My wife had a similar problem. Her parents were not able to pay for her college. When we got married we assumed everything would be OK. As it turns out some colleges have gotten wise to this scenario and require you to reside in-state for one year before applying for in-state tuition. Getting financial aid took a lot of work on her part but finally she can go to school full time with subsidized student loans.
I took a different route: I got a job at a college. Most of them allow staff to take classes at little or no expense. It will have taken me six years, but come Jan 2007, I will have my college degree.
Why should he? The IT department are there to serve him....
Why should he? God, I'd hate to see you in a store. You must be the customer from hell. This "Customer is always right" mentality has limits.
IT is there to assist, not to be seen as slave labor and subhuman. I might be in IT, but I'm still a person. Treat me worse than the dog you abuse at home, and of course you won't get as good service as someone who comes in with a smile, is polite, friendly, and bought me a beer at happy hour last Friday.
I acquired two A5000s and two Sun e4500s for $500. Total raw storage is 1TB, but I unfortunately can't run them all at the same time...I trip the breaker in my apartment. Yeah, they might be cheap, but power-wise, they aren't.
For me, worst IT moment was working on a computer, and realizing that horrible body odor smell wasn't just coming from the user standing next to me...but it was emminating from his laptop keyboard.
God that was so disgusting.
I think specifically, the D key looks for a diagnostic partition. C looks for bootable media on standard partitions such as the OS X Install CD, or a FW attached HD with OS X installed on it. I'm still waiting for an Intel iMac to pass through my shop to verify.
I for one will be eagerly watching in Feb when these things ship to see if/when they hack it to run WinXP and OS X. As a Mac switcher (at home at least, for non-gaming) I would love to have the option at least to use XP for the software that doesn't natively run in OS X. That and possibly for portable gaming. 256mb GDDR3? yum.
My corporate overload makes me buy parts and build my own machine. If I could either dual boot on a MacBook Pro or run VMWare/VPC and have Windows, I'll do it.
I'd rather pay the extra money to have a machine designed and built to run OS X than a machine I built myself from spare parts to run OS X. I can see it now, every software update "breaks" my whitebox OS X install. While I'm at it I'll prolly get AppleCare too, because not having to fix my own laptop is worth the money to me.
While I won't argue your excellent metaphor some of us unfortunately need to use Windows at work in order to pay bills to buy nice toys like the MacBook Pro.
Johns Hopkins University (both the Univ and the SOM) do the same thing, except they have now resorted to not just killing internet access, but going down to the switches and shutting off the interfaces.(!)
They did it to several mail servers that happened to be running non MS operating systems. (read: unix, and variants)
Kinda sucky, but hey, what do you do when thousands of people don't give a fuck about patching their OS, or even running NAV (of F-Prot, or any anti-virus software)
Such is life.
At the risk of showing my geekness, I believe the Kessel run than Han solo refers to is a race that isn't about time so much as distance. The Kessel run has to do with skillful piloting through the black holes surrounding the Maw Cluster. (http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/kessel/ bts.html)
Or, as said by George Lucas, it was just a brag that Obiwan saw right through.
You make wild statements of perfomance, but yet don't post any links to Ars-Technica, or Tom's Hardware, or any other site with benchmarking. And I don't mean Adobe's 100second minute benchmarking. That would be akin to saying wild statements such as "Microsoft's code is better because they have seasoned professional programmers looking over the code instead of highschool and college-aged programmer wannabe's" (***just as an example***)
If you're going to slam an architecture, at least bring some weight to the table, rather than your open mouth flapping in the breeze.
I like your thinking, perhaps calling it "Disclosed Source" is a good idea. But some things are good to be open sources. for instance, I learned PHP (well, enough to be dangerous) because of the open source nature, and because many people post their code for others to use. This is very nice when learning. (also helps when you find an error in someone else's code or a better what of accomplishing the same goal a different, faster, better way) But some software will never benefit as open source. Fact of life, I think. Apple is kind of doing it right. Open source OS, closed source GUI. Contribute to Open Source, but still keep trade secrets.
Or you can disable Rendezvous via the Applications/Utilities/Directory Access application. I suppose, if you don't need Rendezvous, you should probably turn it off. And if the problem is AppleTalk, like someone said, you can only use AppleTalk on one interface at a time. Though, I'd disable everything install a wireless router, and connect to computers via IP only.
Johns Hopkins has Macs. In fact, a strong portion of the research facilities at Hopkins use Macs. Programs like MacVector, Sequencer, and Photoshop are nearly standard installs...but just down the hall they'll be a dual Xeon running computations. I've always advocated best tool for the job, rather than lemming-like devotion to any one platform. That being said, I prefer OS X to Windows, but I use both regularly, and I'm comfortable in front of a *nix term.
