Readers, you will have to scroll a long way before you get to these good ideas: Network Drives and Education.
Network Storage can be secure enough for term papers, and cheap enough for every student.
Education: All it took for me to backup to multiple floppies in the eighties was a display by the sysadmins - a collection of bad floppies torn apart to show their very fragile innards. This was back when the bookstore was charging like two dollars per.
My university had a large Appletalk network in '87. So some folks were savvy enough to set up network storage for their friends even then!
But mostly it was many floppies and hard copy. Geez, any kind of old fashioned crash could hose three hours of wee hour work, so we were very paranoid
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Apple does what other companies just talk about: making sweeping changes while reinforcing customer loyalty.
Maybe this is commonplace, but I remember going from 68K to PPC with very little inconvience. Apple pulled off an incredible feat: changing the architecture while allowing folks to keep operating in a business-as-usual fashion.
Now we are changing again, and I find Classic to be a more than adequate solution. Apple makes very bold moves and manages to keep most of its user base happy and able to leverage past investments in the platform. (Well, except I got burned on the Geoport, but you can't win them all.)
That's amazing.
Geez, SGI couldn't pull this kind of thing off with Cray or Intel.
BTW: I've never been a big fan of X-windows GUI. To this day I can't tell which radio buttons/checkboxes are selected and which ones aren't. I use it when I must, like with the GIMP.
Otherwise, it's CLI or MacGUI for me. I'm still getting used to Aqua, but it's better than X for GUI.
Maybe they only used MS for the brochureware. The rest might have been built on any vendor's stuff.
I will be interested to hear _why_ they believe any violence was done to the DB. What the clues were, etc.
I do know that once I was attempting to build a site for a company that had content which was going to be integrated into the [insert very large card company here] web site. This small fact was enough for two of their security folks to grill me, they sent a rep to conduct a physical security check, and they wanted a white hat to give our dev server a go. They wanted two firewalls in front of my dev server. I was fairly impressed. So on some sites yr info is considered important.
Not to say they are the best/worst, but the only reason we needed to own any Intel hardware was to run Visio, Project and Access. It would be a great deal easier to plan business ops around Macs and Linux if they had these apps.
Mac OSX boxes won't be the cheapest or the priciest, but they will grant excellent value. We run Sun backend and Mac frontend in my shop. Apple hardware is generally excellent, as good as Sun is in terms of failure rate. Subtract harddrives and none of our Macs or Suns has ever had a significant hardware failure.
You can always drum up a comparison that will prove any cheaper/not cheaper beef, but a Un*x OS running on G4s with a potential wealth of open source and commercial software that I'm used to using sounds great to me. We will still run the OS that is right for the job, we have numerous linux boxes and NT boxes around. We were one of the first to slap linux on the Apple Network Server when the AIX two-user license proved to be a hinderance.
So from the mac/unix user perspective, I have been waiting 5 years for this kind of Mac.
Will it replace my Suns? Not soon, unless I can get a firewire-ready Hardware RAID and hot-swap power.
Now in terms of software, if a Mac::Aqua ever surfaces in CPAN, what more could I ask for?
I have had some pretty big roadblocks compiling GNU stuff on my OSX laptop so far though. A lightweight like me would need more by way of HOWTOs or configure scripts to get by. (Sometimes adding "darwin" to the configure scripts where you see "rhapsody" is good enough).
This book will tell all about the paperclip and other stuff. It is well written. You will finish before you realize you have read an entire book on the paperclip, the staple, etc...
Every time I touch a SCSI chain, I spend much more than a dollar's worth of time messing with ID's, termination, and "can we fit another brick on this darn power strip?"!!!
The only thing that could hurt Apple's FireWire play is not to sell it out. In a sense, FireWire is Appletalk on steroids:
Apple, much more than Sun, proved that "the network is the computer" by making sure that anyone with two+ Macs and cheap connectors had a network with almost NO setup. But Apple didn't sell that technology to the world, what might have happened if they did?
FireWire may tell us.
What consumers should be thinking is: The ultimate plug-and-play vehicle is worth two bucks.
The first ad might be: remember when you brought your Zip to a friend's house (to pirate software, maybe?) and you forgot the power brick? Well, for two bucks, that nightmare will never happen again!
Whatever. Apple has saved me enough time to have the luxury to participate in this rockfight.
