I've not worked with OS X Server yet, but I believe it uses the same kernel as the desktop version.
Mac OS X does support IPSec. Because of its BSD roots, it inherits the KAME project. However, it may not have a nice GUI to configure it and you'll have to do it from the command line like all the rest of the *BSDs
Actually, it doesn't make as much sense as one would think.
Since you really can only test a single version of IE at a time with Windows, you usually have to resort to a series of virtual machines, using Virtual PC or VMWare. That will allow you to test older versions of Windows/IE and also Linux browsers like Konqueror, but not MacIE, Safari, or OmniWeb.
The Mac is the one platform where you can test almost any browser in existence. It also has the same array of professional web developer tools that Windows has.
Right, but assuming they can and do, they will have fallen short of their goal to integrate IE with the OS.
The masses will have effectively forced them to support an old platform. It will get increasingly more difficult for them to coax users to spend their hard earned cash on newer versions of Windows, when the old ones work just fine.
Exactly. That's a good example of Microsoft's marketshare working against them.
Can you imagine how many things in the Win32 API they would probably like to fix or do diferently? Maybe make it easier to close the security holes people keep finding?
Backwards compatibility is what gave them the hold on the market. It's also their curse. Just look at how difficult it has been for them to get people to move to.NET.
Microsoft's decision to move to a browser inseparable from the OS will become a major thorn in their own side, and possibly end up helping out the various alternative browsers out there.
The key thing to notice is that for Windows 95 through Windows XP, IE 6 is effectively the last Microsoft browser those OS's will be able to run. This means that, in order to see any new features from IE 7+ users will need to replace their entire OS. This is where Microsoft's huge marketshare starts to work against them. Even now, there are large numbers of people who refuse to upgrade from Win9x because their current machine cannot handle the newest versions or because their happy with don't see the point in upgrading. Microsoft will have to fight there own installed user base.
Case in point: I have one machine with an Intel processor in it. It's an old Gateway laptop. It was running NetBSD for learning purposes. I needed to be able to run a few windows-only apps, so I broke down and decided to install Windows. This laptop can't really handle anything over Win98SE, so that's what I installed. In the process, I ran Windows Update and updated IE to version 6. But, according to Microsoft, after version 6, there will never be a higher version of IE available for this machine. So what am I to do? I'm not going to spend money on a new machine, at least not another x86 machine. Fortunately, Firebird is available, and is more than up to the task. My little laptop will be surfing the web for at the near future.
If websites start designing for features found in IE7, large groups of people will be left behind. Large groups of people will complain because sites don't display properly in their 'old' version of IE6; sort of like the situation Netscape 4 was in. In Netscape 4's case, when a better alternative came on the scene ( IE4 ), people dumped Netscape. People will now be faced with a new decision; do I shell out the cash to upgrade my OS and possibly my machine, or is there a way to view the latest and greatest websites on my current machine?
Since IE will cease to be an option in this case, people will be forced to look for alternatives. Hopefully, one of the alternative browsers will be there with open arms.
As much as I loathe and despise Access, there is virtually nothing that even comes close it in the OSS world.
Anyone who is savvy enough to write SQL statments is already using a real database. The people who use Access are the ones who aren't able to, or won't, learn SQL.
Handing those people a copy of MySQL is not a viable solution. Until it has a dummy-fied interface like Access, it will never be useful to those people.
FWIW, the current version of Emacs can be compiled as a native Carbon application. Full mouse support, no terminal or X11 required. Check out http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/
I've used Zope on Windows. It works well and works identically to the *NIX platforms.
A few caveats though:
Connecting to MS SQL server is a pain. The most common solution is to connect via ODBC and use the MS SQL driver. Be aware, however, that the current implementation of the Zope-ODBC adapter is not multi-threaded. A long running query will block all other queries. If you know where to look, it is possible to hack together a threaded connection.
As you said, you would like to part ways from MS SQL Server. Unfortunately, there aren't many inexpensive options in Microsoft land. If I were you, I might take a look at Firebird.
Since when has removing the floppy put any money in Steve Jobs' pocket? As far as I know, Apple does not sell external floppy drives or serial port kits, third parties do. The only benefit Apple gets out of it is a role in pushing technology forward.
If people like you had their way, computers would still ship with 5.25" floppy drives, cassette tape drives, VESA local bus slots, and EGA video connectors.
FWIW, I just did the very same thing yesterday. I burned 80+ MP3's on a CD using my Mac and gave it to my dad, who is running Win95. All of the songs played without any problem.
Doing this was completely brain-dead easy. I don't know what your friend did wrong, but it is certainly not the fault of the Mac.
