Since I'm in a stroppy mood today I'll nit-pick the it's making the same old "lock everything down" mistakes that led to it being destroyed by the PC comment. Which bit of Apple has been destroyed by the PC? The bit that built my MacBook Pro, maybe? A locked-down piece of hardware that works pretty well, at least in part because it is locked down.
On powerbooks and macbook pros the wireless card is locked to channel 1-11. This is fine for the US but, unlike other cards, there is no way to unlock it when you go to Europe (where channels up to 13 are used). This can be a major PITA on a customer site... but at least a spare wireless card is cheap, unlike...
My MBP (2.33Ghz Core2Duo) goes from 1-13 just fine, thanks (just clicked Airport, Create Network, Channel, 1-13 are offered). Can't comment on the DVD drive.
As a fellow resident of "Great Briton", I'd like to point out to the world at large that "Simon the SoundMan" is talking out of his hat.
I've been snapping away for many years now and I've only twice been accosted: a security guard at Canary Wharf asked me if I was a professional photographer (quantity and quality of kit, plus the fact I was taking photos in a howling gale). I assured him I was merely a keen amateur and he wished me well and went on his way. Secondly, in Verbier (not part of "Briton") I was verbally harangued by a passenger when I took a picture that included a ski lift. Supposedly I had not asked her permission. Since the field of view covered around 5 miles of countryside and ski slopes I suspect I'd also forgotten to check with one or two other people - oops!
1. So I don't have to reboot. 2. So I can have a copy of Windows/Linux/Solaris/Netware suspended in the background, ready to start up as and when I need to use it, whilst still having full access to my documents/emails etc. It takes 5 seconds on my MBP to spin up a suspended copy of Netware or Windows 2003. Compare speed cost with booting your machine. Whilst it's suspended it takes no resources other than disk space - same as Boot Camp. 3. To run more than one OS simultaneously (eg multiple copies of Netware/SLES to enable me to test gnarly eDirectory operations). 4. It's not emulation - Windows/Linux/Solaris/Netware etc is running natively on an Intel chip without emulation. The "context switching" between host and guest OSes does have an impact, but having to reboot my machine repeatedly in order to swap between only two OSes is way more inconvenient and time-consuming. 5. I'm 100% in the Mac, but my work on the other operating systems hasn't suffered a jot.
Incidentally, I run VMware even though I've got a licence for Parallels. I needed the "Host-only" networking option before the Parallels team supported it. I'll upgrade anyway, since I like to have as many tools at my disposal.
Rob (as my profile says, I'm Systems Manager at a London University and my work now depends on virtualisation in all its many guises)
The turnout was reported at 84% - a post-war record and considerably higher than past elections. It could just be that capacity planning was to blame, rather than the voting machines.
If you're a company or uni then overclocking your servers (definitely) or desktops (probably) really isn't an option. Even as a consumer, surely you'd be wondering if it's worth the potential warranty issues, especially if you've got to stump up for "higher grade memory and a non-crappy motherboard"?
As a UK resident who has just successfully ordered the set (using the handy Country drop-down) I think the first part of your "subj" sez "ivi didn't read the form".
That link brings you to a page that highlights the short-term bane of these Web 2.0 things - "You're browser is not supported" - assuming you are using Opera. In reality I'm sure it works perfectly, but I'm not in the mood to tweak user agent settings right now...
To provide a bit of balance - my Powerbook was delivered with what turned out to be a faulty PSU. One call led to the machine being collected the next day (at my request) and replaced. Since then I've had no problems whatsoever. More importantly, I'm enjoying using the best user OS out there, since I didn't take one dodgy machine to mean that all Apples are now completely unreliable.
And before someone feverishly responds "What does one data point prove?", I only mention this episode because someone is extrapolating a few noisy bloggers into "Apple's after-sales service seems to suck". I feel no need to make excuses for the supplier of my computer and OS, but my experience of Apple's after-sales has been wholly positive.
So label me "fan-boy": I think this platform deserves fans in a way that maybe vanilla PCs don't. I'm also a fan-boy for HP's DL380 servers, which is my bread-and-butter machine at work, in case you're interested.
Whilst I accept your environmental concerns (though a scramjet could reduce the impact), I think the sonic boom issue is irrelevant for a Japanese trans-Pacific plane, since there are relatively few inhabited places over-flown whilst travelling from Japan to the Americas.
And despite it's being a nifty little browser I wish safari would go away.
Any justification?. As someone who uses Safari on the Mac and Firefox on PCs I would rather lose Firefox than Safari. The only reason I find to use Firefox on the Mac is for occasional web page editing sessions where Chris Pederick's web developer plugin is essential.
I forget where now. I've basically trawled all the newsgroups and websites where TV geeks hang out. I think the reason for the delay is to make sure we don't knacker French TV. Again, I think that's the reason we don't get Channel 5 (darn).
... unless you live in the South East, but out of sight of Crystal Palace. No prospect of a digital transmitter able to reach my neck of the woods until Dover and Tunbridge Wells get upgraded in 2012. I'm one of the "people who can't upgrade" rather than a "who don't"
Informative? Moderators should probably click the links in the stories before moderating. And read the sig of the poster. Or maybe they're in on it as well and I'm suffering from a sense of humour failure.
