Podcasts about Xserve

Hoy viene a charlar con nosotros David Poves, profesional que vivió intensamente la incursión de Apple en el mercado de servidores, desde su puesto en el Reino Unido. Junto a él recorreremos todas aquellas tecnologías y dispositivos que Apple lanzó en la primera década de los años 2000. Xserve, Xsan, Xgrid, todas orientadas a introducir productos de Apple en las empresas, especialmente en los grandes nichos de Apple: cine, música, televisión, etc. Sin embargo, la llegada del iPhone, del iPad (y todo lo que vino después) hizo que Apple se alejara de las propuestas de hardware, dejando a multitud de profesionales y empresas confusos y decepcionados.

Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985. He co-founded NeXT Computers and took Pixar public. He then returned to Apple as the interim CEO in 1997 at a salary of $1 per year. Some of the early accomplishments on his watch were started before he got there. But turning the company back around was squarely on him and his team.  By the end of 1997, Apple moved to a build-to-order manufacturing powered by an online store built on WebObjects, the NeXT application server. They killed off a number of models, simplifying the lineup of products and also killed the clone deals, ending licensing of the operating system to other vendors who were at times building sub-par products. And they were busy. You could feel the frenetic pace.  They were busy at work weaving the raw components from NeXT into an operating system that would be called Mac OS X. They announced a partnership that would see Microsoft invest $150 million into Apple to settle patent disputes but that Microsoft would get Internet Explorer bundled on the Mac and give a commitment to release Office for the Mac again. By then, Apple had $1.2 billion in cash reserves again, but armed with a streamlined company that was ready to move forward - but 1998 was a bottoming out of sorts, with Apple only doing just shy of $6 billion in revenue. To move forward, they took a little lesson from the past and released a new all-in-one computer. One that put the color back into that Apple logo. Or rather removed all the colors but Aqua blue from it.  The return of Steve Jobs invigorated many, such as Johnny Ive who is reported to have had a resignation in his back pocket when he met Jobs. Their collaboration led to a number of innovations, with a furious pace starting with the iMac. The first iMacs were shaped like gumdrops and the color of candy as well. The original Bondi blue had commercials showing all the cords in a typical PC setup and then the new iMac, “as unPC as you can get.” The iMac was supposed to be to get on the Internet. But the ensuing upgrades allowed for far more than that.  The iMac put style back into Apple and even computers. Subsequent releases came in candy colors like Lime, Strawberry, Blueberry, Grape, Tangerine, and later on Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power. The G3 chipset bled out into other more professional products like a blue and white G3 tower, which featured a slightly faster processor than the beige tower G3, but a much cooler look - and very easy to get into compared to any other machine on the market at the time. And the Clamshell laptops used the same design language. Playful, colorful, but mostly as fast as their traditional PowerBook counterparts.  But the team had their eye on a new strategy entirely. Yes, people wanted to get online - but these computers could do so much more. Apple wanted to make the Mac the Digital Hub for content. This centered around a technology that had been codeveloped from Apple, Sony, Panasonic, and others called IEEE 1394. But that was kinda' boring so we just called it Firewire. Begun in 1986 and originally started by Apple, Firewire had become a port that was on most digital cameras at the time. USB wasn't fast enough to load and unload a lot of newer content like audio and video from cameras to computers. But I can clearly remember that by the year 1999 we were all living as Jobs put it in a “new emerging digital lifestyle.”  This led to a number of releases from Apple. One was iMovie. Apple included it with the new iMac DV model for free. That model dumped the fan (which Jobs never liked even going back to the early days of Apple) as well as FireWire and the ability to add an AirPort card. Oh, and they released an AirPort base station in 1999 to help people get online easily. It is still one of the simplest router and wi-fi devices I've ever used. And was sleek with the new Graphite design language that would take Apple through for years on their professional devices. iMovie was a single place to load all those digital videos and turn them into something else. And there was another format on the rise, MP3. Most everyone I've ever known at Apple love music. It's in the DNA of the company, going back to Wozniak and Jobs and their love of musicians like Bob Dylan in the 1970s. The rise of the transistor radio and then the cassette and Walkman had opened our eyes to the democratization of what we could listen to as humans. But the MP3 format, which had been around since 1993, was on the rise. People were ripping and trading songs and Apple looked at a tool called Audion and another called SoundJam and decided that rather than Sherlock (or build that into the OS) that they would buy SoundJam in 2000. The new software, which they called iTunes, allowed users to rip and burn CDs easily. Apple then added iPhoto, iWeb, and iDVD. For photos, creating web sites, and making DVDs respectively. The digital hub was coming together. But there was another very important part of that whole digital hub strategy. Now that we had music on our computers we needed something more portable to listen to that music on. There were MP3 players like the Diamond Rio out there, and there had been going back to the waning days of the Digital Equipment Research Lab - but they were either clunky or had poor design or just crappy and cheap. And mostly only held an album or two. I remember walking down that isle at Fry's about once every other month waiting and hoping. But nothing good ever came.  That is, until Jobs and the Apple hardware engineering lead Job Rubinstein found Tony Fadell. He had been at General Magic, you know, the company that ushered in mobility as an industry. And he'd built Windows CE mobile devices for Philips in the Velo and Nino. But when we got him working with Jobs, Rubinstein, and Johnny Ive on the industrial design front, we got one of the most iconic devices ever made: the iPod.  And the iPod wasn't all that different on the inside from a Newton. Blasphemy I know. It sported a pair of ARM chips and Ive harkened back to simpler times when he based the design on a transistor radio. Attention to detail and the lack thereof in the Sony Diskman propelled Apple to sell more than 400 million  iPods to this day. By the time the iPod was released in 2001, Apple revenues had jumped to just shy of $8 billion but dropped back down to $5.3. But everything was about to change. And part of that was that the iPod design language was about to leak out to the rest of the products with white iBooks, white Mac Minis, and other white devices as a design language of sorts.  To sell all those iDevices, Apple embarked on a strategy that seemed crazy at the time. They opened retail stores. They hired Ron Johnson and opened two stores in 2001. They would grow to over 500 stores, and hit a billion in sales within three years. Johnson had been the VP of merchandising at Target and with the teams at Apple came up with the idea of taking payment without cash registers (after all you have an internet connected device you want to sell people) and the Genius Bar.  And generations of devices came that led people back into the stores. The G4 came along - as did faster RAM. And while Apple was updating the classic Mac operating system, they were also hard at work preparing NeXT to go across the full line of computers. They had been working the bugs out in Rhapsody and then Mac OS X Server, but the client OS, Codenamed Kodiak, went into beta in 2000 and then was released as a dual-boot option in Cheetah, in 2001. And thus began a long line of big cats, going to Puma then Jaguar in 2002, Panther in 2003, Tiger in 2005, Leopard in 2007, Snow Leopard in 2009, Lion in 2011, Mountain Lion in 2012 before moving to the new naming scheme that uses famous places in California.  