The fan controller in the Power Mac G5 is aware of the noise amplifying and canceling effects of running different fans at different speeds in different combinations. It actively uses this information and uses it in decisions on how to cool the G5 in the quietest manner using the 9 strategically placed fans.
They run hardly any software, and once you get into the real world, your Mac skills are worthless because Macs are few and far between out there.
Yeah and my computer skills I learned on an Apple IIe and commodore 64 when I was a kid are holding me back. Face it, by the time kids in first grade today get into the working world, computers as we know it will be radically different. Its not the actual programs that you learn that is valuable, its the general skills that can be transfered to any "computer".
Dude, I can recite every stop on the Oregon trail. I can't say that for much else I did in elementary school. (Except maybe reading). Now thats what I call learning.
Did you look into using the built in QTSS server to set up an Mp3 streaming server? Last I checked you can throw all your mp3s in the QTSS source directory in your home directory on the server, fire up the QTSS publisher app or web admin and set up play lists for any quicktime supported media type. I think QTSS even has built in web page templates that will make your site look good. You can eve add weights to different songs and put the list on loop so when people tune in, they hear certain songs more than others.
Basically, if all things are equal in terms of the features you need, the huge advantage over AD (and other directory servers) that Open Directory has that it includes no per client charge. $1000 gets you unlimited users.
The author of this comment is 100% correct. Not only does Open Directory consolidate and integrate authentication for all network services, it provides a very scalable directory server that can be used to manage client side settings on a per user user, group, and computer basis. This, coupled with network home directories makes a very slick system. Basically how it works is this:
Almost all key system settings and user environment settings in Mac OS X (client) can be configured in 2 ways.
The first, is by each user individually on their computer. A preference file (XML plist) is created in that users local home directory to maintain the settings. This is fine for a personal computer, but when you start to think about managing 100 or maybe 1000 workstations this way, it becomes impossible. (even with scripts)
The second, and more interesting way for Mac OS X (client) to be configured is by allowing it to key its settings from a directory server. For each user that you define using Work Group manager, you can set up their user environment with a few clicks. You can set which printer they print to, you can set their dock position, you can set which commands appear in the various finder menus, you can set wether they can use CDs or removable media, you can set if they can connect to other servers or not, the list goes on and on (its literally hundreds of useful settings). After setting up the users, you "bind" all of your client computers to the Open Directory server. Then, any user you have defined in Open Directory can sit down and log into any of your clients, and their settings follow them around. Not only that, since Mac OS X is a home directory based system, their home directory can be on the network as well, and their files and folders follow them around as well. If you have a bunch of users you want to have the same settings, you can create group policies, or even apply settings and policies to specific computers, so that every user gets the same settings when they use a particular workstation.
(Due to samba 3s integration with Open Directory, you can also bind windows PCs to the directory just as you would bind them to an NT domain controller, and use the same directory based accounts to log into them as you do with macs or other unix machines bound to the Open Directory system.)
So some people may be saying "yawn yawn" this is basically what active directory or novell eDirectory does. You would in fact be correct, but the huge advantage that you have with Apple's implementation is that it is 100% built on OpenLDAP, meaning that it is both open source and open standards based. In addition, the schema that enables this is open, so you can in fact add it to other vendors directory systems should you like to manage macs, but already have an investment in a directory server. The Work Group manager application is simple and makes configuring a complex LDAP setup easy to do. Finally, and probably the most interesting aspect of Open Directory is that for the flat price you pay up front, it includes an unlimited client liscense. Thats right, no client access fees per user or per computer. So, not only is it a very capable, scalable, and easy to use, open standards based directory system, it is actually much more economical than many other systems that do similar things.
You can avoid this my unchecking "Have iTunes manage my music library" or whatever.
1) Install 2) When asked if you want to find Mp3/Music on your hard drive say no. 3) Before you drag all your Mp3s to the iTUnes window, uncheck the option to manage your iTunes music folder, and uncheck the option to copy songs into your iTunes music folder on import.
Now, when you drag your songs over, they will just be referenced in the location they already exist, and not re-named/sorted.
Why not use a Kerberos based password management solution?
- Users have one password. - They enter it once on system login. - They can securely access all services on the network without typing it again. (The password is never sent over the network)
- As an admin, you have one place (the KDC) to add/remove users/passwords. - All services pick up these changes automatically, so you don't have to sync password lists between servers.
