Mark Jacobs, Lead Designer for Warhammer Online, said the following on his blog:
"Any plans for Mac support?" Nothing to announce yet but the computer in the bag next to my desk isn't a PC.
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The first thing I would do is narrow down your choices to a couple of companies and then look at the reviews on smallnetbuilder.com. The guys at smallnetbuilder put a lot of time into writing good reviews, so you won't find a regurgitation of the marketing materials like you do on other review sites. Another good feature of their site are the NAS charts (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190/). You can look at a number of different variables on all of the NAS boxes they have reviewed. For example, you can compare NAS read and write performance over 100Mbps Raid 5, 4k jumbo frames, 1000 Mbps Raid 10, etc.
You may come to another decision after doing your own research, but when I faced a similar situation for my home network, I went with QNAP. The thing that I really like about them is that their developers are very active on the official forum (http://forum.qnap.com/). They release firmware updates regularly and always seem to be looking for ways to make their users happy. YMMV, but I am pretty happy with their product.
I think the initial idea is to let the first responders and shelters have a few of these in storage so that they can be distributed to the areas that need them in an emergency. After the are in wider use, the price will come down and it will start to be feasible for individuals to buy them.
I sampled pizza all over Italy and while I was impressed with the sauces, I just didn't get into the 1) relative thinness and 2) lack of cheese. This probably exposes my bias against "NY Style" pizza and explains why "Chicago Style" reigns supreme in my book.
As a side note, many people believe that pizza was created in New Haven, CT. Of course, the people that believe this are all from CT, but hearing such a thing prompted me to sample the pizza from one of the two "famous" pizza places in New Haven. While I was impressed with it, especially for thin crust style pizza, it still didn't compare to Giordano's.
" The pro can't waste the time to have a librarian pull multiple documents for him while the public probably only needs one or two and can wait a few minutes. Seem like a pretty smart solution, imho.
Not only that, but it would be considered malpractice if an attorney let a librarian do all of his legal research for him. If you are paying an attorney for his time/expertise, then he can't have someone else doing the work (and MUCH of practicing law is research) and passing it off as his own.
"If all case law was made available on-line by the courts themselves, all you would need would be a sophisticated database query assembler to poke the right courts with the right queries and assemble it all in a web page at the end."
The court I deal with on an almost daily basis 1) can barely afford to pay the employees it has and 2) can barely keep track this year's cases. They don't even have a web page that I know of. What your recommending would be incredibly expensive and a continuous burden on already financially strained courts.
Each court used to publish their decisions in a book. People found it difficult to research more than one jurisdiction at a time when each little court had its own book with its own publication schedule, etc., so courts in each particular county or area published their opinions together in a single set of books. Of course, cities grow and the number of cases that reached across jurisdictions grew, so courts from a wider area grouped their opinions in a set of books to make it easier to research. The problem is that there are lots of different areas that do this sort of thing, so trying to research something that reaches across city/county/state lines can be rather unwieldly. Along comes the wonderful people at West and Lexis who say, "You know what, we will put all of this together in one big electronic database and let you search jurisdictions across the entire country in less time then it used to take you to find one book." This literally revolutioned the practice of law. Older attorneys that don't know how to use the electronic databases are less efficient and less accurate with their research than a normal second or third year law student. Not only that, but the electronic services usually have cases on-line within a day or two of the decisions being handed down. Prior, you would have to wait months for the updates to the books to come out. This matters a lot if some court in your jurisdiction decided a case last week that is adverse to something you are arguing this week. What this all means is that Lexis, et al. provide a value added service. They aren't taking the cases away from the public, they are just making it easier to search for and Shepardize those cases.
But, the biggest problem with your idea is that I would have to search multiple web sites, each with different formats and search tools, when I needed to perform my due diligence. As many people have stated, Lexis and Westlaw fill a need: they tie it all together. Hell, I can find everything in Westlaw or Lexis in a book. But, if I am representing you and charging you by the hour, then you would definitely prefer that I Shepardize my cases with one click on Lexis, rather than Shepardizing with the books (a mind numbing exercise left to first year law students only these days). Lexis and westlaw save you money. They let those of us that spent the time learning, for example, why ERISA provides a private cause of action in some cases and not others, get things done faster--lessening the amount we need to charge clients (you).
I didn't read the article, but I suspect that Westlaw and Lexis are hesitant to provide unlimited accounts to libraries because it would be a very attractive way for small practitioners to drop their accounts with either service. Private individuals are not likely to sign up/pay for Westlaw or Lexis anyways. They just want to make sure that lawyers have to keep paying for it.
