Boot Camp!
So, it's not exactly server related, but it's worth mentioning. Today Apple have released the public beta of Boot Camp - a piece of software to simplify the install of Windows XP SP2 on your Intel-based Mac.
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Spotlight for the Network
Search your network shares through a web interface. SearchlightRSS.com has released Searchlight 1.0 which allows you to use Spotlight on a server through a web interface from a client machine. In addition to finding documents you can also set up saved searches and get change notifications.
New Mac OS X Interop mailing list
A new Apple public mailing list is up, macosx-interop, for discussing the integration of Mac OS X and Mac OS X server into UNIX (all flavors) and Windows networks.
Another New Forum!
Yes, the pressure got too much - we're proud to announce the opening of the AFP548 Xsan Forum. Get posting!
Universally Great Widget!
Our new AFP548.com RSS widget is now universally great - well, ok, perhaps I mean it works on the new Intel based Macs.
New Forum!
Yes, we're sure the questions will start flooding in so we've opened... the iPod FM Tuner Forum...OK, so it's not that, it's the x86 Forum - for discussing all those issues specifically relating to the new machines and the ongoing transition to an all Intel-based product line.
10.4.4 Released
So, what's the deal with 10.4.4? Well for a start it's the OS for the new Intel chip machines - everything from the OS to all included applications run natively - no rosetta required. But what else?
Macworld Updates
So, amid the major announcements of 10.4.4, iLife 06 and a new version of iWork something interesting was mentioned...something about Intel...
OSXPASS – request for comment/feedback
Its a new year (coming) and it has been a long time since I did an update of OSXPASS. I hadn't made changes pre-Tiger hoping that Apple would come up with a solution and include it with Tiger. But, alas, that didn't happen.
Essential Mac OS X Server Administration: Tiger edition canceled
The gist of it is this: there will be no Tiger edition of my book. The Panther version took me a year and a half to write. I've been working on the tiger version less than a year, and it was projected to be 30% longer. For some reason timelines this time around were shorter, and the choice came down to sacrificing depth or canceling the project.