About the only difference between how Optus and Telstra (the 2 major broadband providers in Australia) do things is this. Telstra just charges you extra when you reach their cap (not much warning other then the size of the bill), while Optus throttles back your connection speed to 28Kbps until the end of the month and leaves you with the same bill at the end of the month no matter how much you downloaded.
Another good thing about Optus is they seem to understand the necessity of filtering out the zombied PC attacks on their customers, rather then just counting the unwanted network traffic in their monthly download caps (not to mention the bill to the poor sod who's computer has been taken over and is now busily trying to infect other computers on the network).
Mac OS X Server 1/1.2 had net boot in it and it would boot computers to Mac OS 9.x.
The secret to using Mac OS X Server is to do NOTHING on the computer, bu to do it all externally through the admin software and privileged users (though I'll admit the Web Based Macintosh Manager/Net info admin of server 1.2 sucked).
To update the images you needed to make and new copy of them, mount the copy on another computer with read-write access, modify them as desired, change the images to read only and then replace the Net Boot disk with the copies, on the next boot computers started using the new images.
As for help with Mac OS X Server, best is through the Apple Mailing Lists at http://lists.apple.com/. There are mailing lists here for Mac OS X Server, Macintosh manager and also Net Boot.
Install Mac OS X and all your programs on one. Then install Mac OS X on the other, boot from it and use its version of Disk Copy to make a image from device of the other partition.
The default Mac OS 9.2 version of Disk Copy can't handle images more then 2GB in size, the Mac OS X version of disk copy does not have this limitation.
How much research have you done to help convince your boss?
Just as a suggestion, get a list of all your applications, all your peripherals (scanners, printers, network, etc) all our plug-ins and go to the web sites for these companies and see:
1) If they work for Mac OS X 10.2 (some printer drivers for instance need to be re-written for Mac OS X 10.2).
2) What is the COST going to be? Do it right, assume you are going to do it all legitimately and buy enough copies of all software (including Mac OS X 10.2). If your company is big enough remember most products can be purchased by site license, including upgrades. Don't forget some companies (like Umax) are starting to charge for driver software. Also don't forget that if designers use Photoshop plugins, they aren't going to be able to use them in X until they are updated as well.
If you have a spare machine, set it up under Mac OS X and see how it runs. Do all the printing, scanning and designing that your company needs to do and see how it feels.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to scare you off Mac OS X, but I have heard from a lot of people who jumped too quick into Mac OS X and got into a dreadful tangle because they forgot to check that their current stuff would work, and then blamed it all on X because it took them weeks to sort it out, where a little foresight and planning would have given them a troublefree cross-over (how hard is it to check the web first?).
We're talking about a 1U Server here, not how many crappy parts you can fit into a razor cage.
If you can build so many IU Servers for this price, provide the links to all the component parts and a proper calculation of its costs or stay out of the debate.
I see a lot of posts here discussing why, or why not, this act is a problem. Why are "virtual funerals" a problem? This was not In place of his funeral. It was not organised to be "the first Virtual funeral" or anything.
In real life if a student of a school dies, or an employee of a company, or a member of a sporting team dies do we not hod a memorial to that person IN the place we know him? Do we not stop the sports game and have a moments silence? Do we not pause or work and remember that person?
These people knew this guy in his game. This is how they meet him, talked to him, interacted with him. THIS is the place where they will miss him, this is where they have spent time with the person, building a relationship and getting to know him. So what if they have never seen his picture? So what if they what if they only know him from a game? How is this different to knowing someone from a sporting club? Do we not stop the game and have a moments silence anyway?
Nobody thinks anything when a former great of a sporting club dies of that club holding a memorial to him before their next game, even though most of the people don't know the person. Just the image, just the story. Just the media.
I too got a tear to the eye when I heard this story. This person meant a lot too his clan. The fact that other players showed the humanity to the other players to allow them to hold a memorial to their fallen comrade says great things about the community spirit that the games has, and should be let to stand as the monument it is.
A memorial to a fallen friend by his comrades and those that WILL miss him.
As a monument to the humanity of man.
As a monument to the potential of the internet to allow people from all over the world to contact each other. Build a community of the whole and to develop friendships with people who we would otherwise never have meet.
