I'm sorry I don't have a link handy but the Mac BU has taken over development of the next Mac Outlook client from the Exchange group. The next version (when? I don't know, early Spring I hope) will also be OS X native (probably OS X only). I'm betting it'll be Entourage with some of the necessary pieces (like MAPI support) added in.
When I was studying in England in 1991, I went to the "art house" movie theater fairly often but rarely went to the regular theaters. When I did I was surprised that there were TV-style commericals as well as trailers before the movie started. I thought, "this sucks! I'm glad we don't have those in the U.S." Now we have them here as well (can't remember when they started here, 2-3 years ago?). The worst have been those Pepsi ads with the "cute" girl. The worst was the Western themed one which combined hawking with warnings about not talking during the movie or smoking. It was only used by Regal Theaters in my area and I was so sick of it, I would go to a competitor (Cinemark) to avoid it. Judging by often often I heard laughter during the stupid thing, annoying frequent patrons isn't a big concern for them.
Some videos have commercials as well but this appears to not have caught on yet.
Win9x doesn't have a Messenger service, all it has is an optional application called WinPop that even if you install it, it won't run on startup so if it's running, it's because you put it there. There are other programs which can serve as a substitute for WinPop but they all work the same way.
Hands Across America was an early trial for this technology. It was determined that fiber optics would be more cost effective for long haul data transmission.
You don't know what you're talking about. Microsoft does not hide the fact that you can purchase versions of their software which do not require activation. They're called Volume License Product Keys and these days they require different media than the retail versions. If your company had thousands of Windows machines, they would be stupid to not already be in one of Micosofts licensing programs.
The rest of your message is mix of misinformation and delusional Linux zealotry.
Regarding your "location" problems in networking, try this instead. Use a single location, Duplicate the relevant interfaces (Ethernet or Airport) and configure the duplicates for each network. I think you'll find OS X uses whatever network connnection works.
Example: you have an Airport base station at home connected to a cable modem on one side and a 5 port switch on the other. When you're at the desk you use the wire and DHCP is provided by the base station. When you're on the couch you use the Airport. In your office cubicle you have to use one static IP but if you do a presentation in the conference room upstairs you have to use a different static IP and a different gateway. A local coffee shop is attempting a pay-for-wireless system but you've discovered you can just pick an unused IP in their subnet so you use Airport with a static IP there.
So, in this case you'd have the following Network Port Configurations:
Built-in Ethernet (home) DHCP Built-in Ethernet Copy (cubicle) static IP Built-in Ethernet Copy 1 (conference room) static IP Airport (home) DHCP Airport Copy (stealing from coffee shop) static IP
You may have to still switch airport networks but that can be done from the menu bar.
I think good artists shouldn't have to have a "day job" to survive. I want them to be able to just create their art and not have to worry about where their next croissant is coming from. I'm also happy to see the great ones get rich.
Today's system is screwed up by greedy, untalented people standing between artists and the public, demanding more money from the public yet blocking the flow of money to the artists. They're also blocking attempts at more modern forms of distribution, not that P2P is the solution.
A lab I visited on occasion didn't disallow the execution of apps on remote volumes which is how I was able to run the programs of my choice, simply by puttin copies of them on an AppleTalk share with the Type and Creator codes changed to match Notepads (FoolProof uses Type/Creator codes to identify what can or cannot be run).
Here's how you use Assimilator. Set up your perfect machine and upload it to your file server. Create an Assimlator client app (the Admin app creates it for you) which is set to pull the files from the shared "perfect image." Try running it on one client and see what breaks. If there are files which need to be unique on each machine, Assimilator uses special filename suffixes on the perfect image to identify them (a character like a diamond followed by the client's AppleTalk name). Assimilator also uses label colors to identify how different files/folders should be treated, the two most useful being the "always erase" and "never erase." If you have different models of Macs, there may be some extensions you don't want to download to all machines.
We use a cron program to automatically run Assimilator at night plus an Empty Trash program which does what it says.
You don't have to put the perfect image on a a file server, it can be on any mountable volume. I've thought of making self-assimilating machines which would have a disk image containing the perfect image. The only time there would be network traffic generated is when lab staff had to replace the disk image file. However that makes the software deployment aspect less convenient.
