I’ve posted the PeopleFinder widget that Jeff and I made up on Apple’s website.
Jeff added a lot of cool functionality and code optimization to make it a really slick little ldap widget. Perhaps version 5.0 will have even more neat stuff!
You can download it here.
Two of the members of the A&S ITS group here at SLU have discovered how to get a Novell ZenWorks image onto an Intel Mac. Dan Shown and Matt Goeke put their heads together and have documented the process here. This is a huge success for our group here at SLU. We can maintain our Universal OS X image across both our PPC and Intel Macs along with being able to keep our Zen image congruent across all machines, PC or Mac, across the entire campus!
Check out this error a co-worker of mine discovered while trying to dual-boot his MacBook Pro.
In a nutshell we tried to edit the partitions after running the Boot Camp Assistant. The problem arose when we started to use the Zen imaging utility (SUSe based) to partition a chunk of the Windows partition. This error is telling us that we fubared something really good and now need to reinstall the whole OS.
Novell ZenWorks – We were able to get the Mac to boot off our imaging CD (SUSE) and were able to start a backup. We were aslo able to reimage the XP partition, but got a HAL.dll error on reboot.
I assisted a Mac user in restoring saved data from a backup of his HD. Apparently he was storing documents (over 210 of them) in the following directory.
./Library/Extensions/AppleMPIC.kext/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
I have no idea how they got there, or how he was able to navigate to them.
In the service manula there is a specific section regarding Temperature Concerns. It points to a KB article on Apple’s site.
“Apple Notebooks: Operating Temperature.”
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30612
The whole top, including the keyboard is one piece. Neat.
The MacBook has a small Subwoofer, the Pro does not.
Magnets are everywhere. There’s one on the side for a sleep sensor, the one in the Magsafe connector, and two positioned on both sides of the integrated isight, to the far left and right corners. The magents used to keep the lid shut are huge. Ok, not freakishly huge, but about the size of 2 1/2 keys on a Macbook keyboard.