But the community college I went to there was nearly no mac to be found. (and I tried to find them!)
Actually, I stupidly tried to embedding the word "sarcasm" inside of HTML brackets like I normally do in AIM, and as such, it wasn't displayed because I posted as HTML Formatted. I had meant to convey the idea that it *wasn't* right for the RIAA to spread a virus over P2P networks.
I also was in a rush at the exciting though of making 1st post, but ended up as 4th post, henche the "first"? at the end of the sentence. I was rushed, and should have taken my time.:)/me smacks self. "Bad user!!"
True, but thats comparing a desktop system to a laptop system. Forgive the pun, but that's comparing apples to oranges. If I wanted a desktop system, I would have bought one. Not to mention the wonderful feeling I have when I open my iBook and it *works*. And yes, $999 for a *new* laptop (from any manf.) is a good price.
Exactly. iBooks work great. Infact, over Thanksgiving, I did an NFS install of Mandrake on an old NEC Ready120LT laptop, using my iBook as the NFS server. They are lightweight and portable, while still retaining functionality.
And thank-you for also noticing I said *iBook*, not *iMac*.
Macs are only expensive if you buy the Dual Processor models, or the UberCool G4 Titanium Powerbook (portable space heater). Recall the recent price drop on the iBooks? The low-end model is only $999. Add a bit for some extra RAM, and you have a nice, decent Mac OSX box for home. iBooks are inexpensive, and I believe, a good deal when compared to similar priced PC laptops.
Linksys routers (and otherS) allow you to "clone" the MAC address. Its very useful if your cable company has registered the MAC address of the NIC they gave you. Thus, with filtering software, any other NIC won't connect....unless you "clone" it:)
Seriously dude. I work for Johns Hopkins, and a small sect (used politely, of course!) of us are Mac loyalists...we've done this already. Its not news, except it involves Macs, and OS X.
(the default aiport driver worked with the Orinoco cards, as I recall)
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My wife had a similar problem. Her parents were not able to pay for her college. When we got married we assumed everything would be OK. As it turns out some colleges have gotten wise to this scenario and require you to reside in-state for one year before applying for in-state tuition. Getting financial aid took a lot of work on her part but finally she can go to school full time with subsidized student loans. I took a different route: I got a job at a college. Most of them allow staff to take classes at little or no expense. It will have taken me six years, but come Jan 2007, I will have my college degree.
Why should he? The IT department are there to serve him....
Why should he? God, I'd hate to see you in a store. You must be the customer from hell. This "Customer is always right" mentality has limits.IT is there to assist, not to be seen as slave labor and subhuman. I might be in IT, but I'm still a person. Treat me worse than the dog you abuse at home, and of course you won't get as good service as someone who comes in with a smile, is polite, friendly, and bought me a beer at happy hour last Friday.
I acquired two A5000s and two Sun e4500s for $500. Total raw storage is 1TB, but I unfortunately can't run them all at the same time...I trip the breaker in my apartment. Yeah, they might be cheap, but power-wise, they aren't.
For me, worst IT moment was working on a computer, and realizing that horrible body odor smell wasn't just coming from the user standing next to me...but it was emminating from his laptop keyboard. God that was so disgusting.
I think specifically, the D key looks for a diagnostic partition. C looks for bootable media on standard partitions such as the OS X Install CD, or a FW attached HD with OS X installed on it. I'm still waiting for an Intel iMac to pass through my shop to verify.
I for one will be eagerly watching in Feb when these things ship to see if/when they hack it to run WinXP and OS X. As a Mac switcher (at home at least, for non-gaming) I would love to have the option at least to use XP for the software that doesn't natively run in OS X. That and possibly for portable gaming. 256mb GDDR3? yum.
My corporate overload makes me buy parts and build my own machine. If I could either dual boot on a MacBook Pro or run VMWare/VPC and have Windows, I'll do it.
I'd rather pay the extra money to have a machine designed and built to run OS X than a machine I built myself from spare parts to run OS X. I can see it now, every software update "breaks" my whitebox OS X install. While I'm at it I'll prolly get AppleCare too, because not having to fix my own laptop is worth the money to me.
While I won't argue your excellent metaphor some of us unfortunately need to use Windows at work in order to pay bills to buy nice toys like the MacBook Pro.
I guess the real question is can it run Windows, Linux and OS X? What kind of black magic will we need to do to make it work?
