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Yes, and I've used it like that. However, with my non-.mac server, I get logged into the root directory, and have to navigate to my home directory. When I get there, for some reason, the Finder doesn't see that I have write privileges, and won't allow me to upload anything there. I suspect I'm not the only person in this situation.
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Well, you can buy up to 1 GB of space, if you want it. But if you want a different set of services, then it's probably not for you. However, the question was regarding server products to take the place of.mac, with the same services.
With.mac, you're paying for someone else to administer a server, so you can just upload your stuff and forget about it. In this scenario, you don't need SSH access, because you're not the administrator.
You get a resonable price for drag-and-drop web publishing, without having to remember any passwords for FTP, and you get to navigate everything in the Finder, so it's a familiar interface, not whatever FTP program you can get your hands on.
I actually have two web hosts -.mac and a regular Apache server which I have limited SSH on. Usually when I'm uploading to it, I use the command-line FTP that comes with Mac OS X, mostly because it's fast and I don't have to pay for it. But it's not friendly - I'd never suggest an average consumer go that route. The people I support have the hardest time just grasping how to use WS_FTP LE or Fetch. For people who want to use an interface they're familiar with, and who don't want to be a server admin or operator, it's one of the best things out there.
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What I meant by the data backup is that they have redundant backups of their servers, which are performed nightly, so if a server crashes, your data doesn't go with it, and it's back online in almost no time.
And yes, I have known mac users who've gotten viruses. Recently. I'm not talking about "I know a guy who had nVir on his Classic 12 years ago.", I'm talking about something recently came into email, and caused us to buy Norton AV for an entire department of mac users.
If you don't use the other services, then maybe it's not for you. But that didn't seem like what the question was. The point I was making is that if you value your time, this allows you to have good services, and not maintain a server, for not too much money.
That's not true. It's completely run by Apple, with their own servers, and their own staff, at their own facility. No third parties involved at all, unless you count the sources of the free games and the antivirus software you get with it.
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How much time per month are you going to spend maintaining your own server? What's it going to cost in terms of bandwidth? What will the electricity cost you? If you value your time at all, get.mac, because it works out to only $8.33 per month, and you're quite likely to spend more than an hour per month working on your sever, and quite likely won't have the reliability of the real.mac, which also backs up your data to backup servers nightly.
For example, look at the scenario of what if a hard drive dies. If it dies in your server, you go out and spend $100 on a new hard drive, and possibly lose months of information, and may have days of downtime while you reconfigure everything. If it dies in a.mac server, you don't pay a dime, and at most, you lose one day's data, and experience no or very little downtime.
It does, however, load the USB software while it's on that screen, and it would kernel panic regardless of wether or not it was properly shut down. Every other boot, I got the kernel panic screen instructing me to hold down the power key until the machine shut down. The next boot, it was fine. The only common denominator in the various configurations I tried was the USB tablet, and now that I've installed 10.2.6, it doesn't happen at all anymore. And even if fsck came up clean, it still did that kernel panic every other boot.
I had it a bit worse than this - my Wacom tablet caused a kernel panic on every other boot, about 20 seconds after pressing the power button, while it was still on the grey screen. All fixed now!
Well, that's a problem for left-handed people, because it creates an asymmetrical design. Suddenly the hat switch is under their pinky or ring finger. Since the Mac platform has about 20% more left-handed people than Windows, this is an issue that I imagine Apple really has to look out for.
Actually, my G4 tower came with one of those, and it was one of the most comfortable mice I've ever had. I only stopped using it because I needed a multi-button mouse to use with XFree86 on Darwin.
In fact, the G4 tower in my office has one of those, and I still use it, without any gripes. I suppose I may use it a little differently than the way most people use mice, but it's still extremely comfortable. My thumb and ring finger grasp the sides of the mouse, while my index finger rests on the button, and my middle finger sits just off to the side of the button. So I'm not really grasping it, but that's just the way I use mice. I have quite large hands, and the only mice that I can really grasp are the mice that Wacom packages with their tablets. The Logitech optical mice are next in line, but otheriwse I just hold mice with my fingertips.
