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Using a Snow Leopard Server, (OS X 10.6.x) it seems that administrators have a problem if they have used Apple’s Managed Client for OS X (MCX) to provide software updates to their clients from their local server and then want to switch back to having the clients get the updates from Apple’s servers. The problem seems to lie with Apple’s Managed Preferences, which is part of MCX. Here is what I understand happens, and a solution: Continue reading Resetting Software Update to use Apple’s servers Alice in Wonderland on the iPad The iPad seems to have quite a potential to shake up the market for eBooks. (Click the pic to view). On almost the same subject – we saw the Alice film in 3D at the weekend – and thoroughly enjoyed it! (Via Daring . . . → Read More: Alice on the iPad I have seen several articles over the years indicating that there are no problems in using a standard / client version of OS X as a server instead of using the OS X Server version, which is a darn sight more expensive. And indeed I have used a Mac mini with a client version . . . → Read More: Using Snow Leopard instead of Snow Leopard Server? The Mac mini I set up with Snow Leopard Server had previously been acting as a server using the client version of OS X. While I was setting up the server again after installing the Server operating system, I decided to also combine the existing external data drive with a second drive and make . . . → Read More: Recreating the correct links to files in iTunes I picked up a new copy of OS X 10.6 Server on EBay for 177 Euro (instead of the 499 Euro it costs if you buy it new from Apple) and have installed it on my 2006 Intel Mac mini. I had one issue at the start of the installation, whose solution is not . . . → Read More: Installing Snow Leopard Server on a Mac Mini The Apple Store yesterday in Frankfurt’s Fressgass’ If you have ever bought an Apple product, you know their packaging is usually exquisite. Well, the same applies to their stores before they open. The Frankfurt store pictured above opens at the beginning of January, and work is still going on inside. However, the logo is . . . → Read More: Apple Packaging Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications). Everyone’s major concern about cloud computing, is “What happens to my data if . . . → Read More: So where’s the backup going to be? Apple’s OS X has one “feature” which periodically causes me a lot of grief. Not often, because once I have fallen over it, it takes several years until I forget and make the mistake again. I use Windows PCs at work, and there, if I copy a directory’s contents into another directory, it effectively . . . → Read More: Copy folders like in Windows, on the Mac Sometimes I ask myself what the developers of the Apple Mac spelling checker are smoking… Fortunately, most people don’t accept that particular suggestion – not everyone was paying attention however… Here’s a good article on Gizmodo, which lists a bunch of useful additions to iTunes, some for the Mac, some for Windows and even a couple to allow you use Linux to play from iTunes libraries. Take a look. |
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