It seems that Daring Fireball and Fake Steve Jobs are expecting new product announcements in the next 3 hours, probably a new Macbook, Mac Minis with Snow Leopard Server, iMacs, and probably not a tablet. Reports from Apple’s financial update indicate the channel is being filled with some product, but they won’t say what. Macjournals opines that any updates would need to be announced within the next 21 days to be sufficiently available before the festive season.
Archive for the ‘Mac OS X Server’ Category
New Macs imminent
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009New Macs imminent
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009It seems that Daring Fireball and Fake Steve Jobs are expecting new product announcements in the next 3 hours, probably a new Macbook, Mac Minis with Snow Leopard Server, iMacs, and probably not a tablet. Reports from Apple’s financial update indicate the channel is being filled with some product, but they won’t say what. Macjournals opines that any updates would need to be announced within the next 21 days to be sufficiently available before the festive season.
Apple planning US$1 Billion iDataCenter
Thursday, May 28th, 2009According to DataCenterKnowledge apparently Apple is planning on spending some of its billion dollar cash on hand to build a US$1 billion data center on the East Coast, either in North Carolina or Virginia (as they battle to legislate the best incentive packages).
With thanks to David for the link.
Mac OS X Server AFP high CPU load problem
Sunday, March 8th, 2009This discussion thread over on Apple’s forums documents a large number of system administrators who have their AFP (Apple File Protocol) creating a high CPU load and thus making the server unusable for their users.
Suggested workarounds which have anecdotally provided varied success (including none 
) include:
- Turning off Spotlight on client machines
- Turning off Spotlight indexing on the shared volumes
- Executing
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient -dict-add afp_wan_threshold -int 1000
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient -dict-add afp_wan_quantum -int 131702on all 10.5.x client Macs.
- Installing Security Update 2009-001 which states
Description: A race condition in AFP Server may lead to an infinite loop. Enumerating files on an AFP server may lead to a denial of service. This update addresses the issue through improved file enumeration logic. This issue only affects systems running Mac OS X v10.5.6.
The problem was originally posted with respect to Mac OS X 10.5.4 on 29th of August 2008, and still seems unresolved for many people. And people wonder why it’s hard to argue that Mac OS X Server belongs in the data centre.
Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 available for Mac OS X
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Sun’s open source virtualization package xVM VirtualBox is out of beta for Mac OS X and available for download. Note that it can’t currently host Mac OS X (aside from the licensing issues that only allow you to virtualize Mac OS X Server). According to ZDNet Sun sells a commercial version with USB support and an RDP server.
If you download it and can’t open the archive you may need to remove the ‘.bz2′ from the end of the filename.
Adobe AIR and Mac OS X Server Admin?
Friday, February 29th, 2008Today I’m logging in to a server remotely using Mac OS X Server’s Server Admin tool and I get a dialog asking “Server Admin wants to use the PrivateEncryptedDatak keychain”. Which is interesting as I have no idea what the password is, and googling the term only seems to find a few references which mention Adobe AIR, which I installed earlier today. Curiouser and curiouser.
Mac server hosting
Monday, February 25th, 2008Edition.net are offering dedicated Xserve server solutions for US$250 (presumably per month, plus US$400 setup). For that you get “MacOSX Server featuring Xserve – 1.33Ghz PowerPC G4, 60gig storage, 512MB ram, WebObjects 5″. Although the RAM (and storage) seems a bit small. There are other options available which include WebStar V, FileMaker Unlimited (version 5?), and Lasso Pro 6 (not 8!). They do offer “flat-rate pricing with no traffic surcharges”.
digital.forest offers an Enhanced plan for US$30 setup and US$19/month (+US$10/month for MySQL) with perl, PHP5, Python, Mac OS X and more, 100MB of storage, and 3Gb of data transfer. Not sure what their colocating price is like though as you need to contact a salesdroid. Digital.forest have been around since 1994 and have a long time association with Mac newsletter TidBITs.
Set up redundant DHCP
Sunday, November 18th, 2007You might want to check out this documentation if you want to set up a redundant DHCP system.
Leopard Server License allows virtualisation on Apple Hardware
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard’s license allows it to be virtualised, provided that
- it is virtualised on Apple hardware,
- sufficient licenses are purchased to cover each virtual instance
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Mac OS X Server Software. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Mac OS X Server software (the “Mac OS X Server Software”) on a single Apple-labeled computer. You may also install and use other copies of Mac OS X Server Software on the same Apple-labeled computer, provided that you acquire an individual and valid license from Apple for each of these other copies of Mac OS X Server Software.
via comments on the MacEnterprise mailing list.
It’s the 26th in Tonga, Release the Leopards!
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Tonga is at GMT+13hrs, which means that it’s now 26th of October there, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is officially released and no longer under NDA 