Mac OS X finally provided a ground-up, modern, object-oriented operating system. They built the Aqua interface on top of it. Beautiful, modern, sleek. Even the backgrounds! The iMac would go from a gumdrop to a sleek flat panel on a metal stand, like a sunflower. Jobs and Ive are both named on the patents for this as well as many of the other inventions that came along in support of the rapid device rollouts of the day.  Jaguar, or 10.2, would turn out to be a big update. They added Address Book, iChat - now called Messages, and after nearly two decades replaced the 8-bit Happy Mac with a grey Apple logo in 2002. Yet another sign they were no longer just a computer company. Some of these needed a server and storage so Apple released the Xserve in 2002 and the Xserve RAID in 2003. The pro devices also started to transition from the grey graphite look to brushed metal, which we still use today.  Many wanted to step beyond just listening to music. There were expensive tools for creating music, like ProTools. And don't get me wrong, you get what you pay for. It's awesome. But democratizing the creation of media meant Apple wanted a piece of software to create digital audio - and released Garage Band in 2004. For this they again turned to an acquisition, EMagic, which had a tool called Logic Audio. I still use Logic to cut my podcasts. But with Garage Band they stripped it down to the essentials and released a tool that proved wildly popular, providing an on-ramp for many into the audio engineering space.  Not every project worked out. Apple had ups and downs in revenue and sales in the early part of the millennium. The G4 Cube was released in 2000 and while it is hailed as one of the greatest designs by industrial designers it was discontinued in 2001 due to low sales. But Steve Jobs had been hard at work on something new. Those iPods that were becoming the cash cow at Apple and changing the world, turning people into white earbud-clad zombies spinning those click wheels were about to get an easier way to put media into iTunes and so on the device.  The iTunes Store was released in 2003. Here, Jobs parlayed the success at Apple along with his own brand to twist the arms of executives from the big 5 record labels to finally allow digital music to be sold online. Each song was a dollar. Suddenly it was cheap enough that the music trading apps just couldn't keep up. Today it seems like everyone just pays a streaming subscription but for a time, it gave a shot in the arm to music companies and gave us all this new-found expectation that we would always be able to have music that we wanted to hear on-demand.  Apple revenue was back up to $8.25 billion in 2004. But Apple was just getting started. The next seven years would see that revenue climb from to $13.9 billion in 2005, $19.3 in 2006, $24 billion in 2007, $32.4 in 2008, $42.9 in 2009, $65.2 in 2010, and a staggering $108.2 in 2011. After working with the PowerPC chipset, Apple transitioned new computers to Intel chips in 2005 and 2006. Keep in mind that most people used desktops at the time and just wanted fast. And it was the era where the Mac was really open source friendly so having the ability to load in the best the Linux and Unix worlds had to offer for software inside projects or on servers was made all the easier. But Intel could produce chips faster and were moving faster. That Intel transition also helped with what we call the “App Gap” where applications written for Windows could be virtualized for the Mac. This helped the Mac get much more adoption in businesses. Again, the pace was frenetic. People had been almost begging Apple to release a phone for years. The Windows Mobile devices, the Blackberry, the flip phones, even the Palm Treo. They were all crap in Jobs' mind. Even the Rockr that had iTunes in it was crap. So Apple released the iPhone in 2007 in a now-iconic  Jobs presentation. The early version didn't have apps, but it was instantly one of the more saught-after gadgets. And in an era where people paid $100 to $200 for phones it changed the way we thought of the devices. In fact, the push notifications and app culture and always on fulfilled the General Magic dream that the Newton never could and truly moved us all into an always-on i (or Internet) culture. The Apple TV was also released in 2007. I can still remember people talking about Apple releasing a television at the time. The same way they talk about Apple releasing a car. It wasn't a television though, it was a small whitish box that resembled a Mac Mini - just with a different media-browsing type of Finder. Now it's effectively an app to bootstrap the media apps on a Mac.  It had been a blistering 10 years. We didn't even get into Pages, FaceTime, They weren't done just yet. The iPad was released in 2010. By then, Apple revenues exceeded those of Microsoft. The return and the comeback was truly complete.  Similar technology used to build the Apple online store was also used to develop the iTunes Store and then the App Store in 2008. Here, rather than go to a site you might not trust and download an installer file with crazy levels of permissions. One place where it's still a work in progress to this day was iTools, released in 2000 and rebranded to .Mac or dot Mac in 2008, and now called MobileMe. Apple's vision to sync all of our data between our myriad of devices wirelessly was a work in progress and never met the lofty goals set out. Some services, like Find My iPhone, work great. Others notsomuch. Jobs famously fired the team lead at one point. And while it's better than it was it's still not where it needs to be.  Steve Jobs passed away in 2011 at 56 years old. His first act at Apple changed the world, ushering in first the personal computing revolution and then the graphical interface revolution. He left an Apple that meant something. He returned to a demoralized Apple and brought digital media, portable music players, the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple TV, the iMac, the online music store, the online App Store, and so much more. The world had changed in that time, so he left, well, one more thing. You see, when they started, privacy and security wasn't much of a thing. Keep in mind, computers didn't have hard drives. The early days of the Internet after his return was a fairly save I or Internet world. But by the time he passed away there there were some troubling trends. The data on our phones and computers could weave together nearly every bit of our life to an outsider. Not only could this lead to identity theft but with the growing advertising networks and machine learning capabilities, the consequences of privacy breaches on Apple products could be profound as a society. He left an ethos behind to build great products but not at the expense of those who buy them. One his successor Tim Cook has maintained.  On the outside it may seem like the daunting 10 plus years of product releases has slowed. We still have the Macbook, the iMac, a tower, a mini, an iPhone, an iPad, an Apple TV. We now have HomeKit, a HomePod, new models of all those devices, Apple silicon, and some new headphones - but more importantly we've had to retreat a bit internally and direct some of those product development cycles to privacy, protecting users, shoring up the security model. Managing a vast portfolio of products in the largest company in the world means doing those things isn't always altruistic. Big companies can mean big law suits when things go wrong. These will come up as we cover the history of the individual devices in greater detail. The history of computing is full of stories of great innovators. Very few took a second act. Few, if any, had as impactful a first act as either that Steve Jobs had. It wasn't just him in any of these. There are countless people from software developers to support representatives to product marketing gurus to the people that write the documentation. It was all of them, working with inspiring leadership and world class products that helped as much as any other organization in the history of computing, to shape the digital world we live in today. 

