Really, who the frig cares from a general computing standpoint? Who needs 8 CPUs?
I do. Firstly who needs a Mac Pro from a 'general computing standpoint'? Buy an iMac. There are two types of Mac Pro owners - posers, and people who actually need the power.
Speaking as someone who actually needs the power for my studio, I'm wondering how low I will be able to get the latency of Logic Pro and Cubase SX3 (or rather, SX4 when it comes out which will be Universal Binary) with lots of plugins and soft synths.
Firstly how can I be '100% wrong' if I suggest that Sony will probably use a proprietary interface? Are you suggesting that they always adhere to *gasp* standards? That's just plain silly.
Sony are bastards. Never forget that. They are the Microsoft of consumer electronics. These are the people who force me to waste hours of time transferring recordings from regular audio minidiscs in real time because some cretin thought it would be a good idea to restrict the USB copying ability to only discs that were recorded using their proprietary disc format using the in built microphone port, and I have to use their god awful dog slow Windows only (OSX version doesn't work with older minidiscs) software to do it.
They are also the people who invent their own memory cards and batteries rather than using anything standard.
Sure that looks like a regular HDMI port in that pic, however I would seriously not be surprised in the slightest if it turns out they have done something so that you have to use their 'special' cable.
I hope it is a standard port, I really do but I simply do not trust Sony. Bastards!
OS X does not require that a user be logged in as an administrator to install software. The user or someone aiding the install needs to know the name and password of a local administrative user to complete the install. On a network, most software is installed using Remote Desktop, an inexpensive Systems Management Server-like console.
Neither does WindowsXP - 'Runas'
Apple's taking a different approach: What users need is in the box: Anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, image backup and restore
OSX does not ship with any form of Anti-virus or anti-spam. It supports encryption through the use of encrypted disk images (fair enough). Image backup and restore is ok so long as you don't want to make anything too big for Apple Software Restore with Apple's own tools otherwise it screws up.
One HUGE whopping omission which ships with Windows but not OSX is a decent backup program for OSX. I'm sorry but.Mac doesn't count. I need to be able to backup 200Gb of data on a regular basis. Disk images are simply too unwieldly - I need a decent backup program that will backup only the changed files since my last backup - it's the difference between a 6 hour backup while redlining the hard drives and a 6 minute one. The best backup program I've seen for OSX is Deja Vu (a version ships with Toast I think). Apple should bundle this with the OS instead of attempting to push.Mac on people.
Received a box about the size of three stacked PC case PSUs. On opening it we initially though it was empty, but when we read the manifest, sure enough there was a two inch sticker in there which according to the instructions (!) was to be stuck onto a Dell cabinet that had been delivered the week before.
So if the dual CPU, dual-core Xeon 3GHz is twice as fast as the previous quad G5 model, then my work desktop XP machine which is a single CPU dual core Xeon at 3.2GHz is faster than a G5 quad?
It's Shadow copy for desktops. Shadow Copy can restore individual files, however they have to be stored on a Windows Server 2003 server network share for this to work.
I see so many attempts to get at MySpace through proxies it would be a full time job to find them and ban them, and it's a losing battle. Much simpler to block the content itself. I predict it's only a matter of time before someone makes a portable firefox with some form of crypto plugin to use with some form of crypto proxy however.
Whitelists for websites are no good - for any reasonable sized organisation it would be too great a task, plus an extremely annoying hindrance to legitimate research.
You are aware that the OU is not a physical university right? It's distance learning.
It's easy to say 'everyone use Linux' when you don't have to foot the bill and logistics of switching. Not to say that it's a bad idea, just that in the real world they are not indicative of a 'real' university or college.
I agree with you, however as we know, employers look at buzz words and titles rather than ability.
For example from a random job specification I just looked up:
Applicants are expected to have evidence of secretarial/PA experience at a high level and hold relevant typing, word processing and I.T. qualifications. Experience of using Microsoft Office is essential. You will be highly organised and have the ability to prioritise workload and work with minimum supervision. The post also requires excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
The bulk of Education is driven by employers and their needs. It's that simple. Microsoft knows this which is why they give education huge discounts as if education didn't use Office, then eventually we would have a workforce that had *shock horror* different skills and that understood that the computers != Microsoft Windows.
Let me tell you how UK educational establishments think. Firstly they get whopping discounts from Microsoft on site licenses. ~£17K per year for a reasonably large organisation (~2000 desktops) and they can install whatever is the current version of Windows and Office on all desktops, and CALs are effectively free.
Most courses (and software used in courses) are written for Windows and Office. We still use Office 2000 because every time we try to upgrade you would think the sky is falling because a menu option has changed or the window looks slightly different. Lecturers are whiners and lazy when it comes to updating course material.