And let's not even get into the fact that unlimited Westlaw and Lexis accounts are provided to law students at no charge. Just like any reputable drug dealer would say, "the first hit is always free..."
I second Xnap. I just started using it about a week ago and have been very happy with the results so far. Acquisition is still one of my favorites, too.
I recently tried out the (new?) edonkey client for OS X called mldonkey. Check it out at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mldonkey/. There are some mac specific things for edonkey at http://homepage.mac.com/michelmoreau.
Not trying to argue with you, but have you considered that Norton might be your problem? I had a few clients get hosed by Norton in the Pre-OS X days (installing Norton Crash Guard was quite possibly the fastest way to make a Mac crash) and stopped using their products all together. From what I have read, the newer versions are no better.
Maybe you could try using DiskWarrior (which has saved my ass numerous times) on one of the machines and see if that machine has a lower future failure rate than the other 19 that are using Norton.
Who knows, maybe it is OS X that is causing your problems, but this is probably worth looking into.
Neither Andovernet nor the Slashdot editors could "prosecute" anyone. In the US, prosecution is left to the government. That's why we have District Attorneys, US Attorneys, etc.
So, unless the government went after the people that DoS'd Slashdot (HAHAHA--I am sure they would put every available detective on the case (obligatory Big Lebowski reference)), the most Andovernet could do is file a tort claim against the alleged DoSers. Tort claims (unless specially designated by statute, like some environmental things) are CIVIL--not criminal.
Another little lesson for you: Your definition of "justice" might be a little different than other persons on this site. I am not saying that one view is right or wrong, but unless you are trolling, the wording of your post shows a blatant disregard for opinions that aren't your own. E.g., asserting that the mere expression of sympathy could be "immature and irresponsible."
Hey, who knows? Maybe you were just trolling and I took the bait.
IANALBIAATYLS (I am not a lawyer, but I am a third year law student)
Ok, let's assume for a brief moment that the rock is going to slam into us AND that by some horrible miscalculation it is the size of Greenland AND there is nothing we can do about it?
Assuming that roving gangs of long haired, dirty children have not killed you (a la Mad Max) yet, how do you spend the last 24 hours of human existence?
How about USB peripherals? I had a USB floppy disk drive that works perfectly on my Sony Win laptop. I plugged it into an iMac running the last version of OS/9 and it worked perfectly there too, with native OS support and no need for extra drivers. When I tried it with OS/X on the same hardware, kernel panic
What version OS X was this? Public Beta, 10.0.4, 10.1 or what? There were a few problems with pre 10.1 systems and usb peripherals, but I haven't seen any (especially any that would cause a kernel panic) since 10.1.
Sure, you might have played with a copy of the Public beta and had some problems, but every iteration of OS X has changed considerably from the previous one (for the better). My OS X machines are now rivaling my Debian boxes (boxen for those that realize boxen is supposed to be a funny play on words) in the uptime competition and I don't "just surf the web and check email" with my machines.
Take that USB floppy to your local Apple Store and plug it into one of the display machines running 10.1.5 and see if you get a kernel panic this time.
Actually, in most Political Science books, there is no longer a discussion of First and Third World countries. The new (well, not that new since it was that way when I got my BA in Pol Sci) terminology is First tier and Second tier.
If you can't afford a lawyer, I would contact one of the law schools in your state and find out who has an Intellectual Property Clinic. This is precisely the type of case that the IP clinic at my school handles. If none of the schools in your state have an IP clinic, try the surrounding states.
If you don't want to go that route, you could also contact the local Bar Association (think lawyers, not beer) to see if there is a local practitioner that would help you for reduced fee or no fee.
More than likely, everyone involved is a Delaware corporation and the cases would probably be brought in Del, so it would be pretty easy to combine them and have one lawyer take care of this for all of you. Of course, if you band together and all chip in some cash, you can probably get a decent sized firm to take the case and send these idiots a letter. Once they see that you have gotten a big gun to represent you, they will probably go bother someone else.
I can't wait to get out of law school so that I can go after scum like this.
I think the "software Wi-Fi" that he is referring to is the Software Base Station which Apple has done.
Of course, to hear MS spin it, this is revolutionary stuff that only MS could create.
I know you said that you weren't doggin Apple, so I guess you just don't know: All Macs with OS X have apache preinstalled. Every single one of them, even those funky new iMacs. Not just servers or special editions, but all Macs with OS X.
