Get Patchlink or some similar network application that can perform remote installs/upgrades from a central server.
The only time you should have to reimage a system is when installing new hardware or to recover a system that is too far gone to fix. Reimaging shouldn't be used for incremental upgrades. As you've noticed, it takes way too much time and effort.
More L2 cache will not hurt performance. It's just that some of their benchmarks see much greater benefit than others when the L2 cache is increased. In the Farcry example, it happened to be enough of a benefit to overshadow the 200MHz difference.
Is it at all suspect that they were using ram with quite a bit better CAS values in the AMD setup?
No, not at all.
The Intel chipset supports DDR2, which generally has a higher latency than the DDR RAM used by an AMD system. DDR2 has some other advantages over DDR, however.
Looking at Corsair's product pages, it appears that the reviewer used the lowest latency parts that he could find for each system.
Even though this review is about CPUs, you still have to give each platform the best components support available to it. If the review's AMD system had used DDR RAM with a higher latency than what is available, the Intel would have had an unfair advantage.
I'm not aware of any external drives that use standard hard drives (i.e., not flash memory based) that can be powered via the USB bus. Maybe some of the tiny 1.8" drives can be.
Most externals based on 2.5" drives can be powered by the firewire bus.
Any of the above are going to be more expensive that a drive based on the 3.5" form factor. Unless you expect to be moving this drive around a lot and using it with different systems, I'd stick with a 3.5" drive for performance and cost considerations.
There are a number of drives available that are specifically designed to sit perfectly under the Mini itself and feature the same basic color/design/etc. Most also feature USB2 and Firewire hubs. I think LaCie and Other World Computing have models, as well as a couple other manufacturers.
Try skimming MacWorld, Macintouch, XLR8yourmac, etc. for reviews.
I believe that the general consensus is that drives with an Oxford USB/firewire to IDE bridge are best, though I've not had the opportunity to verify this myself.
The Infrant ReadyNAS systems appear to be a good bet. More expensive that the Buffalo, etc., but they seem much more capable and they seem to be willing to add a lot more features. About the only (minor) downsides I can see to them is that they're not fully open (compared to having your own linux box, for instance), and you have to tear open the case to get to the drives.
However, I'd think you could get a cheaper and more capable setup by building a low-power *nix system with a quiet case. If you have the experience (and based on your submission, it seems you do), this is what I'd recommend.
Did you or the AC above you even read the article? An X widowing system is used. The author of TFA replaced apple's X11 with XFree86. Note some of the section titles in big, bold type, such as "Part 3 - Removing X11 and replacing it with Xfree86", "Part 4 - Install Xfree 86", and "Part - 6 Setting Xfree86 to use the correct window manager"
To my knowledge, all *nix systems run KDE on top of an X windowing system.
This has been possible for a while now. It's quite easy to set up if you use Fink. You can even set it to use apple's own built-in X11 instead of installing XFree86.
Those LaCie's you cite are made up of multiple drives in a single enclosure with a firewire/USB to ATA adapter that integrates RAID 0 to make them appear to the OS as a single volume.
In fact, given the physical size of the enclosures and the stated capacities, It seems pretty obvious that the first two products you list are made up of two and four of the Deskstar 7K500 drives, respectively.
If you can provide receipts and evidence that the equipment was actually mounted in the car (i.e. take pictures), then yes, they will replace any stolen equipment. Depending on the policy, you may have to inform your carrier of the upgrade at the time of install. Some may charge you a small premium for every $1000 or so you add in equipment.
This would be no different than having an upgraded stereo system.
I know for a fact that OS X 10.3 (Panther) Server included OpenLDAP, not sure if it was there earlier. The whole package, with OpenLDAP, Kerberos, the GUI admin and such, is called Open Directory.
Yes, most individual programs don't fully take advantage of multiple processors. However, if you have multiple applications open at a given time and each is actively doing something, that's when you're glad you have processor #2 available.
Foreground app has the first processor, some busy app in the background (file copy, MP3 encoding, DeCSS, photoshop filter, etc) gets the second. You're much happier because your system isn't taking a few seconds to respond to each mouse click.