Apple had made numerous attempts to sell server hardware, including a strange non-Mac server that Steve Jobs likened to a bizarre dream. But in the early 2000s, Jobs decided to take another crack at it, and vowed that this time things would be different.

Apple had made numerous attempts to sell server hardware, including a strange non-Mac server that Steve Jobs likened to a bizarre dream. But in the early 2000s, Jobs decided to take another crack at it, and vowed that this time things would be different.

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Look closely at just about any successful enterprise and you’ll see gambits they made along the way — small bets on an unclear future that, however unlikely, would produce outsized gains if they paid off. Gambit comes from the Italian gambetto, “tripping up.” It’s a device, action or opening remark, usually with some risk, that’s calculated to gain a future advantage. When you make an opening move, offer something, or start a conversation with something that seems self-sacrificing but is really a ploy for a later advantage — that’s a gambit. In chess it’s when you sacrifice a pawn in your opening move to put yourself in a position for a future move. When a gambit doesn’t work (which is usually the case), you end up losing a pawn and moving on. When a “gambit” results in losing your queen or king — that’s not a gambit. So it’s important to be able to tell what initiatives are gambits and follow rules to ensure you don’t sink the ship in pursuit of them. Fundamental asymmetry In my favorite of Nassim Taleb’s books, Antifragile, he writes about “fundamental asymmetry,” which happens when risks and rewards are out of balance. He offers the example of a dinner party invitation: If you go, the worst-case scenario is that the food and company are lousy and you waste a few hours; and the best-case scenario is that you meet your future wife. When you go to the dinner party to expand the boundaries of what you know to be possible (in this case, in your love life) — that’s a gambit. Bullet, bullet, cannonball In his follow-up to Good to Great, author Jim Collins advises companies to “fire bullets, then cannonballs.” Bullets are like gambits: low-cost, low-risk, low-distraction experiments to figure out what will work. According to Collins, companies gain a line of sight by taking small shots. Once they have a calibrated line of sight (empirical validation of their test), they fire the cannonball: They concentrate resources into one big bet. Collins uses Apple as an example: There was iTunes for Mac, then the iPod, then the iTunes music store. Bullet, bullet, bullet. Then came the cannonball: the iPhone. That’s not quite right, though. I see them all as bullets: Apple achieved an improved position with the iPod and iTunes and fired more bullets in that direction, producing the iPhone. We just happen to remember the bullets that worked — and forget about the other 50+ products Apple launched between the iPod (2001) and iPhone (2007). We forget about Xserve. Infinite game In The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek writes about approaching business like there are no boundaries. Whatever map you’re holding is far too limited, because things are changing and expanding in ways that you don’t understand.  You’ve got to continually explore the boundaries of what’s possible. If you aren’t constantly looking around to see where those edges are, you’ll find yourself stuck in a very small space that you’ve imagined. Meanwhile, people around you will be operating in a different world without the artificial constraints you place on yourself. Gambits, by definition, are unlikely to succeed. But they will improve your map of the territory and help you get oriented. Gambit - Feedback - Iterate  Successful companies take gambits to get a basic map of the territory. Once they have the map, then they iterate. For example, Apple produced 24 versions of the iPod; so far they’ve built 25 versions of the iPhone. The gambit is for invention and understanding. Iteration happens once you figure out how to capture the value of the market. It requires organizational discipline. It’s tinkering, making something better within a roughly known context. At Royalty Exchange, we don’t really know what our product or marketplace will look like in the long term, but we know much more than we did four years ago because of the gambits we’ve taken. We’ve tested ideas knowing they’ll likely fail. Even when they “fail,” we learn something. When they work, they change the trajectory of our business. I think of every one of our hires as a gambit — each time we’re not fully sure where it will go. Growth hacking vs. gambits Gambits and growth hacking can look alike because they are similar in some ways. But they are different. Similarities: Look for new ways to grow. Put out ideas or products, get feedback, and adjust.  Differences: Growth hacking is mostly direct response marketing — it’s about optimization.  Gambits are non-linear bets designed to discover what might be possible. Growth hacking answers: How do we sell this?  A gambit invents the future. Explore — but don’t overreach The key is making gambits work is twofold:  1) Gambits are exploratory. They should expand the overton window, to shed light on what’s possible. When they work, gambits provide a set of keys that might unlock that future. 2) Never overreach. Never bet the farm. You build great companies by taking smart gambits and creating the environment for success. You’re not putting the company on the line with moonshot attempts. Rather, find the smallest step you can take to start exploring some new areas. When calculating the cost of the undertaking, remember it’s the actual dollar cost and the time and energy it takes you. If you can move fast on a low-risk gambit, often it’s worth it.  Create a hypothesis about the future — then test it Create a hypothesis about the way the future might be, and then test it. Ask yourself: “What is the smallest thing I can do to test my hypothesis?” A gambit can be a small advertising campaign to see what customers respond to, or a new hire in an area your company hasn’t explored before. Try something small and then look for a signal. One of the best features of a gambit is that you get feedback very quickly. You put something small out and then you essentially look for any type of positive validation you can find.  If you put out a small advertising campaign, are people talking about your company? If you made a new hire, are they changing the dynamic of your team in any noticeable way? If there’s no signal coming back, then the lack of signal is in itself negative feedback. Either the idea was bad or the execution was bad. In either case, it’s time to readjust and make your next move.

