I am going to go ahead and call "B.S." It would seem to me, and I am by no means a medical doctor, that if you had a brain injury, you would not suddenly speak in a different accent. I would think maybe these people have a prior history of other psychological issues, like delusions, multiple personality disorder, etc. Or maybe they just fantasize about being from England, then they hit their head, and really do think they are English.
128k is FM Quality? Are you insane? I am not an RIAA shill, quite the opposite, but I am opposed to stealing, it is just wrong. The artists already get squat from record sales, why take even more away from them? Something is after all, better than nothing, last time I checked. 128k is fine for 99% of people out there, it is more comparable to CD than FM, if I had said 64k you would have been correct. Well, it should be fine unless you are a complete audiophile, in which case, nothing less than 320k will suffice for you, I assume. I am a proud user of the iTunes music store. I can burn the songs I have purchased to a CD, or to an iPod and have them all with me. All the music that I own on CD, I rip into.mp3 format just fine, I stick in the CD it rips into.mp3, adds to my library, then ejects the CD. Yes, I am an Apple user, flame on!
So if I manufacture a car, can Ford, Chevrolet, etc. sue me for having an engine? Of course the two programs are going to be similar, they are trying to do the same damn thing!! Maybe it is a huge coincidence that the variables are named the same thing, I am only a novice programmer, but maybe the terms that are similar are commonly-used programming terms? Or are common to Java-related programming? This just seems like a colossal waste of time, money, and effort that could be better spent coding to see whose software is really better, instead of languishing in a courtroom, trying to litigate your competition to death.
Oh no, you mean it is going to be that much harder for people to steal things? Even with the popular excuse "I only wanted one song", how many of you are still stealing with the advent of all of these online music stores, where you can buy songs for 1$?
Seriously, their iTunes software should have AT LEAST warned/prevented use of these devices before "updating" them into oblivion. Why? If this guy knew that the iPod he was using was mac-only, which he should have, where does the blame lie? Surely not with Apple. If I put a BETA tape into a vhs player, will I be able to get pissed when it doesn't work/borks my player? No, I didn't think so. Maybe the way windows talks to the iPod was known by Apple to bork it/not work too well, and they were only able to be fix it in the next generations, it is not like MS is well known for letting rival hardware work with their software. And it does matter what kind of computer/chipset the host device is, case in point, Oxford 922, nuff said. Maybe these guys that have borked iPods are all running the same chipset.
User-friendly or no, it is clearly labeled as mac-only. I would never take such a chance. How is it a bug in iTunes? Is it your cd-rw drives responsibility to tell you your bread is done toasting? No. Then why should it be iTunes responsibility to tell you that you can't use incompatible hardware? "Not supported" means may or may not work, take your chances and whatever happens, you are on your own, not "blame us if you hose your iPod when you knew damn well it may or may not work."
Thank you for recognizing my complete cleverness! I love stroking my own ego. No, I pointed out my repitition because I knew someone would respond with "why did you repeat yourself, stupid mac hippie?" I was merely trying to emphasize my point. Stop trolling.
What part of "not supported" was not understood? I am sure that Apple will do something to rectify the situation. Hope they had a backup of their music. Wait a second, a MAC-only 5GB IPOD? Not a "Mac-only unless running iTunes on a PC running Windows, then it is ok" iPod. Why does it not surprise me that running a first-generation Mac-only IPOD on a Windows machine causes problems? Maybe the part about it being "mac-only", and "not supported on PC", as well as being "mac-only". (The repition was purely intentional). This seems to be the user's fault, not Apple's. So if I put a BMW dashboard into a VW, will I be able to get mad when it does not work. All I am saying is do not rush to blame Apple on this one, this seems to be a PICNIC issue to me.
Or you could just be like several of my friends and never get a land line, and just use a cell with unlimited minutes as your only phone. Saves bundles of money. The upside is that you can always be reached at that one number. The downside is that you can always be reached at that one number.
What is next? An article from a net "pundit" declaring MMORPGS dead? Every other article anymore is "is the internet dying?" "is bluetooth dead?" "is _____ dying?" Okay I am going to become a "genius" right now, you heard it here first "Wi-Fi is dying." There you go, slap a beret and some horn rimmed glasses on me now, I am officially a "genius".
