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SVN on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server

Today i finally pulled it off. Using Snow Leopards built in Apache and Dav modules.
Also built in is svnserve. A repository server for SubVersioning.

So, with no additional software i now have a Repository for internal use to work on some PHP and related. Woot!

That being said, i have implemented some new features in the AccessQontrol plugin. And perhaps if i keep up the coding spirit for a bit i will release an important update for it. Including many new restrictive features to even better control who or what gets on your site or not.

Among the new things is timezone support, Referer blocking (people coming from a certain site, or set of sites, are not allowed) and User-Agent blocking (a simple filter to block bots or users with a certain browser or OS).

Let’s just see how it goes…

Where CardDAV fails…

With Snow Leopard i was finally able to synchronize my address book to all my computers and devices. Or so i thought.

After putting it into motion i quickly found out that iTunes didn’t see the CardDAV account and thus couldn’t sync the address book to my iPhone. Leaving me without phone numbers on that device.
A little after that i found out that Adium lost all it’s couplings with the contact cards i had made over time. Defaulting in the ridiculous names people put on their MSN accounts.

What that has to do with CardDAV? It seems that Address Book, the app, doesn’t actually synchronize the address book but rather looks at it remotely. Unlike iCal Calendar which transmits events and calendars to every device. Address Book just looks at them on the server and is able to edit them via CardDAV. Thus, on none of my computers is an address book present. Just the app looking at a remote contact list.

I would much prefer them to actually synchronize the data so i can use it for the various apps that work with Address Book. Like iTunes, Adium, Mail and the like.
Now with this new service i can easily share my contacts, yay! But not after i make the changes locally, also do them remotely. Then again to the local address book on the other computer. It’s quite a lot of hassle and i might just not use Address Book Server. Since all the editing it involves to *actually* sync it has just increased to twice as much editing.

Apple really thought this one through… Not

Snow Leopard, not so friendly with movies…

As many of us, i use Perian to extend Quicktime Player.
Since Snow Leopard it seems that a whole bunch of formats do not work anymore. On the Perian forums many blame it on the codecs not being 64bit. But when QT player runs in 32Bit the problem persists.
Also, some files DO work. Say XviD and Divx files… They work fine. Especially with audio streams using MP3 or the like. Some forms of AAC work too.

DTS, AC3 5.1 and h.264 do not seem to work anymore. Especially the higher resolutions. Which now seems to be a problem with Quicktime. I doubt that is the case. But i’m no expert. The guy (Gbooker) who said this, seems to be. Since he is on the Perian team and does support on the forum as well. I guess he knows what’s up… Or so i hope.

Anyway, i hope it will be fixed soon. I wanna watch my movies! YARR!

Now i know what many of you are gonna say “Use VLC”! Yes i’ve tried, also in the past. And VLC is still a piece of shit. It doesn’t play most of the files AT ALL. Or the sound is garbled up. Meaning the 5.1 or DTS is not downmixed properly or whatever is going wrong. It hurts my ears. Also VLC crashes a lot on me or does other crazy things that are not cool! So no VLC is NOT an option to me.

Snow Leopard Server Wallpaper

I think it’s much prettier than the Snow Leopard Client one…

Get get get!

Tip:
If you want this wallpaper on your login screen simply go to /System/Library/CoreServices and replace the DefaultDesktop.jpg file with your own.

Have fun!

Where’s Carddav support for the iphone?

Not sure what went wrong earlier but i have Snow Leopard Server working now. However with all the greatness of the Address Book Server… Where is the Carddav support for iPhone… Now i can sync all my mac their address books but not my iPhone

Boohoo! Always something…