers only.

How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac One of the biggest pains in deploying MS Office to OS X in a business or education environment is making sure that the serial number deploys too. To do this, you need to also deploy the following files: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist Deploying these files will keep also [...]

AT&T Tech Support Back Door Numbers For those of you having issues with phone trees, or just want to talk to a live person. Here you go! DSL: 888-321-2375 UVERSE: 866-915-6188 DSL Tier2: 888-722-9337 x924 customers from NC, SC, FL, GA, AL, MS, LA, TN, KY might not be able to use this line

Here is the command via terminal to find the Serial Number for OS X Server. sudo /System/Library/ServerSetup/serverserialnumberutil -get Out put will be the serial number, the name and company that it’s registered too. This only works on OS X Server 10.6 or higher.

Here is an awesome little script by Scott Russell of the University of Notre Dame. Using the “send Unix command” in Apple Remote Desktop, it can pull the system’s serial number, send the information to Apple’s Warranty Website and then tell you if the machine is under warranty. #!/bin/bash # warranty.sh # Description:   looks up [...]