Todays episode is on one of the topics I am probably the most intimate with that we'll cover: the evolution of the Apple servers and then the rapid pivot towards a much more mobility-focused offering. Early Macs in 1984 shipped with AppleTalk. These could act as a server or workstation. But after a few years, engineers realized that Apple needed a dedicated server platform. Apple has had a server product starting in 1987 that lives on to today. At Ease had some file and print sharing options. But the old AppleShare (later called AppleShare IP server was primarily used to provide network resources to the Mac from 1986 to 2000, with file sharing being the main service offered. There were basically two options. At Ease, which ran on the early Mac operating systems and A/UX, or Apple Unix. This brought paged memory management and could run on the Macintosh II through the Centris Macs. Apple Unix shipped from 1988 to 1995 and had been based on System V. It was a solidly performing TCP/IP machine and introduced the world of POSIX. Apple Unix could emulate Mac apps and once you were under the hood, you could do pretty much anything you might do in another Unix environment. Apple also took a stab at early server hardware in the form of the Apple Network Server, which was announced in 1995 when Apple Unix went away, for the Quadra 950 and a PowerPC server sold from 1996 to 1997, although the name was used all the way until 2003. While these things were much more powerful and came with modern hardware, they didn't run the Mac OS but ran another Unix type of operating system, AIX, which had begun life at about the same time as Apple Unix and was another System V variant, but had much more work done and given financial issues at Apple and the Taligent relationship between Apple and IBM to build a successor to Mac OS and OS/2, it made sense to work together on the project. Meanwhile, At Ease continued to evolve and Apple eventually shipped a new offering in the form of AppleShare IP, which worked up until 9.2.2. In an era before, as an example, you needed to require SMTP authentication, AppleShare IP was easily used for everything from file sharing services to mail services. An older Quadra made for a great mail server so your company could stop paying an ISP for some weird email address like that AOL address you got in college, and get your own domain in 1999! And if you needed more, you could easily slap some third party software on the hosts, like if you actually wanted SMTP authentication so your server didn't get used to route this weird thing called spam, you could install Communigator or later Communigate Pro. Keep in mind that many of the engineers from NeXT after Steve Jobs left Apple had remained friends with engineers from Apple. Some still actually work at Apple. Serving services was a central need for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP systems. The UNIX underpinnings made it possible to compile a number of open source software packages and the first web server was hosted by Tim Berners Lee on a NeXTcube. During the transition over to Apple, AppleShare IP and services from NeXT were made to look and feel similarly and turned into Rhapsody from around 1999 and then Mac OS X Server from around 2000. The first few releases of Mac OS X Server, represented a learning curve for many classic Apple admins, and in fact caused a generational shift in who administered the systems. John Welch wrote books in 2000 and 2002 that helped administrators get up to speed. The Xserve was released in 2002 and the Xserve RAID was released in 2003. It took time, but a community began to form around these products. The Xserve would go from a G3 to a G4. The late Michael Bartosh compiled a seminal work in “Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration” for O'Reilly Media in 2005. I released my first book called The Mac Tiger Server Black Book in 2006. The server was enjoying a huge upswing in use. Schoun Regan and Kevin White wrote a Visual QuickStart for Panther Server. Schoun wrote one for Tiger Server. The platform was growing. People were interested. Small businesses, schools, universities, art departments in bigger companies. The Xserve would go from a G4 to an Intel processor and we would get cluster nodes to offload processing power from more expensive servers. Up until this point, Apple never publicly acknowledged that businesses or enterprises used their device so the rise of the Xserve advertising was the first time we saw that acknowledgement. Apple continued to improve the product with new services up until 2009 with Mac OS X Server 10.6. At this point, Apple included most services necessary for running a standard IT department for small and medium sized business in the product, including web (in the form of Apache), mail, groupware, DHCP, DNS, directory services, file sharing, and even web and wiki services. There were also edge case services such as Podcast Producer for automating video and content workflows, Xsan, a clustered file system, and in 2009 even purchased a company called Artbox, whose product was rebranded as Final Cut Server. Apple now had multiple awesome, stable products. Dozens of books and websites were helping built a community and growing knowledge of the platform. But that was a turning point. Around that same time Apple had been working towards the iPad, released in 2010 (although arguably the Knowledge Navigator was the first iteration, conceptualized in 1987). The skyrocketing sales of the iPhone led to some tough decisions. Apple no longer needed to control the whole ecosystem with their server product and instead began transitioning as many teams as possible to work on higher profit margin areas, reducing focus on areas that took attention away from valuable software developers who were trying to solve problems many other vendors had already solved better. In 2009 the Xserve RAID was discontinued and the Xserve went away the following year. By then, the Xserve RAID was lagging and for the use cases it served, there were other vendors whose sole focus was storage - and who Apple actively helped point customers towards. Namely the Promise array for Xsan. A few things that were happening around the same time. Apple could have bought Sun for less than 10% of their CASH reserves in 2010 but instead allowed Oracle to buy the tech giant. Instead, Apple released the iPad. Solid move. They also released the Mac Mini server, which while it lacked rack and stack options like an ipmi interface to remotely reboot the server and dual power supplies, was actually more powerful. The next few years saw services slowly pealed off the server. Today, the Mac OS X Server product has been migrated to just an app on the App Store. Today, macOS Server is meant to run Profile Manager and be run as a metadata controller for Xsan, Apple's clustered file system. Products that used to compete with the platform are now embraced by most in the community. For the most part, this is because Apple let Microsoft or Linux-based systems own the market for providing features that are often unique to each enterprise and not about delighting end users. Today building server products that try to do everything for everyone seems like a distant memory for many at Apple. But there is still a keen eye towards making the lives of the humans that use Apple devices better, as has been the case since Steve Jobs mainstreamed the GUI and Apple made the great user experience advocate Larry Tesler their Chief Scientist. How services make a better experience for end users can be seen by the Caching service built into macOS (moved there from macOS Server) and how some products, such as Apple Remote Desktop, are still very much alive and kicking. But the focus on profile management and the desire to open up everything Profile Manager can do to third party developers who serve often niche markets or look more to scalability is certainly front and center. I think this story of the Apple Server offering is really much more about Apple branching into awesome areas that they needed to be at various points in time. Then having a constant focus on iterating to a better, newer offering. Growing with the market. Helping the market get to where they needed them to be. Serving the market and then when the needs of the market can be better served elsewhere, pulling back so other vendors could serve the market. Not looking to grow a billion dollar business unit in servers - but instead looking to provide them just until they didn't need to. In many ways Apple paved the way for billion dollar businesses to host services. And the SaaS ecosystem is as vibrant for the Apple platform as ever. My perspective on this has changed a lot over the years. As someone who wrote a lot of books about the topic I might have been harsh at times. But that's one great reason not to be judgmental. You don't always know the full picture and it's super-easy to miss big strategies like that when you're in the middle of it. So thank you to Apple for putting user experience into servers as with everything you do. And thank you listeners for tuning into this episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We're certainly lucky to have you and hope you join us next time!

