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Indeed I know of an Xserve cluster siginificantly larger than this one at a certain nearby university, they just aren't up to full capacity yet. But no doubt that news will come too...once they benchmark and spank the JPL cluster:)
Point a) is quite correct. Apple Remote Desktop is a (rather poor) OS X implementation of Apple Network Assistant 4, which served for years as the may to manage multiple Macs at once. Both ANA and ARD transmit a complete bitmap of the screen across the network, including the remote cursor, and its performance is not only tough on some networks, it is slow as a dog. It is great to be able to watch what is going on on the machine if you are away from it, but it is not nearly the same.
Point b) is also very valid because it details what the intended purpose of different technologies is. Whereas X allows you to load JUST an application, such as eterm, on the remote machine, ARD forces the entire server screen buffer to be loaded...in its own window (blech!). X also lets you log into the server as any user and run programs, regardless of which user is currently logged into the GUI. ARD forces you to use the current user, and takes the machine over.
mithras was right in his analysis of the technology. ARD is to be used in labs, large deployments, etc to manage multiple machines (install files, mass reboot, system status, monitoring, etc), but is hardly a client-server ideal setup like X.
I had heard somewhere that rumors persist of the hooks still existing in OS X, but the APIs are secret. That's not fact though. I WISH Apple would produce a system like that, but I fear they will not. It might also be possible that because of how Display PDF works (creating a PDF for each screen element, then compositing them together), it is not possible to merely send the screen draw APIs. Maybe?
But if you're like me, and you WANT this capability, Tell Apple!
Completely untrue. I used to use it but stopped because it wasn't so great. I now use Acquisition for Gnutella, and though it's not perfect, Neo as a Kazaa shadow client. Both work quite well IMO.
I can use six 5.25" bays given the chance (two sizes floppy drive, LCD panel, CD reader, CD burner, Zip). Can you supply this?
2 sizes of floppy drive? Do you mean 3.5 and 5.25? Can you honestly say you use either regularly? According to a previous story on Slashdot...here, many users only use 3.5" floppies as boot disks. But since all Macs can boot off of CDs, external drives, USB keychains, even iPods...I don't see a use for this. The USB keychain should replace your floppy issues. And really...can you ever use a 5.25" floppy anymore?
CD Reader and CD Burner. Well personally I would recommend you just get a Combo drive in a Power Mac, which reads and writes CDs at a very reasonable speed (faster than the Superdrive). Or if you want, get a 2nd faster CD-ROM drive for the 2nd bay. ZIP? Come on now what a dead technology. The combination of a DiskOnKey and a CD-RW should destroy the need for a ZIP. You can get a 128 MB DiskOnKey for ~$90 and of course CD-Rs are basically free-as-in-beer.
And I don't see why you'd need an LCD panel...but no one is stopping you from putting one in.
And the Power Macs have an advantage on your box then, in that they have 4 3.5" bays for 4 HDs (on 2 busses). You couldn't put all those drives in your tower if you've indeed filled all the 5.25" bays with your devices as claimed.
So yes, I can supply all the functionality you need. Sometimes legacy goes away for better technology that does the same thing. Carbureted (sp?) engines are largely gone in support for fuel-injected models. This for the good. Don't go whining because your new Corvette can't use the same Holley carbs you put on your '63 model.
Do you still have to buy an adapter box to plug in an affordable PC monitor?
Heck no. Every Mac that ships has some sort of VGA support. And in the case of the Powerbook and Power Mac, which both support monitor spanning, there is an included DVI-VGA adaptor. You'd need an Adaptor to put an Apple display on a Powerbook...but something tells me a TiBook wouldn't have the "expandability" you'd want for all your "needs" (like 5.25" floppy).
And just because Apple doesn't include one of every port that ever existed, doesn't mean its a bad thing. USB and Firewire are now established so feel free to make "longterm investments." Though granted USB 2.0 support would be nice, but I bet that's coming real soon.
2 cents and then some. Hope this clears some stuff up.
"I use the [paint]brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
But what I'm wondering is...if he carries a blow-up-mattress (as mentioned in the NEXT PARAGRAPH)...then why is he sweeping up the dust on the ground to sleep? Why not just blow up the mattress?
