I beleive that a wireless connection to a network should be treated exactly the same way as an internet connection.
Therefore if you are a business and want to give your users access to the entire internal network they should be going through a VPN, the same way an external employee sitting at home would.
At the end of the day the connections are the same, you don't know who might be connecting, and you can't trust anything you send/recieve on the network.
I think everyone just got sick of the 4 page review spread over 30 pages at tom's. I also beleive that for a while they got a little to excited about some of the Intel offerings, and in an enthusist market with a lot of people getting success with the AMD that probably didn't go down well. Whether or not they made the right/wrong call is up for debate.
But you are ignoring the cost of the Motherboard, and in most cases the Ram (quite often dual mb use ECC ram). Also don't you need to buy Althon MPs?
Although in the last couple of years this has improved a fair bit.
Also over time these things get recycled for use in other parts. I know one of the Macs along the way used the Apple IIE processor as a keyboard controller.
Intel and AMD also have a lot of there older chips Pentiums, PIIs etc that are used in the embedded space. You can take an old PC and use modern manufacturing techniques to make it really low powered.
Free software is opening the market up for the little 1-3 software shop.
A company says it needs a specialised software built for there company. Years ago this would have required big $$$ and for most companies it wouldn't be worth the expense. Now a small company can take an open source program that gets them 80% of the way to the solution and then customise it exclusive for the business. The overall cost of the solution is much less, the company has a package customised exactly for them.
I know people who run small Linux based consultancies doing just this and small teams are able to sell extremely sophisticated systems to large companies at very viable pricing levels.
It used to be that Telstra had a yearly payment to MS and that was the last they thought about licensing, across the whole enterprise.
I am not sure if the deal is still the same.
I beleive that once you get Telstra size you have MS people on site all the time, and they work with not only your current MS implemented solutions but also planning for any future roll outs etc.
If you listen to MS Marketing Speek when they release a major infrastructure product (SQL, NT etc) they always claim heaps of feedback from their top 500 customers. This is how they do it.
No what I see this allowing is increasing the market for itanium motherboards. At present very few people are building Itanium motherboards, now if Itanium and Xeon share the same motherboards then it will it will be more attractive to mb makers to build Xeon/Itanium motherboards.
I don't think swapping the CPU's in motherboards ever was or is much of an option for servers (or workstations for that matter). Typically by the time you need a performance boost (same 18 months) then the technology in the CPUs has jumped so much (faster FSB etc) you only get the benefit of a new CPU with a new motherboard.
The best thing that Apple Does is makes it very easy to follow these guildlines. When using Interface builder objects snap to the correct distance apart from other objects as well as automatically setting up guides etc so that everything lines up etc. Building an app with resizing windows is very easy.
In my opinion anyone building a user interface builder should have a look at the way interface builders UI builder works.
But at the end of the day, it makes it easy for a mac developer to get his/her application right. For Apple this is especially important because ease of use & familarity between apps is paramount.
I remember Robert De Castala (Australian Marathon Runner) talking about what he did for Marathons, and he would stich his number onto his shirt with only 4 stiches in total to keep the weight down.
Sometimes these things are a psychological bonus to the rider, because everything is lighter they know it is only themselves which will win or lose the race.
The mac has excellent contextual menu support, in a lot of ways much better contectual menu support than Windows.
Simple things, on the mac I can right click (I have a multi button mouse) on iTunes dock icon and I get a list of commands I can use (play, rewind, rate song, blah blah blah). On my WinXP box all of the task manager icons simply give me close, maximise and restore.
Have a good play with MacOSX one day (I mean try to do something productive not just wave your mouse around the screen) and you will be amazed at how many speed ups you get as you work through things. A simple example, on MacOSX you can drop a file on a dock icon to open that file with that program, it even recognises if that program can't open that file. Windows XP, you can't drag and drop onto the task bar and if your document isn't recgonised then it takes ages to drill through all the dialogs of the open box. In the mean time I have dragged and dropped the file onto my commonly used app (say BBEdit for reading log files) and I am already finished with the file by the time I have opened the file on a windows machine.
From what I remember this technology either came from Apple or was given a major helping hand. I beleive that the head of the ZeroConf working group is an Apple employee.
