NetBoot is a function based partially in Open Firmware that allows a client to be booted by a Mac OS X Server machine via ethernet. You connect the client to the ether and hold "n" while after you hit the power key. (You can also hold option to get a list of all bootable partitions/devices connected to the machine, which will include valid NetBoot servers.)
We use it at work to image machines for a school system. There are a couple of dozen schools, each with its own image, and when we need to reimage a machine, we hook said machine to the Xserve's switch and bang, the machine boots and a program called NetRestore (third-party) is run to reimage the machine. (You don't need NetRestore, but it makes our day easier.)
NetBooting is really fast and really elegant, and on top of that, it's/really/ easy to set up and maintain on the server end.
Even cooler than those were the Trilogy Box Set and the Mac Action Sack. The latter was an odd landscape-style box that broke in half and pulled apart to reveal a ton of awesome goodies (Hamish Sinclair's scrapbook, stickers, and the Map Collection CD).
The latter, of course, was a tan canvas bag with games in it.
Remember, kiddies, that Microsoft is never about competing. Otherwise, they'd still be working on IE for Mac OS X, instead of complaining that another browser beat them.
Take your toys and go home, I say. We don't want you here.
We don't take your word for it because we have to be sure the bases are covered. It isn't because you're dirty liars, it's because if we jumped up every time someone said, "Yeah, I've troubleshot it down to the motherboard," we'd lose TONS of money and waste TONS of time.
Why?
Because 95% of users couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a wet paper bag. You can, sure, but most can't. Going over all the steps with everyone ensures that Company X, through policy, provides the best service it can. Everyone is treated equally, and gets the same level of service that guarantees it covers all the bases, no matter the conditions, rain or shine.
If you don't like it, build your own box and support yourself.
If you don't agree with the thinking that you really need to make sure--through telling the person to do it, even if he or she has done it already--that steps X, Y, and Z have been performed, go take a tech support job for a few months. You'll learn that enough people don't do all the steps they need to do to make it worth telling/everyone/ to do the steps. Heck, some people just say their HD is bad after having done nothing to verify it. It happens, I've seen it, it's easy to spot.
You might not do it, but enough people do to make it worth the policy. (That, of course, coupled with some people just not being troubleshooters for a living or hobby.)
So yeah, two choices:
Take everyone's word for the matter when they say something, and run the risk of wasting time and money on an on-site appointment;
Or spend some extra time on the phone providing leak-proof service.
Minimum of a year's worth of batteries. Let's be generous and say two AAs.
Ten hours of play a day, for three hundred sixty-five days. If one set of batteries, let's say, lasts for two of those charges, and you listen for five hours a day on average, you're looking at buying about ninety pair of AAs a year. At two bucks a pop--minimum, for good 2-packs of AA batteries, that's more than you pay for the replacement battery which will give you a year of play, in theory, at the minimum. And it doesn't waste battery carcasses, which is good for the environment./And/ you don't have to deal with buying batteries (always an annoyance that can be done without), and weak-ass battery compartments that fly open at the slightest hint of shock.
Now, if I've underestimated how long the batteries would drive an iPod, let's double their life up there. That cuts your yearly AA pair consumption in half, to about 45. That's/still/ only a couple of bucks shy of a replacement battery from Apple.
How is this highway robbery?
Postscript: Long day. Math may be wrong. Please do not flame. Thanks, Management.
It's supposed to be a learning device. Do the kids need AIM in English class at all? (LOL OMG R U BUSY L8ER???) If they get irresponsible lose it, and the school is out a $1,000 machine, what's wrong with charging a/tenth/ of the value of the machine? I lost a textbook in high school, and I paid FULL PRICE for the bastard.
If the school gives the students SCHOOL PROPERTY for the purpose of DOING SCHOOLWORK, what's wrong with making sure/they're doing schoolwork?/
And really, how is this any different than the post-school world we want to prepare our children for? If you go to work and they give you a shiny new computer for your desk, who are you to complain that they don't want you doing x on their resources? It's/work/ time, not pr0n time.
Actually, I guarantee you they won't be able to boot into any other OS BUT Mac OS X. They won't be able to boot from a CD. A FireWire drive. NetBoot. Nothing. They won't even be able to drop into >console.
Why?
