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It also adds a Jabber server that provides the option of serving iChat. SSL/TLS and Kerberos can be added for security. A single Tiger iChat client can have chats running on multiple servers, so a user can be on the main iChat server, while having private chats on a company server. Because it is Jabber, non-iChat (and non-AIM) clients can participate too.
Tiger Server also works to make network setup even easier with Internet Gateway Setup Assistant. In Panther Server, setting up a network with DNS, DHCP, NAT, firewall, and port mapping was easier than most other platforms, but still required a good deal of manual configuration, and separate configuration of each service. The Setup Assistant will provide single-button setup of it all.
A Software Update Server can cache and control Apple software updates. So once you're satisfied that the new OS update won't delete home folders, you can OK it for your users to download; and they won't take up your Internet bandwidth, because the server cached it.
Mobile Home Directories allows a mobile user to sync his home directory with a central server, backing it up and allowing an admin to manage it.
A new Windows migration tool will allow Windows admins to migrate from Windows-based servers. Tiger Server can act as a Primary Domain Controller for a Windows network, and the tool will migrate user and group account from an existing Windows PDC into Open Directory 2 and Samba 3.
Tiger Server will retain the pricing structure of the previous versions: $500 for the 10-client edition and $1000 for the unlimited client edition (the number of clients referring only to simultaneous file sharing clients).
To further refine this explanation, the licensing is based on the number of AFP (Apple's filesharing protocol) connections. Unlimited web, ftp, and in previous versions unlimited windows SMB connections. I haven't noticed if this changes with 10.4.
Well, your site is very impressive, especially the the ranting; I believe my favorite quote is something along the lines of you knowing everything about everyone within five minutes of meeting them.
I mention this as your perspective is the answer to your own question. I take it you are a nerd in high school and see yourself as existing on the fringe of whatever social structure exists at your school and your words indicate you have just made the fundamental realization that the fringe is not a bad place to be as it is where creativity often occurs (and you have also embraced the other half of that change in thinking the fringe is somehow a more powerful position than the mainstream; over time you will realize the validitity-- and necessity-- of both).
I say your perspective is the answer to your question because not everyone wants to make a site that is unique and stands out in terms of form. Many people want something easy to create that stands out in terms of content. Many technically inclined people who struggled endlessly to create unique and interesting websites simply because they had nothing to say. When they finally found something to say, they were more interested in getting their message out there in any form and lost the need for it to look unique and interesting.
The blog represents a tremendous step forward in publishing and pop-culture; a large step for humanity in some sense...
This is their *server* operating system, and generally runs quite nicely without a screen.
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You can think of it as just a diary. Another way to think of it is as a content management system. With the site I'm playing with at the moment (see my homepage link if interested), I'm not using it as a diary at all. I'm using Blosxom and, with plugins provided and created on my own, I'm pretty much using it as a publishing system. I write articles, schedule their publishing date, and pretend people read them :-).
Why do people want something already made for them? Why reinvent the wheel. A good engineer is a lazy engineer. Best to get up and running quickly. Lots of reasons, I should think. For me, the search for the right software took longer than getting the site ready once I found it. Blosxom provides enough easy-to-use customizability that the site looks the way I want it to look.
Blog software is just a tool and a starting point. Take it wherever your imagination lets you.
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As a method for handling ANY site which needs regular updating, blogs can't be beat.
Of course, make sure to check out manyforms, or do a lucky Google search for it...:o
why can't people just make things on their own from scratch (like I do, see my site), and try to make somthing unique and stand out from everyone else.
It's because people are more interested in using what they see as a new medium to express ideas. They are not interested in the implementation. Why would they write their own when something perfectly good exists that they can use now?
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Well that is actually good time. It took about that long for Sun to come up with a 64 bit version of Solaris. But compare it to microsoft who is still trying to get 64 bit to work right.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I really dislike the server pricing scheme as a home user. Yeah yeah yeah. I realize the Apple viewpoint of "why would home users need server software"? (I've asked them) But as a person who would like a single license for my G5 with a couple FreeBsd and Windows nodes, $500 for 10 licenses doesn;t work for me. It's unfortunate.
In a related note, is it possible to acquire certain server extensions (Blojsom or Jabber for example) and plug them into Tiger proper?
Use the feedback page @ Apple to tell them. I did, lots of times.
Umm... I can understand not liking a $500 price tag for *any* piece of software. But realistically, what other commercial server type OS are you going to buy for much less than Apple's price on OS X server? (If you're a student, work for the government in any capacity, or even serve in the military, you should already qualify for at least a small discount already - since Apple always offers that.)
