I was quite happy to see that Apple decided to include amavis / clamav / spamassassin in OS X 10.4 Server, but although I found the virus protection nice, the spam protection looked weak in comparison to my previous experience with spamassassin. So, here's how I fixed that... A few things …

Stamps.com has been offering picture postage for Windows for quite some time now, but Endicia (pretty much the only people doing postage service for the Mac) are now offering it for the Macintosh and the software to create it is definitely cool. Check out the software and info on …

OK, so Apple's all about the Widgets in OS X Tiger. Initially, mostly eye candy, but now they're starting to get useful. Think of it as a combination of Sherlock with a good UI and Desk Accessories (for us old timers) that get out of the way and perform real …

Many people find Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich Software a great utility for copying bootable volumes on the Macintosh. I have certainly been one of those. However, under 10.4, changes to authentication have made the program perform poorly or not at all. If you need to use it, I'd …

The transition from 10.3 to 10.4 in our location has been both easy and hard. For everything except our master server, the transition has been a breeze. Here are some things to do and a couple of things to avoid. Note: this is only for OS X Server …

An interesting article from ArsTechnica describing their thoughts on the potential roadmap for Apple CPUs in machines to come out over the next 18-24 months. I'm not sure I agree with the entire analysis, but it does make a good argument.

Good comic today from JoyOfTech.

So much for being pretty sure that Apple wasn't going to roll this one out today. According to everybody's press releases, reports, etc. and what I heard sitting in the Keynote (now available via QuickTime), Apple will begin shipping Macintoshes that are based on the Intel CPU architecture by June …

CNet is again reporting that they have heard strong rumblings that Apple will announce on Monday a switch to Intel-based CPUs in the Macintosh line. I'm skeptical, but we were all skeptical when people discussed the switch to the PowerPC from the 68xxx architecture in the early 1990's, so we'll …

Tom Yager of InfoWorld has reviewed Tiger and Tiger Server and has found them worthy of 9.5 and 9.3 ratings (on a scale of 0 to 10). Of particular interest is his mentioning of Darwin, which is often left out of discussions about the two cats.

An interesting article from Anandtech compares the PowerMacintosh G5 to similarly configured PCs and finds it lacking as a server due to problems with thread spawning and (therefore) forking. However, they like it as a workstation. Perhaps Apple would like to comment on this at the WWDC.

Apple's logo is peeking out over rooftops in San Francisco from Moscone West, site of this year's WWDC.

Computer reseller TigerDirect (link intentionally left off so that the Google spiders don't think I'm here pushing their site ranking up) has filed a trademark infringement suit against Apple which id detailed in this MacMerc article (including PDFs of the court documents). Frankly, the timing looks like nothing more than …

Anyone who hasn't been under a rock for the last few weeks knows that Apple's releasing Tiger this Friday, with an event at each of their stores (starting with the new Birmingham, England store to kick the event off). Meanwhile, Microsoft is slowly readying Longhorn (the next major revision of …

OK, this is really esoteric, so if you're not a Macintosh OS X Server administrator, just go ahead and skip it. I decided to get the 10.3.9 upgrade and Security Update 2005-003 out of the way today before leaving to go out of the country. Of course, I …

If you're a networking geek (and I know some of you are), you may be interested in this deal from WildPackets (Mahboud's company) for EtherPeek in all of its various flavors. Now, for $99 you can get a pretty darned nice packet decoder and capture product with a GUI. True …

Somebody put together a nice summary for the Apple finance information from the last report.

Sony released the PSP in the US just short while ago and now the folks at PocketMac (who make third-party synchronization software for hardware that Apple doesn't directly support in iSync) has released PMPSP, a product with great function and a horrible name. However, despite the bad name, it'll sync …

Well, somebody at Google like Apple's OS X. Check out Google X, a google home page with icons that magnify.

This might have been better posted to the HAM forum, but it has some amusing cross-over appeal. A plea for help on MacFixIt about a Macintosh that turned off whenever an ICOM two-way radio was keyed elicited a knowledgeable response (same page) that indicated that the problem was actually the …