Why? Well maybe because it's easier to program in Cocoa and use Project Builder and Interface Builder than Visual Studio, besides which, they're free. The only thing I miss in switching from Visual C++ 6 to Project Builder is auto-completion.
That RAM-SAN is remarkably inefficient, compared to HDDs. For a comparable hard drive-based SAN, you'd think the manufacturer was insane if they said it required 5,000 watts of electricity to operate. I know it's fast, but I don't want a dedicated 60-amp circuit just for a single storage device. And I can hardly imagine the heat it produces.
I have SBC/Yahoo DSL, and they've been supporting Mac OS X's built-in PPPoE software for about a year now. As soon as they posted instructions online, I kissed EnterNet goodbye, and never looked back.
All you have to do is go into System Preferences, click on Network, make sure Built-In Ethernet is selected, then click on the PPPoE tab. Check the box next to "Connect using PPPoE", enter your user name and password in the appropriate boxes, and hit Apply Now. I also do a few extras - I check the remember password box, I check "Show PPPoE status in menu bar", so that it's really easy to connect, and I don't have to use the Internet Connect app, and I click on PPPoE Options and make sure that "Send PPP echo packets" is the only box that's checked. It's essential to the connection that that box is checked, but the other options are yours to play with.
What I did to set up file, printer, and connection saring was install a $29 Allied Telesyn 10/100 NIC in a PCI slot in my tower, and just plugged that into a spare Cisco hub I have. AirPort is also perfectly acceptable as an option.
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Why would the price be $199 US if the measurements are in cm? Perhaps this is a Canadian or Australian product sheet, in which case the US price would be considerably lower.
In case you haven't heard, DP 10 has been out for a while.
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Without even being able to read the article, the answer is a definitive no, most likely on both counts. They're using physical objects to cause reflections, scattering signals, and thus opening up more channels for use. This would have no application in fiber optics, and I don't know that you could consider it a compression scheme. It's just applying different transmission and reception techniques in order to use airspace more effectively. Although the intended result is probably different, in the Vietnam War, they used a cloud scatter technique for broadcasting radio signals over long distances - by shooting your signal at the clouds, you basically get a free long-range directional antenna. Using sky-scrapers and other urban objects is more likely to yield a more omni-directional result, and while the range may be shorter, you can be picked up by pretty much any receiver within range, creating a better load balance, etc. It seems that they've also found a way to create more channels by using this technique, but I'm not familiar with all of the technology mentioned in the post.
This seems to violate the Supreme Court's interpretation of the 1st Ammendment.
From the Supreme Court's opinion on Griswold v. Conneticut:
In NAACP v. Alabama we protected the "freedom to associate and privacy in one's associations," noting that freedom of association was a peripheral First Amendment right. Disclosure of membership lists of a constitutionally valid association, we held, was invalid "as entailing the likelihood of a substantial restraint upon the exercise by petitioner's members of their right to freedom of association." Ibid.
In other words, the First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion. The right of "association," like the right of belief (Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624), is more than the right to attend a meeting; it includes the right to express one's attitudes or philosophies by membership in a group or by affiliation with it or by other lawful means. Association in that context is a form of expression of opinion; and while it is not expressly included in the First Amendment its existence is necessary in making the express guarantees fully meaningful.
I just bought a Sony Ericsson T300. It's a wonderful phone. Basically the only thing that the T68i does that this doesn't is Bluetooth. For my $149 (Only $99 after rebate) I got a triple-band GSM phone with great reception, incredible battery life (Lithium-Polymer; 7.5 hours of talk, 300 hours standby), GPRS acces, both POP3 and IMAP4 support, AIM, WAP, two-way SMS, MMS, a 640x480 color digital camera, headset (which I'll never use, but some people can't live without them), 256 color display, IR port that can communicate with other phones or handheld devices, 500 contact memory (8 fields per contact), four built-in games (you can download more for free), and the really important thing to me - it's small. I was going to go for a smaller Samsung or Motorola flip phone, but the combination of price, GPRS, and battery life made me get this model instead. I will probably get the USB cable and pray for iSync compatibility. Otherwise, I can always send emails with attached vCards to keep my laptop's address book in sync with the phone. Also, the menu is very easy to navigate on this phone.
