Sustained 322 megabytes per second write speed.

Well. I’ve hunted long and hard for a soft turn-off to the mDNSResponder in OS X broadcasting all sorts of junk all over the place . . . I use ARD for a bunch of stuff (camera raw updates, remotely helping students and faculty who have a problem in the digital lab, debugging printserver errors, updating the systems, etc.)  However, I hate that screen-sharing is broadcasted throughout the building’s network showing up as a list of computers on any Leopard/SnowLeopard computer that is on the same network. Well, with Snow Leopard, the option to turn off broadcasting without actually killing the mDNSResponder daemon is here. For anyone who has SSH or ARD (please note, ARD needs to have legacy VNC turned off and only local admin user for authent to keep it secure + required encryption.) this is a nice little security upgrade. Instructions below:

Using compressed asr images, a server with dual gigabit ethernet and fast raid setup along with gigabit router and mutlistream casting, it’s possible to install an entire 52 gigabyte system image (think CS5, CS3, all other graphic applications and preferences, Final Cut, etc) in under 14 minutes.  Whoa!!!

I’ve been missing my DSLR while it’s getting fixed. Today I had a chance to take one from UVM for a spin. Click here to go to the album.

Amazing!!! One of the best shows I’ve seen in Vermont. Period.

http://www.highlowproject.org/

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