Dr. Adrian Sannier, University Technology Officer at ASU, will deliver a State-of-the-Mac at ASU address on Tuesday, April 22nd. The ASUMAC general meeting is open to the ASU community and will take place in the Computing Commons Auditorium (CC120) at 9:30 AM. The meeting will also be available online:
https://breezemeeting.asu.edu/asumac/
A PDF meeting flyer is available for download:
You are invited to attend the next ASUMAC general meeting taking place in the Memorial Union Alumni Lounge (MU 202) on Tuesday, January 30th from 11am – 1pm. Our guest speaker will be Frank Callaham from Apple, Inc. The topic of discussion will be:
Enterprise Solutions from Apple Inc.: High Performance Storage Solutions
Demands for storage continue to increase exponentially. Acquiring, managing and backing up large amounts of storage can be challenging. Apple provides solutions ranging from direct attached storage, to SAN and clustered file system solutions (Xsan).
Please join us to discuss:
• Xserve RAID - Fast, inexpensive, platform independent storage
• Disk to disk to tape solutions to reduce backup windows
• Xserve & Mac OS X Server as a NAS solution
• Xserve and Xserve Raid in typical SAN solutions
• Xsan - an OS X clustered file system that also allows integration of: Windows, AIX, Linux (Suse/Red Hat), IRIX, and Solaris
• Preview of Leopard Server features
A light lunch will be served, courtesy of Apple, Inc.
More info can be found by clicking here to download the PDF announcement.
It appears the latest Checkpoint VPN SecureClient for Mac OS X 10.4.7+ may cause problems by using a large amount of CPU time and a large chunk of memory.
After installing the latest Checkpoint VPN SecureClient for Mac, a process labeled “airport” may take up 90%+ of the CPU and a large amount of memory. When the Checkpoint client is uninstalled, the “airport” process returns to “normal”. This issue may only occur on Intel based Macs and can be monitored by watching the airport process (a sub process of the launchd process) using the Activity Monitor located in the utilities folder.
A possible fix is to uninstall and then reinstall the Checkpoint VPN SecureClient for Mac. To uninstall the SecureClient, open the “Applications” folder and then open the “Check Point SecureClient” folder, then click “Uninstall SecureClient”.
The problem has been reported on a few Mac help threads:
Apple discussion thread 693240
The Tuesday, November 21st ASUMAC General Meeting will feature a presentation by Andy Beier. Andy’s presentation is titled: Corda Technologies Data Visualization Tools for OS X. Andy will also be previewing the new ASUMAC knowledge base to be available soon on our ASUMAC web site. Please join us on Tuesday, November 21st at 10:30 AM in the Computing Commons Auditorium (CPCOM 120). You may even win an iTunes gift card!
More info can be found by clicking here to download the PDF announcement.
The Check Point VPN client for Mac OS X 10.4(7 or greater) is now available. It can be downloaded from the http://www.asu.edu/security web site by clicking on the Software and Tools link. Documentation can also be found on the UTO security web site or by clicking here to download the PDF.
Questions about the ASU UTO implementation of the Checkpoint Macintosh VPN client for Mac OS X 10.4.7+ can be directed to the IT Help Desk at (480) 965-6500.
Apple has posted a seminar titled:
Data Retention and Recovery: What you need to know
The seminar is traveleing through cities throughout the US and will stop in Phoenix on Tuesday, Dec. 5th at the Phoenix Hilton Suites. The seminar is not a higher ed seminar, but may be of interest for departments looking for further information concerning data storage and retention.
Further info and a link to register for the event can found on Apple’s site by clicking here.
The October ASUMAC General Meeting has been moved to a new date and place this month. The October general meeting will take place at 10:30 AM, Wed. Oct. 18th in Coor Hall, room L1-84. The meeting will feature the following presentations:
- Apple Education Division Systems Engineer Al Teran will present an overview of running Windows on an Intel Mac using either Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop for Mac.
- Apple Higher Education Account Executive Jeff Wolf will introduce himself and our student Apple campus reps.
- Robin Manke-Cassidy from UTO will stop by to give a brief update on the status of the Checkpoint VPN SecureClient for Mac OS X 10.4.
Please join us on Wednesday, October 18th at 10:30 AM in Coor Hall room L1-84.
More information can found by clicking here to download the ASUMAC October Meeting flyer PDF.
The Tuesday, September 19th ASUMAC General Meeting will feature two presentations. Our first presentation will be from Adobe Systems, Inc., followed by a recap of WWDC 2006 by Apple Education Division Systems Engineer Al Teran. Please join us on Tuesday, September 19th at 10:00 AM in the Computing Commons Auditorium (CPCOM 120).
More info can be found by clicking here to download the PDF announcement.
The scheduled August 15th ASUMAC general meeting in CPCOM 120 has been canceled. The next scheduled ASUMAC meeting is Tuesday, September 19th in CPCOM 120.
The Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2006 (WWDC 2006) is over and the news from the week long conference has been posted on most of our favorite Mac web sites. In order to not repeat most of the same information, and to avoid posting material Apple may not want posted, here are a few of the many links posting great info concerning WWDC 2006:
WWDC 2006 keynote:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/aug_2006/event/index.html
Leopard preview:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/
Macworld:
Apple Product Unveilings
WWDC Macworld Live Chat Transcript
Macworld Podcasts:
http://podcasts.macworld.com/2006/08/downloads/mwpodcast48.m4a
http://podcasts.macworld.com/2006/08/downloads/mwpodcast49.m4a
Think Secret:
http://www.thinksecret.com/
Mac Rumors:
http://www.macrumors.com/
MacInTouch:
http://www.macintouch.com/specialreports/wwdc2006/index.html
MacDailyNews:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php
CNET News:
http://search.news.com/search?q=WWDC+2006&tag=srch
There are many other sites posting information about WWDC 2006 that can be reached with a quick Google search.
A few notes of my own:
The keynote seemed to move along without much fanfare and without the famous “Oh, and one more thing…” at the end. I was hoping for a few more announcements, new MacBook Pro enclosure, new iPod video, etc. I was told this is becoming less of a consumer product announcement venue and to look for new product and updates to be announced in the months to follow WWDC. I was hoping to see firm release dates from Microsoft concerning the next release of Office for Mac and Adobe concerning the next Adobe Creative Suite and Macromedia products, but no date, just wait and see.
It was nice to see the unveiling of the Mac Pro and Xserve. The Intel transition was not much of a topic during the conference, which was a good thing. The transition, for most of the attendees, appears to be running along smoothly, with only a few glitches or problem programs along the way.
Leopard’s new features, such as Time Machine, which is rumored to change and evolve before the final release, and Spaces are two very welcomed additions. Sessions concerning Time Machine were packed and numerous features were requested for the final release, including secure deletes to ensure items are removed from the system. Other cool updates, such as iChat’s ability to show Keynote presentations and Safari’s Web Clip feature, were welcomed additions. There were numerous sessions throughout the week so I am still trying to digest all the new information.
A special thank you to Apple Systems Engineers Al Teran and Steve Nelson for making the week informative and fun. They were a great resource to bounce back ideas and to explain the new features. The ASUMAC group will look forward to Al giving a recap of the WWDC 2006 events at a future ASUMAC general meeting (hopefully in September).
-TJ
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