Rhino is a modelling program for Windows only, so it wouldn't work for this particular user. In addition, it doesn't produce "photorealistic images" like he/she wants. I've used Rhino and know it frequently has rendering flaws. It's great for large-scale design, but lacks somewhat detailed features that other programs have.
Transmeta took the risk in having a very specialized chip--that is...it's very low power but not as fast as others...maybe the risk just isn't going to pay off if there's no market for it.
And even better, with some Macs (TiBook for sure, don't know about others), you don't even need the X-over cable...any patch cable will do due to its autosensing Gigabit ethernet port.
I often use this feature to transfer from machine to machine, though for Mac --> Mac transfers, Firewire Target Disk Mode is awesome.
Actually, Intel and AMD certainly will not put up a fight to stop it...Intel was a founding member of TCPA and AMD is on board as well, and Palladium is only half of the equation--the software that will run on top of the Intel/AMD hardware.
You'll note that the FAQ (#6) says that its actually a defensive move for Intel but I agree that MS is doing the same with Palladium.
Being aware of Apple is quite different from realizing the true capability of Apple to be a viable alternative to Windows. Many consumers don't realize that there are OS X versions of software ranging from Office to Photoshop to MATLAB. They may not know of all the Mac-only programs that exist, such as iMovie, iPhoto, etc.
It very well could be that a consumer's only exposure to Apple is in the context of a PC troll talking about their supposed incompatibility. Thus, Apple created the Switchers campaign to help alleviate those myths.
But just because one has heard of a company doesn't mean they know the facts.
So when Palladium comes rolling around they will be able to hide *every* API they want because every system interaction will be DRM related (despite the corporate BS they try to pass off)
It's no news here, being in good company, but I last week decided to try my best to go MS-free (and other big company-free too). My OS X machine has Office v.X still, as many of my college's classes require its use...but dammit, I don't like the idea one bit. My browser is Mozilla, my email is Mail.app, IMs go to Adium, and my soul is MINE not Gates's.
Microsoft CAN unilaterally declare things to OEMs and will continue to do so, no longer under the threat of license termination perhaps, but under threat of a lawsuit.
And even though the lawsuit might have more holes than Gates's head, they have enough lawyers and $$$ to keep the case in court long enough to make it no longer possible or economical for the OEM to stand up to them.
Just look how long this Antitrust case has been in the courts...and I don't even think this is the last we'll hear of it. In fact I know it won't be. And this is the GOVERNMENT they are fighting. Something tells me Dell or HP or Sony would back down fairly quickly if presented with a lawsuit and perhaps an injunction.
I'm using an iBook right now, via Airport, and though I've heard of other people connecting to the Net via their Bluetooth T68i phones, I've never actually seen it done.
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Indeed I know of an Xserve cluster siginificantly larger than this one at a certain nearby university, they just aren't up to full capacity yet. But no doubt that news will come too...once they benchmark and spank the JPL cluster :)
Point b) is also very valid because it details what the intended purpose of different technologies is. Whereas X allows you to load JUST an application, such as eterm, on the remote machine, ARD forces the entire server screen buffer to be loaded...in its own window (blech!). X also lets you log into the server as any user and run programs, regardless of which user is currently logged into the GUI. ARD forces you to use the current user, and takes the machine over.
mithras was right in his analysis of the technology. ARD is to be used in labs, large deployments, etc to manage multiple machines (install files, mass reboot, system status, monitoring, etc), but is hardly a client-server ideal setup like X.
I had heard somewhere that rumors persist of the hooks still existing in OS X, but the APIs are secret. That's not fact though. I WISH Apple would produce a system like that, but I fear they will not. It might also be possible that because of how Display PDF works (creating a PDF for each screen element, then compositing them together), it is not possible to merely send the screen draw APIs. Maybe?
But if you're like me, and you WANT this capability, Tell Apple!
gr84b8 --> gr8 4 b8 --> great for bait.
Voila. This is how we identify a troll.
Really?! Where'd you find a G4 iBook? ;)
Completely untrue. I used to use it but stopped because it wasn't so great. I now use Acquisition for Gnutella, and though it's not perfect, Neo as a Kazaa shadow client. Both work quite well IMO.
