"You must not remember the days when everybody loved that scrappy upstart Bill Gates." You have no idea what you're talking about!!! People "loved" Bill Gates and Microsoft because they didn't know any better. Tech was "new" to the media and most people in the 90's. They flocked like lemmings to what the big box suppliers were selling. People didn't think they just purchased. If you would have looked back at any time you'd see Microsoft using the exact same predatory practices it always has in its quest to OWN the world. You'd also see Apple, either with or w/out Stever Jobs, doing what they've always done trying their best to CHANGE the world. Google to green horned to make a comparison to.
So, just because you were a lemming and regret "loving" Microsoft (ah, poor guy sold his soul to satan) an article like this means nothing if neither Apple or Microsoft has actually changed their corporate drivers since their birth!!
RE: "spinning beachball of death" these will be resolved within Leopard as every Volume connection is threaded...but in the mean time you usually just need to wait for the Network process to time out (typically 2 min). I know it can be a pain but it's less of a pain than pulling the plug and potentially corrupting something...
You sound like every other fat, lazy & uninspired IT person out there...you have no idea what you're talking about yet you feel compelled to comment in these forums as if you do. Sorry, that last bit wasn't necessary but I grow tired of all the blind ignorance.
FYI - There are MANY ways to remotely manage a Mac. First there's Apple's relatively rich Remote Desktop. Costs $$ and requires another Mac to admin. Useful for managing LARGE numbers of Macs. Second, there's the freely available VNC. Can admin from just about anything...gives you access to remote Mac's screen. Not recommended if you're managing dozens, hundreds and certainly not thousands of Macs as things would get tedious...but certainly manageable for a small number of machines. Third, you ever heard of a command line? No, not a DOS prompt but a full blown command line? Yes, Mac OS X runs UNIX so you can ssh into any box that is thusly set up so. There are MANY other management solutions as well (and iChat will do screen sharing Mac OS X 10.5) but these are the 3 biggies.
My advice to you...GET A MAC and use it before you blindly slam it for something that just isn't true...and hasn't been true for a loooong time.
No! A lot of "generic" designers have switched over to "generic" workstations. The low-end budget-conscious dime-a-dozen "designer" might be comfortable on the PeeCee but every single designer worth his/her/its salt has either stuck with or returned to the Mac platform. For reasons that if you don't quite yet understand by now then you probably never will...
But you keep right along making statements like this...cuz ignorance is bliss, eh?
Perhaps you're correct...but no matter where you live on this tiny planet, life IS short! You can spend your precious time and, apparently, precious few dollars monkeying around with all Microsoft's BS...OR you can get back to really enjoying your computer and all the new things it enables you to do every passing week or so. Remember those days?!? They were called the 1970's & 1980's (perhaps you weren't even born?!?) Anyway, there is a new renaissance going on in computing and it's happening in Mac OS X and Linux...you can choose (albeit with your wallet) to be a part of this renaissance or continue your long slow slog toward conformity and inconsequence. No offense but life IS better on the other side.
Just for the record we have a "Rock Solid" installation of OS X Server...been running non-stop without a hint of trouble since 10.1 (that's 3 years now!). Only time it ever needs a re-boot is after a 10.x.y system software update which come from Apple roughly every month or two. And though we aren't first adopters of those updates we do try to keep it current.
We aren't using it for netboot as you have but it is handling all the file sharing, e-mail, http, LDAP/Open Directory, DNS, & Firewall...for roughly 20 users...
yeah...riiiiight! you must be one of those 5% who don't use an iPod! hehe...i love it. like Windows/Mac but reversed. only with this case the minority actually is using an inferiour platform.
