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Apple Polishing Mac OS X for Uncle Sam?
polarfleece writes "A report on Macteens that the latest build of Panther contains strong evidence that it is being customized for U.S. Government applications.
I, for one, can't wait to see a whole lot of Apples being toted by gummint men (and women). Of course, do we REALLY want those gummint agents having access to the same technology we Apple users enjoy so much? On the other hand, to quote story author Clark Mueller, 'it just might be one of the more intelligent steps taken towards U.S. national defense.'"
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Yet EVERY computer-related purchase
Damned right.... one place to approve all purchases. Tracking and accountability in one shot. To do anything else is sheer stupidity
used unsecured WiFi
seems like some network admins need to be looking for new jobs to me
keep the wintel stuff from falling apart. (Blaster, anyone?)
More proof thet they need replacing. The patch was out at least a month before the attack. If they did not patch, that is their fault, not MSs
(graphics) department, who were forced to switch from Macs
Photoshop on a nice P4 with a GB of RAM blows the mac out of the water.... if they can't do the graphics work on a PC, they need new jobs too.... I am continually amazed at how MS is blamed for incompetence in individuals in many walks of life... just amazed. No, this is not a troll, just reality folks. XP works, if you don't like it, that's life. If you don't like its looks, then that is your incompetence with it, its very customizable
SCSI on osx is four times more slow than os9
still after two complet guttings.
they are on their third rewrite of the fiasco called IOKit.
OS9 is still the most popular mac os, but for the gov to use osx it will have to be at least one third the ios per second freebsd and openbsd can perform.
at least Infiniband cards (costing more than a 3K dual g5 mac) can avoid latency by going around the entire crappy mac osx iokit mess by using direct dma transmission. (no interrupts, no dependence on apples sluggish class-happy swill)
Its only cool if it runs the same os as the g4 towers!
in fact ALL the g4 towers for many months come preinstalled with Mac OS 9.2.2 as wells as OS X.
Why?
various http request loggers on massive sites shoe that os 9 is still more popular than os x!
thats wy apple paid engineers to get it workign again on all the g4 towers now sold in stores and on their web site.
its one of the main 7 "bullet point' features.
Steve jobs displayed a chart in his 2 hour demo in june that admitted that only 100,000 people in early january 2003 used os x at all.
and those were all assumedly the developers in janurt!
100,000 users tops in jan 2003 for osx according to jobs himself!
its in his video on the huge chart graph
but he said its finally at the halfway mark... 7 million os 9 and 7 million osx users this summer.
Countless applications only exist on os9, including many latency-critical audio VST plugins.
apple found out the hard way when sales plummeted in january when they pulled os 9.2.2 momentarily... and got hurt!
now os9 is on all the powerful g4 towers
i sure hope apple realizes these imacs could use os 9.2.2 as well.
(os 9.2.2 can issue 30,000 genuine different scsi io block requests per second through high end fibre-channel cards!.... os x is so crappy it was rewritten 9the scsi) three times and still is only 25% of that speed due to massive overhead and bloat.
plus the os9 has timeouts honored for each io, and the osx does not typically.
and os9 can have over 10,000 pending ios issued from interrupt level, in fact, and completed in pci interrupts if needed, and osx only allows about 64 ios pending.
osx is a slow ass toy compared to the low latency of os9 and its ability to run modern "gigasamplers'
a gigasampler stores thousnads of notes digitally on hard drives and loads only a little bit of the notes attacks into about a gig of ram, but has 100 gigabytes of audio notes on hard drives and issues thousands of time critical head seeks per second.
and it sucks on pokey slow osx iokit.
(its not freebsd's fault, nor mach 3 fault, its IOkit from apple's fault)
i sure hope apple notices that people want os9 as all the many web-click survey sites indicate.
They do have a good chance, as your average government worker is only slightly more intelligent than your average mac user.