Please detractors, leave it alone. Respect the wishes and the morning of these people and allow them the genuineness of their grief without debate.
Tomorrow their will be a new topic for debate.
Now we have the chance to foster that community. I urge detractors to read the logs of linked at the top. After reading them I have no doubt that the feelings where genuine, and the symbolism of this memorial a powerfully healing experience for those suffering lose at his death.
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Another good thing about Optus is they seem to understand the necessity of filtering out the zombied PC attacks on their customers, rather then just counting the unwanted network traffic in their monthly download caps (not to mention the bill to the poor sod who's computer has been taken over and is now busily trying to infect other computers on the network).
The secret to using Mac OS X Server is to do NOTHING on the computer, bu to do it all externally through the admin software and privileged users (though I'll admit the Web Based Macintosh Manager/Net info admin of server 1.2 sucked).
To update the images you needed to make and new copy of them, mount the copy on another computer with read-write access, modify them as desired, change the images to read only and then replace the Net Boot disk with the copies, on the next boot computers started using the new images.
As for help with Mac OS X Server, best is through the Apple Mailing Lists at http://lists.apple.com/. There are mailing lists here for Mac OS X Server, Macintosh manager and also Net Boot.
Install Mac OS X and all your programs on one. Then install Mac OS X on the other, boot from it and use its version of Disk Copy to make a image from device of the other partition.
The default Mac OS 9.2 version of Disk Copy can't handle images more then 2GB in size, the Mac OS X version of disk copy does not have this limitation.
Just as a suggestion, get a list of all your applications, all your peripherals (scanners, printers, network, etc) all our plug-ins and go to the web sites for these companies and see:
1) If they work for Mac OS X 10.2 (some printer drivers for instance need to be re-written for Mac OS X 10.2).
2) What is the COST going to be? Do it right, assume you are going to do it all legitimately and buy enough copies of all software (including Mac OS X 10.2). If your company is big enough remember most products can be purchased by site license, including upgrades. Don't forget some companies (like Umax) are starting to charge for driver software. Also don't forget that if designers use Photoshop plugins, they aren't going to be able to use them in X until they are updated as well.
If you have a spare machine, set it up under Mac OS X and see how it runs. Do all the printing, scanning and designing that your company needs to do and see how it feels.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to scare you off Mac OS X, but I have heard from a lot of people who jumped too quick into Mac OS X and got into a dreadful tangle because they forgot to check that their current stuff would work, and then blamed it all on X because it took them weeks to sort it out, where a little foresight and planning would have given them a troublefree cross-over (how hard is it to check the web first?).
Scanner support should be getting better now that TWAIN is there. Also the Image capture program now includes support for scanners.
If you can build so many IU Servers for this price, provide the links to all the component parts and a proper calculation of its costs or stay out of the debate.
In real life if a student of a school dies, or an employee of a company, or a member of a sporting team dies do we not hod a memorial to that person IN the place we know him? Do we not stop the sports game and have a moments silence? Do we not pause or work and remember that person? These people knew this guy in his game. This is how they meet him, talked to him, interacted with him. THIS is the place where they will miss him, this is where they have spent time with the person, building a relationship and getting to know him. So what if they have never seen his picture? So what if they what if they only know him from a game? How is this different to knowing someone from a sporting club? Do we not stop the game and have a moments silence anyway?
Nobody thinks anything when a former great of a sporting club dies of that club holding a memorial to him before their next game, even though most of the people don't know the person. Just the image, just the story. Just the media.
I too got a tear to the eye when I heard this story. This person meant a lot too his clan. The fact that other players showed the humanity to the other players to allow them to hold a memorial to their fallen comrade says great things about the community spirit that the games has, and should be let to stand as the monument it is.
A memorial to a fallen friend by his comrades and those that WILL miss him.
As a monument to the humanity of man.
As a monument to the potential of the internet to allow people from all over the world to contact each other. Build a community of the whole and to develop friendships with people who we would otherwise never have meet.
Please detractors, leave it alone. Respect the wishes and the morning of these people and allow them the genuineness of their grief without debate.
Tomorrow their will be a new topic for debate. Now we have the chance to foster that community. I urge detractors to read the logs of linked at the top. After reading them I have no doubt that the feelings where genuine, and the symbolism of this memorial a powerfully healing experience for those suffering lose at his death.