...and Virgin Megastores haven't sold Mac software since their inception. Virgin never cared about Apple! Why should Apple give the time of day to Virgin? The point of iTMS/iPod is TO PUT THE BRICK AND MORTER STORES OUT OF BUSINESS! They're obsolete...cry all they want...they didn't come up with ANY of the technology to make this happen so why do they think Apple owes them ANYTHING?!?
actually i find it amazingly large considering they are ripping every album of the master itself. give it time...it's doubled in size in 6 months. in another six months there could be 800,000 and your head slammin' bands from satan's garage might be included by then...
so much back and forth on which is better/faster/cheaper. the only important thing to me is that Apple IS competing in this space at all. to see them price competetive (or even favorable) is simply remarkable. very interested to see how things add up in November when final results are in. and again when they upgrade to OS X 10.3...
actually it boils down to the IT departments in MOST companies understanding that would lose use their useless jobs IF their systems worked all the time. i'm not saying Macs work all the time BUT it's a FACT that the support costs involved with maintaining them are a SMALL fraction of those for wintel/linux. it bet it's a scary thought for a MCSE (or whatever it is) to imagine a world where software and hardware just worked...cuz they bet their careers that it wouldn't...
At first glance the upgrade price seemed high but when you see that FCP 4 is really 4 programs (3 of them new and very impressive in and of themselves) you'll see it's a bargain...
Watch the demo of Live Type and Soundtrack...and I think you'll be very impressed...
I often wonder why people bother to post about a topic they know very little about...
Your comments about Mac OS X are flat out wrong and you obviously haven't used it...or if you have you don't understand it - which is hard to imagine b/c it's one of the easiest OSs in the world to use...
A) no 2 button mouse support (wrong! plug one in and see for yourself)
B) Ugly - your opinion...whatever.
C) Wrong! you are just USED to apps quiting when you close the last window but that doesn't mean it makes sense...if you work in word or photoshop or IE all day long why keep launching and quitting and launching and quitting every time you finish with one document and move to another?!?
D) Wrong! very easy..in fact it's as simple as clicking a checkbox..to have system automatically dial or connect when there is TCP/IP activity...even the airport base station itself can do this...
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"You must not remember the days when everybody loved that scrappy upstart Bill Gates." You have no idea what you're talking about!!! People "loved" Bill Gates and Microsoft because they didn't know any better. Tech was "new" to the media and most people in the 90's. They flocked like lemmings to what the big box suppliers were selling. People didn't think they just purchased. If you would have looked back at any time you'd see Microsoft using the exact same predatory practices it always has in its quest to OWN the world. You'd also see Apple, either with or w/out Stever Jobs, doing what they've always done trying their best to CHANGE the world. Google to green horned to make a comparison to. So, just because you were a lemming and regret "loving" Microsoft (ah, poor guy sold his soul to satan) an article like this means nothing if neither Apple or Microsoft has actually changed their corporate drivers since their birth!!
RE: "spinning beachball of death" these will be resolved within Leopard as every Volume connection is threaded...but in the mean time you usually just need to wait for the Network process to time out (typically 2 min). I know it can be a pain but it's less of a pain than pulling the plug and potentially corrupting something...
You sound like every other fat, lazy & uninspired IT person out there...you have no idea what you're talking about yet you feel compelled to comment in these forums as if you do. Sorry, that last bit wasn't necessary but I grow tired of all the blind ignorance.
FYI - There are MANY ways to remotely manage a Mac. First there's Apple's relatively rich Remote Desktop. Costs $$ and requires another Mac to admin. Useful for managing LARGE numbers of Macs. Second, there's the freely available VNC. Can admin from just about anything...gives you access to remote Mac's screen. Not recommended if you're managing dozens, hundreds and certainly not thousands of Macs as things would get tedious...but certainly manageable for a small number of machines. Third, you ever heard of a command line? No, not a DOS prompt but a full blown command line? Yes, Mac OS X runs UNIX so you can ssh into any box that is thusly set up so. There are MANY other management solutions as well (and iChat will do screen sharing Mac OS X 10.5) but these are the 3 biggies.
My advice to you...GET A MAC and use it before you blindly slam it for something that just isn't true...and hasn't been true for a loooong time.
