Author: Dan Dickinson

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Apple’s Other Great OS: OS X Server

Most everyone’s well familiar with OS X by now, be it from daily use over the last five years, or from hatred or jealousy. Speaking as to the powers of OS X would be silly; they’re well advertised, well known, and would only act as filler.

But not everyone has used Apple’s other OS, the server version of OS X. This is largely due to price – for consumers, it can be up to over seven times more expensive with no real benefits for end users. As such, it is often only those of us in institutions that have already invested in it that get to enjoy its perks.

So this post goes out to all the geeks toiling away in IT departments but haven’t looked at Apple’s offerings yet. Below the fold, you’ll find the five reasons I heart OS X Server and its related products – and why you should integrate it into your deployments.

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Chapter 6

“Let’s start with the end,” Mr. Whittier would say.

He’d say, “Let’s start with a plot spoiler.”

The meaning of life. A unified field theory. The big reason why.

He’d say, “Lets get this big, big surprise over and done with.”

The earth, he’d say, is just a big machine. A big processing plant. A factory. That’s your answer. The big truth.

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us — the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse — why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

That’s what Mr. Whittier would tell you.

Smooth as glass, that’s our Mr. Whittier. Buffed by pain. Polished and shining.

That’s why we love conflict, he says. We love to hate. To stop a war, we declare war on it. We must wipe out poverty. We must fight hunger. We campaign and challenge and defeat and destroy.

As human beings, our first commandment is:

Something needs to happen.

Mr. Whittier had no idea he was so right.

[Taken from pages 99-100 of Chuck Palahniuk’s *Haunted.]*

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Workblogging: My Brain In Blosxom

Yesterday’s Take Note covered the first half of my work equation, the actual entry part. But what of the critical organization step? Sure, I mentioned I had Quicksilver and Spotlight to keep the structure hounds at arm’s length, but there needs to be some organization. I’ve never been one of those people who keeps every file I’m working with on the desktop, and I wasn’t going to start now.

There’s also the presentation issue, and the access limitation issue, and the categorization issue, and…man, I sure do have issues!

If you’ve read the title of this post, you probably know what the solution is, but I’m a big fan of nuances, so let’s take a look at criteria and how I picked the tools I’m using.

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