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Readers, you will have to scroll a long way before you get to these good ideas: Network Drives and Education.
Network Storage can be secure enough for term papers, and cheap enough for every student.
Education: All it took for me to backup to multiple floppies in the eighties was a display by the sysadmins - a collection of bad floppies torn apart to show their very fragile innards. This was back when the bookstore was charging like two dollars per.
My university had a large Appletalk network in '87. So some folks were savvy enough to set up network storage for their friends even then!
But mostly it was many floppies and hard copy. Geez, any kind of old fashioned crash could hose three hours of wee hour work, so we were very paranoid
Apple does what other companies just talk about: making sweeping changes while reinforcing customer loyalty.
Maybe this is commonplace, but I remember going from 68K to PPC with very little inconvience. Apple pulled off an incredible feat: changing the architecture while allowing folks to keep operating in a business-as-usual fashion.
Now we are changing again, and I find Classic to be a more than adequate solution. Apple makes very bold moves and manages to keep most of its user base happy and able to leverage past investments in the platform. (Well, except I got burned on the Geoport, but you can't win them all.)
That's amazing.
Geez, SGI couldn't pull this kind of thing off with Cray or Intel.
BTW: I've never been a big fan of X-windows GUI. To this day I can't tell which radio buttons/checkboxes are selected and which ones aren't. I use it when I must, like with the GIMP.
Otherwise, it's CLI or MacGUI for me. I'm still getting used to Aqua, but it's better than X for GUI.
Maybe they only used MS for the brochureware. The rest might have been built on any vendor's stuff.
I will be interested to hear _why_ they believe any violence was done to the DB. What the clues were, etc.
I do know that once I was attempting to build a site for a company that had content which was going to be integrated into the [insert very large card company here] web site. This small fact was enough for two of their security folks to grill me, they sent a rep to conduct a physical security check, and they wanted a white hat to give our dev server a go. They wanted two firewalls in front of my dev server. I was fairly impressed. So on some sites yr info is considered important.
Not to say they are the best/worst, but the only reason we needed to own any Intel hardware was to run Visio, Project and Access. It would be a great deal easier to plan business ops around Macs and Linux if they had these apps.
Mac OSX boxes won't be the cheapest or the priciest, but they will grant excellent value. We run Sun backend and Mac frontend in my shop. Apple hardware is generally excellent, as good as Sun is in terms of failure rate. Subtract harddrives and none of our Macs or Suns has ever had a significant hardware failure.
You can always drum up a comparison that will prove any cheaper/not cheaper beef, but a Un*x OS running on G4s with a potential wealth of open source and commercial software that I'm used to using sounds great to me. We will still run the OS that is right for the job, we have numerous linux boxes and NT boxes around. We were one of the first to slap linux on the Apple Network Server when the AIX two-user license proved to be a hinderance.
So from the mac/unix user perspective, I have been waiting 5 years for this kind of Mac.
Will it replace my Suns? Not soon, unless I can get a firewire-ready Hardware RAID and hot-swap power.
Now in terms of software, if a Mac::Aqua ever surfaces in CPAN, what more could I ask for?
I have had some pretty big roadblocks compiling GNU stuff on my OSX laptop so far though. A lightweight like me would need more by way of HOWTOs or configure scripts to get by. (Sometimes adding "darwin" to the configure scripts where you see "rhapsody" is good enough).
This book will tell all about the paperclip and other stuff. It is well written. You will finish before you realize you have read an entire book on the paperclip, the staple, etc...
Every time I touch a SCSI chain, I spend much more than a dollar's worth of time messing with ID's, termination, and "can we fit another brick on this darn power strip?"!!!
The only thing that could hurt Apple's FireWire play is not to sell it out. In a sense, FireWire is Appletalk on steroids:
Apple, much more than Sun, proved that "the network is the computer" by making sure that anyone with two+ Macs and cheap connectors had a network with almost NO setup. But Apple didn't sell that technology to the world, what might have happened if they did?
FireWire may tell us.
What consumers should be thinking is: The ultimate plug-and-play vehicle is worth two bucks.
The first ad might be: remember when you brought your Zip to a friend's house (to pirate software, maybe?) and you forgot the power brick? Well, for two bucks, that nightmare will never happen again!
Whatever. Apple has saved me enough time to have the luxury to participate in this rockfight.