A friend of mine bought a T68i last month and returned it within a week. He said that it works wonderfully with iSync, but the Bluetooth totally drained the battery, and he was getting about 1 hour of talk time, and at most 15 hours standby. A guy from T-Mobile said that he's heard of this issue on the original T68 and early T68is, so it's possible that AT&T Wireless just had older boxes sitting around, but it was enough to make me not want one. In the short time I've had the T300, it's been phenomenal. The sound quality is great, the reception is good, even indoors, and I really only have one complaint: the interchangable faceplates are not available yet, so for now I'm stuck with dark green when I really want blue.
I've emailed Moshe a few times, and he actually prefers gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.1. You don't have much of a choice in Jaguar, but he'd probably stick with 2.95 in linux, which would result in a disparity in the benchmarks.
as far as b) - this shouldn't be necessary. Both OSes should ship in a good configuration for general use. Tuning the OS for specific tasks would probably result in more sets of benchmarks for different configurations, as not everybody uses a server for the same tasks. Also, this would greatly lengthen the article, probably making it a good candidate for a technical write-up on somebody's personal site, but too big for an article in Byte.
The newer model is the Canon LIDE 30, and it's ideal to go with a PowerBook, because it's only one inch thick, and barely longer or wider than a sheet of legal paper, so it should fit next to the laptop in a bag just fine.
I've got # 119 5/8! It's composed of broken sub-atomic particles that have recombined, so that you have photrons and neutons. Unfortunately, it's highly unstable, and always explodes within five picoseconds of coming into existence. However, if you're lucky enough to have a crystal of these things (note, crystal only lasts 4.384 picoseconds) and can get a picture of it, you'll notice it looks like a blue bunny. That's why I've named it Bunniculum.
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Yes, and I've used it like that. However, with my non-.mac server, I get logged into the root directory, and have to navigate to my home directory. When I get there, for some reason, the Finder doesn't see that I have write privileges, and won't allow me to upload anything there. I suspect I'm not the only person in this situation.
Well, you can buy up to 1 GB of space, if you want it. But if you want a different set of services, then it's probably not for you. However, the question was regarding server products to take the place of .mac, with the same services.
.mac, you're paying for someone else to administer a server, so you can just upload your stuff and forget about it. In this scenario, you don't need SSH access, because you're not the administrator.
.mac and a regular Apache server which I have limited SSH on. Usually when I'm uploading to it, I use the command-line FTP that comes with Mac OS X, mostly because it's fast and I don't have to pay for it. But it's not friendly - I'd never suggest an average consumer go that route. The people I support have the hardest time just grasping how to use WS_FTP LE or Fetch. For people who want to use an interface they're familiar with, and who don't want to be a server admin or operator, it's one of the best things out there.
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You get a resonable price for drag-and-drop web publishing, without having to remember any passwords for FTP, and you get to navigate everything in the Finder, so it's a familiar interface, not whatever FTP program you can get your hands on.
I actually have two web hosts -
What I meant by the data backup is that they have redundant backups of their servers, which are performed nightly, so if a server crashes, your data doesn't go with it, and it's back online in almost no time.
And yes, I have known mac users who've gotten viruses. Recently. I'm not talking about "I know a guy who had nVir on his Classic 12 years ago.", I'm talking about something recently came into email, and caused us to buy Norton AV for an entire department of mac users.
If you don't use the other services, then maybe it's not for you. But that didn't seem like what the question was. The point I was making is that if you value your time, this allows you to have good services, and not maintain a server, for not too much money.