First of all, "recent vintage", I know it is literally correct, it reads to me as "new old" Maybe "2K/XP" would have been better. Second, how do you know that this provision is not in the "Terms Of Service" for AOL. If it is, tough shit, if not, who cares. Who the hell needs windows messenger service on by default? If you need it, then you can just set it up manually. I commend AOL for plugging Microsoft's oversight. I do not use AOL, but I think that they are on the right track with all in one pop-up blocking, firewall, anti-virus, etc. It serves its purpose for the non techno savvy among us quite well. So what I am saying is this, the sky is not falling. I am sure if AOL just stagnated and did nothing everyone would be throwing out buzzwords like "lack of innovation". Can they honestly win? Sheesh, first troll posts now troll headlines? What is next?
Bluetooth is not dead. The PDA is not dead. (Fill in the blank) is not dead. The Apple IIC can (maybe ) be declared dead. Dinosaurs=dead. I am sick of these people trying to be different and "smart" by declaring stuff "dead" that has not really even seen their best days, IMHO. Between this and Star Wars toys sex lives, I do not know which is worse.
First, it is an Apple app, so that button minimizes it, try the middle one on the top left, it should have a plus sign on it, there are also a minus and an x, it should be painfully apparent what they do. Second, macs only have a one-button mouse remember? Poke around in the menus, I am sure there is a way to bookmark radio stations, I know you can on the mac version. They will release it outside the US when they can iron out the copyright laws in the EU and such.
I bought a replacement keyboard for a Gateway Solo 2500 on ebay for 9.95 USD, list price is something like 60 USD. The only "caveat", which I think is cool, is that listed under the english keys, are Hebrew letters. I thought that was pretty cool.
At my company we have a 386 running at 40mhz with 8 megs of RAM, running Procomm Plus which I use to interface with our PBX system. We also have a 486 Novell print server. They both work splendidly. Anything else would be overkill.
Dude, I am the exact same way. "How do you use tables in Word?". "Haven't a clue.". "Really, but I thought you were an expert." "I don't use word I use vi/notepad/textedit. Or OOO" "Huh?" "Nevermind."
Maybe it is just me, but if something is broken, then mysteriously starts working again, I damn sure would like to know what was wrong in the first place. Lets say you work at a nuclear plant, and all the alarms and klaxons go off, indicating a meltdown, yet the alarms just magically shut off weeks later, would you just say "Oh well, it works now, I don't care what was wrong in the first place."? Of course not. Of course not every situation is like this, but I am just a very curious person. I am not saying that it is hard to integrate Macs into a Windows environment, quite the opposite. I would expect a user accustomed to Windows would find Macs much simpler compared to the complexity of some Windows functions, hence should not have too much trouble getting them integrated, with a little research. Working without knowing what was broken is a testament, but, is it a good one? How far do we want to seperate users from the functions of their computers? His IT department did try to help him, it sounds like he caught one of them eating a sandwich and asked "Did you change anything?", to which one of them probably said "Nope.". It did not sound like he asked for anything else to me, maybe he did, and just did not convey as such in the article.
No, it strikes me that he has zero experience with macs, not that there is anything wrong with that, but at least get an O'Reilly book before you undertake a switch of this magnitude, as it could certainly not do any harm. Again, if I phrase things in a certain way, I can teach anyone basic networking terminology/practices, it is part of being a good teacher, again, something an O'Reilly book would have covered in like, Chapter 5 or something. It is not the IT departments responsibility to support something they, well do not support/sanction, he chose to get a Mac and deploy it in a Windows server environment, why should they be expected to learn it for him? Do you believe in personal responsibility? Nobody held a gun to his head to purchase a mac, he chose to. So no one owes him anything.
A MAC IN AN ENTERPRISE Contributor: Kevin Ledgister Posted Oct 12, 2003 - 04:10 PM
"It's been said that bringing a Macintosh into a corporate environment dominated by Windows-based PCs is not an easy task. Once you cut through the corporate red tape, then get through ignorant IT staff you still have to connect and gain access to all the services on the network. osViews editorial contributor Kevin Ledgister took on this challenge and passed the test with flying colors." ---
For the last two years, I have had to use a Dell laptop at work running Windows 2000 in a mid size company with 300-400 employees. After suffering through several complete rebuilds, blue screens, as well as dealing with patches and security upgrades, I decided that enough is enough.
I ordered the brand new 12" PowerBook on my own and decided that this would be my daily computer to replace my Dell. Quite a few people were curious at this silver beauty compared to the generic charcoal laptops on their desks -- and some even said that their next system will be a Mac too.
As I've come to learn however, integrating a Mac into an all PC world is not without its challenges.
