Process

August 18, 2004

Jumsoft has released Process 1.0 which it touts as afresh face in the tired throng of outlining applications. They tout Source Taking as a major enhancement to increase productivity by allowing project managers to manage and schedule an entire project in a single window.

What is needed in OS X web browsers

August 17, 2004

I'm experimenting with OmniWeb 5. It is a great web browser. It occurs to me though, as I'm still unable to read my bank statements with anything but Internet Explorer, and the older statements are n PDF format that the OS X web browsers need to be able to display PDF inline. Why can't they? PDF rendering is built right in to the OS... Is it a webKit shortcoming? Wherever the issue lies it should be addressed sooner rather than later.

Apple Remote Desktop 2.0 crashes when you click scanner

August 16, 2004

I've been battling an annoying problem with Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) where it crashes when you click on the "scanner" icon to run a scan of the network. Several searches had been unproductive until I found this article in the knowledgebase today. The thing is that even though it has "crashes" in the title a search for crash and the ARD product won't show it. Once you click scanner you have just a second when the program opens to move it back to "master list"... but that is a tiresome work around.

So the hint says you can only have 29 network ports in your active configurations. This means you can't have more than 5 "locations" set in network preferences because there are some ports (internal modem) that even if you don't use you can't delete.

KDC on Mac OS X Server

July 2, 2004

I've had a heck of the time getting LDAP to run on Mac OS X Server 10.3. The underlying problem has been kdc not starting so there is no way to do authenticate. I here is what I did to get kdc working... well almost. It currently is running but won't authenticate the primary user.

1. mkdir /var/db/krb5kdc

2. kdb5_util create -r TIOGA.SIERRATARN.COM -s

3. kerberosautoconfig -r TIOGA.SIERRATARN.COM -m tioga.sierratarn.com -u

4. kdcsetup -f /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1/ -a admin -p XXXXXXX -w TIOGA.SIERRATARN.COM

5. kadmin.local (create local user)

6. krb5kdc ( Start it up) Read more about KDC on Mac OS X Server

New iMacs delayed until September

July 1, 2004

Apple has stopped taking orders for the current iMac according to a note in the Apple Store. The announcement confirms that Apple had planned to empty channels of the current iMac models while they prepared to announce the new machine. The new iMac was conspicuously missing from the WWDC Keynote earlier this week.

MindFortress

June 17, 2004

Mindfortress looks to be an interesting multi-media knowledge base app. I think they have the start of something here. But it is lacking in a key feature. The knowledgebase needs to sync through the web. If I have two machines then I need to ability to seamlessly have them sync but still work while offline.

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