We hope to switch to OS X in the lab this Spring but haven't really done much preparatory work yet. We'll probably use RsyncX, Mac Manager, and the built-in restrictions to keep those machines in shape.
I see your point but many locales (in the U.S.) also have laws and/or homeowners association agreements that state you can't let your lawn "go wild." Many of those assocations are real fascists and have all kinds of rules about what you can and can't do to your own property. Of course you're not forced to live in such a "community" but they're quite popular in some areas and in those areas it may be difficult to buy outside them and still be in a desired school district or within a desired commuting radius. It's a crappy trade-off.
We'll have to see what iSync brings to the mix but currently iCal can "Publish & Subscribe" to calendars using.Mac or any WebDAV server for the publishing part. Outlook for Windows (2000 and newer I think) also has a calendar publishing feature which I believe uses a compatible format. However this will not lead to synchronizing because I think the published calendars will be treated as someone else's calendar, even if you were the one publishing from the other machine.
I believe the file format used when publishing is open so writing a client to publish and subscribe to them should be doable. I would expect to see this added to Evolution if there's demand for it.
The device may be able sync to other apps with iSync but you can't sync anything with Outlook on the Mac, it doesn't have the necessary hooks. Outlook isn't OS X native anyway and won't be anytime soon. In this situation where there are Windows machines in the mix, going with other apps on the Mac is doable but it isn't for everyone.
The device syncing may also require the next generation of devices (or half a generation). Jobs's demo and the little speech by the phone guy made it sound like a "next wave" kind of thing which usually means the last wave is SOL.
Nuns aren't resistant to Alzheimer's *some* nuns get it less than other nuns. There was a really long longitudinal study of two nunneries which had different missions. The ones from the nunnery which did a lot of work in the community, who remained active, had few incidences of Alzheimer's than those that mostly sat around a prayed. I'm over-simplifying but that was the jist of it.
A month?! I feel like a putz for not trying something while I was in Amsterdam for just a weekend. I don't want to smoke anything but they have it in many other forms.
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The have the correct SSID entered in their settings.
tar is not HFS+ aware so you lose your resource forks. Hfspax is an HFS+ aware version of pax, still in beta. Still, there should be something that's ready to go for doing a full system backup and there isn't.
Win2k's command prompt is pretty good is fine, not as good as most UNIX shells, a lot better than DOS. If you're talking about non-gui apps for users, yes, there's not much there. NT and later sysadmins can and often do a lot at the command prompt. Therefore its useful for them to have something like an SSH server. Having an SFTP server is useful users who can't use windows file sharing, such as off-site users if there's no VPN server. I use it to move files from my Mac at home to Windows at work (no VPN client for Mac). Plus you can use SSH to tunnel other connections which lack their own encryption, like VNC.
BTW, another vote for networksimplicity's OpenSSH installer. If you don't need CygWin for other stuff, it's the way to go, user account setup is so much easier.
I didn't have to do anything to configure my right-mouse button. I just plugged in my Kensington USB mouse-in-a-box (same model I use on my Windows box at work) and it just works (equivalent to Ctrl-click). The scroll wheel works in the Finder, IE, and other apps but not all apps. I think the Kensington MouseWorks software lets the scroll work in more apps but I haven't bothered installing it.
I've always heard io.com is a good company but I think you're skipping over some things. First, even Mac owners should have antivirus software which not onlly has an up-front cost but continuing to get the updates costs around $20/year. you have web hosting but I bet you don't have online page creation tools, if you want a page you're on your own. That may not be of value to you but it is to many people. For things like putting up a folder of pictures, you don't really have to do anything at all with.Mac.
BTW, as far as I can tell, io.com's $14/month ($168/year) plan does *not* include dial-up service, it's just a shell account with some extras.
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I'm sorry I don't have a link handy but the Mac BU has taken over development of the next Mac Outlook client from the Exchange group. The next version (when? I don't know, early Spring I hope) will also be OS X native (probably OS X only). I'm betting it'll be Entourage with some of the necessary pieces (like MAPI support) added in.
