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New Apple IT Pro Section
aqsalter writes "Apple has finally created a new section for information from an IT Professionals viewpoint, with articles about all the good stuff. Previously Apple shied away from having any obvious IT focus, but it seems Apple are acknowledging their influence in the IT sphere, with two high-profile HPC clusters and enterprise class tools for managing open source technologies."
Security Guide for OS X - by the U.S. National Security Agency
Email virus protection - setup SpamAssassin, ClamAV and Amavisd-new with Postfix on OS X
Linux Magazine gives OS X five penguins
The nice thing about this site, as a developer, is that everything I was looking for regarding OS X is all here. Tools, manuals, FAQs, discussion boards, you name it, it's here.
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A good site for managing OS X servers that seems to be getting better all the time is http://www.afp548.com/. I'm not affiliated with them btw, but it's worth checking out if this is your business.
You can find the doc if you go here: http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_macX.cfm
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Here's the Security guide for OS X. It looks like they've revised it since they first listed it.
Actually the Virginia tech cluster cost WAY less than any of the other clusters of similar speed - a mere $5,000,000 compared to $380,000,000 for similar speed clusters made from x86 boxen. The G5 is a stonking chip - especially for what these guys want to do - lots of floating point work.
WebObjects is absolutely phenomenal Java Framework. About six months ago I started a new development for a hosted web application. After reviewing our choices and budget we opted for WebObjects. Wow where we delightfully surprised. WebObjects Rocks! I cannot tell you how much better it was then other application frameworks I have worked in. Now if Apple would do some marketing there, I could maybe find more jobs using my new tool of choice. Go WebObjects.
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I agree with you on everything except the short life cycles. We have a number of 1999/2000 era g4 powermacs running OS 10.2/3 happily running Illustrator CS, Photoshop CS and Quark 6.
These machines are slow by todays standards, but they *work*, and reliably. The only upgrades they've seen are extra memory and firewire hard disks.
This is a lot more than I can say about any of the > 3 year old PCs at my office. Some of those machines can barely boot XP, much less run office effectively.
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This site is for marketing purposes. Use the support for good docs : http://www.apple.com/support The doc you are looking for should be http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Windows_Servic es.pdf
I just LOVE apple docs, always written like stuff for dummies, not like obscure HOW TOs...
As to documentation, I find that if you know where to look (and this can be said of Sun, too) there is a boat load of documentation. The place to start with OS X Server is to go to Apple.com => Support => Manuals => OS X Server Manuals for Apple's documentation. There are also a number of good enthusiasts sites, but for the corporate line, this is the place.
I do agree that AppleScript documentation is not great, but its use on the server is better served with shell scripting.
Yes, the website is run on WebObjects, on Xserve servers and OS X. Streaming is done with QuickTime Streaming Server.
Apple owns FileMaker so that would mean they have a database but whether they use it for the website I don't know. Oracle loves them and Larry E was a board member so maybe they use Oracle for the larger jobs and Filemaker for smaller jobs?
Pixar, Jobs' other company, has been doing a transition from Intel hardware over to Xserve now that Apple has RAID and SAN solutions together with Shake for video compositing as well as Pixar's own Renderman software.
Visit the QuickTime or Pixar websites for movie trailers just to see how well it all works together.
Sorry to post anonymously but anothy is misleading people when he says that the plural form is correct UK usage.
I'm a journalist who writes for the Guardian and The Financial Times newspapers and their style guides state unequivocally that companies are singular (as do the equivalent guides on The Times and The Telegraph). Even if the company name is an obvious plural, eg 'Saatchi & Saatchi is the UK's biggest advertising agency'.
By contrast, sports teams are referred to using the plural. So 'Manchester United are struggling to catch up with Arsenal at the top of the Premier League.' But if you were referring to the company that runs the team you would use the singular form: 'Manchester United PLC's share price is holding steady at 316p'.
Here endeth the lesson in pedantry!
Mike Bombich is not an "enthusiast", he is an Apple Employee and his tools NetRestore and Carbon Copy Cloner form the basis for Apple's new Setup Assistant and network imaging tools. I have his Apple business card on my desk as I type.
Are modifications from the user/developer community being incorporated into Mac OS? Not last time I heard (a dictatorship and not a democracy?).
The answer is yes. Go have a look at apple.com/opensource, there's a handy (and verifiable) chart there.
Hmmm. Where is FairPlay/AAC on that list? Speaking of a free press, click here to see the latest Apple stories on Slashdot. 2 or 3 on the first page alone are about Apple censoring users and closing communications. Definitely more Kim Jong Il than Johnny Appleseed here. This just does not happen nearly as much in the OSS world.
AAC is a Dolby standard and part of the MPEG-4 spec. FairPlay is not something I like either but that is one thing you mentioned.
As for the appledot stories, i did have a look, and I'm not sure what you are referring to. There is a story about ThinkSecret getting sued over leaking trade secrets, and some users who leaked their OS alpha. That does not strike me as draconian but hey, its just my opinion.
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