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The Macintosh or Mac is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.

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Slow network-home-folder use, many spinning beachballs

Xserve with 10.4.11 connected to Xserve RAID via FC. 208GB of 1.82TB available. Xserve connects to HP 2848 Gigabit switch Xserve houses network-home-folders for 14 users. Clients (mac mini - intel core solo 1.5GHz running 10.4.11) Symptom: Clients…
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How do you burn an ISO image on a Mac?

Is there a utility built into the Mac software to allow for burning ISO downloaded from the internet. Or.. Is there a better utility on the Net for performing this function? Thank you, Keith
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Meeting request going to someone else

I have a user who is using Entourage on Mac OS 10.4.11 with MS Exchange 2003. The setting on the Mac are all correct and the under the delegates tab user "A" is there. But for some odd reason a user "B" receives all the Calendar invites to the user.…
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Configure Snow Leopard Server as NTP server for private LAN with no Internet access

I have a Snow Leopard Server box running on a private LAN with no Internet access. If you can avoid ever doing this, you should, as not having an Internet connection has brought us hours and hours of headaches. Anyway, our most recent headache is…
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Apple client OS support lifecycle

I have a simple question that I seem to be having a hard time getting a straight-up answer for. What is Apple's support policy for Mac OS X client versions? When do they drop support? For example, is 10.0 still supported? A colleague has called…
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Mass deployment of OSX software?

I'm stuck. I'd like to think I'm reasonably good looking info up, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to deploy mac software in an enterprise, like with Group Policy.) I'm not talking about deploying images, I mean, for example how to make…
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What is the easiest way to implement Macs in a Windows (Active Directory) domain?

I am working at the operations department at a large, mostly Windows based, IT solutions company. Personally I am a Mac user, but I mostly use my Mac in "Mac environments". We have got an inquiry about getting some Macs into the network domain. The…
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PDO_mysql for mac

Has anybody gotten PDO_mysql working on the default PHP installation on a mac? It works with MAMP but that's inconvenient. I'm developing for Zend Framework and mysql, and Zend_db uses PDO. The default php doesn't come with PDO_mysql.
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Easy workflow for migrating home folders (from clients to OS X server)?

Let's say you have an office with 20 free range iMacs. One day they buy an Xserve to host network home folders. What steps would you perform to move their local accounts, and local home folders, to the Xserve? How do you handle file permissions?…
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Eject disk on Mac Pro running VMWare ESXi

I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but I'm stuck. I installed VMWare ESXi on a Mac Pro. It's working great! The problem is that you press F12 to eject the disk, and F12 is what you use to shutdown ESX. I can power down, open the case, pull out…
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Configuring Cisco ASA 5510 to assign static IP address based on MAC address

We have a CISCO ASA 5510 at work. We want to configure the same such that it can serve specific IP addresses based on the MAC address of the clients. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance -knd
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netstat reports UDP ports with no owning process

When I run netstat -avp udp I get a slowly growing number of ports. It grows about 100 an hour but the rate varies considerably. When I close the process, the ports do not disappear from the list. Similarly when I kill the process. Restarting the…
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Anyone know why the Mac OS FTP client was designed read-only?

I always found it odd that Mac OS X's Connect to server menu lets you read and write to every protocol it supports except FTP. Is it just one of those mysteries, or have they ever discussed why this design choice was made?
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"netcat -e" / "nc -e" on Mac OS X

netcat [...] -e program nc [...] -e program Is supposed to run program as a server (as far as its stdin and stdout are concerned). netcat on Mac OS X does not seem to have this -e option. Why is that and is there a way to enable it?
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Webdav troubleshooting on Mac OS X

Are there any tools/instructions/pointers about how to troubleshoot webdav problems on Mac OS X? Any secret mount options, undocumented webdav module logging, anything? What I usually do is to reroute webdav traffic via Fiddler/Charles…
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