Meeting Notes - May 15, 2002

By: Mikio Moriyasu - Revised: 2006-10-05 devin


Mac Hardware Volume Purchase by Richard Glaser

!ATTENTION ALL CAMPUS MAC MANAGERS!

A meeting with Apple Educational Purchasing Representative, Mark Linnell, has been scheduled for:
Date: Friday, May 17th 2002

Time: 2:00 pm

Location: Marriott Library Multimedia Center room ML 1705F.
Those departments, groups, and individualsinterested in participating in this year's volume purchase will need to submit to Richard Glaser estimates of numbers and machine configurations NOW!

Richard can be reached here.

For background information regarding this year's volume purchase, please click here to see the Hardware Volume Purchase presentation notes from April's Mac Managers Meeting.

What's New by James Reynolds

New Hardware
eMac - 17-inch flat CRT display, a PowerPC G4 processor and an all-in-one design, 700MHz http://www.apple.com/education/emac/ for the education market.

Xserve - This is a 1U rack-mount server with single or dual 1Ghz, RAM upgradable to 2 GB, and four hot-swappable hard disk bays for a total possible capacity of 480 GB, dual gigabit ethernet. Delivery expected in June 2002. Retail price between $2,999 and $3,999. http://www.apple.com/xserve/

Revised Titanium PowerBook, 667 or 800MHz, upgraded display, and new DVI connector, has an analog audio-in port, airport range probably improved, has 2 fans that are quieter than the 1 fan before.

Pioneer has a new DVD-R/RW, the DVR-A04 (the Superdrive is a Pioneer DVR-A03).

Retail News
Until June 30 (2 weeks before Macworld NY):
  • Laptop and an AirPort Base Station save $100
  • PowerMac and 17-inch screen save $200
  • PowerMac and 22-inch display save $300
Until July 7th (1 week before Macworld NY):
  • PowerMac G4/800 save $200
  • PowerMac G4/933 or dual 1 GHz save $300
More rebates for cameras, iPods, software, etc., at http://www.apple.com/promo/

Problems
Photoshop 7 problems. Plugins lost in OS 9, scripting problems, text layer corruption bug, Classic must be installed. Upgrade leaves older versions alone. Upgrade process revamped.

HP Photosmart/DeskJet Driver, hp_imaging_connectivity.app, may allow unauthorized users to get root access to your system. Read more.

Norton software causes kernel panics, hoses drives. Read more.

OS X Server 10.1.4 requires 9.2.2 for Classic?

2 key Hotmail cookies can be used to access Hotmail accounts if stolen. The cookies trump even passwords in access privileges. Not sure if this affects Macs. Read more.

KoolKatalog/IntelliTech webpage "ad" is an intentional Window's virus. Read more.

Apple CD drives will not read copy protected audio discs, and if the disc damages the drive, it is not covered by warranty because the disc is not standard. Read more.

Upcoming Events
  • MacHack Conference, June 20-22 in Dearborn, MI http://www.machack.com/
  • Macworld Expo NY, July 15-19 in New York, NY http://www.macworldexpo.com/
  • NECC (National Education Computing Conference), June 17-19 in San Antonio, TX http://www.neccsite.org/
James' entire presentation including a complete list of new Apple and third-party software since March, new Apple hardware releases, Apple retail news, and other Apple related topics can be found on the main Mac Managers web site at: http://www.macos.utah.edu or you can click here.

Mac Administrator OS 9 Security By Mike Kimball

Mac Administrator is a system management tool from Hi-Resolution Systems that is designed to give system administrators the ability to remotely conduct a administrative, maintenance, management, monitor, and security functions on either individual machines or groups of machines.

A short list of functions that are available to administrators running OS 9 on their machines include the following:
  • Locking out user access to menus.
  • Locking out CDs and CD-ROMs.
  • Preventing users from copying both too and from the Hard Drive.
  • Preventing users from launching particular applications.
  • Preventing users from disabling extensions on Start-up.
  • Preventing boot-up from another device.
  • Preventing AppleTalk from being turned off.
Mike's presentation was based on a larger, more detailed evaluation project he is currently working on as part of Student Computing Mac Support's transition to Mac OS X with authentication services. Eventually, a series of web pages documenting this project and covering operational requirements, client machine integration, deployment strategies, and resources will be made available at the main Mac Managers Website at: http://www.macos.utah.edu or you can click here.

WWDC 2002 By Richard Glaser

The big news to emerge from WWDC 2002 was the latest update to Mac OS X known as "Jaguar". To see what "Jaguar" is all about, please click here to visit Apple's dedicated web page that discusses this new and significant upgrade scheduled for release late this summer.

Other Issues

A few additional issues were brought up during the course of the meeting:
  • Mikio's presentation on Language Translation Services has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a future Mac Managers Meeting.
  • Those in attendance wish to see the Mac OS X utility, Radmind, discussed for next month's meeting.
  • If there is a topic you would like to see discussed at a future Mac Managers Meeting, please contact us here.