Yup, that too. But self support is fairly painless as well. It is also pretty impossible to fuck your Mac up by doing a boot-from-internet reinstall and time-capsule restore - there are no drivers to worry about, you need to go out of your way to wipe the disk, etc.
Time machine, for all it's faults (speed mainly) is some of the best software I have ever seen, in 30 years of using computers. It doesn't get in the way, doesn't require un-necessarily complicated set up and just works. It's pretty much seamless, almost "magic" to the end user.
This is a major gap in every other end user OS at the moment in my opinion. Most backup software just plain fucking sucks. Including massively expensive corporate backup software.
All the BSODs i have personally seen since Windows NT4 have been due to either broken hardware or dodgy third party drivers. Buy non-shit hardware (with proper drivers), and Windows is fairly stable. I'm not counting Windows 95/98/ME here - but the NT code-base as far as stability goes is fairly solid.
... and the whole backup thing? time machine/time capsule. set/forget. if they ever need to reinstall the machine themselves, hold option, network boot/install, restore from time machine backup when prompted. it's so easy, your grandmother could do it.
If the browser is sitting at a logged in desktop then presumably they are authenticated. If you are leaving your desktop logged in, unattended, etc. there are far bigger problems here.
LOL. What some people (mainly americans) fail to see is that China could quite happily not have you as an economic partner? Why? Because you never actually pay, you're just racking up credit.
And it's looking like you never actually will be able to pay, either. Hence China buying massive amounts of gold and attempting to get out of US treasuries slowly and quietly without crashing them.
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Oh and of course. OS X, iOS.
Netapp, Juniper, Bluecoat, others.
Says the guy who can't configure IPSEC.
Ahaha. I'm sure he's at least somewhat misunderstood as text does not convey tone very well. But yes, description seems accurate.
I had similar concerns, bought a mac mini a few years back and have not looked back. I also think you under-estimate your parent's ability to adapt.
Yup, that too. But self support is fairly painless as well. It is also pretty impossible to fuck your Mac up by doing a boot-from-internet reinstall and time-capsule restore - there are no drivers to worry about, you need to go out of your way to wipe the disk, etc.
Time machine, for all it's faults (speed mainly) is some of the best software I have ever seen, in 30 years of using computers. It doesn't get in the way, doesn't require un-necessarily complicated set up and just works. It's pretty much seamless, almost "magic" to the end user.
This is a major gap in every other end user OS at the moment in my opinion. Most backup software just plain fucking sucks. Including massively expensive corporate backup software.
All the BSODs i have personally seen since Windows NT4 have been due to either broken hardware or dodgy third party drivers. Buy non-shit hardware (with proper drivers), and Windows is fairly stable. I'm not counting Windows 95/98/ME here - but the NT code-base as far as stability goes is fairly solid.
... and the whole backup thing? time machine/time capsule. set/forget. if they ever need to reinstall the machine themselves, hold option, network boot/install, restore from time machine backup when prompted. it's so easy, your grandmother could do it.
You, the OP, are a nerd. Your parents are not. Apple get "normal people". Do them a favour and get them something they won't hate.
Not as good as it used to be, we run Forefront which uses the same definitions and have had a number of things get through it as of late.
If the browser is sitting at a logged in desktop then presumably they are authenticated. If you are leaving your desktop logged in, unattended, etc. there are far bigger problems here.
I"m sure the people stuck on Linux 2.0 are whinging about security too.
Throwing technology at a user problem is never going to work. You already have a solution: use a guest account on your mac.
What? This is why we have usernames and passwords to log into the computer.
If you want encryption, you run file vault. If someone is logged into your account, guess what?
Run filevault.
Not really. Learning to code hello world by rote doesn't make you suddenly capable of writing an SMP aware scheduler, for example.
Yes, contrary to /. groupthink, there are plenty of businesses out there who run on windows.
500 million (or whatever) lines of code worth of "hello world" is not exactly the same as a working, profitable commercial OS family, is it?
Exactly. Or even better, shock horror... have your domestic population buy them.
That's pretty bad for goldman sachs.
Pretty much that. If they get out too quick they crash the dollar.
LOL. What some people (mainly americans) fail to see is that China could quite happily not have you as an economic partner? Why? Because you never actually pay, you're just racking up credit.
And it's looking like you never actually will be able to pay, either. Hence China buying massive amounts of gold and attempting to get out of US treasuries slowly and quietly without crashing them.
They probably chose FAT because every USB memory stick you buy is PRE FORMATTED AS FAT.
I recently built a Haswell box. Whether it has secure boot enabled or not I have no idea, and yes I also have a linux install on it.