Ep 124FU: Dragan Milovanović o dugotrajnosti iPada:Imam iPad 2 64 GB + GSM koji koristim za slušanje muzike i podkasta...Ako nisam umislio, povezan na pojačalo daje mi bolji zvuk od iPad 6th gen. i iPhone 6s i često sam ga koristio. Sim karticu u njemu nisam koristio godinama i davno je blokirana.Nedavno mi je iz čistog mira tražio aktivaciju i nije hteo da se aktivira po proceduri.U poslednjem podkastu sam čuo da i tvoj drug Miki ima isti problem, a na Netu sam našao još slučajeva. Danas sam probao aktivaciju nekoliko puta po ovom receptu bez rezultata:https://support.apple.com/en-ph/HT206214https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250492364Uvek je procedura trajala značajno preko navedenih 15 minuta i ponovo bih bio na početku.Na kraju sam odustao i eksperimenta radi sam iPad povezan na Mac probao da aktiviram bez povezivanja na WiFi, tj izabrao sam opciju aktivacije preko iTunes-a (nema veze što nemam iTunes na Catalina) i čudo se desilo! Uređaj se trenutno aktivirao i sada sve radi kao da cele ove zavrzlame nije bilo.Sim karticu sam pre celog postupka izvadio po Mikijevom savetu, ali mislim da nije bilo ni potrebe, jer me je na kraju aktivacije iPad pitao da li želim da nastavim bez sim kartice što sam izabrao. Da ne zaboravim da sam nekom momentu trebao da se ulogujem na svoj iCloud nalog.Dva puta je vaskrsavao iz mrtvih, sada još i ovo kada sam mislio da je kraj. Ovaj iPad je neuništiv!FU: Arheologija iz analognog doba: Bajagin poklon singl iz 1985FU Zoltan Kubat:@Aleksandre, ja sam takodje menjao tastaturu, ali sam kupio Keychron K2 10 key less :)Link: https://www.keychron.com/collections/keyboardOdusevljen sam sa istom, uzeo sam model RGB, samo zato sto ima metalni frame, sa Cherry MX Blue switche-vima. Jako su glasni :) Jako mi se svidjaju.Takodje mi se jako svidelo ovo NVME resenje za externi M.2 drive, i ja cu ga poruciti, samo se nadam se da necu imati problema sa postom.@Milane, spominjali ste Xserve. Mozda Vam ovo bude interesantno:Pratim jednog MacOldschoolasha: http://www.stayornay.com/mac84/retro.htmlIma na sajtu gomilu stvari koje mislim da ce ti biti interesantne.Poslednji video mu je Live popravka Xserve G5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxVndMjSZAE&t=11531sSve pohvale za vas dvoje, sve najbolje i da vas slusam jos dugo!VestiMiloš javi da se pojavila zvanična BusPlus app za iOS.Apple izbacio Swift Playgrounds app za Mac.Mac360 prestaje sa radom zbog ozbiljne bolesti autora.In memoriamLarry Tesler nas je napustio.Mnogo lepih stvari rečeno o čoveku, evo nekoliko tvitova: Chris Espinosa, Mitch Kapor, Chris Espinosa, Tom ConradSoftwareMiroslav Petrović i muke po emailuStopTheMadnessiPad, za posao: editovanje podcasta u Ferriteu koristeći Apple Pencil – Jason SnelliPad, za knjige: It Shall Come to PassForumApple: the services company?Tyler Hall o istom utisku o modernom Appleu.HwAlek završio (eh…) sklapanje Hackintosh računara.Sumiramo šta valja i šta su problemi.ZanimljivostiTesseract – Bartosz CiechanowskiZahvalniceSnimljeno 22.2.2020.Uvodna muzika by Vladimir Tošić, stari sajt je ovde.Logotip by Aleksandra IlićArtwork episode50 x 70 cm , ulje na platnu , 2020.by Saša Montiljo, njegov kutak na Devianartu.

We follow up on the Xserve height, W-8BEN, and the Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter. YouTube Music/Premium has 20 million paying subscribers. Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate. Beyond the Valley book. Apple updates iCloud.com with a proper mobile website for iOS and Android. (Hypothetical) Multitasking fix for iPadOS 14. Apple wants to standardize the format of SMS OTPs (one-time passcodes). Swift.org - Introducing Swift Crypto. Dashlane's Super Bowl Ad Proves Password Managers Have Arrived. Apple adds ability for developers to sell Mac and iOS apps as a single purchase. Picks: Never roll your own crypto, and there's even less reason to do that now while using Swift!. I made a teaser video for my side project Timelane. swift-doc: Generates documentation for Swift projects. APNS now available (as sim) in simulators. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.

Ep 122In memoriamGary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer, dies at 81 - The Washington PostFUVladislav Jevremović javio da provera serijskih brojeva još uvek radi.Svašta neštoMikijev drug Jay ima problema sa Microsot Edge-om na Macu.Alek pomenuo chromium based Brave browser.Brian Stucki na sedmom nebu :). Evo poređenje sa počivšim XServe-om.Daring Fireball: The FBI Used a GrayKey to Obtain Data From a Locked iPhone 11 Pro MaxDaring Fireball: Regarding Reuters’s Report That Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting iCloud BackupsZanimljiva prepiska Josh Avanta i ruskog ElcomSofta na datu temu.Rene Riči ima odličnu epizodu svog video podkasta o tome.Fun With Charts: A decade of Apple growth – Six ColorsGodina u kojoj smo uništili srpski ITMiki pronašao interesantan font: Lazar 1389 fontAko se baterija na MBP-u u Catalini troši preko noći, proverite šta radi WiFi.Neki hardverJoy Duo na KickstarteruAleku stigao Thunderbolt 3 NVMe SSD enclosurei Matias 10-key-less Wireless Aluminum keyboardZanimljivostiJedan od najjačih priloga ikada sada ima i konvertor “jedinica”.Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People PodcastThe One Remaining Use of the Word “Macintosh” - TidBITSiPod projekat je stigao od početka do kraja za nekih 10 meseci.Search Results for “Time Machine” – The Eclectic Light CompanyThe Apple Archive, nije dugo poživeo. Sam: “was a hell of a week and three days, guys”ZahvalniceSnimljeno 26.01.2020.Uvodna muzika by Vladimir Tošić, stari sajt je ovde.Logotip by Aleksandra IlićArtwork episode by Saša Montiljo, njegov kutak na Devianartu.

Nya sätt att busa med en olåst Mac Innebandy-tisdag. Jocke trasig. Jocke säljer datorer. Känner ingen större tomhet - sjuk? Drama hos Postnord-ombudet Jocke är arg på Klarna men det är hans eget fel Jocke jagar analog telefon Framtiden för Delta City BBS Fredrik funderar på ett MIXERBORD. Vad ska han köpa? BBS-nytt: Nikom får massor av coola uppdateringar Vad ska man prova med sina nya move-kontroller? Hejdå till grannkatten Larson - världens elakaste, och coolaste, katt Fedora 29, en vecka senare. Mindre lek, mer allvar, en hel del buggar. Jocke tror han måste köpa ett grafikkort … eller hitta bättre drivare Chipstips: “Rockig chili och ingefära” (OLW) - och en UTMANING! Fria Ligan lanserar mer - Hindenburg överträffar som vanligt alla uppsatta mål Länkar Rosa kanin-tornado Reaplan SGI O2 DECT-telefon Dorophone easy Doro 901c Gottröra Delta city Orter där analoga nätet läggs ner eller har lagts ner Ett fint mixerbord FS-UAE Nikom Sklaffkom VAX VMS Söderkom Easykom Harald Fragner Nikom på Github Mystic Move-kontroller Beat saber Transvibratorn till Rez Rez Synestesi Artikeln om transvibratorn, med men inte av Justin Hall Justin Hall Populous Populous: the beginning Maine coon jagar räv Voodoo3 Pwsafe Atom Visual studio code Mesa Hot shots! Rockig chili och ingefära Taylors & Jones welsh dragon Crusti croc inferno Chip’s challenge S’more Fria ligans kickstarter för Hindenburg Två nördar - en podcast. Fredrik Björeman och Joacim Melin diskuterar allt som gör livet värt att leva. Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-154-en-xserve-med-emballage.html.

