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That Adobe Media Browser...

If your Adobe CS3 Apps are acting very, very slowly, you could be suffering from a bloated Media Browser preferences file.

That file does cause problems, especially when working from complex file system hierarchies on network shares.

There's a forum thread about it here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/318556

The solution to trash that prefs file seems fine, but it is a pain to do it all the time. Here's a script that installs and activates a background process that deletes the file for you every 30 minutes.

Automatically Populate your Jabber Community

Here's the issue:

When setting up a Jabber IM community for use in a corporate environment, you will find that certain procedural restraints that exist for good reasons in the public Jabber or AIM domain are contrary to the expectations and needs of a closed community.

In a closed community, there is no need to follow the protocol that establishes IM "buddy" relationships. The invite/accept procedure is redundant.

Moreover, the expectation in a private Jabber/IM community is that, upon signing on, everyone sees everyone else who is online without the need for further user intervention.

Below is a script that populates the Jabber database with pre-approved buddy relationships.

This has been tested on Mac OS X 10.6 Server OpenDIrectory Master with iChat Server enabled.

The script is available for download here below.

For implementation and help with the code, contact MacTech

The Leopard Server Firewall and its Traps

10.5 Server has a standard, cascading, rule-based IPFW firewall built into the OS. There is nothing new here, except a relatively (as of 10.5) new add-on called the adaptive firewall.