Where Linux is mainly used in UK education is basically anything that the staff and students don't get their hands on and where you need reliability - in other words servers. Firewalls, proxies, email relays, DNS, DHCP, web servers, moodle, storage, network managment, spam filtering, web filtering, streaming media - you name it, if it runs on Linux it will get used as quite frankly it's free, and there are no stupid user license issues. User licenses can kill a project at a University or large college for one simple reason - an organisation with say 2000 desktops will have around 20,000 students enrolled. Many commercial systems will actually expect you to buy a license for every user rather than every desktop. For example a commercial web filtering system like Websense expects a license for every user, regardless of how many can actually use the web at once - simply not going to happen, especially when there are just as good free solutions like the superb Dans Guardian.
FUD tag on this story in 3..2..1... oh no wait - this is it.slashdot.org not apple.slashdot.org - maybe it will pan out differently; - this Apple exploit was on the front page for starters which strangely never happens with exploits listed in the apple section for some reason...
There is a mistake in the article. It states that the police records will be kept fo five years. This is not strictly accurate as the DNA samples will be kept indefinitely on the UK's national DNA database.
I talked my mother into switching from XP to an iMac just over a year ago.
Only problem she's had since was a full mailbox at her ISP.
I'm sick of supporting Microsoft's problems - whenever people ask me for advice these days my answer is simply 'buy a Mac'. When they go and buy a PC instead because they think it's cheaper in the short term, afterwards when they come to me complaining about problems x/y/z I feel quite justified when I say - 'If you don't want to take my advice that's fine, but why is this now my problem?'
They are linking the colours of the PSP to race therefore it's technically racist; equally regarding both skin colours involved (see how I got my point across without using the W or B words?).
Sony will obviously be aware of this, which is why they have done it. The simple fact is that I have seen that advert now, which has made me think about a PSP and the fact there must be a white model coming (meaning there must be a black model already out) and I would probably never have seen that advert.
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Really, who the frig cares from a general computing standpoint? Who needs 8 CPUs?
I do. Firstly who needs a Mac Pro from a 'general computing standpoint'? Buy an iMac. There are two types of Mac Pro owners - posers, and people who actually need the power.
Speaking as someone who actually needs the power for my studio, I'm wondering how low I will be able to get the latency of Logic Pro and Cubase SX3 (or rather, SX4 when it comes out which will be Universal Binary) with lots of plugins and soft synths.
Firstly how can I be '100% wrong' if I suggest that Sony will probably use a proprietary interface? Are you suggesting that they always adhere to *gasp* standards? That's just plain silly.
Sony are bastards. Never forget that. They are the Microsoft of consumer electronics. These are the people who force me to waste hours of time transferring recordings from regular audio minidiscs in real time because some cretin thought it would be a good idea to restrict the USB copying ability to only discs that were recorded using their proprietary disc format using the in built microphone port, and I have to use their god awful dog slow Windows only (OSX version doesn't work with older minidiscs) software to do it.
They are also the people who invent their own memory cards and batteries rather than using anything standard.
Sure that looks like a regular HDMI port in that pic, however I would seriously not be surprised in the slightest if it turns out they have done something so that you have to use their 'special' cable.
I hope it is a standard port, I really do but I simply do not trust Sony. Bastards!
It would be a moot point if you got a HDMI cable with your HD TV.
...except it's Sony and therefore the cable will no doubt be proprietary at the PS3 end.
OS X does not require that a user be logged in as an administrator to install software. The user or someone aiding the install needs to know the name and password of a local administrative user to complete the install. On a network, most software is installed using Remote Desktop, an inexpensive Systems Management Server-like console.
.Mac doesn't count. I need to be able to backup 200Gb of data on a regular basis. Disk images are simply too unwieldly - I need a decent backup program that will backup only the changed files since my last backup - it's the difference between a 6 hour backup while redlining the hard drives and a 6 minute one. The best backup program I've seen for OSX is Deja Vu (a version ships with Toast I think). Apple should bundle this with the OS instead of attempting to push .Mac on people.
Neither does WindowsXP - 'Runas'
Apple's taking a different approach: What users need is in the box: Anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, image backup and restore
OSX does not ship with any form of Anti-virus or anti-spam. It supports encryption through the use of encrypted disk images (fair enough). Image backup and restore is ok so long as you don't want to make anything too big for Apple Software Restore with Apple's own tools otherwise it screws up.
One HUGE whopping omission which ships with Windows but not OSX is a decent backup program for OSX. I'm sorry but
Received a box about the size of three stacked PC case PSUs. On opening it we initially though it was empty, but when we read the manifest, sure enough there was a two inch sticker in there which according to the instructions (!) was to be stuck onto a Dell cabinet that had been delivered the week before.
...that keep putting 'FUD' tags on EVERY Apple story that isn't overly positive about Apple?
/. is becoming synonymous with 'FUD'.
It's starting to get annoying; 'Apple' on
So if the dual CPU, dual-core Xeon 3GHz is twice as fast as the previous quad G5 model, then my work desktop XP machine which is a single CPU dual core Xeon at 3.2GHz is faster than a G5 quad?
Just how slow then is my DP2.0??
I feel a little cheated.