IT Ignorance
The first challenge was dealing with an IT department that was completely ignorant of the Mac platform. Although they were helpful and curious about the Macintosh, they really couldn't offer much help so I was on my own. At my place of employment, they use Active Directory and after doing a lot of reading on the subject, I realized that it was not going to be the easiest transition.
When my PowerBook arrived, I immediately plugged a network cable into it, but for some reason, it was not being assigned an IP address. I checked all the settings and they were correct. I even plugged my laptop into a router outside of our network and it worked fine. But inside our corporate network, I would only get a 169... number which meant that I wasn't getting one from the network server.
I downloaded ADmitMac from Thursby hoping that it would help connect me to the laptop but that required a valid IP address as well so I still was left out in the cold.
Frustrated, I connected my PowerBook using the phone line by my desk and dialed into our corporate network, which was slow, but at least I could browse the Internet and check email to our Exchange servers running Outlook for Windows under Citrix. No one was able to help explain why this was happening. Not Apple, nor our IT department.
Ups and Downs
After two days of this, I got disconnected again from the phone connection but iChat stayed active and I was still getting messages! I opened up the System Preferences and suddenly I had an assigned IP address. I ran to the IT department asking for an explanation for what they did, to which they replied, "Nothing."
So now I had high-speed access to the network but not all was solved.
I still couldn't browse network shares and I tried joining our Active Directory domain using Admit Mac but it wouldn't let me join. So, I fired up Virtual PC, installed Windows 2000, and asked an IT person to join Win2k to the domain and it worked. I was also able to browse the network using a Citrix client but this was still hokey.
Little did I know that ADmit Mac didn't work because I didn't have rights to join a computer to the domain. But a week after I got all this up and running, I accidentally chose the Connect to Server function when I meant to go to a folder and Voila! I could see network shares!
I don't know when this happened but I could now browse through the servers and mount them on my desktop. I ran back to IT again asking if they had turned on Services for Mac, which I had asked them to consider. Again they said that no changes were made to the network at all.
Another unsolved mystery perhaps but I didn't care. No longer would I need to go through a Windows interface for network shares. As a side benefit, I uninstalled the evaluation copy of ADmit Mac and everything sti
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I am going to go ahead and call "B.S." It would seem to me, and I am by no means a medical doctor, that if you had a brain injury, you would not suddenly speak in a different accent. I would think maybe these people have a prior history of other psychological issues, like delusions, multiple personality disorder, etc. Or maybe they just fantasize about being from England, then they hit their head, and really do think they are English.
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
128k is FM Quality? Are you insane? I am not an RIAA shill, quite the opposite, but I am opposed to stealing, it is just wrong. The artists already get squat from record sales, why take even more away from them? Something is after all, better than nothing, last time I checked. 128k is fine for 99% of people out there, it is more comparable to CD than FM, if I had said 64k you would have been correct. Well, it should be fine unless you are a complete audiophile, in which case, nothing less than 320k will suffice for you, I assume. I am a proud user of the iTunes music store. I can burn the songs I have purchased to a CD, or to an iPod and have them all with me. All the music that I own on CD, I rip into .mp3 format just fine, I stick in the CD it rips into .mp3, adds to my library, then ejects the CD. Yes, I am an Apple user, flame on!
So if I manufacture a car, can Ford, Chevrolet, etc. sue me for having an engine? Of course the two programs are going to be similar, they are trying to do the same damn thing!! Maybe it is a huge coincidence that the variables are named the same thing, I am only a novice programmer, but maybe the terms that are similar are commonly-used programming terms? Or are common to Java-related programming? This just seems like a colossal waste of time, money, and effort that could be better spent coding to see whose software is really better, instead of languishing in a courtroom, trying to litigate your competition to death.
Oh no, you mean it is going to be that much harder for people to steal things? Even with the popular excuse "I only wanted one song", how many of you are still stealing with the advent of all of these online music stores, where you can buy songs for 1$?
I know there is, I live there.
Seriously, their iTunes software should have AT LEAST warned/prevented use of these devices before "updating" them into oblivion. Why? If this guy knew that the iPod he was using was mac-only, which he should have, where does the blame lie? Surely not with Apple. If I put a BETA tape into a vhs player, will I be able to get pissed when it doesn't work/borks my player? No, I didn't think so. Maybe the way windows talks to the iPod was known by Apple to bork it/not work too well, and they were only able to be fix it in the next generations, it is not like MS is well known for letting rival hardware work with their software. And it does matter what kind of computer/chipset the host device is, case in point, Oxford 922, nuff said. Maybe these guys that have borked iPods are all running the same chipset.