I'm quite sure that Apple has had full knowledge that these chips were coming for a long time.
What IBM is announcing today, this year, or even next year is not what drove Apple to go x86. Their decision was based on what's coming many years down the road. While the delay in PowerBook-usable G5 processors was a factor I'm sure, I bet Apple was more worried about what's coming after the G5.
Also, another major factor in the switch is that IBM can't seem to keep up with Apple's demand, especially at the top end of the GHz range.
So no, Apple will not be flip-flopping. (Though I bet they keep their options open and actively support PPC compiling well after x86 has fully taken over, even if only internally, in case IBM comes up with something spectacular and worthwhile from Apple's point of view.)
There are so many mistakes, lies, and misleading statements in this "article" I truly don't know where to begin. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed of just how bad it is.
Technically, those PPCs that can flip endianness on the fly are actually native in either mode. Set the mode and until you change it back, the PPC *is* a little endian CPU (or big endian, depending on how you set it).
Just an FYI:
The G5 does not support this feature. It cannot switch endian modes as the earlier PPC chips the Mac used could. This is why releases of Virtual PC before 7.0 would not run on a G5 Mac.
Runs great on my server, which is almost identical system to the one specified. It should handle everything you need, including multiple formats and transcoding.
Their hardware is not required (but as an owner of one, I can say it is cool).
In today's IT market, I can't afford to have my projects slip because I'm being a nice guy.
But can you afford the gaping security holes this creates?
Sure, if something bad happens the person who had their password taped to their keyboard will get tossed, but what about the damage caused? And guess who gets to clean up the mess and doesn't have time for it.
If I can get aging, complacent government workers to recognize the importance of using decent passwords and not have them call every week for a reset, it can't be too hard.
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What, lava lamps aren't good enough anymore?
Yikes.
Get Patchlink or some similar network application that can perform remote installs/upgrades from a central server.
The only time you should have to reimage a system is when installing new hardware or to recover a system that is too far gone to fix. Reimaging shouldn't be used for incremental upgrades. As you've noticed, it takes way too much time and effort.
Linksys is also coming out with the WRT54GL, which appears to simply be the WRT54G v4 hardware relabeled.
The Italian Linksys site shows it (bring babelfish), but the US site does not yet, except for their GPL Code Center.
More in this forum thread.
The 3700+ runs at 2.2GHz, the 3800+ at 2.4GHz.
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http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/Default.a
More L2 cache will not hurt performance. It's just that some of their benchmarks see much greater benefit than others when the L2 cache is increased. In the Farcry example, it happened to be enough of a benefit to overshadow the 200MHz difference.
No, not at all.
The Intel chipset supports DDR2, which generally has a higher latency than the DDR RAM used by an AMD system. DDR2 has some other advantages over DDR, however.
Looking at Corsair's product pages, it appears that the reviewer used the lowest latency parts that he could find for each system.
Even though this review is about CPUs, you still have to give each platform the best components support available to it. If the review's AMD system had used DDR RAM with a higher latency than what is available, the Intel would have had an unfair advantage.
I'm not aware of any external drives that use standard hard drives (i.e., not flash memory based) that can be powered via the USB bus. Maybe some of the tiny 1.8" drives can be.
Most externals based on 2.5" drives can be powered by the firewire bus.
Any of the above are going to be more expensive that a drive based on the 3.5" form factor. Unless you expect to be moving this drive around a lot and using it with different systems, I'd stick with a 3.5" drive for performance and cost considerations.
There are a number of drives available that are specifically designed to sit perfectly under the Mini itself and feature the same basic color/design/etc. Most also feature USB2 and Firewire hubs. I think LaCie and Other World Computing have models, as well as a couple other manufacturers.
Try skimming MacWorld, Macintouch, XLR8yourmac, etc. for reviews.
I believe that the general consensus is that drives with an Oxford USB/firewire to IDE bridge are best, though I've not had the opportunity to verify this myself.
The Infrant ReadyNAS systems appear to be a good bet. More expensive that the Buffalo, etc., but they seem much more capable and they seem to be willing to add a lot more features. About the only (minor) downsides I can see to them is that they're not fully open (compared to having your own linux box, for instance), and you have to tear open the case to get to the drives.
