ZDNet Mac Pro and Xserve overclocking tool

June 29, 2008

One area that the Mac has faraway lagged behind its PC counterparts is in custom tuning, particularly overclocking. With the Intel Macs that has naturally started to change, though the toolset for overclocking in OS X has been rather barebones. So it’s interesting to see that the German division…

Psystar tests luck with OpenServ rackmount servers

June 23, 2008

Amazingly, the commercial hackintosh maker Psystar (whose efforts in building non-Apple machines running OS X we’ve covered at some length) still hasn’t been beat down by Apple Legal and now they’re back for more. They are releasing the OpenServ series of rackmount servers which they offer w…

Parallels Server for Mac available now

June 18, 2008

In October, when Apple introduced a change in policy allowing Leopard Server to run in a virtual environment on Apple hardware, Mac IT geeks everywhere looked forward to the day that they could run Windows Server, Linux and OS X Server all off their pretty Xserves. That day is today, considering…

Media Temple launches beta for VPS running on Leopard Server

June 17, 2008

Teaming with Parallels, Media Temple has just announced the start of private-beta period for its latest (mt) Labs offering, the (xv) Xserve-Virtual — which they are dubbing “the world’s first VPS Leopard Server.” Although virtual servers running Linux or Windows are pretty standard hosting opti…

Apple drops Xsan update 2.1

June 13, 2008

If you use Xsan, next you might want to take note of the new update that Apple dropped yesterday. Apple updated Xsan Admin, Xsan Filesystem and the Xsan Uninstaller to version 2.1. According to the update note, the Xsan Filesystem update fixes:

Metadata controller reliability
Using and val…