With the release of Leoaprd many people have started to use Time Machine. Yet, when it runs in the background, it slows down your machine’s performance. Especially when you work with real-time applications like FCP, it can lead to dropped frames when it runs.

So better than setting it to automatic

More and more shops update their Xsan environments to Leopard server and client and Xsan 2.

While this is quite easy, I’ve got some customers who want to replace their existing Apple Xserve RAIDs with 4Gb, redundant-controllers PROMISE RAIDs at the same time.

I choose the following way to do the whole

When you create a second (third, fourth,…) storage pool in your Xsan volume and use the Apple Xsan 2 certified Promise RAIDs, you might only want to create data LUNs on these RAIDs, as you already store your metadata for this volume somewhere else.

Apple and Promise provide you with config

On the second of June I will present some really cool Mac OS X “Hacks”, which means tips and tricks how to do stuff with Mac OS X that you would not expect to be possible.

Read more about it at http://www.lob.de/haus-hardenberg?ref=02062080.

Hope to see you there.

Let’s say your local subnet is 192.168.1.0/24, which means that all IP addresses between 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.254 are considered to be local.

If you ping any machine within this local subnet, your Mac OS X client or server doesn’t need a router to access the other machine, as a layer 2