They did. It is clearly labeled as mac only. Apple didn't break anything.
Thank you for summing up my comment in two sentences. My sentiments exactly.
User-friendly or no, it is clearly labeled as mac-only. I would never take such a chance. How is it a bug in iTunes? Is it your cd-rw drives responsibility to tell you your bread is done toasting? No. Then why should it be iTunes responsibility to tell you that you can't use incompatible hardware? "Not supported" means may or may not work, take your chances and whatever happens, you are on your own, not "blame us if you hose your iPod when you knew damn well it may or may not work."
Thank you for recognizing my complete cleverness! I love stroking my own ego. No, I pointed out my repitition because I knew someone would respond with "why did you repeat yourself, stupid mac hippie?" I was merely trying to emphasize my point. Stop trolling.
What part of "not supported" was not understood? I am sure that Apple will do something to rectify the situation. Hope they had a backup of their music. Wait a second, a MAC-only 5GB IPOD? Not a "Mac-only unless running iTunes on a PC running Windows, then it is ok" iPod. Why does it not surprise me that running a first-generation Mac-only IPOD on a Windows machine causes problems? Maybe the part about it being "mac-only", and "not supported on PC", as well as being "mac-only". (The repition was purely intentional). This seems to be the user's fault, not Apple's. So if I put a BMW dashboard into a VW, will I be able to get mad when it does not work. All I am saying is do not rush to blame Apple on this one, this seems to be a PICNIC issue to me.
Or you could just be like several of my friends and never get a land line, and just use a cell with unlimited minutes as your only phone. Saves bundles of money. The upside is that you can always be reached at that one number. The downside is that you can always be reached at that one number.
Dude, good point.
What is next? An article from a net "pundit" declaring MMORPGS dead? Every other article anymore is "is the internet dying?" "is bluetooth dead?" "is _____ dying?" Okay I am going to become a "genius" right now, you heard it here first "Wi-Fi is dying." There you go, slap a beret and some horn rimmed glasses on me now, I am officially a "genius".
First of all, "recent vintage", I know it is literally correct, it reads to me as "new old" Maybe "2K/XP" would have been better. Second, how do you know that this provision is not in the "Terms Of Service" for AOL. If it is, tough shit, if not, who cares. Who the hell needs windows messenger service on by default? If you need it, then you can just set it up manually. I commend AOL for plugging Microsoft's oversight. I do not use AOL, but I think that they are on the right track with all in one pop-up blocking, firewall, anti-virus, etc. It serves its purpose for the non techno savvy among us quite well. So what I am saying is this, the sky is not falling. I am sure if AOL just stagnated and did nothing everyone would be throwing out buzzwords like "lack of innovation". Can they honestly win? Sheesh, first troll posts now troll headlines? What is next?
Bluetooth is not dead. The PDA is not dead. (Fill in the blank) is not dead. The Apple IIC can (maybe ) be declared dead. Dinosaurs=dead. I am sick of these people trying to be different and "smart" by declaring stuff "dead" that has not really even seen their best days, IMHO. Between this and Star Wars toys sex lives, I do not know which is worse.
First, it is an Apple app, so that button minimizes it, try the middle one on the top left, it should have a plus sign on it, there are also a minus and an x, it should be painfully apparent what they do. Second, macs only have a one-button mouse remember? Poke around in the menus, I am sure there is a way to bookmark radio stations, I know you can on the mac version. They will release it outside the US when they can iron out the copyright laws in the EU and such.
I bought a replacement keyboard for a Gateway Solo 2500 on ebay for 9.95 USD, list price is something like 60 USD. The only "caveat", which I think is cool, is that listed under the english keys, are Hebrew letters. I thought that was pretty cool.
Guess that makes us about even! I honestly do not know if I would replace either of mine with anything above a Pentium 166.
At my company we have a 386 running at 40mhz with 8 megs of RAM, running Procomm Plus which I use to interface with our PBX system. We also have a 486 Novell print server. They both work splendidly. Anything else would be overkill.
Dude, I am the exact same way. "How do you use tables in Word?". "Haven't a clue.". "Really, but I thought you were an expert." "I don't use word I use vi/notepad/textedit. Or OOO" "Huh?" "Nevermind."