Don't believe me? So, I don't doubt your assertion about the surveys, but I do think that it means quite the opposite of what you were trying to say. The software used by Macs for web serving is *very* popular, indeed.:)
I have to totally disagree with this notion of "built in obsolesence." In fact, the general consensus (even amongst wintel folks) is that Apple computers hold their value far longer than any other brand out there (see here and here for examples). Just take a stroll through the Apple section on eBay if you don't believe me (although, I admit that people on eBay will pay more for anything just for the joy of buying on ebay, but you can still make the comparison).
I will use my own set up as an example:
I have 4 Macs. My mp3 server is a Performa 6400 (200 MHz 603ev processor) from 1996. It runs OS 9.1 and serves as my stereo system and sometimes backup file server. My intranet web server is a Powerbook G3 (233 Mhz PPC 750 processor) with 288 MB of RAM. It runs apache and a host of other apps through OS 10.1.2 and is connected to my lan with a wireless ethernet pc card. It was purchased in 1998. My ftp, hotline and test box is a Beige G3 (266 MHz) with 640 mb of RAM and a 30gb maxtor hd. It runs OS 9.2 and webstar's ftp server. I've had it since early 1998. My everday machine is a G4 titanium which is the absolute best piece of hardware I have ever owned.:)
So, I have machines that are 6 years that still fulfill a worthwhile purpose on my home network. Excluding the oldest (the 6400) machine that will probably be donated to someone else in the near future, I still have 4 and 5 year old Macs that I have no need, and no foreseeable need, to replace.
Comparing Apples to BMWs is an old cliche, but it is quite appropriate in this argument. They cost a little more in the beginning but they hold their value for an amazing length of time.
I believe that Stuffit expander doesn't "execute" the hqx files it downloads, as much as it "processes" them.
Example: When you download a copy of a program through IE and Stuffit Expander automatically runs after the download completes, the program you downloaded doesn't automatically run after Stuffit quits. You have to double click or open the uncompressed program for it to execute. Therein lies the problem with this version of IE--it executes programs after they are downloaded. See the difference?
Not true. When I switched to the Washington, DC market I was told by the person that switched my plan that none of their plans were offering first incoming minute free anymore. And I can assure you that I don't have the cheapest plan.
I don't know if this is because of my market or a mistake by the person who switched me over, but I truly miss that first incoming minute free feature.
Hint: whatever plan or service provider you go with, make sure you get free nationwide long distance!!
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Mark Jacobs, Lead Designer for Warhammer Online, said the following on his blog: "Any plans for Mac support?" Nothing to announce yet but the computer in the bag next to my desk isn't a PC.
The first thing I would do is narrow down your choices to a couple of companies and then look at the reviews on smallnetbuilder.com. The guys at smallnetbuilder put a lot of time into writing good reviews, so you won't find a regurgitation of the marketing materials like you do on other review sites. Another good feature of their site are the NAS charts (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190/). You can look at a number of different variables on all of the NAS boxes they have reviewed. For example, you can compare NAS read and write performance over 100Mbps Raid 5, 4k jumbo frames, 1000 Mbps Raid 10, etc.
You may come to another decision after doing your own research, but when I faced a similar situation for my home network, I went with QNAP. The thing that I really like about them is that their developers are very active on the official forum (http://forum.qnap.com/). They release firmware updates regularly and always seem to be looking for ways to make their users happy. YMMV, but I am pretty happy with their product.
I think the initial idea is to let the first responders and shelters have a few of these in storage so that they can be distributed to the areas that need them in an emergency. After the are in wider use, the price will come down and it will start to be feasible for individuals to buy them.
No, it is AES-128.
Details available at http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/
I sampled pizza all over Italy and while I was impressed with the sauces, I just didn't get into the 1) relative thinness and 2) lack of cheese. This probably exposes my bias against "NY Style" pizza and explains why "Chicago Style" reigns supreme in my book.
As a side note, many people believe that pizza was created in New Haven, CT. Of course, the people that believe this are all from CT, but hearing such a thing prompted me to sample the pizza from one of the two "famous" pizza places in New Haven. While I was impressed with it, especially for thin crust style pizza, it still didn't compare to Giordano's.
Giordano's has the best pizza in the world.
Hmmmm...pizza...
I'm not sure if it supposed to be so green, but I got this link to the pic of the G5 case off of macrumors.com mirror site.
http://www.oisdata.com/g5.jpg
I'm sure that better pics will be turning up, but this was the first one I found.
" The pro can't waste the time to have a librarian pull multiple documents for him while the public probably only needs one or two and can wait a few minutes. Seem like a pretty smart solution, imho.
Not only that, but it would be considered malpractice if an attorney let a librarian do all of his legal research for him. If you are paying an attorney for his time/expertise, then he can't have someone else doing the work (and MUCH of practicing law is research) and passing it off as his own.
leagle
"If all case law was made available on-line by the courts themselves, all you would need would be a sophisticated database query assembler to poke the right courts with the right queries and assemble it all in a web page at the end."