Hmm, let's see... really cool multimedia OS that used to run on specialized hardware, ported to the X86 platform...
Should, dominate the market, right? Should, make the company lots of money, because _everyone_ would buy it just because it's so great, right?
It didn't work for BeOS; why would it work for Apple?
The key is applications, and lots of them. The public is not willing to take a chance on an OS with no apps, no matter how advanced it is. How well do you think Mac OS X would be doing right now, if Apple had not included the Carbon API and Classic emulation? What are the chances that Carbon and Classic would ever be ported to x86? How many apps would there be for x86 OS X? Probably about the same as there was for BeOS. A few, but not enough to sustain the OS.
Anyone want to chat with the author, Lion? I tracked him down to a Chinese IRC server. It was quite interesting to talk to him. If the worm hit your machine, he's got your passwd file.
I ran into this also, although I'm using Python instead of Perl. I thought LaTeX would work, but I couldn't control the output enough. I needed to place an address at a precise location on the page, so that it would show up in a window envelope. I ended up using Lout. My python script opens up a pipe to the Lout command and then feeds it a Lout formatted document. Lout formats the page in Postscript and outputs it straight to the printer. Works very nicely.
I've just finished implementing this for the ISP I work for. Almost everything here is stored in an LDAP directory. I've managed to located LDAP-enabled software for the services we offer.
SMTP Both Sendmail and Postfix have support for LDAP lookups.
IMAP/POP3 Cyrus IMAP uses Cyrus SASL, which, among support for Kerberos and such, supports PAM. Use pam_ldap for authentication via LDAP. Using Cyrus, you will have an extra admin task of setting up mailboxes.
Telnet Through pam_ldap and nss_ldap, you can move accounts in/etc/passwd to LDAP.
FTP Proftpd claims to have LDAP support, but I have not tested it yet.
HTTP mod_ldap for Apache
I have only tested the first two services, but I will be implementing the FTP and HTTP soon.
Slashdot Mirror
I've not worked with OS X Server yet, but I believe it uses the same kernel as the desktop version.
Mac OS X does support IPSec. Because of its BSD roots, it inherits the KAME project. However, it may not have a nice GUI to configure it and you'll have to do it from the command line like all the rest of the *BSDs
Check out the articles that start with "Flying Racoons:" at http://www.afp548.com/Articles/
Actually, it doesn't make as much sense as one would think.
Since you really can only test a single version of IE at a time with Windows, you usually have to resort to a series of virtual machines, using Virtual PC or VMWare. That will allow you to test older versions of Windows/IE and also Linux browsers like Konqueror, but not MacIE, Safari, or OmniWeb.
The Mac is the one platform where you can test almost any browser in existence. It also has the same array of professional web developer tools that Windows has.
Why can't you test Konqueror? Just install Linux on Virtual PC. You could even skip running X11 within the virtual machine and loop it back to X11.app
Or dual boot to a PowerPC version of Linux.
Using a Mac, I believe you can test just about every known browser.
MS Publisher on a Mac? Why would anyone want such a thing?
Some people may argue that it has already. You have to admit innovation has slowed down.
Can you imagine if the masses we were running a browser with the feature set of Mozilla? People would finally see:
Instead, on some sites, we're stuck using a vary minimal subset of HTML so that things don't look funky in IE4
Right, but assuming they can and do, they will have fallen short of their goal to integrate IE with the OS.
The masses will have effectively forced them to support an old platform. It will get increasingly more difficult for them to coax users to spend their hard earned cash on newer versions of Windows, when the old ones work just fine.
Exactly. That's a good example of Microsoft's marketshare working against them.
.NET.
Can you imagine how many things in the Win32 API they would probably like to fix or do diferently? Maybe make it easier to close the security holes people keep finding?
Backwards compatibility is what gave them the hold on the market. It's also their curse. Just look at how difficult it has been for them to get people to move to
Microsoft's decision to move to a browser inseparable from the OS will become a major thorn in their own side, and possibly end up helping out the various alternative browsers out there.
The key thing to notice is that for Windows 95 through Windows XP, IE 6 is effectively the last Microsoft browser those OS's will be able to run. This means that, in order to see any new features from IE 7+ users will need to replace their entire OS. This is where Microsoft's huge marketshare starts to work against them. Even now, there are large numbers of people who refuse to upgrade from Win9x because their current machine cannot handle the newest versions or because their happy with don't see the point in upgrading. Microsoft will have to fight there own installed user base.
