This Week in Technology: March 8-12

Mar122010
Maximillian Hill

This Week in Technology: March 8-12

So much happened this week. Apple iPads went on pre-order, Microsoft lost another patent case, Canon made a travel mug that looks like a lens, and Playstation announced they’re going to rip-off the wii-mote.

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Fixing SNMP in Mac OS X Server 10.5.7

Sep102009
Scott Piggott

I monitor our network with PRTG Network Monitor. After recently upgrading one of our Xserves from 10.5.4 to 10.5.7 (server), its status changed in PRTG to “in alarm” and was unable to connect via SNMP to collect any data. It turns out that the default configuration of the SNMP agent changed with the 10.5.7 upgrade, tightening access restrictions for the community string “public”. The fix is fairly simple. Edit line 97 of /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf and restart the SNMP daemon to reload the config file. Continue Reading >

In-Depth Review of Snow Leopard

Sep32009
Scott Piggott

John Siracusa has posted an exhaustive review of Apple’s latest OS release, Snow Leopard. Great read if you really want to learn why you need to upgrade.

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