Maybe it is just me, but if something is broken, then mysteriously starts working again, I damn sure would like to know what was wrong in the first place. Lets say you work at a nuclear plant, and all the alarms and klaxons go off, indicating a meltdown, yet the alarms just magically shut off weeks later, would you just say "Oh well, it works now, I don't care what was wrong in the first place."? Of course not. Of course not every situation is like this, but I am just a very curious person. I am not saying that it is hard to integrate Macs into a Windows environment, quite the opposite. I would expect a user accustomed to Windows would find Macs much simpler compared to the complexity of some Windows functions, hence should not have too much trouble getting them integrated, with a little research. Working without knowing what was broken is a testament, but, is it a good one? How far do we want to seperate users from the functions of their computers? His IT department did try to help him, it sounds like he caught one of them eating a sandwich and asked "Did you change anything?", to which one of them probably said "Nope.". It did not sound like he asked for anything else to me, maybe he did, and just did not convey as such in the article.
No, it strikes me that he has zero experience with macs, not that there is anything wrong with that, but at least get an O'Reilly book before you undertake a switch of this magnitude, as it could certainly not do any harm. Again, if I phrase things in a certain way, I can teach anyone basic networking terminology/practices, it is part of being a good teacher, again, something an O'Reilly book would have covered in like, Chapter 5 or something. It is not the IT departments responsibility to support something they, well do not support/sanction, he chose to get a Mac and deploy it in a Windows server environment, why should they be expected to learn it for him? Do you believe in personal responsibility? Nobody held a gun to his head to purchase a mac, he chose to. So no one owes him anything.
That's exactly what I was trying to say. Thank you for putting it so succinctly. So amusing, yet so true.
A MAC IN AN ENTERPRISE
Contributor: Kevin Ledgister
Posted Oct 12, 2003 - 04:10 PM
"It's been said that bringing a Macintosh into a corporate environment dominated by Windows-based PCs is not an easy task. Once you cut through the corporate red tape, then get through ignorant IT staff you still have to connect and gain access to all the services on the network. osViews editorial contributor Kevin Ledgister took on this challenge and passed the test with flying colors."
---
For the last two years, I have had to use a Dell laptop at work running Windows 2000 in a mid size company with 300-400 employees. After suffering through several complete rebuilds, blue screens, as well as dealing with patches and security upgrades, I decided that enough is enough.
I ordered the brand new 12" PowerBook on my own and decided that this would be my daily computer to replace my Dell. Quite a few people were curious at this silver beauty compared to the generic charcoal laptops on their desks -- and some even said that their next system will be a Mac too.
As I've come to learn however, integrating a Mac into an all PC world is not without its challenges.
IT Ignorance
The first challenge was dealing with an IT department that was completely ignorant of the Mac platform. Although they were helpful and curious about the Macintosh, they really couldn't offer much help so I was on my own. At my place of employment, they use Active Directory and after doing a lot of reading on the subject, I realized that it was not going to be the easiest transition.
When my PowerBook arrived, I immediately plugged a network cable into it, but for some reason, it was not being assigned an IP address. I checked all the settings and they were correct. I even plugged my laptop into a router outside of our network and it worked fine. But inside our corporate network, I would only get a 169... number which meant that I wasn't getting one from the network server.
I downloaded ADmitMac from Thursby hoping that it would help connect me to the laptop but that required a valid IP address as well so I still was left out in the cold.
Frustrated, I connected my PowerBook using the phone line by my desk and dialed into our corporate network, which was slow, but at least I could browse the Internet and check email to our Exchange servers running Outlook for Windows under Citrix. No one was able to help explain why this was happening. Not Apple, nor our IT department.
Ups and Downs
After two days of this, I got disconnected again from the phone connection but iChat stayed active and I was still getting messages! I opened up the System Preferences and suddenly I had an assigned IP address. I ran to the IT department asking for an explanation for what they did, to which they replied, "Nothing."
So now I had high-speed access to the network but not all was solved.
I still couldn't browse network shares and I tried joining our Active Directory domain using Admit Mac but it wouldn't let me join. So, I fired up Virtual PC, installed Windows 2000, and asked an IT person to join Win2k to the domain and it worked. I was also able to browse the network using a Citrix client but this was still hokey.
Little did I know that ADmit Mac didn't work because I didn't have rights to join a computer to the domain. But a week after I got all this up and running, I accidentally chose the Connect to Server function when I meant to go to a folder and Voila! I could see network shares!
I don't know when this happened but I could now browse through the servers and mount them on my desktop. I ran back to IT again asking if they had turned on Services for Mac, which I had asked them to consider. Again they said that no changes were made to the network at all.
Another unsolved mystery perhaps but I didn't care. No longer would I need to go through a Windows interface for network shares. As a side benefit, I uninstalled the evaluation copy of ADmit Mac and everything sti