Lock-downs. If this town is smart, they'll lock down the machines the same way Henrico County Public Schools did in Virignia. (After learning the hard way.) Firmware locks, linking >console to dropping into the "/dev/null" shell (wink wink), etc. The kids will get their own account and will never even/see/ the (hidden) admin account.
I work for a repair depot that services the county, and lemme tell ya: These machines are/tight./ You can't even yank the RAM and zap the PRAM to reset the OF password because of these nifty little anti-theft strips that cross the AirPort card and top EMI shield. You can't remove the AirPort card to get to the RAM, and if you DO remove the strip, you get this nice little tattoo left behind by the sticker that means "hahapwned" to administrators.
Hopefully, Texas is going to implement similar measures. If not, they're going to have baaaad headaches.
Maybe it's a 1-2 punch type approach.
Step A - release virus to DDoS on blacklist maintainers...(DNS/blacklist/etc has to be re-routed until virus passes)
Step B - while blacklists are down, send out massive spam campaign or more virus-type spam
If no one uses the.0 release, who will find the bugs in it?
(Okay, I get that if you're in a critical production environment, the bleeding edge is a bad place to be, but/someone's/ gotta use the products before the remaining bugs can be shaken out, right? You know, just as long as it isn't ME . . .;-))
Command-option-p-r resets the power manager on the PowerBook G3 "Kanga" model. This model isn't compatible with Mac OS X, and is the first PB G3 (with a six-color Apple logo on the back of the display). For all other models, it's either a reset switch or command-shift-option-power. BIG IMPORTANT NOTE: Only the PowerBook G3 Series ("Wallstreet") uses the function key in the PMU reset; on all other models that use a keystroke, pressing function can cause problems.)
This is incorrect for resetting a power manager. Command-option-P-R, held at startup through several restarts, will clear the parameter RAM.
To reset your PMU, refer to either your manual or the Apple Knowledge Base (kbase.info.apple.com) and search for "PMU reset" and perhaps the model of your computer.
Educational copies of Mac OS X are/still/ full versions. They're $69, and contain no differences from what you'd buy on a shelf somewhere at ChumpUSA or an actual Apple Store.
Full version, just cheaper.
I know this because Tyler--er, because I used to work for a university.
This is also what makes OSS fall down at times. Narrow-sighted developers writing to solve their own problems can't always make software that works for the masses. They write for themselves, which locks out everyone else for usability or functionality reasons, or they write for geeks, which still locks out a massive amount of people.
Sometimes, it's not bad. There's no reason to write PHP to target Joe and Jill user. Sometimes, it sucks, as evidenced by your mom calling you to figure out how N program works--which she already does with inconsistently laid-out, MDI'ed-out-the-ass Windows apps anyway. The latter is where non-Windows apps have the ability to shine. Apple's HIG, for example, isn't doctrine, and it isn't perfect, but it's a/great/ starting base.
If you don't consider the usability concerns of other people (customers, in a sense), your software goes nowhere outside of the hardcore geeks in the crowd. For Apache, a geek's program, this is moot. For other things, like GIMP or (insert "consumer-level" app here), you just have to think about these things.
Either the app/OS stays a geektoy, or it doesn't. The developer decides.
That's funny . . . I have a "Bookmarks" menu right at the top of my screen. Oddly enough--and this may just be a coincidence--all of my bookmarks are under it.
So much for having to be accessed from a drawer. What's wrong with a menu?
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone else glance at the headline and see "Intel Shitting 64-bit Plans"?
NetBoot is a function based partially in Open Firmware that allows a client to be booted by a Mac OS X Server machine via ethernet. You connect the client to the ether and hold "n" while after you hit the power key. (You can also hold option to get a list of all bootable partitions/devices connected to the machine, which will include valid NetBoot servers.)
/really/ easy to set up and maintain on the server end.
We use it at work to image machines for a school system. There are a couple of dozen schools, each with its own image, and when we need to reimage a machine, we hook said machine to the Xserve's switch and bang, the machine boots and a program called NetRestore (third-party) is run to reimage the machine. (You don't need NetRestore, but it makes our day easier.)
NetBooting is really fast and really elegant, and on top of that, it's
I 3 NetBoot.
Even cooler than those were the Trilogy Box Set and the Mac Action Sack. The latter was an odd landscape-style box that broke in half and pulled apart to reveal a ton of awesome goodies (Hamish Sinclair's scrapbook, stickers, and the Map Collection CD).
