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Didn’t get to go to WWDC on the company dime? Missed all of the educational programs? Got a few bucks left in the expense account to burn before the year is over? Apple has you covered. All three tracks of classes offered at WWDC are available for download from the iTunes store.
Before you go reaching for your iTunes gift card, they aren’t cheap. $500 each or $1000 for the whole set.
Mike Bombich has been making OSX software and instruction guides since there was OSX. In the early days of Macintosh OSX administration, his software was a lifesaver to many a Macintosh administrator. As Apple started to catch up, his software releases started to slow down and (I think?) he got a much deserved job at Apple.
If you haven’t used his software, guides or fourms, you may want to familiarize yourself with them:
A very interesting application just hit my iPhone’s installer.app repository. VNSea, the port of the venerable VNC Client that is used in many remote desktop installations, including Apple’s own Remote Desktop. Although the application doesn’t appear to be working too well – we got just a flash of the desktop before the application crashed – the possibilities are endless for VNC client like this.
Controlling a home computer or server from the road would give access to unlimited amounts of applications and data. This is definitely something to look out for.
EDIT:At the request of Apple legal, this story has been removed.
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All of the big boys are there. Linksys, Dlink, Netgear and of course, our little pony, Apple’s Airport Extreme, Gigabit addition. We’ll get right to the results as the Ars can get a bit wordy. The short answer is Airport Extreme is #1. Especially with 5.0 Ghz (which used to be used in 802.11A) 802.11N only mode for its cutting through the household devices interference and Gigabit Ethernet for wired devices.
Slashdot sends us to Tom Karpik who illustrates very plainly a significant bug in Leopard. It turns out that if you are moving data to an SMB (Windows) Share and the connection to that share is lost, the data you are moving which hasn’t already been copied is gone forever. It isn’t on the Mac and isn’t on the Share. (Update – it turns out that this is true for a lot of shares – USB/Firewire etc – and has been the case in previous Mac OS’s)
Tom does an excellent job of demonstrating why this happens – which is basically that Apple deletes the data as it is being copied.
Obviously, Time Machine is a very complex and ground-breaking application. Unfortunately, it looks like Apple wasn’t able to get it completely running the way it would like in time to get out the door in time for Leopard GM. It does really great work to a local USB or Firwire disk drive. However, you won’t be able to back up to network drives at all whereas you (in the Leopard Betas) were able to back up to Airport Extreme USB disks as well as other SMB and AFP shares. A@ron at Macrumors forums was able to revitalize this functionality by doing the following:
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You hardcore Mac workstation users might want to cut the music when it’s time to start rendering your big projects if the latest Ars tale is to be believed. According to the story, Mac Pros exhibit a strange behavior when using iTunes, Quicktime or keeping USB audio interfaces plugged in:
The problem manifests as what has been described as excessive increases in power use and processor core heat when playing songs in iTunes, watching videos via Quicktime, or even when keeping USB or FireWire-based audio interfaces plugged in and active. While hardware monitors only report a small percentage of processor use, it can still cause performance decreases of up to 20 percent for other tasks.
iFixit’s mid 2010 MacBook Pro teardown reveals a few interesting tidbits:
Apple today continues with the updates. Everyone (Leopard+Snow Leopard) got Security Update 2010-003 while Mac Server administrators get numerous improvements to their Admin Tools.
Meanwhile, 27-inch iMac owners got a Firmware update that resolves CPU Audio handling and power-on backlight issues. Hit Software Update for the details.