When I was studying in England in 1991, I went to the "art house" movie theater fairly often but rarely went to the regular theaters. When I did I was surprised that there were TV-style commericals as well as trailers before the movie started. I thought, "this sucks! I'm glad we don't have those in the U.S." Now we have them here as well (can't remember when they started here, 2-3 years ago?). The worst have been those Pepsi ads with the "cute" girl. The worst was the Western themed one which combined hawking with warnings about not talking during the movie or smoking. It was only used by Regal Theaters in my area and I was so sick of it, I would go to a competitor (Cinemark) to avoid it. Judging by often often I heard laughter during the stupid thing, annoying frequent patrons isn't a big concern for them.
Some videos have commercials as well but this appears to not have caught on yet.
Win9x doesn't have a Messenger service, all it has is an optional application called WinPop that even if you install it, it won't run on startup so if it's running, it's because you put it there. There are other programs which can serve as a substitute for WinPop but they all work the same way.
My parents said I was conceived at Labstock. Good thing the security camera wasn't there yet!
Hands Across America was an early trial for this technology. It was determined that fiber optics would be more cost effective for long haul data transmission.
The rest of your message is mix of misinformation and delusional Linux zealotry.
What kind of beer?
1.2GB isn't a whole lot, less than the size of 2 CD images. I would hope they provide a good mirror site.
CD image, 650MB = $3.25
That's not what would get me, what would get me is listening to my mp3 radio stations. Plus that's not something you can host on the internal network.
128Kbps streamed media 1hr/day for 30 days = $9.00
I'm sure I listen a lot more than 30hrs. a month.
Regarding your "location" problems in networking, try this instead. Use a single location, Duplicate the relevant interfaces (Ethernet or Airport) and configure the duplicates for each network. I think you'll find OS X uses whatever network connnection works.
Example: you have an Airport base station at home connected to a cable modem on one side and a 5 port switch on the other. When you're at the desk you use the wire and DHCP is provided by the base station. When you're on the couch you use the Airport. In your office cubicle you have to use one static IP but if you do a presentation in the conference room upstairs you have to use a different static IP and a different gateway. A local coffee shop is attempting a pay-for-wireless system but you've discovered you can just pick an unused IP in their subnet so you use Airport with a static IP there.
So, in this case you'd have the following Network Port Configurations:
Built-in Ethernet (home) DHCP
Built-in Ethernet Copy (cubicle) static IP
Built-in Ethernet Copy 1 (conference room) static IP
Airport (home) DHCP
Airport Copy (stealing from coffee shop) static IP
You may have to still switch airport networks but that can be done from the menu bar.
I think good artists shouldn't have to have a "day job" to survive. I want them to be able to just create their art and not have to worry about where their next croissant is coming from. I'm also happy to see the great ones get rich.
Today's system is screwed up by greedy, untalented people standing between artists and the public, demanding more money from the public yet blocking the flow of money to the artists. They're also blocking attempts at more modern forms of distribution, not that P2P is the solution.
A lab I visited on occasion didn't disallow the execution of apps on remote volumes which is how I was able to run the programs of my choice, simply by puttin copies of them on an AppleTalk share with the Type and Creator codes changed to match Notepads (FoolProof uses Type/Creator codes to identify what can or cannot be run).
Here's how you use Assimilator. Set up your perfect machine and upload it to your file server. Create an Assimlator client app (the Admin app creates it for you) which is set to pull the files from the shared "perfect image." Try running it on one client and see what breaks. If there are files which need to be unique on each machine, Assimilator uses special filename suffixes on the perfect image to identify them (a character like a diamond followed by the client's AppleTalk name). Assimilator also uses label colors to identify how different files/folders should be treated, the two most useful being the "always erase" and "never erase." If you have different models of Macs, there may be some extensions you don't want to download to all machines.
We use a cron program to automatically run Assimilator at night plus an Empty Trash program which does what it says.
You don't have to put the perfect image on a a file server, it can be on any mountable volume. I've thought of making self-assimilating machines which would have a disk image containing the perfect image. The only time there would be network traffic generated is when lab staff had to replace the disk image file. However that makes the software deployment aspect less convenient.
We hope to switch to OS X in the lab this Spring but haven't really done much preparatory work yet. We'll probably use RsyncX, Mac Manager, and the built-in restrictions to keep those machines in shape.