The latter, of course, was a tan canvas bag with games in it.
How can you beat a brown sack?!
Bruce Garrett, a member of the Hubble team, has posted to his blog about the matter:
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http://www.brucegarrett.com/brucelog_2004_1_1.h
Just thought that was worth mentioning.
If you can't beat 'em, FUD 'em.
Remember, kiddies, that Microsoft is never about competing. Otherwise, they'd still be working on IE for Mac OS X, instead of complaining that another browser beat them.
Take your toys and go home, I say. We don't want you here.
We don't take your word for it because we have to be sure the bases are covered. It isn't because you're dirty liars, it's because if we jumped up every time someone said, "Yeah, I've troubleshot it down to the motherboard," we'd lose TONS of money and waste TONS of time.
/everyone/ to do the steps. Heck, some people just say their HD is bad after having done nothing to verify it. It happens, I've seen it, it's easy to spot.
Why?
Because 95% of users couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a wet paper bag. You can, sure, but most can't. Going over all the steps with everyone ensures that Company X, through policy, provides the best service it can. Everyone is treated equally, and gets the same level of service that guarantees it covers all the bases, no matter the conditions, rain or shine.
If you don't like it, build your own box and support yourself.
If you don't agree with the thinking that you really need to make sure--through telling the person to do it, even if he or she has done it already--that steps X, Y, and Z have been performed, go take a tech support job for a few months. You'll learn that enough people don't do all the steps they need to do to make it worth telling
You might not do it, but enough people do to make it worth the policy. (That, of course, coupled with some people just not being troubleshooters for a living or hobby.)
So yeah, two choices:
Take everyone's word for the matter when they say something, and run the risk of wasting time and money on an on-site appointment;
Or spend some extra time on the phone providing leak-proof service.
Here's a great little bit of information regarding Voynich:
y ni ch
http://rec-puzzles.org/new/sol.pl/cryptology/Vo
Mmm, strangeness.
This is a GREAT summary of lithium-ion battery tech, as found on Mac OS X Hints:
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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
Don't forget to check out the source material to which the article links, as well. Good stuff.
How do we know the executable doesn't have crap in there?
You know, the same could be asked of Internet Explorer.
It was moved to the "Window" section in the window settings prefs in Panther. I've been using option as my meta key in Panther since the dev releases.
A quick look at by backup from 10.3.1 says Terminal was 1.4.1. 10.3.2's Terminal is also 1.4.1.
Do the math on it:
/And/ you don't have to deal with buying batteries (always an annoyance that can be done without), and weak-ass battery compartments that fly open at the slightest hint of shock.
/still/ only a couple of bucks shy of a replacement battery from Apple.
Minimum of a year's worth of batteries. Let's be generous and say two AAs.
Ten hours of play a day, for three hundred sixty-five days. If one set of batteries, let's say, lasts for two of those charges, and you listen for five hours a day on average, you're looking at buying about ninety pair of AAs a year. At two bucks a pop--minimum, for good 2-packs of AA batteries, that's more than you pay for the replacement battery which will give you a year of play, in theory, at the minimum. And it doesn't waste battery carcasses, which is good for the environment.
Now, if I've underestimated how long the batteries would drive an iPod, let's double their life up there. That cuts your yearly AA pair consumption in half, to about 45. That's
How is this highway robbery?
Postscript: Long day. Math may be wrong. Please do not flame. Thanks, Management.
Oh, shut the hell up.
/tenth/ of the value of the machine? I lost a textbook in high school, and I paid FULL PRICE for the bastard.
/they're doing schoolwork?/
/work/ time, not pr0n time.
It's supposed to be a learning device. Do the kids need AIM in English class at all? (LOL OMG R U BUSY L8ER???) If they get irresponsible lose it, and the school is out a $1,000 machine, what's wrong with charging a
If the school gives the students SCHOOL PROPERTY for the purpose of DOING SCHOOLWORK, what's wrong with making sure
And really, how is this any different than the post-school world we want to prepare our children for? If you go to work and they give you a shiny new computer for your desk, who are you to complain that they don't want you doing x on their resources? It's
Actually, I guarantee you they won't be able to boot into any other OS BUT Mac OS X. They won't be able to boot from a CD. A FireWire drive. NetBoot. Nothing. They won't even be able to drop into >console.
