Policy Banner 1.0
A slightly tweaked version of the loginwindow policy banner that we posted about earlier.Read on for where to get it.
News
MOSXSWebPassword 1.5
An updated version of my WebObjects application that allows for user password changes and resets from a web page, released September 10, 2007.
Hardware RAID now on an Xserve Near You
Along with all the iApp/iMac announcements yesterday, Apple quietly released an internal hardware RAID card for the Intel Xserve as well as a PCI Express RAID card for the Mac Pro.Read on for more details...
iftop Installer Package
iftop is a free network bandwidth analyzer. In the words of it's creators "iftop is for network usage what top is for CPU usage". It has many useful features including filtering by protocol and network (f) or an arbitrary regex (l) and is now available as a Universal Binary in installer package format.
Scheduled maintenance on Feb. 4’th
The afp548.com website will be down for a few hours due to a scheduled software update on Feb. 4'th, starting at around 10 AM UTC. If you have any ideas on specific improvements or noticed any outstanding issues from the previous update, leave them here or email them to filipp at mac dot com.
Xserve RAID update
In a small rev., Apple today announced support for 750GB drives in the Xserve RAID - now giving it a massive 10.5 TB capacity. Along with that also came a price drop.
Forums Maintenance 08.12.2006
Update: The upgrade will be postponed to the 8'th of december.The forum software will be upgraded to the latest and greatest version on the 8'th. This means forums will be out of service for about 1 hour starting from 10:00 AM UTC.
SANS Security Checklist
There is now a security checklist covering 10.4 and with limited coverage of 10.4 Server available from the SANS S.C.O.R.E. team. You can get the guide here.
Mount Network Homes Easily
Here is a freebie application that mounts network home directories in an Open Directory environment. The program does a quick LDAP lookup and mounts the Volume. It also lets you specify a second mount volume for shared files.
PaperCut on Mac Servers
After a six month testing program, PaperCut Software have released their final version of PaperCut NG for Mac OS X Server. The Mac version has all the functionally of the popular Windows edition including, print quota, print monitoring, shared accounts, release station and rule based filtering of print jobs.