The court I deal with on an almost daily basis 1) can barely afford to pay the employees it has and 2) can barely keep track this year's cases. They don't even have a web page that I know of. What your recommending would be incredibly expensive and a continuous burden on already financially strained courts.
Each court used to publish their decisions in a book. People found it difficult to research more than one jurisdiction at a time when each little court had its own book with its own publication schedule, etc., so courts in each particular county or area published their opinions together in a single set of books. Of course, cities grow and the number of cases that reached across jurisdictions grew, so courts from a wider area grouped their opinions in a set of books to make it easier to research. The problem is that there are lots of different areas that do this sort of thing, so trying to research something that reaches across city/county/state lines can be rather unwieldly. Along comes the wonderful people at West and Lexis who say, "You know what, we will put all of this together in one big electronic database and let you search jurisdictions across the entire country in less time then it used to take you to find one book." This literally revolutioned the practice of law. Older attorneys that don't know how to use the electronic databases are less efficient and less accurate with their research than a normal second or third year law student. Not only that, but the electronic services usually have cases on-line within a day or two of the decisions being handed down. Prior, you would have to wait months for the updates to the books to come out. This matters a lot if some court in your jurisdiction decided a case last week that is adverse to something you are arguing this week. What this all means is that Lexis, et al. provide a value added service. They aren't taking the cases away from the public, they are just making it easier to search for and Shepardize those cases.
But, the biggest problem with your idea is that I would have to search multiple web sites, each with different formats and search tools, when I needed to perform my due diligence. As many people have stated, Lexis and Westlaw fill a need: they tie it all together. Hell, I can find everything in Westlaw or Lexis in a book. But, if I am representing you and charging you by the hour, then you would definitely prefer that I Shepardize my cases with one click on Lexis, rather than Shepardizing with the books (a mind numbing exercise left to first year law students only these days). Lexis and westlaw save you money. They let those of us that spent the time learning, for example, why ERISA provides a private cause of action in some cases and not others, get things done faster--lessening the amount we need to charge clients (you).
I didn't read the article, but I suspect that Westlaw and Lexis are hesitant to provide unlimited accounts to libraries because it would be a very attractive way for small practitioners to drop their accounts with either service. Private individuals are not likely to sign up/pay for Westlaw or Lexis anyways. They just want to make sure that lawyers have to keep paying for it.
And let's not even get into the fact that unlimited Westlaw and Lexis accounts are provided to law students at no charge. Just like any reputable drug dealer would say, "the first hit is always free..."
leagle
On a not so related note, a group of ferrets is called a "business of ferrets." Seriously. And most ferrets I know are non-commercial, too.
I second Xnap. I just started using it about a week ago and have been very happy with the results so far. Acquisition is still one of my favorites, too.
I recently tried out the (new?) edonkey client for OS X called mldonkey. Check it out at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mldonkey/. There are some mac specific things for edonkey at http://homepage.mac.com/michelmoreau.
good luck.
If only I had some mod points to give you. Any reference to The Big Lebowski, no matter how arcane, will always get modded up by me.
i love that damn movie. it was a big part of my last two years of college.
Not trying to argue with you, but have you considered that Norton might be your problem? I had a few clients get hosed by Norton in the Pre-OS X days (installing Norton Crash Guard was quite possibly the fastest way to make a Mac crash) and stopped using their products all together. From what I have read, the newer versions are no better.
Maybe you could try using DiskWarrior (which has saved my ass numerous times) on one of the machines and see if that machine has a lower future failure rate than the other 19 that are using Norton.
Who knows, maybe it is OS X that is causing your problems, but this is probably worth looking into.
Neither Andovernet nor the Slashdot editors could "prosecute" anyone. In the US, prosecution is left to the government. That's why we have District Attorneys, US Attorneys, etc.
So, unless the government went after the people that DoS'd Slashdot (HAHAHA--I am sure they would put every available detective on the case (obligatory Big Lebowski reference)), the most Andovernet could do is file a tort claim against the alleged DoSers. Tort claims (unless specially designated by statute, like some environmental things) are CIVIL--not criminal.
Another little lesson for you: Your definition of "justice" might be a little different than other persons on this site. I am not saying that one view is right or wrong, but unless you are trolling, the wording of your post shows a blatant disregard for opinions that aren't your own. E.g., asserting that the mere expression of sympathy could be "immature and irresponsible."
Hey, who knows? Maybe you were just trolling and I took the bait.