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Stop thinking of developers as individuals who are trying to sell a product and think of developers as people who work/contract for organisations.
Instead of buying a product that is 95% of what I want I can take a OSS package that is 90% of the way there and pay a developer to customise it to exactly my needs. Now I have a solution that is perfect for my business, maybe given something back to the OSS community. While if I had bought the product I would probably have to change my business to use the product. The company now is also free of licensing and upgrade issues. Also they do not have to worry about the vendor going out of business or introducing a new version with no support for the old version.
If you think of software as tools for business rather than something that a developer trys to sell OSS makes a lot more sense.
It is interesting because isn't 80% of the wealth in the US held by 10 or 20% of the people. It would be interesting to see how much the top 10% contribute in tax?
Actually it supports Windows 2000, but it was a surprise to me that it only supported 2000 and XP. Obviously they are trying to push to get people to upgrade from win98 and the unMEntionable version of windows.
Last time I looked the latest version of office still can run on windows 98, or are the MS Office team working on Office 2010 and get tweaks they need put into Windows XP?
I beleive that the office team is in exactly the same position that OpenOffice is (except OpenOffice is multi platform). I can see the people building utility apps (eg windows movie maker) for windows XP being able to get a tweaks added to the windows code.
When you install windows XP home doesn't it make you the single super user account for the computer?
None of the user level unix based systems (MacOSX, Linux) do this by default except for Lindows. It is a pain that every once and a while you have to type the super user account details for certain upgrades or installs but a hell of a lot better than the windows situation.
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I beleive that a wireless connection to a network should be treated exactly the same way as an internet connection.
Therefore if you are a business and want to give your users access to the entire internal network they should be going through a VPN, the same way an external employee sitting at home would.
At the end of the day the connections are the same, you don't know who might be connecting, and you can't trust anything you send/recieve on the network.
It is probably the Microsoft License that is going to cost you the money.
I think everyone just got sick of the 4 page review spread over 30 pages at tom's. I also beleive that for a while they got a little to excited about some of the Intel offerings, and in an enthusist market with a lot of people getting success with the AMD that probably didn't go down well. Whether or not they made the right/wrong call is up for debate.
But you are ignoring the cost of the Motherboard, and in most cases the Ram (quite often dual mb use ECC ram). Also don't you need to buy Althon MPs? Although in the last couple of years this has improved a fair bit.
Also over time these things get recycled for use in other parts. I know one of the Macs along the way used the Apple IIE processor as a keyboard controller.
Intel and AMD also have a lot of there older chips Pentiums, PIIs etc that are used in the embedded space. You can take an old PC and use modern manufacturing techniques to make it really low powered.
Free software is opening the market up for the little 1-3 software shop.
A company says it needs a specialised software built for there company. Years ago this would have required big $$$ and for most companies it wouldn't be worth the expense. Now a small company can take an open source program that gets them 80% of the way to the solution and then customise it exclusive for the business. The overall cost of the solution is much less, the company has a package customised exactly for them.
I know people who run small Linux based consultancies doing just this and small teams are able to sell extremely sophisticated systems to large companies at very viable pricing levels.
Not having a Doom3 capable laptop, but I would guess that 20 minutes is a power saving time.
It used to be that Telstra had a yearly payment to MS and that was the last they thought about licensing, across the whole enterprise. I am not sure if the deal is still the same.
I beleive that once you get Telstra size you have MS people on site all the time, and they work with not only your current MS implemented solutions but also planning for any future roll outs etc.
If you listen to MS Marketing Speek when they release a major infrastructure product (SQL, NT etc) they always claim heaps of feedback from their top 500 customers. This is how they do it.
No what I see this allowing is increasing the market for itanium motherboards. At present very few people are building Itanium motherboards, now if Itanium and Xeon share the same motherboards then it will it will be more attractive to mb makers to build Xeon/Itanium motherboards.
I don't think swapping the CPU's in motherboards ever was or is much of an option for servers (or workstations for that matter). Typically by the time you need a performance boost (same 18 months) then the technology in the CPUs has jumped so much (faster FSB etc) you only get the benefit of a new CPU with a new motherboard.