No, it's stored on Apple servers. For some of the stuff, akamai distributes the content, but trust me, Apple runs the sevice.
That's not true. It's completely run by Apple, with their own servers, and their own staff, at their own facility. No third parties involved at all, unless you count the sources of the free games and the antivirus software you get with it.
How much time per month are you going to spend maintaining your own server? What's it going to cost in terms of bandwidth? What will the electricity cost you? If you value your time at all, get .mac, because it works out to only $8.33 per month, and you're quite likely to spend more than an hour per month working on your sever, and quite likely won't have the reliability of the real .mac, which also backs up your data to backup servers nightly.
.mac server, you don't pay a dime, and at most, you lose one day's data, and experience no or very little downtime.
For example, look at the scenario of what if a hard drive dies. If it dies in your server, you go out and spend $100 on a new hard drive, and possibly lose months of information, and may have days of downtime while you reconfigure everything. If it dies in a
It does, however, load the USB software while it's on that screen, and it would kernel panic regardless of wether or not it was properly shut down. Every other boot, I got the kernel panic screen instructing me to hold down the power key until the machine shut down. The next boot, it was fine. The only common denominator in the various configurations I tried was the USB tablet, and now that I've installed 10.2.6, it doesn't happen at all anymore. And even if fsck came up clean, it still did that kernel panic every other boot.
I had it a bit worse than this - my Wacom tablet caused a kernel panic on every other boot, about 20 seconds after pressing the power button, while it was still on the grey screen. All fixed now!
Yeah, and put a computer in a walkman, and you've got a computer...in a walkman! w00t!
Well, that's a problem for left-handed people, because it creates an asymmetrical design. Suddenly the hat switch is under their pinky or ring finger. Since the Mac platform has about 20% more left-handed people than Windows, this is an issue that I imagine Apple really has to look out for.
Actually, my G4 tower came with one of those, and it was one of the most comfortable mice I've ever had. I only stopped using it because I needed a multi-button mouse to use with XFree86 on Darwin.
In fact, the G4 tower in my office has one of those, and I still use it, without any gripes. I suppose I may use it a little differently than the way most people use mice, but it's still extremely comfortable. My thumb and ring finger grasp the sides of the mouse, while my index finger rests on the button, and my middle finger sits just off to the side of the button. So I'm not really grasping it, but that's just the way I use mice. I have quite large hands, and the only mice that I can really grasp are the mice that Wacom packages with their tablets. The Logitech optical mice are next in line, but otheriwse I just hold mice with my fingertips.
Why? Well maybe because it's easier to program in Cocoa and use Project Builder and Interface Builder than Visual Studio, besides which, they're free. The only thing I miss in switching from Visual C++ 6 to Project Builder is auto-completion.
That RAM-SAN is remarkably inefficient, compared to HDDs. For a comparable hard drive-based SAN, you'd think the manufacturer was insane if they said it required 5,000 watts of electricity to operate. I know it's fast, but I don't want a dedicated 60-amp circuit just for a single storage device. And I can hardly imagine the heat it produces.
I have SBC/Yahoo DSL, and they've been supporting Mac OS X's built-in PPPoE software for about a year now. As soon as they posted instructions online, I kissed EnterNet goodbye, and never looked back.
All you have to do is go into System Preferences, click on Network, make sure Built-In Ethernet is selected, then click on the PPPoE tab. Check the box next to "Connect using PPPoE", enter your user name and password in the appropriate boxes, and hit Apply Now. I also do a few extras - I check the remember password box, I check "Show PPPoE status in menu bar", so that it's really easy to connect, and I don't have to use the Internet Connect app, and I click on PPPoE Options and make sure that "Send PPP echo packets" is the only box that's checked. It's essential to the connection that that box is checked, but the other options are yours to play with.
What I did to set up file, printer, and connection saring was install a $29 Allied Telesyn 10/100 NIC in a PCI slot in my tower, and just plugged that into a spare Cisco hub I have. AirPort is also perfectly acceptable as an option.
