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The last year has been kinda tough. While I now spend virtually every waking moment in front of some sort of monitor or display unit, I'm not really, or at least I haven't officially trained as an IT specialist. Since 2008 my focus has been on Unix, primarily OSX, but a little Linux too. At my place of work, we decided to move every lab and studio over to OSX and with that came the need for a managed solution, system imaging, mass deployment, user directories, dual boot with XP and integration with Microsoft Active Directory. It's a fairly significant undertaking.
One year in and there are a number of tweaks to be made, but we're very happy with the development. I had always planned to post details of the various techniques, tricks and pitfalls that you inevitably encounter. Realistically however there really isn't a need. Clealry there are numerous well established and informed online resources and fora dedicated to the Mac.
Here's a short list of the sites I found particulalrly helpful - in no particular order
Corey Carson - AD OD Sandbox & OSX Command Line
AFP548.com - for Leopard Server take a look at this and Disk Imaging here
Apple - Best Practices: Integrating Mac OS X with Active Directory
apulSOFT - Free plugins for Mac (PowerPC & Intel)
Audio Producer Tools - A suite of very useful widgets for OSX designed to assist recording and live sound engineers
Charlie Roberts - Interesting music and media software available free for Mac OSX; MIDIstroke (converts incoming MIDI messages to keyboard keystrokes) and ControlAid (routes MIDI note and control change messages to the channel of your choice).
Deepsound Music - Large selection of plugins for Windows and Mac OSX
Don't Crac[k] - Though aimed primarily at developers you'll find lots of links to freeware and shareware plugs and apps
Free Plugin List - Free VST plugins and effects for Windows and Mac
Fusion by VMWare - Run any Intel compatible OS e.g. Windows, Linux etc. alongside Mac OSX without the need to reboot. See also Parallels
FuzzMeasure - Audio and acoustical measurement and analysis software. Trial version available here
Hitsquad - Music software for the Macintosh: Open Source, Freeware, Shareware and Demo titles as listed by Hitsquad Musician Network
Impulse Responses by Fokke Van Sanne. Quite a few are Mac only
Logic Cafe - Tutorials, Tips, Tricks and Downloads for the Logic user
Mac Music - Music & Audio on the Mac. Available in French and English
Macworld - Leading publication dedicated to all things Mac
Massey Plugins - High quality plug-ins for Pro Tools by Steven Massey. You can evaluate the selection with these demos which never expire or beep! Steven's blog here
MDA - Free synths, plugins and applications
Plugins-audio - Expansive list of free and shareware plugins. Available in French, English and German.
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