Actually the 15" and 17" PowerBooks have PC card slots.
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html
Not to be rude, but for the love of God, don't you have something to do besides write 1-bit bitmaps by hand?
Johns Hopkins University (both the Univ and the SOM) do the same thing, except they have now resorted to not just killing internet access, but going down to the switches and shutting off the interfaces.(!) They did it to several mail servers that happened to be running non MS operating systems. (read: unix, and variants) Kinda sucky, but hey, what do you do when thousands of people don't give a fuck about patching their OS, or even running NAV (of F-Prot, or any anti-virus software) Such is life.
At the risk of showing my geekness, I believe the Kessel run than Han solo refers to is a race that isn't about time so much as distance. The Kessel run has to do with skillful piloting through the black holes surrounding the Maw Cluster. (http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/kessel/ bts.html)
Or, as said by George Lucas, it was just a brag that Obiwan saw right through.
You make wild statements of perfomance, but yet don't post any links to Ars-Technica, or Tom's Hardware, or any other site with benchmarking. And I don't mean Adobe's 100second minute benchmarking. That would be akin to saying wild statements such as "Microsoft's code is better because they have seasoned professional programmers looking over the code instead of highschool and college-aged programmer wannabe's" (***just as an example***) If you're going to slam an architecture, at least bring some weight to the table, rather than your open mouth flapping in the breeze.
I like your thinking, perhaps calling it "Disclosed Source" is a good idea. But some things are good to be open sources. for instance, I learned PHP (well, enough to be dangerous) because of the open source nature, and because many people post their code for others to use. This is very nice when learning. (also helps when you find an error in someone else's code or a better what of accomplishing the same goal a different, faster, better way)
But some software will never benefit as open source. Fact of life, I think. Apple is kind of doing it right. Open source OS, closed source GUI. Contribute to Open Source, but still keep trade secrets.
Or you can disable Rendezvous via the Applications/Utilities/Directory Access application. I suppose, if you don't need Rendezvous, you should probably turn it off. And if the problem is AppleTalk, like someone said, you can only use AppleTalk on one interface at a time. Though, I'd disable everything install a wireless router, and connect to computers via IP only.
Johns Hopkins has Macs. In fact, a strong portion of the research facilities at Hopkins use Macs. Programs like MacVector, Sequencer, and Photoshop are nearly standard installs...but just down the hall they'll be a dual Xeon running computations. I've always advocated best tool for the job, rather than lemming-like devotion to any one platform. That being said, I prefer OS X to Windows, but I use both regularly, and I'm comfortable in front of a *nix term. But the community college I went to there was nearly no mac to be found. (and I tried to find them!)
Actually, I stupidly tried to embedding the word "sarcasm" inside of HTML brackets like I normally do in AIM, and as such, it wasn't displayed because I posted as HTML Formatted. I had meant to convey the idea that it *wasn't* right for the RIAA to spread a virus over P2P networks.
:) /me smacks self. "Bad user!!"
I also was in a rush at the exciting though of making 1st post, but ended up as 4th post, henche the "first"? at the end of the sentence. I was rushed, and should have taken my time.
Join 'em! I mean, if the RIAA does an illegal act to counter an illegal (only if copyright material) act, then its justified, right? First?
True, but thats comparing a desktop system to a laptop system. Forgive the pun, but that's comparing apples to oranges. If I wanted a desktop system, I would have bought one. Not to mention the wonderful feeling I have when I open my iBook and it *works*. And yes, $999 for a *new* laptop (from any manf.) is a good price.
Exactly. iBooks work great. Infact, over Thanksgiving, I did an NFS install of Mandrake on an old NEC Ready120LT laptop, using my iBook as the NFS server. They are lightweight and portable, while still retaining functionality. And thank-you for also noticing I said *iBook*, not *iMac*.
Macs are only expensive if you buy the Dual Processor models, or the UberCool G4 Titanium Powerbook (portable space heater). Recall the recent price drop on the iBooks? The low-end model is only $999. Add a bit for some extra RAM, and you have a nice, decent Mac OSX box for home. iBooks are inexpensive, and I believe, a good deal when compared to similar priced PC laptops.
Linksys routers (and otherS) allow you to "clone" the MAC address. Its very useful if your cable company has registered the MAC address of the NIC they gave you. Thus, with filtering software, any other NIC won't connect....unless you "clone" it :)
Seriously dude. I work for Johns Hopkins, and a small sect (used politely, of course!) of us are Mac loyalists...we've done this already. Its not news, except it involves Macs, and OS X. (the default aiport driver worked with the Orinoco cards, as I recall)