You see heaps of discussions on Slashdot about Konqueror. It is just in disguise as Apple's Safari browser.
I think that this and the branches of the Mozilla engine a true examples of what makes open source so powerful.
Plus the mac comes with Chess already installed (OpenGL UI on top of GNU Chess).
The best thing that Apple Does is makes it very easy to follow these guildlines. When using Interface builder objects snap to the correct distance apart from other objects as well as automatically setting up guides etc so that everything lines up etc. Building an app with resizing windows is very easy.
In my opinion anyone building a user interface builder should have a look at the way interface builders UI builder works.
But at the end of the day, it makes it easy for a mac developer to get his/her application right. For Apple this is especially important because ease of use & familarity between apps is paramount.
I remember Robert De Castala (Australian Marathon Runner) talking about what he did for Marathons, and he would stich his number onto his shirt with only 4 stiches in total to keep the weight down.
Sometimes these things are a psychological bonus to the rider, because everything is lighter they know it is only themselves which will win or lose the race.
The mac has excellent contextual menu support, in a lot of ways much better contectual menu support than Windows.
Simple things, on the mac I can right click (I have a multi button mouse) on iTunes dock icon and I get a list of commands I can use (play, rewind, rate song, blah blah blah). On my WinXP box all of the task manager icons simply give me close, maximise and restore.
Have a good play with MacOSX one day (I mean try to do something productive not just wave your mouse around the screen) and you will be amazed at how many speed ups you get as you work through things. A simple example, on MacOSX you can drop a file on a dock icon to open that file with that program, it even recognises if that program can't open that file. Windows XP, you can't drag and drop onto the task bar and if your document isn't recgonised then it takes ages to drill through all the dialogs of the open box. In the mean time I have dragged and dropped the file onto my commonly used app (say BBEdit for reading log files) and I am already finished with the file by the time I have opened the file on a windows machine.
Now I know why Windows is totally unusable as a desktop :-)
I am sure you can download emacs.
While Gentoo helps you once, the people who get a benefit from a compile farm are developers.
Typical developer will go through many:
Change code,
Compile
Test
Repeat
Sometime hundreds of times a day. If you can make your compile times drop form 2 minutes to 1 minute you will save over an hour a day.
From what I remember this technology either came from Apple or was given a major helping hand. I beleive that the head of the ZeroConf working group is an Apple employee.
Stop thinking of developers as individuals who are trying to sell a product and think of developers as people who work/contract for organisations.
Instead of buying a product that is 95% of what I want I can take a OSS package that is 90% of the way there and pay a developer to customise it to exactly my needs. Now I have a solution that is perfect for my business, maybe given something back to the OSS community. While if I had bought the product I would probably have to change my business to use the product. The company now is also free of licensing and upgrade issues. Also they do not have to worry about the vendor going out of business or introducing a new version with no support for the old version.
If you think of software as tools for business rather than something that a developer trys to sell OSS makes a lot more sense.
They are rebuilding it with X-Serves now. I beleive that the get a 3 times increase in density (eg 3 XServers to 1 powermac).
It is interesting because isn't 80% of the wealth in the US held by 10 or 20% of the people. It would be interesting to see how much the top 10% contribute in tax?
You should use MacOSX you get the same feeling every time Apple releases a new version ;-) Maybe it was just to slow to start with :-(
PS: Will concede that Windows XP boots a lot faster than 2000 but everything in it still runs at the same old pace.
Actually it supports Windows 2000, but it was a surprise to me that it only supported 2000 and XP. Obviously they are trying to push to get people to upgrade from win98 and the unMEntionable version of windows.
Last time I looked the latest version of office still can run on windows 98, or are the MS Office team working on Office 2010 and get tweaks they need put into Windows XP? I beleive that the office team is in exactly the same position that OpenOffice is (except OpenOffice is multi platform). I can see the people building utility apps (eg windows movie maker) for windows XP being able to get a tweaks added to the windows code.
When you install windows XP home doesn't it make you the single super user account for the computer? None of the user level unix based systems (MacOSX, Linux) do this by default except for Lindows. It is a pain that every once and a while you have to type the super user account details for certain upgrades or installs but a hell of a lot better than the windows situation.