Skip Levens is currently the Director of Product Marketing at Backblaze, the cloud storage and backup company. He’s very experienced in brand marketing and technology evangelism. Skip is a former U.S. Marine. After leaving the Marines, Skip went to work for Alain Pinel, a real estate company that embraced the NeXT computer, and that launched his successful crusade to work for Apple. We chatted about Skip’s work at Apple in early internet technologies, then Developer Relations that involved him with supercomputers. We explored the rise and fall of Apple’s Xserve and Xserve RAID as well as the evolution of his expertise in storage technology at Active Storage, Quantum, Symply Storage and now Backblaze. You can’t have more geek fun than this show.

Johannes und Bastian geben einen kurzen Abriss über Ihre Kundenperspektive beim PC-Kauf. Eine Debatte über die Diversität an Betriebssystemen kommt inclusive. Unix https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Xserve https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Apple-stellt-Xserve-ein-1131295.html

Vårt etthundrade avsnitt med vår särskilde gäst och vän Christian Åhs. 05:29: Jocke tvingar Fredrik att starta iTunes 10:45: Hassel - en helhjärtad sågning 15:56: Bamseskum 16:29: Löpning med Apple watch 21:51: Det mest lyssnade avsnittet 25:20: Långa avsnitt 27:16: Hur podden började 30:32: Diabetes och världsdiabetesdagen 39:43: Google och filtrering av sökresultat 53:03: Hur man använder Xservrar 57:28: Företagspodd mot betalning 1:13:10: Øredev och Imogen Heaps handskar 1:21:07: Vad tycker lyssnarna om podden? 1:41:11: Burgarsnack och annat i podden 1:48:44: Det är svårt att få tidningar gjorda Länkar Christian Åhs Byword Vi har vapen, vi har planer Resan till Melonia Datormagazin retro #2 Hassel Bamesmums Fredriks inlägg om ringarna VO2-max Rådanäs ekologisk vinterbajer Ostindiska ölkompaniet Naanpizza Appsnack Avsnitt 12: Accidental Appsnack Avsnitt 50: En vallgrav runt pixel Avsnitt 60: Intryck från Östersund Avsnitt 79: Ett Wii i Spånga Avsnitt 92: 99-allt möjligt Avsnitt 1: Alla borde ha en Amiga Världsdiabetesdagen - 14 november Viafree Ett beställningsjobb från TCO - Avsnittet där vi pratade om glukosmätare CGM - kontinuerlig glukosmätare Nightscout USB-OTG Dexcom Open APS Google jobbar på kontaktlins som mäter blodsocker “Är det dags att sluta lita på Google?” GDPR Chill in - Två feta grisar Unraid på Xserve Cisco-väntmusik Businesspodden Stajlplejs Øredev Slagthuset Imogen Heap Imogens coola handskar Julian Togelius presentation om att utveckla AI för att spela och utveckla spel har inte släppts än Det AI-designade spelet, nämns i videon som inte släppts än Dugges Avenyn ale Nörd:igt “Jobbpodden” - Under utveckling Microsoft är värda en chans Saker min far lärt mig - julmatsavsnittet år 2015 Steve Jobs-filmen Skånsk mögrouter 99% invisible Welcome to Macintosh Hindenburg En podd om teknik Korv united Kjell Yoda Jag har fortfarande läsk i mitt tangentbord Becksvart, jättesvart och gagatsvart Trailern för säsong 2 av Westworld Star wars julspecial Tolkienpodden Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-100-data-data-data-ol-ol-data-data-data.html.

En byggrapport från Stockholm, en frysrapport från Göteborg och en mysig diskussion av grafikkort. Ett spännande mjukvarupaket för Raspberry pi 3 på Kickstarter ger sköna retrovibbar. Läskiga måltider och oväntat goda kedjeburgare. Klusterbyggande och oväntade saker man kan göra med kod i Playgrounds på IOS. APFs (pling!) är live på alla IOS-enheter. Vissa saker kan Apple helt klart fortfarande. Jocke har äntligen sett Rogue one och har välunderbyggda åsikter. Spoilerhornet ljuder vid 55:28 Länkar SvD-krönikan Elisabet Andersson – reporter och krönikör på SvD kultur Kungsträdgården Sergels torg NK Norrmalmstorg IT provider Terry K bodde på kontoret i 500 dagar – i Los Angeles Radeon 5770 Radeon HD 6950 Breeeda skärmar Geforce 2 Voodoo2 Voodoo3 Soundblaster Voodoo 5 Dreamliner Amy creative system for Raspberry pi 3 Deluxe paint Voxel Vangers: one for the road – ett av världens konstigaste bilspel Jan Stenbeck och Leif GW Persson åt ibland … en del Steve Troughton-Smith En playground för IOS som aktiverar flytande tangentbord Köp en Xserve av Jocke! APFS – Apples nya filsystem HFS+ Rogue one Ingvild Delia spelade Leia i Rogue one Den makalösa om Rogue one Två nördar - en podcast. Fredrik Björeman och Joacim Melin diskuterar allt som gör livet värt att leva. Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-71-forr-i-tiden-var-det-ju-drama-att-byta-filsystem.html.

Herrar Melin och Björeman värmer upp julförberedelserna med inledande julmatsdiskussioner. Sedan snackar vi VR! Fredrik har provat Playstation VR och vi pratar såväl konkreta intryck av det som möjliga mörka framtidsvisioner. Kommer VR att bli nästa stora grej, ta världen med storm och isolera oss alla? Sedan besvarar vi lite läsarpost om maskiner att utveckla för Apple-hårdvara på, diskuterar hur mycket Jockes test av Linux, Windows och icke-Mac-bärbara ligger i tiden och avslutar med lite mer ordentliga maskiner, som SAN-burkar, gamla Xserve och förstås Amiga 1200. Två nördar - en podcast. Fredrik Björeman och Joacim Melin diskuterar allt som gör livet värt att leva. Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-54-vi-ar-anda-sociala-djur.html.

