The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on the Digital Academic Television Network at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday, January 18 at 1:00 pm EDT.

This Webcast will discuss how the University of Wisconsin-Madison deployed an IP-based live television broadcast system using QuickTime technologies, replacing an aging campus coaxial cable system. The Digital Academic Television Network (DATN, and pronounced “Dayton”) currently makes a dozen local television channels, as well as specialty campus content, available on the university network. Future plans, such as a transition to the new H.264 video codec and expansion to 77 local channels, will be discussed. More information about DATN is available from http://datn.wisc.edu/about/

For more information on how to watch this WebCast, please visit the MacEnterprise.org website:

http://macenterprise.org/

The broadcast ID needed to view the webcast is ‘macenterprise’!!

Learn more about configuring diskspacemonitor in the second of our series of articles.

Running out of space on OS X is bad, like real bad.

Read on to find out more about the built-in facilities that will prevent you from running out of space.

These instructions have been successfully followed and tested on the following OSXS Versions

10.2.6, 10.2.8, 10.3.0, 10.3.4, 10.3.5, 10.3.6, 10.3.7, 10.4-DEV

With so many Articles out there, it’s hard to find one that contains all of the instructions required to do an install without problems so I have put this together in the hopes that it makes the installation as easy and painless as possible.

This is an updated version of Joel's Article and was used as the starting point for what I hope includes all of the required installation instructions and related information.

Updated 12/20/2004

These instructions work if they are followed as described, the author warrants no merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and is not meant to be educational material for those who do not understand the instructions as they are provided.

Having issues with group memberships on mobile accounts?

Read on for one method of solving this.

I should have known when I typed about the server update that there *must* be a client to match…

Today, along with the previously mentioned Server update, Apple has also updated its client to 10.3.7 on the Client side as well. The update is available from Apple’s Software Update application.

Key features of the 10.3.7 update include:

– Enhancements to TextEdit, allowing certain RTF files to be read.

– Resolution to an issue in Safari, Mail, and other applications that use DNS lookups, which caused connectivity issues.

– Numerous performance gains in World of Warcraft.

– Improvements for compatibility with Pacific Tech’s Graphing Calculator 3.5

Read up on all the goodies here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300385

Apple has updated its Server to version 10.3.7 today and it is currently available via Software Update. The update weighs in at 30MB.

Of note, covered by the update include a fix for the AFP issue dealing with long file names. Also included are improvements to Rendezvous registration, OpenGL and graphic drivers, as well as improved compatibility for third party applications and devices. As usual, all previous standalone security updates are included in this update.

For more info:

http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n300376

(note: the link wasn’t up at the time of this posting, but it is listed in the Software Update details.)

Add more control to your Squid proxy server by adding LDAP authentication

Using plugable authentication modules and Open Directory you can easily limit who is able to surf the web.

An Apple may not be the only logo you may see when you boot.

For those times when Disk Warrior doesn’t fix it…

I’ve had a few issues with disk quotas recently on my OS X Server file servers, and I needed to come up with a way for my student assistants to be able to view disk quota values for my staff so that they could easily tell who was over or approaching their quota.

Read on for a way to monitor disk quotas in a web browser…