I've never seen Novell offer a copy of Netware real cheap for home users just wanting to try using it for 1 or 2 workstations.... and Microsoft sure doesn't offer Windows 2003 Server at anything resembling "inexpensive pricing".
I think that's pretty much the reason for the popularity of Unix type open-source OS's in the first place. If you just want to tinker at home, Linux or BSD should do the job for you, and not cost you hundreds of dollars.
The summary above neglected to mention the promise of ACLs:
"Tiger Server goes beyond the limitations of traditional UNIX file permissions to give you greater flexibility over assigning access permissions to files, folders and network services. Access Control Lists (ACLs) in Tiger Server let you set a whole group as the owner of a file or folder rather than just an individual -- you can even assign unique access permissions for multiple users and groups. This makes it easy to set up collaborative environments with smooth file sharing and uninterrupted workflows, without compromising security.
Even if you have a multi-platform network, you can still enjoy the flexibility of ACLs in Tiger Server -- because they're compatible with those in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP."
wtf this does to ls, chown and chgrp is anyone's guess. My guess: bad things. How in the world this was implemented will be interesting to know; a whole different volume format? Is it an option or mandatory? If it is still restricted to only one owner--who just happens to actually be a group, I can see how that would work. Or maybe through hard links, each link with a different permission set? Much remains to be seen about this compatibility feature--but if it works well it'll be welcome. If it doesn't there'll be hell to pay.
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they are adding tons of value to samba. The config tools for samba, and every other damon on the system. Not to mention support, so one can ring them when someone isn't working right. So when one pays $500 dollars for OS X Server, they are not just paying for samba and a default config. They are paying for samba/apache/whateverftpd/everything else with a REALLY nice (atleast as of panther, compared to configuration tools on Windows2k/Linux) set of configuration tools for them, as well as support AND 5 client licenses, which alone would run over 500 dollars...
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I used to use CC Cloner a lot. That's excellent advice, but I hope you've written a script to do those "ls -l"s. I'm using LaCie drives mostly. We've lately switched to NetRestore for, well, restores; I still use CCC for backups. CCC is in fact vulnerable to Firewire issues, and versions prior to 2.30 had some lack of stability. 2.30 on Panther is pretty stable.
The BIG problem with CCC is the condition in which it leaves the directory structure. I made it a policy to run DiskWarrior on every system I restored. I spot-check when I'm using NetRestore (a very handy program locally or networked), but I haven't seen anything serious with NR but I'll keep looking. There's nothing worse than deploying a system with damage, already on it, that you could have prevented.
That reminds me. There is no Earthly reason for not emptying the caches when you image. It screws things up when you deploy on dissimilar hardware; nothing else is as troublesome moving an image across generations of hardware (G4/G5 for example). There's No Cachet in a Cache.
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Bah! Drop java, c# and objective C. Move on to something truly lightweight like python or ruby. Python + zope3 now there is a lightweight container to crow about.
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That's a great question. If you don't think Apple is adding value, don't pay for it.
All the people who like the value Apple is adding will pay for it.
Both sets of people are happy.
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Ideas are free. There is no "IP" protection for ideas, nobody can own an idea (except sometimes through creative usage of software patents). And that's a good thing: it creates competition, since one idea can spawn a lot of different implementations. If you allow monopolies on ideas, the market becomes poorer, not richer. FWIW, I don't complain when Microsoft "steals" ideas from Apple either. You simply can't steal an idea, because ideas are not someone's property.
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Slashdot, for example, is just a blog with ...
I think it's the other way around. They still are hobby websites, diaries, forums, et cetera, but suddenly everything is fashionably called a blog now. "Blog" somehow covers everything. You can count me out of your trend-setter crowd.
While you're at it, why not take a step forward and call all the stuff "internet hypertext documents" to cover even more ground with a more vague term, maybe abbreviate it to "ndocs" or something...
(Or maybe I'm just having a bad hair day.)
Wrong - Windows NT for Alpha/AXP was NOT 64-bit. It used the Alpha's 32-bit mode.
Alpha platform does not have a 32-bit mode of operation. It is a clean design, 64-bit only.
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- Konfabulator: You may have a point there; the concepts are similar, and even the coding style is almost the same.
- LaunchBar: Has got *nothing* to do whatsoever with Spotlight. LaunchBar is a launcher for applications, address book entries, etc. Spotlight is a file metadata indexing and searching tool, like "SmartQueries" in BeOS or somewhat similar to "WinFS" in Longhorn.
- NetNewsWire: as the author of it pointed out, he sees Safari RSS as an *opportunity* for RSS application developers, as it will further spread the message of RSS.
- Watson: my opinion on this has always been that doing that was the next obvious step after Sherlock 2.