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Modelos de Macs compatibles:MacBook Air (finales del 2008 o posterior)MacBook aluminio (finales del 2008 o posterior)MacBook Pro (mediados del 2007 o posterior)iMac (mediados del 2007 o posterior)Mac mini (inicios del 2009 o posterior)Mac Pro (inicios del 2008 o posterior)Xserve (inicios del 2009)

Modelos de Macs compatibles:MacBook Air (finales del 2008 o posterior)MacBook aluminio (finales del 2008 o posterior)MacBook Pro (mediados del 2007 o posterior)iMac (mediados del 2007 o posterior)Mac mini (inicios del 2009 o posterior)Mac Pro (inicios del 2008 o posterior)Xserve (inicios del 2009)

This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni's lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Gus Mueller, Flying Meat founder, created VoodooPad (now at Plausible Labs) and Acorn, the image editor for humans. Gus is also responsible for open source software such as FMDB and JSTalk. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. Better still: go work for Squarespace! They're hiring 30 engineers and designers by March 15, and, “When you interview at Squarespace, we'll invite you and your spouse or partner to be New Yorkers for a weekend—on us.” The great designers at Squarespace have designed an entire weekend for you, from dining at Alder to going to the Smalls Jazz Club and visiting The New Museum. Seriously cool deal at beapartofit.squarespace.com. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Write code — Javascript code — in your favorite text editor on your Mac. (Mobile Services runs Node.js.) Deploy via git. Write unit tests using mocha (or your tool of choice). Supports authenticating via Twitter, Facebook, and Google — and you can roll your own system. It's cool. Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less): Rock climbing Luke Adamson Missouri 2001 2002 Cocoa Apple IIc 1993 Mac Color Classic BASIC ELIZA Artificial Intelligence Assembler Missile Command Java Eric Albert Perl Animated GIFs CGIs Server push images REALBasic PC Apple IIe DOS Colossal Caves Plover Nibble Civilization UNIX AIX A/UX St. Louis Columbia Math is hard Single sign-on Servlets OS X WWDC Rhapsody 1995 MacPERL NiftyTelnet BBEdit FlySketch Coffee Picasso's bull sketches VoodooPad 22" Cinema Display OS X Innovator's Award O'Reilly Peter Lewis Rich Siegel Mark Aldritt Ambrosia Panic Transmit Audion O'Reilly Mac OS Conference Audio Hijack Paul Kafasis SubEthaEdit Mac Pro Ireland XML PDF Victoria's Secret Caterpillar Adobe InDesign OS X Server Xserve Macintosh G5 MacUpdate VersionTracker QuickDraw Kerberos HyperCard Objective-C messaging system Aaron Hillegass's book Java-Cocoa bridge JDBC Oracle databases 2005 Seattle Microsoft Parents Just Don't Understand Vancouver, BC B.B. King Seattle Xcoders Joe Heck University of Missouri Evening at Adler Wil Shipley Daniel Jalkut Eric Peyton Quicksilver Rosyna Chicago Drunkenbatman Adler Planetarium C4 Wolf Colin Barrett Delicious Generation Disco.app My Dream App Chimera / Camino Santa Clara World Wrapps Buzz Andersen Quartz Core Image Filters Bezier curves Wacom Unit tests Automated builds ZeroLink Metrowerks CodeWarrior NeXT BeOS Macintosh Performa Display Postscript SGIs Sun boxes Mac OS 8 MachTen Netscape Internet Explorer for Mac OS Outlook Express OmniGroup Shakespeare's pizza Pagliacci Neapolitan pizza Everett FIOS Fender Stratocaster GarageBand AudioBus Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Elements JSTalk AppleScript SQLite WebKit Napkin

This episode was recorded 15 May 2013 live and in person at The Omni Group's lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes or subscribe to the podcast feed. Luke Adamson is a founder of Toy Rockets. He's a former instructor at the University of Washington's iOS and Mac certificate program and a former developer at The Omni Group (where, among other things, he helped create OmniOutliner). This episode is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Does your app need online services? Syncing? Storage? Mobile Services is the easiest way to get started. Create your own APIs. Write your code using JavaScript (Mobile Services runs Node.js). Store data in a SQL database and/or in blob storage. Develop using your favorite text editor and terminal app on your favorite computer — a Mac. And never ever worry about applying security patches to a server. A trial account is free. Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly): Gophers Idaho Meth Maze War Boise State U Nextstation UUCP HP Usenet Commodore 64 BASIC Pascal Objective-C C++ Win16 AppKit Foundation NSString University of Idaho The Omni Group Texas A&M OmniWeb OmniPDF WebObjects Lighthouse Design Diagram! Quantrix Wainscoting EOF Standard & Poor's Mitsubishi Toyota McCaw Cellular Oracle 8 Craig Federighi Bruce Arthur Solaris Sybase G4 Ireland Quake HP-UX Doom John Carmack Java BeOS Adobe PowerPC Power Computing Webscript Lisp Swing Toolkit AWT Ken Case Tim Wood Wil Shipley Greg Titus Andrew Abernathy Tom Bunch Retrospect Steve Nygard Class-dump OmniOutliner Visio Rhapsody OmniGraffle Illustrator Mazda RX-7 FrontBase Denmark Cinema Displays TiBook Everett, Washington Blue hair Sub-prime mortgages Bear Stearns Deutsche Bank Credit Suisse Internap Xserve Ubermind Deloitte Digital Societe General India iOS Jailbroken iPhones Lucas Newman

Facebook apps leak personal information, we say goodbye to the Sony Walkman, and much more. Enjoy. You can now visit our Facebook page... ...and our Twitter feed: @TechNightRadio Direct Download of Episode 106 Subscribe with iTunes Subscribe via RSS This week... Google points finger at Facebook hypocrisy, blocks Gmail import - http://bit.ly/oPGsbM Facebook acquires FB domain name - http://bit.ly/oKNMXt Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday - http://tcrn.ch/q8ymyI Apple Kills the XServe - http://bit.ly/mUggex "Horde of piratical monkeys" creates LimeWire: Pirate Edition - http://bit.ly/qnFvcU Firefox Beta -...the new one's FAST - http://lifehac.kr/q0hksD Xbox used for games only 60 percent of the time - http://cnet.co/oqclEY Google Offers Staff Engineer $3.5 Million To Turn Down Facebook Offer - http://tcrn.ch/pVJSd9 37 Japanese Publishers to Launch N. American Manga Portal - http://bit.ly/ph24rJ Why americans don't want internet - http://bit.ly/p7gHvJ