Case in point: I have one machine with an Intel processor in it. It's an old Gateway laptop. It was running NetBSD for learning purposes. I needed to be able to run a few windows-only apps, so I broke down and decided to install Windows. This laptop can't really handle anything over Win98SE, so that's what I installed. In the process, I ran Windows Update and updated IE to version 6. But, according to Microsoft, after version 6, there will never be a higher version of IE available for this machine. So what am I to do? I'm not going to spend money on a new machine, at least not another x86 machine. Fortunately, Firebird is available, and is more than up to the task. My little laptop will be surfing the web for at the near future.
If websites start designing for features found in IE7, large groups of people will be left behind. Large groups of people will complain because sites don't display properly in their 'old' version of IE6; sort of like the situation Netscape 4 was in. In Netscape 4's case, when a better alternative came on the scene ( IE4 ), people dumped Netscape. People will now be faced with a new decision; do I shell out the cash to upgrade my OS and possibly my machine, or is there a way to view the latest and greatest websites on my current machine?
Since IE will cease to be an option in this case, people will be forced to look for alternatives. Hopefully, one of the alternative browsers will be there with open arms.
As much as I loathe and despise Access, there is virtually nothing that even comes close it in the OSS world.
Anyone who is savvy enough to write SQL statments is already using a real database. The people who use Access are the ones who aren't able to, or won't, learn SQL.
Handing those people a copy of MySQL is not a viable solution. Until it has a dummy-fied interface like Access, it will never be useful to those people.
FWIW, the current version of Emacs can be compiled as a native Carbon application. Full mouse support, no terminal or X11 required. Check out http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/
Check out CorporateTime
It is a calendaring server that works in conjunction with an existing LDAP and mail server
I've used Zope on Windows. It works well and works identically to the *NIX platforms.
A few caveats though:
Connecting to MS SQL server is a pain. The most common solution is to connect via ODBC and use the MS SQL driver. Be aware, however, that the current implementation of the Zope-ODBC adapter is not multi-threaded. A long running query will block all other queries. If you know where to look, it is possible to hack together a threaded connection.
As you said, you would like to part ways from MS SQL Server. Unfortunately, there aren't many inexpensive options in Microsoft land. If I were you, I might take a look at Firebird.
Since when has removing the floppy put any money in Steve Jobs' pocket? As far as I know, Apple does not sell external floppy drives or serial port kits, third parties do. The only benefit Apple gets out of it is a role in pushing technology forward.
If people like you had their way, computers would still ship with 5.25" floppy drives, cassette tape drives, VESA local bus slots, and EGA video connectors.
FWIW, I just did the very same thing yesterday. I burned 80+ MP3's on a CD using my Mac and gave it to my dad, who is running Win95. All of the songs played without any problem.
Doing this was completely brain-dead easy. I don't know what your friend did wrong, but it is certainly not the fault of the Mac.
Uhh, aren't we talking about Darwin code? Isn't that open-source already?
I am so sick of people whining about this.
Hmm, let's see... really cool multimedia OS that used to run on specialized hardware, ported to the X86 platform...
Should, dominate the market, right? Should, make the company lots of money, because _everyone_ would buy it just because it's so great, right?
It didn't work for BeOS; why would it work for Apple?
The key is applications, and lots of them. The public is not willing to take a chance on an OS with no apps, no matter how advanced it is. How well do you think Mac OS X would be doing right now, if Apple had not included the Carbon API and Classic emulation? What are the chances that Carbon and Classic would ever be ported to x86? How many apps would there be for x86 OS X? Probably about the same as there was for BeOS. A few, but not enough to sustain the OS.
Anyone want to chat with the author, Lion? I tracked him down to a Chinese IRC server. It was quite interesting to talk to him. If the worm hit your machine, he's got your passwd file.
Similar to SMB = Samba:
SSH = Sashay
'We used to telnet into our servers, now we sashay into them'
I ran into this also, although I'm using Python instead of Perl. I thought LaTeX would work, but I couldn't control the output enough. I needed to place an address at a precise location on the page, so that it would show up in a window envelope. I ended up using Lout. My python script opens up a pipe to the Lout command and then feeds it a Lout formatted document. Lout formats the page in Postscript and outputs it straight to the printer. Works very nicely.
- SMTP Both Sendmail and Postfix have support for LDAP lookups.
- IMAP/POP3 Cyrus IMAP uses Cyrus SASL, which, among support for Kerberos and such, supports PAM. Use pam_ldap for authentication via LDAP. Using Cyrus, you will have an extra admin task of setting up mailboxes.
- Telnet Through pam_ldap and nss_ldap, you can move accounts in
/etc/passwd to LDAP. - FTP Proftpd claims to have LDAP support, but I have not tested it yet.
- HTTP mod_ldap for Apache
I have only tested the first two services, but I will be implementing the FTP and HTTP soon.Check out "gpasman"
http://www.student.wau.nl/~olivier/gpasman/