I want to know what the hardware is. But then again, I'm not on the edge of my seat... I now I'll find out tomorrow (my time - what day is it there?) and it's not as though I need to know now.
I am curious as to price ($A) and whether the CRT range is dead completely. If it is, my budget's taking a serious hit. I had to buy a few G4s at A$4,440 last year, as opposed to iMacs at about A$1,800.
I wonder if dual G3s made the cut, like some rumour sites were thinking. And speaking of the rumour sites, I really hope this isn't everything that's "beyond the rumour sites. way beyond" that Apple were hyping.
You know, OS X is still a step up from OS 8/9. I've been using it since 10.0 and I've gotten used to its peculiarities. I can drive the UI as fast as I need to, and performance is fine on a G4 400MHz - although I did put 568 MB of RAM in the thing.
What OS X is not fine for is acting as a server. I use Debian for our web sites, because keeping OS X up to date is not a pleasant task. The whole point of server OSes is that you don't have to be at the console to update. Apple (and Microsoft, for that matter) can take their Software Update control panels/web sites and shove them, because they're useless for me in a corporate IT environment. I want to push my updates, damn it.
Caveat: I can push Windows service packs from SP2 onwards using Novell ZENworks, and this works really well. So far. I'm not looking forward to the first failure leaving my 300+ machines as large ugly paperweights.
I'm a Debian convert. The problem is not with "us" in this case - it's with you. You claim that "the people who use Debian are political wackos and elitist assholes!" What, every last one of them? That's a singularly unintelligent comment, and you should know it.
What makes it even more unintelligent is that I can't imagine not using a distro because of the views of some others who do. I don't use Red hat just because the British Royal Family do (did?) - that would be silly.
I reckon you should just grow up - and I reckon that the -1: Flamebait moderations you'll soon receive are entirely justified.
You know what the odd thing is? I'm an IT Manager. My manager just doesn't care what OS we use - he wants (for example) our web server to remain up and a failover process if it falls over. He wants this data backed up.
Why the hell should he care what OS we're using? So he doesn't and I use a mixture of server OSes - including Debian. If you have an non-technical boss who mandates a choice of OS, you should consider (where possible) a word - s/he hired you because of your expertise, and if you reckon you can get better performance etc for lower cost blah blah then why should s/he care where it comes from?
Payroll tax was introduced temporarily in WWII as a specific measure to increase unemployment. It is a deliberate disincentive to employing staff. It remains as it's a major source of revenue for the States. When the States gave up the power to levy taxes, they gave up almost all power to the emerging Federal Government, without really realising it.
As an aside, 50% (or, 48.5% to be exact) is not a high level, and I'm already there. Tax is a necessary part of the State, and the fact that corporate tax revenues have been falling since the 70s are a big part of the reason why our hospitals and education system are in such bad shape. High income earners also get lots of nifty ways to evade tax. Tax evasion is the only crime that should be subject to the death penalty:-)
As interesting as wireless is, I'm concerned about its practicality. I'm an IT Manager in a corporate-ish environment, and our network hardware people are trying to push wireless (802.11b in particular). Sure, it's got its place, but isn't it shared bandwidth? I can't see how it could compete against switched 100Mb/s ethernet, given that most of our computers are desktops.
I understand that it's cheaper for the networking people if they don't lay cable. However, I can't adequately allow for the management of our desktop computers on a shared 11Mb/s network, even if only 10 people use each wireless node.
I can understand the benefits for mobile users, but we've only a small number of those, and we can accommodate them with wireless if necessary.
Has anyone else come across similar issues? I'd put a wireless network in my home, but not at work... is this issue being addressed by forthcoming protocols?
I'm having some trouble understanding the people who are saying that Microsoft won't do this. Of course they will. Who's to stop them? And Windows XP and Office XP will sell lots and lots of copies, because people just take this sort of crap from Microsoft.
I've got a select agreement with Microsoft where I work, and so I'll be getting CDs with no activation code required. So will lots and lots of other users, and one of them will post the ISOs somewhere (I won't - I've too much self-respect;-)
However, the net effect will be lots of users with Office/Windows XP in their workplaces, and all new PCs being bundled with Windows XP at least. Home users will upgrade to be compatible with their workplace, but it's the new PCs that will drive sales. Windows XP will be the only OS available from OEMs.