Saves time, money, and increases security. And its an open standard.
It won't be as cheap as x86 by any means, but it could be easier to support and teach.
Are you sure? I have seen lots of data that shows while Apple computers may be a more expensive initial hardware investment, they have longer useful lives and less total suport costs than x86 PCs. Much of this might have to do with Windows instability and likliness to aquire virii, but if you switch a large userbase to an OS with a less polished UI like Linux, you might be doing more less OS reinstalls, but you will certainly be answering a heck of a lot more helpdesk calls.
OSX seems like a win win from usability/stability/features and cost (in the long run).
If these kids have at least minimal intelligence, they will be able to transfer thier skills to whatever system they should have to use in the future. Kind of like how you can get in any car and drive it...
Re:I agree; sounds nothing but trollish.
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At that rate, the company has at most five years to live. (from the article)
Oh please, who knows where we will be in 5 years. Apple has been given a death sentence 10 times over and they are alive and kicking. IBM transformed their giant, slow mainframe based business into a service organization and doing fine... it happens all the time.
The fact is that most people don't understand quicktime, and thats why we get all these useless posts that it is quicktime's fault that linux users can't play sorenson encoded video.
Better than MS-WMA lockdown..
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If we have to go to DRM (and unfortunately it looks as if we are heading that way) wouldn't you rather have Real make a DRM that can wrap any media file instead of being locked into an MS DRM that only works on Windows and with WMA files?
I dont' get what the fuss with relying on WEP for wireless security is. Regular ethernet is not encrypted. You could just plug a laptop into a hub and run tcpdump to sniff if you really wanted to. If we use the same security measures over wireless that we do over wired ethernet (VPN, SSL/SSH, Kerberos), who cares about WEP?
>> Last time I checked, x86 darwin only supported a very limited set of hardware.
Hey Hey Hey, isn't that the whole point of OSS? You want it to work on your box, write the code and give it back. People too often get confused between Free and in Free and Free as in Beer.
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The fan controller in the Power Mac G5 is aware of the noise amplifying and canceling effects of running different fans at different speeds in different combinations. It actively uses this information and uses it in decisions on how to cool the G5 in the quietest manner using the 9 strategically placed fans.
They run hardly any software, and once you get into the real world, your Mac skills are worthless because Macs are few and far between out there.
Yeah and my computer skills I learned on an Apple IIe and commodore 64 when I was a kid are holding me back. Face it, by the time kids in first grade today get into the working world, computers as we know it will be radically different. Its not the actual programs that you learn that is valuable, its the general skills that can be transfered to any "computer".
Dude, I can recite every stop on the Oregon trail. I can't say that for much else I did in elementary school. (Except maybe reading). Now thats what I call learning.
Did you look into using the built in QTSS server to set up an Mp3 streaming server? Last I checked you can throw all your mp3s in the QTSS source directory in your home directory on the server, fire up the QTSS publisher app or web admin and set up play lists for any quicktime supported media type. I think QTSS even has built in web page templates that will make your site look good. You can eve add weights to different songs and put the list on loop so when people tune in, they hear certain songs more than others.
radmind, developed by the University of Michigan's Research Systems UNIX Group can do file system snapshots.
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/
You need a fully reversible DNS name when you install the server, or else you need to set up DNS on the server yourself.
Basically, if all things are equal in terms of the features you need, the huge advantage over AD (and other directory servers) that Open Directory has that it includes no per client charge. $1000 gets you unlimited users.
The author of this comment is 100% correct. Not only does Open Directory consolidate and integrate authentication for all network services, it provides a very scalable directory server that can be used to manage client side settings on a per user user, group, and computer basis. This, coupled with network home directories makes a very slick system. Basically how it works is this:
Almost all key system settings and user environment settings in Mac OS X (client) can be configured in 2 ways.
