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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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Blu-ray Playback in Mac OS X: Will It Ever Happen?

Dan Bashur,  Apple, Tech, and Gaming, Low End Mac - 2009.09.30 - Leave a comment -

Blu-ray has clearly emerged as the winner in the high definition optical disc war, but why is there still no support for commercial Blu-ray playback in Mac OS X? Is this something we can ever expect to see?

2 Macs, 2 Operating Systems, 1 Mouse, 1 Keyboard

Daniel Knight,  Low End Mac, Mac Musings - 2009.09.29 - Leave a comment -

Monday, September 28, 2009 marked my migration to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Yes, you read that right. Leopard, not Snow Leopard – since none of my Macs are Intel-based, Mac OS X 10.6 isn’t even an option.

Automount OS X Home Directories Using OpenLDAP and Linux

Keith Winston,  Linux to Mac, Low End Mac - 2009.09.28 - Leave a comment -

Mac OS X comes with built-in integration to work seamlessly on a Mac Open Directory network or Microsoft Active Directory network. It is a fairly easy task to set it up to authenticate to a Unix/Linux OpenLDAP server. However, it is another matter to get it to read the home directory from OpenLDAP and mount […]

iTunes 9 Mostly Runs on G3 Macs

John Hatchett,  Low End Mac, Recycled Computing - 2009.09.16 - Leave a comment -

It was great to see Steve Jobs up and running around about as well as a man with a new liver can be expected to. But the big question for me was how would all the new changes to iTunes and the iPod touch affect me with my G3 Pismo PowerBook.

OS X 10.5.8 Update Provides Incentive to Get 10.6

Charles W Moore,  'Book Value, Low End Mac - 2009.09.08 - Leave a comment -

I got around to installing the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard update on my MacBook over the long weekend. I figured that with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard now on the prowl, I should at least bring Leopard up to spec on my production workhorse.

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