Are you familiar with the works of John Perry Barlow - particularly the more well known quote, "Information wants to be free"? If so, would you expect that principle fits the FSF? Is software merely a form of information, meaning that sharing it not only should be allowed, but is a natural consequence of its existance?
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I want to know what the hardware is. But then again, I'm not on the edge of my seat... I now I'll find out tomorrow (my time - what day is it there?) and it's not as though I need to know now.
I am curious as to price ($A) and whether the CRT range is dead completely. If it is, my budget's taking a serious hit. I had to buy a few G4s at A$4,440 last year, as opposed to iMacs at about A$1,800.
I wonder if dual G3s made the cut, like some rumour sites were thinking. And speaking of the rumour sites, I really hope this isn't everything that's "beyond the rumour sites. way beyond" that Apple were hyping.
What OS X is not fine for is acting as a server. I use Debian for our web sites, because keeping OS X up to date is not a pleasant task. The whole point of server OSes is that you don't have to be at the console to update. Apple (and Microsoft, for that matter) can take their Software Update control panels/web sites and shove them, because they're useless for me in a corporate IT environment. I want to push my updates, damn it.
Caveat: I can push Windows service packs from SP2 onwards using Novell ZENworks, and this works really well. So far. I'm not looking forward to the first failure leaving my 300+ machines as large ugly paperweights.
What makes it even more unintelligent is that I can't imagine not using a distro because of the views of some others who do. I don't use Red hat just because the British Royal Family do (did?) - that would be silly.
I reckon you should just grow up - and I reckon that the -1: Flamebait moderations you'll soon receive are entirely justified.
Hope you're not karma-whoring...
You know what the odd thing is? I'm an IT Manager. My manager just doesn't care what OS we use - he wants (for example) our web server to remain up and a failover process if it falls over. He wants this data backed up.
Why the hell should he care what OS we're using? So he doesn't and I use a mixture of server OSes - including Debian. If you have an non-technical boss who mandates a choice of OS, you should consider (where possible) a word - s/he hired you because of your expertise, and if you reckon you can get better performance etc for lower cost blah blah then why should s/he care where it comes from?
Payroll tax was introduced temporarily in WWII as a specific measure to increase unemployment. It is a deliberate disincentive to employing staff. It remains as it's a major source of revenue for the States. When the States gave up the power to levy taxes, they gave up almost all power to the emerging Federal Government, without really realising it.
As an aside, 50% (or, 48.5% to be exact) is not a high level, and I'm already there. Tax is a necessary part of the State, and the fact that corporate tax revenues have been falling since the 70s are a big part of the reason why our hospitals and education system are in such bad shape. High income earners also get lots of nifty ways to evade tax. Tax evasion is the only crime that should be subject to the death penalty :-)
Alister
I understand that it's cheaper for the networking people if they don't lay cable. However, I can't adequately allow for the management of our desktop computers on a shared 11Mb/s network, even if only 10 people use each wireless node.
I can understand the benefits for mobile users, but we've only a small number of those, and we can accommodate them with wireless if necessary.
Has anyone else come across similar issues? I'd put a wireless network in my home, but not at work... is this issue being addressed by forthcoming protocols?
I've got a select agreement with Microsoft where I work, and so I'll be getting CDs with no activation code required. So will lots and lots of other users, and one of them will post the ISOs somewhere (I won't - I've too much self-respect ;-)
However, the net effect will be lots of users with Office/Windows XP in their workplaces, and all new PCs being bundled with Windows XP at least. Home users will upgrade to be compatible with their workplace, but it's the new PCs that will drive sales. Windows XP will be the only OS available from OEMs.
Alister
Anyone else had this problem, and managed to resolve it?
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Are you familiar with the works of John Perry Barlow - particularly the more well known quote, "Information wants to be free"? If so, would you expect that principle fits the FSF? Is software merely a form of information, meaning that sharing it not only should be allowed, but is a natural consequence of its existance?