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New Apple IT Pro Section

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the macs-work-too dept.

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."

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  1. Nobody ever reads the article... by IO+ERROR · · Score: 4, Informative
    Since you probably didn't RTFA, here's some more good stuff:

    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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  2. Another useful site... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Better check their links by DarkBlack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the Security guide for OS X. It looks like they've revised it since they first listed it.

  4. Re:Why does everybody love Apply for HPC? by beelsebob · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  5. Re:But will they be less secritive? by TomorrowPlusX · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  6. Re:Shame by cozagada · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...

  7. Re:Shame by rns3 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I do work with OS X Server/Client (as well as Solaris and Windows Server). Of the the three, OS X Server is by far the easiest. It is as reliable as Solaris, but without the extra expenses and MUCH better management tools--by better, I mean I can get the task done quicker without having to remember arcane commands.

    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.