This is slightly offtopic but take a look at this article in Newsweek (also MSNBC and therefore also MS).
The last sentence is what gets to me: "But for now, she's finished with what she calls the best part of the job--watching real people as they integrate new software into their daily lives." This made me laugh out loud when I read it. If Microsoft wants to be seen as trustworthy they shouldn't use their media outlets to spread this kind of treacle.
Carbon Copy Cloner is pretty good for getting OS X onto a machine initially, but would be a pain for regular maintenance. I actually use ASR for initial install (macosxlabs.org talks about it here).
I use radmind for regular maintenance of the machines in the the labs I run. It's a powerful unixy tool, a little tricky to get the hang of but it's well worth the effort.
Apple Remote Desktop 1.0.x doesn't work; you'll need to run Software Update to get version 1.1. Unfortunately, even the new version only half-worked for me; the client side seems fine, but the Admin app says it is not installed properly. I wanted to just uninstall the whole thing and start over, but there is no uninstall option, that I could find. So I deleted all the files that the Installer installs, and then tried to reinstall, and the Installer says it is already installed. So now I have nothing, and I can't change it.
I noticed this "not installed properly" stuff on OS X 10.1 actually, and it took a few tries to get it to work. ( I think I ended up having to delete coresponding files in/Library/Receipts, to get OS X to think it hadn't installed it in the first place.)
In general Remote Desktop is really not a very good program, and needs some serious updating. It's buggy, slow, and the UI really blows. The thing that really gets me is that it uses the "Computer Name" (AppleShare) as unique IDs for clients, I would much prefer hostname/IP address for my enviroment.
The documentation for the previous security update (Security Update 2002-08-02 for OpenSSL, Sun RPC, mod_ssl) said it included 0.9.6e of OpenSSL. But after I installed the update and checked with "openssl version" it said it was still 0.9.6b.
This had me worried for a while, and mad at Apple, until someone pointed out that it looked like the update changed the significant libraries, so it probably was patched. Pretty irritating though.
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This is slightly offtopic but take a look at this article in Newsweek (also MSNBC and therefore also MS).
The last sentence is what gets to me: "But for now, she's finished with what she calls the best part of the job--watching real people as they integrate new software into their daily lives." This made me laugh out loud when I read it. If Microsoft wants to be seen as trustworthy they shouldn't use their media outlets to spread this kind of treacle.Carbon Copy Cloner is pretty good for getting OS X onto a machine initially, but would be a pain for regular maintenance. I actually use ASR for initial install (macosxlabs.org talks about it here).
I use radmind for regular maintenance of the machines in the the labs I run. It's a powerful unixy tool, a little tricky to get the hang of but it's well worth the effort.
I noticed this "not installed properly" stuff on OS X 10.1 actually, and it took a few tries to get it to work. ( I think I ended up having to delete coresponding files in /Library/Receipts, to get OS X to think it hadn't installed it in the first place.)
In general Remote Desktop is really not a very good program, and needs some serious updating. It's buggy, slow, and the UI really blows. The thing that really gets me is that it uses the "Computer Name" (AppleShare) as unique IDs for clients, I would much prefer hostname/IP address for my enviroment.
The documentation for the previous security update (Security Update 2002-08-02 for OpenSSL, Sun RPC, mod_ssl) said it included 0.9.6e of OpenSSL. But after I installed the update and checked with "openssl version" it said it was still 0.9.6b.
This had me worried for a while, and mad at Apple, until someone pointed out that it looked like the update changed the significant libraries, so it probably was patched. Pretty irritating though.