The first, is by each user individually on their computer. A preference file (XML plist) is created in that users local home directory to maintain the settings. This is fine for a personal computer, but when you start to think about managing 100 or maybe 1000 workstations this way, it becomes impossible. (even with scripts)
The second, and more interesting way for Mac OS X (client) to be configured is by allowing it to key its settings from a directory server. For each user that you define using Work Group manager, you can set up their user environment with a few clicks. You can set which printer they print to, you can set their dock position, you can set which commands appear in the various finder menus, you can set wether they can use CDs or removable media, you can set if they can connect to other servers or not, the list goes on and on (its literally hundreds of useful settings). After setting up the users, you "bind" all of your client computers to the Open Directory server. Then, any user you have defined in Open Directory can sit down and log into any of your clients, and their settings follow them around. Not only that, since Mac OS X is a home directory based system, their home directory can be on the network as well, and their files and folders follow them around as well. If you have a bunch of users you want to have the same settings, you can create group policies, or even apply settings and policies to specific computers, so that every user gets the same settings when they use a particular workstation.
(Due to samba 3s integration with Open Directory, you can also bind windows PCs to the directory just as you would bind them to an NT domain controller, and use the same directory based accounts to log into them as you do with macs or other unix machines bound to the Open Directory system.)
So some people may be saying "yawn yawn" this is basically what active directory or novell eDirectory does. You would in fact be correct, but the huge advantage that you have with Apple's implementation is that it is 100% built on OpenLDAP, meaning that it is both open source and open standards based. In addition, the schema that enables this is open, so you can in fact add it to other vendors directory systems should you like to manage macs, but already have an investment in a directory server. The Work Group manager application is simple and makes configuring a complex LDAP setup easy to do. Finally, and probably the most interesting aspect of Open Directory is that for the flat price you pay up front, it includes an unlimited client liscense. Thats right, no client access fees per user or per computer. So, not only is it a very capable, scalable, and easy to use, open standards based directory system, it is actually much more economical than many other systems that do similar things.
100,000,000 Songs? Pepsi just started to taste a whole lot better.
You can avoid this my unchecking "Have iTunes manage my music library" or whatever.
1) Install
2) When asked if you want to find Mp3/Music on your hard drive say no.
3) Before you drag all your Mp3s to the iTUnes window, uncheck the option to manage your iTunes music folder, and uncheck the option to copy songs into your iTunes music folder on import.
Now, when you drag your songs over, they will just be referenced in the location they already exist, and not re-named/sorted.
Why not use a Kerberos based password management solution?
- Users have one password.
- They enter it once on system login.
- They can securely access all services on the network without typing it again. (The password is never sent over the network)
- As an admin, you have one place (the KDC) to add/remove users/passwords.
- All services pick up these changes automatically, so you don't have to sync password lists between servers.
Saves time, money, and increases security. And its an open standard.
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
It won't be as cheap as x86 by any means, but it could be easier to support and teach.
Are you sure? I have seen lots of data that shows while Apple computers may be a more expensive initial hardware investment, they have longer useful lives and less total suport costs than x86 PCs. Much of this might have to do with Windows instability and likliness to aquire virii, but if you switch a large userbase to an OS with a less polished UI like Linux, you might be doing more less OS reinstalls, but you will certainly be answering a heck of a lot more helpdesk calls. OSX seems like a win win from usability/stability/features and cost (in the long run).
If these kids have at least minimal intelligence, they will be able to transfer thier skills to whatever system they should have to use in the future. Kind of like how you can get in any car and drive it...
At that rate, the company has at most five years to live. (from the article) Oh please, who knows where we will be in 5 years. Apple has been given a death sentence 10 times over and they are alive and kicking. IBM transformed their giant, slow mainframe based business into a service organization and doing fine... it happens all the time.
The fact is that most people don't understand quicktime, and thats why we get all these useless posts that it is quicktime's fault that linux users can't play sorenson encoded video.
If we have to go to DRM (and unfortunately it looks as if we are heading that way) wouldn't you rather have Real make a DRM that can wrap any media file instead of being locked into an MS DRM that only works on Windows and with WMA files?
I dont' get what the fuss with relying on WEP for wireless security is. Regular ethernet is not encrypted. You could just plug a laptop into a hub and run tcpdump to sniff if you really wanted to. If we use the same security measures over wireless that we do over wired ethernet (VPN, SSL/SSH, Kerberos), who cares about WEP?
Ah bugger... Free as in Free... you know what i meant.. ;-)
>> Last time I checked, x86 darwin only supported a very limited set of hardware.
Hey Hey Hey, isn't that the whole point of OSS? You want it to work on your box, write the code and give it back. People too often get confused between Free and in Free and Free as in Beer.