The Xserve has officially been discontinued by Apple and will no longer be sold after January, 2011. Mac OS X Server will still be available on Mac Mini and Mac Pro (which will be the only option for Metadata Controllers on Mac OS X). Apple has produced a transition guide, available here. I do like the Mac Mini server, I just can’t seem to fit a fibre channel card into them. Before the Xserve, we used to buy Marathon rack mount kits for G3 and G4 systems. I would anticipate that a new business will spring up that takes the place of the Xserve, putting Apple logic boards and CPUs…
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Meet the Press
As my most recent information seems to now be on Amazon I have wrapped that into an easy link with links back to this site. It can be found at https://krypted.com//amazon.
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Days of our Oracle: Sun
McNealy no longer has an executives page on Oracle.com. He also sent To be honest, this is not a note this founder wants to write. Sun, in my mind, should have been the great and surviving consolidator. But I love the market economy and capitalism more than I love my company. In other words, for 7.4 Billion dollars, you win (not that I’d blame him too much). Then Jonathan Schwartz sent a letter to Sun employees that ended: So thank you, again, for the privilege and honor of working together. The internet’s made the world a far smaller place–so I’m sure we’ll be bumping into one another. That sounds like…
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Twitter Hacked (again)
Really? I guess to quote myself “it’s not hacking if you know the password.” Although to qualify that I must say that is true but getting that password could be… So allow me to rephrase: Twitter got defaced due to a compromised account on their DynDNS service. Obviously I changed my own DynDNS password first thing this morning… PS – Resistance is futile, Microstan will come to be and all of this will be irrelevant anyway… PSS – The Zune is Portable Perfection. Resistance is again, futile.
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Cyber Monday
You remember in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when Riff Raff and his sister do that weird elbow sex thing? The word “Cyber” conjures up an image of two people on either side of a network connection doing just that with their computer monitor. One looking like Riff (the girl) and the other looking like Magenta (the guy). 4.3 million shoppers a minute visited sites on “Cyber Monday”, elbow sexing their way into the American dream, with one-click shopping and buying 10% more crap on Monday than they did on Black Friday. In most cities “rush hour” doesn’t really refer to a single hour. Maybe it’s half an hour some…
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HP Paying $2.7 Billion for 3Com?
HP is gung-ho to go after Cisco. It’s going to take too long to R&D better switches for the price than Cisco sells. 3Com has those switches for cheaper. Core routers for data centers are pretty complicated as well, so throw in a few extra bucks to get those from 3Com while you’re at it. There is overlap in the entry-level switches and already a lot of competition out there, so I would expect whichever product HP considers inferior to fall to the wayside. There’s also overlap with a number of other products, such as wireless and then a number of synergistic (how 90’s of me) aspects, such as what…
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Trick or Treat Apple Store Style
Many a mall has the stores that lease space do Halloween for cute kids, dressed up in their little costumes (like the sock monkey costume, for example). Kids come through with parents in tow trick or treating. This is especially useful in areas like, er, Minnesota, where it can be a bit cold come Halloween. Most stores are content to give candy treats, but as usual Apple does something special. This year Apple gave out bookmarks. No, they weren’t beaming Safari bookmarks into the browsers of parental iPhones; these were actual physical bookmarks. Normally one would simply think “well that’s interesting.” They’re about the size of a nano and magnetized…
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Google Apps from the C-Suite
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Chinese Hackers & You
For some time now, when we reverse scans on networks, originators of phishing attacks and other types of illicit network traffic we’ve found so often that the trail ends at the Great Wall of China. Basically, if the IP address is a Chinese IP then more than likely you will never have anything done, never get a response from an inquiry and essentially be laughed at if you do anything more than block the IP or the subnet. It has gotten to the point where when you see those entries in the logs or in reports you in fact think, this must be some drive-by and while you give the…
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Microsoft Retail Stores
Microsoft is opening a few retail stores in the upcoming months, with the first having launched just last week, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The stores are similar in appearance to the Apple stores that can be found around the country, which has garnered much criticism. Although if you find a formula that works then you find a formula that works. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? A number of videos have surfaced on YouTube showcasing the new store, although this seems to be the most informative regarding the products and layout of the store. Overall, this is very interesting to me, although I don’t have any opinion either way…