What's New - Feb 20, 2008

By: Benjamin Martin - Revised: 2008-03-25 ben

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Introduction

What's new for the Mac in the previous month:
  • General issues, workarounds and fixes
  • New Software and hardware
  • Software and hardware updates/patches
  • Apple Inc. related news

Contents

  1. Meeting Agenda
  2. 10.5.2 Client
  3. 10.5.2 Server
  4. Security Update 2008-001
  5. QuickTime 7.4.1
  6. Apple Retail News
  7. MacPro goes to Hapertown
  8. Unlimited Mobile Plans
  9. Humor

Meeting Agenda

What's New
  • Ben Martin
Casper Suite
  • Amy Larson & Jonah Klevesahl of JAMF Software
System Image Utility
  • Dan Hutten of University of Utah
Hacking the iPhone
  • Anonymous

10.5.2 Client

Reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307109

  • Active Directory
    • Ours will still not bind
  • Airport
    • Fixed 802.1X
    • Works great with "secure.utah.edu"
  • Dock
    • Stacks now has multiple view options
  • Desktop
    • Menu bar less translucent
  • Finder
    • Fixes numerous issues
  • Third party application support
  • Stability and performance of login
  • And many ... many ... many ... more

10.5.2 Server

Reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307110

  • Software update server
    • Software update server didn't work properly on servers upgraded from 10.4.x
  • Mail server
    • Added name support in addition to short names
  • Password server
    • Open Directory replica propagation

Security Update 2008-001

Reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307430

  • Directory Services
  • Foundation
  • Launch Services
  • Mail
  • NFS
  • Open Directory
  • Samba
  • Terminal
  • X11
  • All patches for privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution

QuickTime 7.4.1

Reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307407

  • Malicious website may lead to arbitrary code execution
    • Buffer overflow attack vector

Apple Retail News

Reference:
http://www.macnn.com/

  • Shuffle price cut: 1GB $49
  • New shuffle: 2GB
    • No pricing info released yet
  • iPhone at 6th place in 2007 US phone sales
    • Not bad for only being available half the year
  • Apple released XSan 2

MacPro goes to Harpertown

Reference: http://arstechnica.com

  • Hapertown CPUs in the MacPro (CPU using 45 nm process)
  • 12MB L2 Cache, support SEE-4 vector operations
  • Front side bus: 1.6GHz (up from 1.33 GHz)
  • Supports 32GB RAM ($9,100 via Apple)


Unlimited Mobile Plans

Reference: http://www.news.com

  • AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile
    • Each announced flat rate plans for unlimited calls in the US (no roaming/long distance)
  • iPhone unlimited
    • $120 ($99 for voice $20 for data)