I see your point but many locales (in the U.S.) also have laws and/or homeowners association agreements that state you can't let your lawn "go wild." Many of those assocations are real fascists and have all kinds of rules about what you can and can't do to your own property. Of course you're not forced to live in such a "community" but they're quite popular in some areas and in those areas it may be difficult to buy outside them and still be in a desired school district or within a desired commuting radius. It's a crappy trade-off.
We'll have to see what iSync brings to the mix but currently iCal can "Publish & Subscribe" to calendars using .Mac or any WebDAV server for the publishing part. Outlook for Windows (2000 and newer I think) also has a calendar publishing feature which I believe uses a compatible format. However this will not lead to synchronizing because I think the published calendars will be treated as someone else's calendar, even if you were the one publishing from the other machine.
I believe the file format used when publishing is open so writing a client to publish and subscribe to them should be doable. I would expect to see this added to Evolution if there's demand for it.
The device may be able sync to other apps with iSync but you can't sync anything with Outlook on the Mac, it doesn't have the necessary hooks. Outlook isn't OS X native anyway and won't be anytime soon. In this situation where there are Windows machines in the mix, going with other apps on the Mac is doable but it isn't for everyone.
The device syncing may also require the next generation of devices (or half a generation). Jobs's demo and the little speech by the phone guy made it sound like a "next wave" kind of thing which usually means the last wave is SOL.
Nuns aren't resistant to Alzheimer's *some* nuns get it less than other nuns. There was a really long longitudinal study of two nunneries which had different missions. The ones from the nunnery which did a lot of work in the community, who remained active, had few incidences of Alzheimer's than those that mostly sat around a prayed. I'm over-simplifying but that was the jist of it.
Open notepad, paste this into it:
e ll \play\command]e xe \"%1\""
.txt to .reg.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AudioCD\sh
@="C:\\WINNT\\system32\\cdplayer.
Save it, rename it from
Double-click the file, let it update the registry. That's it.
If your OS is not in C:\winnt\, just change that part.
A month?! I feel like a putz for not trying something while I was in Amsterdam for just a weekend. I don't want to smoke anything but they have it in many other forms.
The have the correct SSID entered in their settings.
When that happens to me (Moz 1.0 OS X 10.1.5), I don't get the image, just a gray box in approximately the same position.
tar is not HFS+ aware so you lose your resource forks. Hfspax is an HFS+ aware version of pax, still in beta. Still, there should be something that's ready to go for doing a full system backup and there isn't.
Win2k's command prompt is pretty good is fine, not as good as most UNIX shells, a lot better than DOS. If you're talking about non-gui apps for users, yes, there's not much there. NT and later sysadmins can and often do a lot at the command prompt. Therefore its useful for them to have something like an SSH server. Having an SFTP server is useful users who can't use windows file sharing, such as off-site users if there's no VPN server. I use it to move files from my Mac at home to Windows at work (no VPN client for Mac). Plus you can use SSH to tunnel other connections which lack their own encryption, like VNC.
BTW, another vote for networksimplicity's OpenSSH installer. If you don't need CygWin for other stuff, it's the way to go, user account setup is so much easier.
I didn't have to do anything to configure my right-mouse button. I just plugged in my Kensington USB mouse-in-a-box (same model I use on my Windows box at work) and it just works (equivalent to Ctrl-click). The scroll wheel works in the Finder, IE, and other apps but not all apps. I think the Kensington MouseWorks software lets the scroll work in more apps but I haven't bothered installing it.
If you've tried to watch a QuickTime stream of MacWorld keynotes in the past, you know the quality generally sucks.
I'm watching the MPEG-4 stream right now and it's great.
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
I've always heard io.com is a good company but I think you're skipping over some things. First, even Mac owners should have antivirus software which not onlly has an up-front cost but continuing to get the updates costs around $20/year. you have web hosting but I bet you don't have online page creation tools, if you want a page you're on your own. That may not be of value to you but it is to many people. For things like putting up a folder of pictures, you don't really have to do anything at all with .Mac.
BTW, as far as I can tell, io.com's $14/month ($168/year) plan does *not* include dial-up service, it's just a shell account with some extras.