This episode was originally recorded and produced as a "Proof of Concept".  That's why we called it "Episode .1", or to ad a British twist, "Episode Half-One", or would that be "Half-Twelve"?At any rate, in this episode, Jonathan Calloway interviewed Rusty Myers about Deploy Studio; we had a roundtable discussion with the Talking Mac Enterprise audience about the demise of the XServe and what it means to the Mac enterprise community.  Finally, Jonathan Calloway interviewed Jodi Rodgers from Adobe about AAMEE, and other deployment and update tools.By the way, Thanks to Ed Marczak for the killer intro music and 'tweens'! Show Notes:Deploy Studio in 20 Minutes - Since this episode was orignally going to be produced in video rather than audio, Rus came prepared with a Keynote presentation.DeployStudio in 20 Minutes - Originally intended for video production!DeployStudio GuideSlides from Rusty's presentation at MacWorld 2011Contact RustyCreative Suite Enterprise Deployment Site (AAMEE download and documentation pageAdobe Out of Box Experience (OOBE) Blog:AAMEE walk-through on Adobe TV:And just for fun. . .Low End Mac: Macintosh Serial Throughput

  James and John discuss eBay Finds: Apple Opus t-shirt, interesting poster, and an abused Xserve. They walk you through the making of an Apple logo lamp, and news includes the first Steve Jobs TV appearance and the new Apple 2 podcast, Open Apple. To see all of the show notes and join our website, visit us at RetroMacCast.  

A long and winding show across the universe of Mac Topics. John Blagden joins the G-Men and gives us quite a lesson on what Mac Pros want from their hardware, ESPECIALLY the now-canceled XServe. Gaz seeks and finds some help for his MacBook and Guy has grown to hate his current iMac for NOT running GarageBand properly. The Beatles are now on iTunes and after all this time, how big a deal is it really?

В выпуске: Xserve уходит в прошлое, прирост производительности в новых MacBook Air, iWork'11 в Mac App Store, старт продаж Apple iPad в России, выход HD-версии браузера Skyfire, очередное обновление операционной системы от Apple, обзоры программ для MacOS и iOS-устройств. В программе: — Xserve уходит в прошлое. — 15% прирост с кастомным MBA. — iWork’11 может появиться с Mac App Store. — iPad в России теперь официально. — Skyfire скоро появится на iPad. — Mac OS X 10.6.5 доступна пользователем. — Программа недели для Maс OS X: GoodSync. — iПриложения недели — Большие машины, фото эффекты под рукой и упрощаем жизнь.

В выпуске: Xserve уходит в прошлое, прирост производительности в новых MacBook Air, iWork'11 в Mac App Store, старт продаж Apple iPad в России, выход HD-версии браузера Skyfire, очередное обновление операционной системы от Apple, обзоры программ для MacOS и iOS-устройств. В программе: — Xserve уходит в прошлое. — 15% прирост с кастомным MBA. — iWork’11 может появиться с Mac App Store. — iPad в России теперь официально. — Skyfire скоро появится на iPad. — Mac OS X 10.6.5 доступна пользователем. — Программа недели для Maс OS X: GoodSync. — iПриложения недели — Большие машины, фото эффекты под рукой и упрощаем жизнь.

В выпуске: Xserve уходит в прошлое, прирост производительности в новых MacBook Air, iWork'11 в Mac App Store, старт продаж Apple iPad в России, выход HD-версии браузера Skyfire, очередное обновление операционной системы от Apple, обзоры программ для MacOS и iOS-устройств. В программе: — Xserve уходит в прошлое. — 15% прирост с кастомным MBA. — iWork’11 может появиться с Mac App Store. — iPad в России теперь официально. — Skyfire скоро появится на iPad. — Mac OS X 10.6.5 доступна пользователем. — Программа недели для Maс OS X: GoodSync. — iПриложения недели — Большие машины, фото эффекты под рукой и упрощаем жизнь.

Christina and Dan discuss Windows Phone 7, the death of the Xserve and Angry Birds stuffed animals. They also talk about Magic Fiddle for the iPad. Recorded live with video.

John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discuss user agent strings, Flash, the Verizon iPad, the MacBook Air, iPad updates, the Xserve, Apple's iPhone schedule, proximity sensors, and the original Transformers.

Interview with John Welch about Apple's Cancellation of the Xserve

James and John discuss eBay Finds: Apple settop box, Apple 10-year pin, and Picasso Macintosh towel. The Retro Mac of the Week is the JLPGA PowerBook 170, and news includes a linux powered SE and the end of Xserve. To see all of the show notes and join our website, visit us at RetroMacCast.

Joined by Bruce and Cindee Naylor, Apple Discontinues the XServe, Skype 5.0 BETA for the Mac is released, UK Copyright laws to be reviewed and Europe simulates a total cyber war.

001: Apple Xserve http://www.archive.org/download/ZacharyReidell001_AppleXserve/001AppleXserve.mp3 Advertisements

back from hell and ready to drop bombs. Final Cut Server, Xserve & other nonsense.

Xserve light, No savings with DST, US teen jailed for DST mistake, WEP cracked in seconds, Securing Wi-Fi, Windows Home Server Beta 2, Color Computer 3, Osborne 1, Apple and EMI offer DRM free music, IBM doubles CPU cooling, Vonage, Wireless USB hub via 802.11g, DisplayPort, Serial ATA, Mac switchers, Leopard delayed to October, PostSecret

Xserve light, No savings with DST, US teen jailed for DST mistake, WEP cracked in seconds, Securing Wi-Fi, Windows Home Server Beta 2, Color Computer 3, Osborne 1, Apple and EMI offer DRM free music, IBM doubles CPU cooling, Vonage, Wireless USB hub via 802.11g, DisplayPort, Serial ATA, Mac switchers, Leopard delayed to October, PostSecret

Daylight Savings, California Energy Commission, Full Spectrum CFL, Lab delpoyment, Macenterprise.org, Vista image install, Windows Automated Installation Kit, Novell ZENworks Suite, hdiutil, Xserve, Vista activation with Paradox, ACPI - SLIC (Wiki), Ballmer blames pirates, Office 20007 Compatibility Pack, Free online Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Joost, Nine Inch Nails 'Survivalism' for GarageBand

Daylight Savings, California Energy Commission, Full Spectrum CFL, Lab delpoyment, Macenterprise.org, Vista image install, Windows Automated Installation Kit, Novell ZENworks Suite, hdiutil, Xserve, Vista activation with Paradox, ACPI - SLIC (Wiki), Ballmer blames pirates, Office 20007 Compatibility Pack, Free online Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Joost, Nine Inch Nails 'Survivalism' for GarageBand