No! A lot of "generic" designers have switched over to "generic" workstations. The low-end budget-conscious dime-a-dozen "designer" might be comfortable on the PeeCee but every single designer worth his/her/its salt has either stuck with or returned to the Mac platform. For reasons that if you don't quite yet understand by now then you probably never will...
But you keep right along making statements like this...cuz ignorance is bliss, eh?
Perhaps you're correct...but no matter where you live on this tiny planet, life IS short! You can spend your precious time and, apparently, precious few dollars monkeying around with all Microsoft's BS...OR you can get back to really enjoying your computer and all the new things it enables you to do every passing week or so. Remember those days?!? They were called the 1970's & 1980's (perhaps you weren't even born?!?) Anyway, there is a new renaissance going on in computing and it's happening in Mac OS X and Linux...you can choose (albeit with your wallet) to be a part of this renaissance or continue your long slow slog toward conformity and inconsequence. No offense but life IS better on the other side.
As a professional in this area I feel comfortable saying that you are indeed on crack (though it could be meth).
Just for the record we have a "Rock Solid" installation of OS X Server...been running non-stop without a hint of trouble since 10.1 (that's 3 years now!). Only time it ever needs a re-boot is after a 10.x.y system software update which come from Apple roughly every month or two. And though we aren't first adopters of those updates we do try to keep it current. We aren't using it for netboot as you have but it is handling all the file sharing, e-mail, http, LDAP/Open Directory, DNS, & Firewall...for roughly 20 users...
yeah...riiiiight! you must be one of those 5% who don't use an iPod! hehe...i love it. like Windows/Mac but reversed. only with this case the minority actually is using an inferiour platform.
...and Virgin Megastores haven't sold Mac software since their inception. Virgin never cared about Apple! Why should Apple give the time of day to Virgin? The point of iTMS/iPod is TO PUT THE BRICK AND MORTER STORES OUT OF BUSINESS! They're obsolete...cry all they want...they didn't come up with ANY of the technology to make this happen so why do they think Apple owes them ANYTHING?!?
actually i find it amazingly large considering they are ripping every album of the master itself. give it time...it's doubled in size in 6 months. in another six months there could be 800,000 and your head slammin' bands from satan's garage might be included by then...
so much back and forth on which is better/faster/cheaper. the only important thing to me is that Apple IS competing in this space at all. to see them price competetive (or even favorable) is simply remarkable. very interested to see how things add up in November when final results are in. and again when they upgrade to OS X 10.3...
actually it boils down to the IT departments in MOST companies understanding that would lose use their useless jobs IF their systems worked all the time. i'm not saying Macs work all the time BUT it's a FACT that the support costs involved with maintaining them are a SMALL fraction of those for wintel/linux. it bet it's a scary thought for a MCSE (or whatever it is) to imagine a world where software and hardware just worked...cuz they bet their careers that it wouldn't...
At first glance the upgrade price seemed high but when you see that FCP 4 is really 4 programs (3 of them new and very impressive in and of themselves) you'll see it's a bargain... Watch the demo of Live Type and Soundtrack...and I think you'll be very impressed...
Dude, you're using OS 9 on an ancient machine. Upgrade to OS X and get new hardware...THEN you'll see the light!
I often wonder why people bother to post about a topic they know very little about...
Your comments about Mac OS X are flat out wrong and you obviously haven't used it...or if you have you don't understand it - which is hard to imagine b/c it's one of the easiest OSs in the world to use...
A) no 2 button mouse support (wrong! plug one in and see for yourself)
B) Ugly - your opinion...whatever.
C) Wrong! you are just USED to apps quiting when you close the last window but that doesn't mean it makes sense...if you work in word or photoshop or IE all day long why keep launching and quitting and launching and quitting every time you finish with one document and move to another?!?
D) Wrong! very easy..in fact it's as simple as clicking a checkbox..to have system automatically dial or connect when there is TCP/IP activity...even the airport base station itself can do this...