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If preferred, remote assistance is available for user-installs and configuration.

David Brown - Apple Certified Technical Coordinator & Apple Mac Consultant
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Blame This Man...

Next time your email inbox gets swamped, this is the man to blame...

His name is Ray Tomlinson, and he is almost singularly responsible for the email revolution after developing in 1971 the code which enabled the sending of a message between two computers for the first time.

At first, his email messaging system wasn't thought to be a big deal. When Tomlinson showed it to a colleague, he said "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on."

Feel free to print out his picture, pin it to the wall, and give it a stern look next time your mail application goes boing!

http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/home.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1586229.stm
http://www.bbn.com/about/timeline/at_sign

Shared Address Books At Last?

For longer than I care to remember I have stoically responded to that seemingly never ending question, "can we share address books on our server?". My eyes would roll upwards to heaven... "Ahh... the Holy Grail...".

Why 'no Macs' is no longer a defensible IT strategy...

Interesting article in InfoWorld which backs up the interest I am seeing from business users who had not previously considered Macs as an alternative to their Windows machines. Maybe a snowballing of  various outside pressures rather than any one reason?...

"More users are demanding Macs in the enterprise. Thanks to key computing shifts, supporting their appetite for Apple is now a straightforward option for IT"

Link to InfoWorld:  Why 'no Macs' is no longer a defensible IT strategy

Cannot Change Desktop On Leopard Server

Problem: You have installed a minimum OS X Leopard Server and you cannot change the default desktop picture to another one.

Solution: Get a plain Leopard installation disk and install iPhoto.

For some reason, the desktop preferences expect to find iPhoto on your disk. Note... it expects the application, not just the iPhoto folder which gets created for the desktop preferences during the install.

Generating DNS A & PTR Records for DHCP Range

So you think it would be nice to have all your DHCP range of IPs map to hostnames... something like...

10.0.0.101 = dhcp101.foo.com
10.0.0.102 = dhcp102.foo.com
10.0.0.103 = dhcp103.foo.com etc etc

...but cannot be bothered to type them all in to your zone files? Well why not use the $GENERATE directive?