For several months I've been searching for a complete solution that can offer access control, authentication, integrated search indexing of all content and content management itself for a company intranet that can…
If you are getting an error "Can't assign requested address" you may have a problem with the mysql port. I had just moved my server to a MacMini running Mac OS X 10.6 and mysql_connect was giving this error. Going into the /etc/php.ini file and setting the default port number to 3306 fixed the problem.
I may have found a temporary solution to allow the Apple Software Update Service (ASUS) to work through a corporate proxy server.
This article is the outgrowth of some work I did for a customer in recent weeks. Big companies are buying iPhones by the truckload to use in their architecture. These same companies have enough employees to make centralized iPhone activation a little unrealistic.
In Mac OS X 10.2.2 journaling was added to the Mac OS X Extended file system (I first read about it here on afp548). Journaling introduced a lot of great stuff, most notably improved resiliency to crashing.
Snow Leopard comes with a great little new command in mcxrefresh, which as you might have guessed refreshes policy information. This allows you to request a new set of policies and provided the command returns with no errors the process has completed successfully (exit's 0).
The networksetup command is pretty useful for deploying static network information, which is otherwise tedious (to say the least). In Mac OS X 10.6 there are three major additions to networksetup that have not gotten a lot of attention yet.
On Mac OS X 10.5, if you connect two different ports on a host to two different networks and assign them with two different IP schemes then only one can act as the default gateway. This means that any incoming packets will all, by default, get responded to over the default gateway; despite which interface the packets came in on.
Apple has moved Directory Utility from /Applications/Utilities/ to /System/Library/CoreServices/ .It can also be accessed through the Accounts System Preference by going to Login Options and clicking "Edit" next to the network account server at the bottom.
A number of you may have noticed the article on ZDNet that stated that Mac OS X now has built in Malware protection (actually, I guess Intego made it public). Despite the fact that the articles from Intego and then ZDNet were written prior to the release of the actual operating system (in their defense it was only 3 days prior) they have a point.