2 sizes of floppy drive? Do you mean 3.5 and 5.25? Can you honestly say you use either regularly? According to a previous story on Slashdot...here, many users only use 3.5" floppies as boot disks. But since all Macs can boot off of CDs, external drives, USB keychains, even iPods...I don't see a use for this. The USB keychain should replace your floppy issues. And really...can you ever use a 5.25" floppy anymore?
CD Reader and CD Burner. Well personally I would recommend you just get a Combo drive in a Power Mac, which reads and writes CDs at a very reasonable speed (faster than the Superdrive). Or if you want, get a 2nd faster CD-ROM drive for the 2nd bay. ZIP? Come on now what a dead technology. The combination of a DiskOnKey and a CD-RW should destroy the need for a ZIP. You can get a 128 MB DiskOnKey for ~$90 and of course CD-Rs are basically free-as-in-beer.
And I don't see why you'd need an LCD panel...but no one is stopping you from putting one in.
And the Power Macs have an advantage on your box then, in that they have 4 3.5" bays for 4 HDs (on 2 busses). You couldn't put all those drives in your tower if you've indeed filled all the 5.25" bays with your devices as claimed.
So yes, I can supply all the functionality you need. Sometimes legacy goes away for better technology that does the same thing. Carbureted (sp?) engines are largely gone in support for fuel-injected models. This for the good. Don't go whining because your new Corvette can't use the same Holley carbs you put on your '63 model.
Do you still have to buy an adapter box to plug in an affordable PC monitor?
Heck no. Every Mac that ships has some sort of VGA support. And in the case of the Powerbook and Power Mac, which both support monitor spanning, there is an included DVI-VGA adaptor. You'd need an Adaptor to put an Apple display on a Powerbook...but something tells me a TiBook wouldn't have the "expandability" you'd want for all your "needs" (like 5.25" floppy).
And just because Apple doesn't include one of every port that ever existed, doesn't mean its a bad thing. USB and Firewire are now established so feel free to make "longterm investments." Though granted USB 2.0 support would be nice, but I bet that's coming real soon.
2 cents and then some. Hope this clears some stuff up.
"I use the [paint]brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
But what I'm wondering is...if he carries a blow-up-mattress (as mentioned in the NEXT PARAGRAPH)...then why is he sweeping up the dust on the ground to sleep? Why not just blow up the mattress?
Sheesh....French! :)
Rhino is a modelling program for Windows only, so it wouldn't work for this particular user. In addition, it doesn't produce "photorealistic images" like he/she wants. I've used Rhino and know it frequently has rendering flaws. It's great for large-scale design, but lacks somewhat detailed features that other programs have.
iPod
Supply and demand....but where's the demand?
I often use this feature to transfer from machine to machine, though for Mac --> Mac transfers, Firewire Target Disk Mode is awesome.
You'll note that the FAQ (#6) says that its actually a defensive move for Intel but I agree that MS is doing the same with Palladium.
It very well could be that a consumer's only exposure to Apple is in the context of a PC troll talking about their supposed incompatibility. Thus, Apple created the Switchers campaign to help alleviate those myths.
But just because one has heard of a company doesn't mean they know the facts.
So when Palladium comes rolling around they will be able to hide *every* API they want because every system interaction will be DRM related (despite the corporate BS they try to pass off)
It's no news here, being in good company, but I last week decided to try my best to go MS-free (and other big company-free too). My OS X machine has Office v.X still, as many of my college's classes require its use...but dammit, I don't like the idea one bit. My browser is Mozilla, my email is Mail.app, IMs go to Adium, and my soul is MINE not Gates's.
And even though the lawsuit might have more holes than Gates's head, they have enough lawyers and $$$ to keep the case in court long enough to make it no longer possible or economical for the OEM to stand up to them.
Just look how long this Antitrust case has been in the courts...and I don't even think this is the last we'll hear of it. In fact I know it won't be. And this is the GOVERNMENT they are fighting. Something tells me Dell or HP or Sony would back down fairly quickly if presented with a lawsuit and perhaps an injunction.
I'm using an iBook right now, via Airport, and though I've heard of other people connecting to the Net via their Bluetooth T68i phones, I've never actually seen it done.