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Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Your Enterprise Computer
Esther Schindler writes "Not just another 'why big companies should adopt Macs' article, CIO is running a piece assuming that Macs are already on the way in the door. Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Your Enterprise Computer offers advice to IT managers about how to integrate Apple systems into the existing IT infrastructure, and offers hints from leading Mac OS X experts on configuring those systems once they've arrived. '[A] key element in corporate Macintosh adoption is the importance of third-party software and custom solutions. They can help smooth the way for integrating Macs onto the network. While specialists say they wish third-party support were greater, the openness of the Mac makes correcting issues possible. Don't discount the lure of the well-worn path that draws and then traps your IT staff into familiar habits.'"
You forgot:
FORD: "Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge"
A while back I happened to be standing on the side of the road in front of a Ford factory with a giant Ford logo in front, while a rusty Ford Festiva tried again and again to make it up the fairly small hill the road went up. It stalled out about 5 times then went back the way it came. If only I'd had a video camera. Seriously though, I replaced almost every critical part of my old Ford at least twice while I was in school and they would have to do a hell of a lot to ever win me back as a customer.
I defended my trusty Ford below, but I have a good Honda anecdote.
We used to own a 91 Honda Accord. I really liked that car.
My wife is the typical ditsy driver - completely oblivious to any of the instruments aside from the speedometer.
She was driving the Accord about 40 miles out of town on a sweltering 105 degree day in August. I get a call from her that the car "just died". I ask her to describe the symptoms. She does and I conclude that the car probably just overheated. She then mentions, 'oh yeah, I saw the temperature gauge go way up, but I just kept driving it because I didn't want to stop'. Great.
So I get in my trusty Ford (haha), and speed over to where she is. The car stars right up by then but the temperature gauge quickly shoots up, as the radiator was completely empty. I fill up the radiator and the car starts, but I find that I can't go past third gear and have to keep the RPM about 3500 to keep the engine going. After about 40 minutes of driving we arrive at her parents house which is 20 miles away.
Upon inspection, I find that one of the spark plug boots (which extend about 6 inches into the engine block) have completely melted off and severed from the plug, and the other three boots have also melted down, and were glued to the engine block. I use needle-nose pliers and fish out as many pieces of the boots as I can, and then replace them all.
To my surprise, after that, the car ran great, but it was losing water out of the radiator at an alarming rate. We decided to buy a new car, but before doing that and friend and I took the engine out to see if there was anything we could do to salvage it. It turned out the previous owners of the car had never bothered to put anti-freeze into the radiator and as a result the engine block has been slowly eaten away by corrosion over ten years. The liquid in the radiator was being burned off almost instantly due to the heat escaping from the corroded engine block. My wife just "finished the job".
Anyhow, I guess the moral of the story is that it takes a lot of work to kill a Honda.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
The only Ford I'd buy is a Ford GT, but that's not actually a Ford :)
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"