IANALBIAATYLS (I am not a lawyer, but I am a third year law student)
leagle
Ok, let's assume for a brief moment that the rock is going to slam into us AND that by some horrible miscalculation it is the size of Greenland AND there is nothing we can do about it?
:)
Assuming that roving gangs of long haired, dirty children have not killed you (a la Mad Max) yet, how do you spend the last 24 hours of human existence?
Bonus for creativity.
What version OS X was this? Public Beta, 10.0.4, 10.1 or what? There were a few problems with pre 10.1 systems and usb peripherals, but I haven't seen any (especially any that would cause a kernel panic) since 10.1.
Sure, you might have played with a copy of the Public beta and had some problems, but every iteration of OS X has changed considerably from the previous one (for the better). My OS X machines are now rivaling my Debian boxes (boxen for those that realize boxen is supposed to be a funny play on words) in the uptime competition and I don't "just surf the web and check email" with my machines.
Take that USB floppy to your local Apple Store and plug it into one of the display machines running 10.1.5 and see if you get a kernel panic this time.
leagle
Actually, in most Political Science books, there is no longer a discussion of First and Third World countries. The new (well, not that new since it was that way when I got my BA in Pol Sci) terminology is First tier and Second tier.
If you don't want to go that route, you could also contact the local Bar Association (think lawyers, not beer) to see if there is a local practitioner that would help you for reduced fee or no fee.
More than likely, everyone involved is a Delaware corporation and the cases would probably be brought in Del, so it would be pretty easy to combine them and have one lawyer take care of this for all of you. Of course, if you band together and all chip in some cash, you can probably get a decent sized firm to take the case and send these idiots a letter. Once they see that you have gotten a big gun to represent you, they will probably go bother someone else.
I can't wait to get out of law school so that I can go after scum like this.
Frank
I think the "software Wi-Fi" that he is referring to is the Software Base Station which Apple has done. Of course, to hear MS spin it, this is revolutionary stuff that only MS could create.
I know you said that you weren't doggin Apple, so I guess you just don't know: All Macs with OS X have apache preinstalled. Every single one of them, even those funky new iMacs. Not just servers or special editions, but all Macs with OS X. :)
Don't believe me?
So, I don't doubt your assertion about the surveys, but I do think that it means quite the opposite of what you were trying to say. The software used by Macs for web serving is *very* popular, indeed.
Frank
I have to totally disagree with this notion of "built in obsolesence." In fact, the general consensus (even amongst wintel folks) is that Apple computers hold their value far longer than any other brand out there (see here and here for examples). Just take a stroll through the Apple section on eBay if you don't believe me (although, I admit that people on eBay will pay more for anything just for the joy of buying on ebay, but you can still make the comparison).
:)
I will use my own set up as an example:
I have 4 Macs. My mp3 server is a Performa 6400 (200 MHz 603ev processor) from 1996. It runs OS 9.1 and serves as my stereo system and sometimes backup file server. My intranet web server is a Powerbook G3 (233 Mhz PPC 750 processor) with 288 MB of RAM. It runs apache and a host of other apps through OS 10.1.2 and is connected to my lan with a wireless ethernet pc card. It was purchased in 1998. My ftp, hotline and test box is a Beige G3 (266 MHz) with 640 mb of RAM and a 30gb maxtor hd. It runs OS 9.2 and webstar's ftp server. I've had it since early 1998. My everday machine is a G4 titanium which is the absolute best piece of hardware I have ever owned.
So, I have machines that are 6 years that still fulfill a worthwhile purpose on my home network. Excluding the oldest (the 6400) machine that will probably be donated to someone else in the near future, I still have 4 and 5 year old Macs that I have no need, and no foreseeable need, to replace.
Comparing Apples to BMWs is an old cliche, but it is quite appropriate in this argument. They cost a little more in the beginning but they hold their value for an amazing length of time.
Frank
I believe that Stuffit expander doesn't "execute" the hqx files it downloads, as much as it "processes" them.
Example: When you download a copy of a program through IE and Stuffit Expander automatically runs after the download completes, the program you downloaded doesn't automatically run after Stuffit quits. You have to double click or open the uncompressed program for it to execute. Therein lies the problem with this version of IE--it executes programs after they are downloaded. See the difference?
Not true. When I switched to the Washington, DC market I was told by the person that switched my plan that none of their plans were offering first incoming minute free anymore. And I can assure you that I don't have the cheapest plan.
I don't know if this is because of my market or a mistake by the person who switched me over, but I truly miss that first incoming minute free feature.
Hint: whatever plan or service provider you go with, make sure you get free nationwide long distance!!