You are right it's not System Restore.
It's Shadow copy for desktops. Shadow Copy can restore individual files, however they have to be stored on a Windows Server 2003 server network share for this to work.
I use squid's bandwidth buckets to tarpit access to 'web contraband' like .swf files and can whitelist legit sites if needed.
I saw the video a few days ago - the thing is I didn't know Al Gore had a movie out about global warming - I want to see that.
I see so many attempts to get at MySpace through proxies it would be a full time job to find them and ban them, and it's a losing battle. Much simpler to block the content itself. I predict it's only a matter of time before someone makes a portable firefox with some form of crypto plugin to use with some form of crypto proxy however.
Whitelists for websites are no good - for any reasonable sized organisation it would be too great a task, plus an extremely annoying hindrance to legitimate research.
Install DansGuardian into your Squid proxy (what do you mean you don't use Squid..?)
/etc/dansguardian/bannedphraselist:
Add to
' MySpace.com. All Rights Reserved.' (changing the ' for angle brackets)
When I said 'education' I was referring to higher and further education in the UK, which is mostly driven by employment.
You are aware that the OU is not a physical university right? It's distance learning.
It's easy to say 'everyone use Linux' when you don't have to foot the bill and logistics of switching. Not to say that it's a bad idea, just that in the real world they are not indicative of a 'real' university or college.
On EVERY desktop?
I agree with you, however as we know, employers look at buzz words and titles rather than ability.
For example from a random job specification I just looked up:
Applicants are expected to have evidence of secretarial/PA experience at a high level and hold relevant typing, word processing and I.T. qualifications. Experience of using Microsoft Office is essential. You will be highly organised and have the ability to prioritise workload and work with minimum supervision. The post also requires excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
The bulk of Education is driven by employers and their needs. It's that simple. Microsoft knows this which is why they give education huge discounts as if education didn't use Office, then eventually we would have a workforce that had *shock horror* different skills and that understood that the computers != Microsoft Windows.
Let me tell you how UK educational establishments think. Firstly they get whopping discounts from Microsoft on site licenses. ~£17K per year for a reasonably large organisation (~2000 desktops) and they can install whatever is the current version of Windows and Office on all desktops, and CALs are effectively free.
Most courses (and software used in courses) are written for Windows and Office. We still use Office 2000 because every time we try to upgrade you would think the sky is falling because a menu option has changed or the window looks slightly different. Lecturers are whiners and lazy when it comes to updating course material.
Where Linux is mainly used in UK education is basically anything that the staff and students don't get their hands on and where you need reliability - in other words servers. Firewalls, proxies, email relays, DNS, DHCP, web servers, moodle, storage, network managment, spam filtering, web filtering, streaming media - you name it, if it runs on Linux it will get used as quite frankly it's free, and there are no stupid user license issues. User licenses can kill a project at a University or large college for one simple reason - an organisation with say 2000 desktops will have around 20,000 students enrolled. Many commercial systems will actually expect you to buy a license for every user rather than every desktop. For example a commercial web filtering system like Websense expects a license for every user, regardless of how many can actually use the web at once - simply not going to happen, especially when there are just as good free solutions like the superb Dans Guardian.
Using Linux is all well and good, but what happens when students don't sign up for courses because employers want people who know Windows and Office?
FUD tag on this story in 3..2..1... oh no wait - this is it.slashdot.org not apple.slashdot.org - maybe it will pan out differently; - this Apple exploit was on the front page for starters which strangely never happens with exploits listed in the apple section for some reason...
There is a mistake in the article. It states that the police records will be kept fo five years. This is not strictly accurate as the DNA samples will be kept indefinitely on the UK's national DNA database.
What will this mean for moodle?
Now that Apple have acknowledged this pro^H^H^H issue, is it ok to believe in it now?
Also I recently bought a new MacBook battery. Am I supposed to include this in my inventory list for my forum signature or is this still ok?
15" MacBook Pro
2Ghz Core Duo
2GB 533Mhz DDR2 RAM
128MB Video RAM
100GB Seagate Momentus 7200.1 HD
Also I need guidance on which items should be in bold.
I talked my mother into switching from XP to an iMac just over a year ago.
Only problem she's had since was a full mailbox at her ISP.
I'm sick of supporting Microsoft's problems - whenever people ask me for advice these days my answer is simply 'buy a Mac'. When they go and buy a PC instead because they think it's cheaper in the short term, afterwards when they come to me complaining about problems x/y/z I feel quite justified when I say - 'If you don't want to take my advice that's fine, but why is this now my problem?'
Where do I get one?
They are linking the colours of the PSP to race therefore it's technically racist; equally regarding both skin colours involved (see how I got my point across without using the W or B words?).
Sony will obviously be aware of this, which is why they have done it. The simple fact is that I have seen that advert now, which has made me think about a PSP and the fact there must be a white model coming (meaning there must be a black model already out) and I would probably never have seen that advert.
It's called 'marketing'.