However, I'd think you could get a cheaper and more capable setup by building a low-power *nix system with a quiet case. If you have the experience (and based on your submission, it seems you do), this is what I'd recommend.
Did you or the AC above you even read the article? An X widowing system is used. The author of TFA replaced apple's X11 with XFree86. Note some of the section titles in big, bold type, such as "Part 3 - Removing X11 and replacing it with Xfree86", "Part 4 - Install Xfree 86", and "Part - 6 Setting Xfree86 to use the correct window manager"
To my knowledge, all *nix systems run KDE on top of an X windowing system.
This has been possible for a while now. It's quite easy to set up if you use Fink. You can even set it to use apple's own built-in X11 instead of installing XFree86.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php
Yes, it is.
Those LaCie's you cite are made up of multiple drives in a single enclosure with a firewire/USB to ATA adapter that integrates RAID 0 to make them appear to the OS as a single volume.
In fact, given the physical size of the enclosures and the stated capacities, It seems pretty obvious that the first two products you list are made up of two and four of the Deskstar 7K500 drives, respectively.
Why wouldn't comprehensive insurance cover this?
If you can provide receipts and evidence that the equipment was actually mounted in the car (i.e. take pictures), then yes, they will replace any stolen equipment. Depending on the policy, you may have to inform your carrier of the upgrade at the time of install. Some may charge you a small premium for every $1000 or so you add in equipment.
This would be no different than having an upgraded stereo system.
I know for a fact that OS X 10.3 (Panther) Server included OpenLDAP, not sure if it was there earlier. The whole package, with OpenLDAP, Kerberos, the GUI admin and such, is called Open Directory.
More info here.
NetInfo is now pretty much relegated to storing info for the local machine only.
Yes, most individual programs don't fully take advantage of multiple processors. However, if you have multiple applications open at a given time and each is actively doing something, that's when you're glad you have processor #2 available.
Foreground app has the first processor, some busy app in the background (file copy, MP3 encoding, DeCSS, photoshop filter, etc) gets the second. You're much happier because your system isn't taking a few seconds to respond to each mouse click.
I'm quite sure that Apple has had full knowledge that these chips were coming for a long time.
What IBM is announcing today, this year, or even next year is not what drove Apple to go x86. Their decision was based on what's coming many years down the road. While the delay in PowerBook-usable G5 processors was a factor I'm sure, I bet Apple was more worried about what's coming after the G5.
Also, another major factor in the switch is that IBM can't seem to keep up with Apple's demand, especially at the top end of the GHz range.
So no, Apple will not be flip-flopping. (Though I bet they keep their options open and actively support PPC compiling well after x86 has fully taken over, even if only internally, in case IBM comes up with something spectacular and worthwhile from Apple's point of view.)
Just... wow.
There are so many mistakes, lies, and misleading statements in this "article" I truly don't know where to begin. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed of just how bad it is.
Just an FYI:
The G5 does not support this feature. It cannot switch endian modes as the earlier PPC chips the Mac used could. This is why releases of Virtual PC before 7.0 would not run on a G5 Mac.
http://www.shahine.com/omar/VirtualPCAndTheNewG5.
I understand that some emperor somewhere has started to clothe himself in vaporwear.
Your comparison is a disservice to swiss cheese.
Unlike intelligent design, swiss cheese has some solid parts.
Get it here
Runs great on my server, which is almost identical system to the one specified. It should handle everything you need, including multiple formats and transcoding.
Their hardware is not required (but as an owner of one, I can say it is cool).
Isn't that why Fark exists?
I personally like to contribute to STFU, which is a close second.
Like one of these?
No child's welfare has ever gotten in the way of a politician's quest for porn.
But can you afford the gaping security holes this creates?
Sure, if something bad happens the person who had their password taped to their keyboard will get tossed, but what about the damage caused? And guess who gets to clean up the mess and doesn't have time for it.
If I can get aging, complacent government workers to recognize the importance of using decent passwords and not have them call every week for a reset, it can't be too hard.