/see/ the (hidden) admin account.
/tight./ You can't even yank the RAM and zap the PRAM to reset the OF password because of these nifty little anti-theft strips that cross the AirPort card and top EMI shield. You can't remove the AirPort card to get to the RAM, and if you DO remove the strip, you get this nice little tattoo left behind by the sticker that means "hahapwned" to administrators.
Why?
Lock-downs. If this town is smart, they'll lock down the machines the same way Henrico County Public Schools did in Virignia. (After learning the hard way.) Firmware locks, linking >console to dropping into the "/dev/null" shell (wink wink), etc. The kids will get their own account and will never even
I work for a repair depot that services the county, and lemme tell ya: These machines are
Hopefully, Texas is going to implement similar measures. If not, they're going to have baaaad headaches.
Serious computing, like X11, bash, Apache, Perl, and PHP?
Welcome to 2001, where Mac OS has all of those and more.
Can anyone find non-stream URLs for the QuickTime versions of these movies? I'd love to post them to the cURL blog here:
http://www.superdeluxo.com/wget_curl/
And as long as Disney owns that copyright, and keeps pushing for copyright extensions, we'll remember the Mouse forever! ;-D
Maybe it's a 1-2 punch type approach. ...(DNS/blacklist/etc has to be re-routed until virus passes)
Step A - release virus to DDoS on blacklist maintainers
Step B - while blacklists are down, send out massive spam campaign or more virus-type spam
Step C . . . Profit?
Today's computer Zen:
.0 release, who will find the bugs in it?
/someone's/ gotta use the products before the remaining bugs can be shaken out, right? You know, just as long as it isn't ME . . . ;-))
If no one uses the
(Okay, I get that if you're in a critical production environment, the bleeding edge is a bad place to be, but
I only have a simple question, really:
If the original story, about Apple not fixing security holes in Jaguar, made the front page, why didn't this?
Fox^H^H^HSlashdot: Fair and Balanced.
Command-option-p-r resets the power manager on the PowerBook G3 "Kanga" model. This model isn't compatible with Mac OS X, and is the first PB G3 (with a six-color Apple logo on the back of the display). For all other models, it's either a reset switch or command-shift-option-power. BIG IMPORTANT NOTE: Only the PowerBook G3 Series ("Wallstreet") uses the function key in the PMU reset; on all other models that use a keystroke, pressing function can cause problems.)
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This is incorrect for resetting a power manager. Command-option-P-R, held at startup through several restarts, will clear the parameter RAM.
To reset your PMU, refer to either your manual or the Apple Knowledge Base (kbase.info.apple.com) and search for "PMU reset" and perhaps the model of your computer.
Educational copies of Mac OS X are /still/ full versions. They're $69, and contain no differences from what you'd buy on a shelf somewhere at ChumpUSA or an actual Apple Store.
Full version, just cheaper.
I know this because Tyler--er, because I used to work for a university.
This is also what makes OSS fall down at times. Narrow-sighted developers writing to solve their own problems can't always make software that works for the masses. They write for themselves, which locks out everyone else for usability or functionality reasons, or they write for geeks, which still locks out a massive amount of people.
/great/ starting base.
Sometimes, it's not bad. There's no reason to write PHP to target Joe and Jill user. Sometimes, it sucks, as evidenced by your mom calling you to figure out how N program works--which she already does with inconsistently laid-out, MDI'ed-out-the-ass Windows apps anyway. The latter is where non-Windows apps have the ability to shine. Apple's HIG, for example, isn't doctrine, and it isn't perfect, but it's a
If you don't consider the usability concerns of other people (customers, in a sense), your software goes nowhere outside of the hardcore geeks in the crowd. For Apache, a geek's program, this is moot. For other things, like GIMP or (insert "consumer-level" app here), you just have to think about these things.
Either the app/OS stays a geektoy, or it doesn't. The developer decides.
iTunes Music Store "pages" are really text/XML streams, if I recall correctly.
Anyone got a good link for more info?
That's funny . . . I have a "Bookmarks" menu right at the top of my screen. Oddly enough--and this may just be a coincidence--all of my bookmarks are under it.
So much for having to be accessed from a drawer. What's wrong with a menu?