Why would the price be $199 US if the measurements are in cm? Perhaps this is a Canadian or Australian product sheet, in which case the US price would be considerably lower.
Install Ghostscript and Gimp-Print, and you should be fine. My Stylus Color 760 works beautifully.
Then how do you get internet access? Do you just have cable?
In case you haven't heard, DP 10 has been out for a while.
Without even being able to read the article, the answer is a definitive no, most likely on both counts. They're using physical objects to cause reflections, scattering signals, and thus opening up more channels for use. This would have no application in fiber optics, and I don't know that you could consider it a compression scheme. It's just applying different transmission and reception techniques in order to use airspace more effectively. Although the intended result is probably different, in the Vietnam War, they used a cloud scatter technique for broadcasting radio signals over long distances - by shooting your signal at the clouds, you basically get a free long-range directional antenna. Using sky-scrapers and other urban objects is more likely to yield a more omni-directional result, and while the range may be shorter, you can be picked up by pretty much any receiver within range, creating a better load balance, etc. It seems that they've also found a way to create more channels by using this technique, but I'm not familiar with all of the technology mentioned in the post.
From the Supreme Court's opinion on Griswold v. Conneticut:
(emphasis mine)
I just bought a Sony Ericsson T300. It's a wonderful phone. Basically the only thing that the T68i does that this doesn't is Bluetooth. For my $149 (Only $99 after rebate) I got a triple-band GSM phone with great reception, incredible battery life (Lithium-Polymer; 7.5 hours of talk, 300 hours standby), GPRS acces, both POP3 and IMAP4 support, AIM, WAP, two-way SMS, MMS, a 640x480 color digital camera, headset (which I'll never use, but some people can't live without them), 256 color display, IR port that can communicate with other phones or handheld devices, 500 contact memory (8 fields per contact), four built-in games (you can download more for free), and the really important thing to me - it's small. I was going to go for a smaller Samsung or Motorola flip phone, but the combination of price, GPRS, and battery life made me get this model instead. I will probably get the USB cable and pray for iSync compatibility. Otherwise, I can always send emails with attached vCards to keep my laptop's address book in sync with the phone. Also, the menu is very easy to navigate on this phone.
A friend of mine bought a T68i last month and returned it within a week. He said that it works wonderfully with iSync, but the Bluetooth totally drained the battery, and he was getting about 1 hour of talk time, and at most 15 hours standby. A guy from T-Mobile said that he's heard of this issue on the original T68 and early T68is, so it's possible that AT&T Wireless just had older boxes sitting around, but it was enough to make me not want one. In the short time I've had the T300, it's been phenomenal. The sound quality is great, the reception is good, even indoors, and I really only have one complaint: the interchangable faceplates are not available yet, so for now I'm stuck with dark green when I really want blue.
I've emailed Moshe a few times, and he actually prefers gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.1. You don't have much of a choice in Jaguar, but he'd probably stick with 2.95 in linux, which would result in a disparity in the benchmarks.
as far as b) - this shouldn't be necessary. Both OSes should ship in a good configuration for general use. Tuning the OS for specific tasks would probably result in more sets of benchmarks for different configurations, as not everybody uses a server for the same tasks. Also, this would greatly lengthen the article, probably making it a good candidate for a technical write-up on somebody's personal site, but too big for an article in Byte.
The newer model is the Canon LIDE 30, and it's ideal to go with a PowerBook, because it's only one inch thick, and barely longer or wider than a sheet of legal paper, so it should fit next to the laptop in a bag just fine.
I've got # 119 5/8! It's composed of broken sub-atomic particles that have recombined, so that you have photrons and neutons. Unfortunately, it's highly unstable, and always explodes within five picoseconds of coming into existence. However, if you're lucky enough to have a crystal of these things (note, crystal only lasts 4.384 picoseconds) and can get a picture of it, you'll notice it looks like a blue bunny. That's why I've named it Bunniculum.