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Since I'm in a stroppy mood today I'll nit-pick the it's making the same old "lock everything down" mistakes that led to it being destroyed by the PC comment. Which bit of Apple has been destroyed by the PC? The bit that built my MacBook Pro, maybe? A locked-down piece of hardware that works pretty well, at least in part because it is locked down.
On powerbooks and macbook pros the wireless card is locked to channel 1-11. This is fine for the US but, unlike other cards, there is no way to unlock it when you go to Europe (where channels up to 13 are used). This can be a major PITA on a customer site... but at least a spare wireless card is cheap, unlike...
My MBP (2.33Ghz Core2Duo) goes from 1-13 just fine, thanks (just clicked Airport, Create Network, Channel, 1-13 are offered). Can't comment on the DVD drive.
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As a fellow resident of "Great Briton", I'd like to point out to the world at large that "Simon the SoundMan" is talking out of his hat.
I've been snapping away for many years now and I've only twice been accosted: a security guard at Canary Wharf asked me if I was a professional photographer (quantity and quality of kit, plus the fact I was taking photos in a howling gale). I assured him I was merely a keen amateur and he wished me well and went on his way. Secondly, in Verbier (not part of "Briton") I was verbally harangued by a passenger when I took a picture that included a ski lift. Supposedly I had not asked her permission. Since the field of view covered around 5 miles of countryside and ski slopes I suspect I'd also forgotten to check with one or two other people - oops!
Rob.
At the risk of perpetuating an argument started by a near-troll AC, his/her (erroneous) question was:
why in the world would anyone run emulation [...] ?
And I was providing a few arguments why some people (myself included) run "emulation". I offered no help, merely an answer to a question.
Take it easy,
Rob.
Why run virtualisation?
1. So I don't have to reboot.
2. So I can have a copy of Windows/Linux/Solaris/Netware suspended in the background, ready to start up as and when I need to use it, whilst still having full access to my documents/emails etc. It takes 5 seconds on my MBP to spin up a suspended copy of Netware or Windows 2003. Compare speed cost with booting your machine. Whilst it's suspended it takes no resources other than disk space - same as Boot Camp.
3. To run more than one OS simultaneously (eg multiple copies of Netware/SLES to enable me to test gnarly eDirectory operations).
4. It's not emulation - Windows/Linux/Solaris/Netware etc is running natively on an Intel chip without emulation. The "context switching" between host and guest OSes does have an impact, but having to reboot my machine repeatedly in order to swap between only two OSes is way more inconvenient and time-consuming.
5. I'm 100% in the Mac, but my work on the other operating systems hasn't suffered a jot.
Incidentally, I run VMware even though I've got a licence for Parallels. I needed the "Host-only" networking option before the Parallels team supported it. I'll upgrade anyway, since I like to have as many tools at my disposal.
Rob (as my profile says, I'm Systems Manager at a London University and my work now depends on virtualisation in all its many guises)
Having thought about this for a little while, I agree with you (which probably means I'll be kicked off Slashdot...)
Rob.
The turnout was reported at 84% - a post-war record and considerably higher than past elections. It could just be that capacity planning was to blame, rather than the voting machines.
If you're a company or uni then overclocking your servers (definitely) or desktops (probably) really isn't an option. Even as a consumer, surely you'd be wondering if it's worth the potential warranty issues, especially if you've got to stump up for "higher grade memory and a non-crappy motherboard"?
As a UK resident who has just successfully ordered the set (using the handy Country drop-down) I think the first part of your "subj" sez "ivi didn't read the form".
Rob.
That link brings you to a page that highlights the short-term bane of these Web 2.0 things - "You're browser is not supported" - assuming you are using Opera. In reality I'm sure it works perfectly, but I'm not in the mood to tweak user agent settings right now...
I think the video and coding communities might have a bit to say about that. Not all Apple Pros depend of Photoshop, you know?
To provide a bit of balance - my Powerbook was delivered with what turned out to be a faulty PSU. One call led to the machine being collected the next day (at my request) and replaced. Since then I've had no problems whatsoever. More importantly, I'm enjoying using the best user OS out there, since I didn't take one dodgy machine to mean that all Apples are now completely unreliable.
And before someone feverishly responds "What does one data point prove?", I only mention this episode because someone is extrapolating a few noisy bloggers into "Apple's after-sales service seems to suck". I feel no need to make excuses for the supplier of my computer and OS, but my experience of Apple's after-sales has been wholly positive.
So label me "fan-boy": I think this platform deserves fans in a way that maybe vanilla PCs don't. I'm also a fan-boy for HP's DL380 servers, which is my bread-and-butter machine at work, in case you're interested.
Whilst I accept your environmental concerns (though a scramjet could reduce the impact), I think the sonic boom issue is irrelevant for a Japanese trans-Pacific plane, since there are relatively few inhabited places over-flown whilst travelling from Japan to the Americas.
Rob.
Any justification?. As someone who uses Safari on the Mac and Firefox on PCs I would rather lose Firefox than Safari. The only reason I find to use Firefox on the Mac is for occasional web page editing sessions where Chris Pederick's web developer plugin is essential.
Some of the tannoy-type cameras are for the Trafficmaster system, rather than anything Orwellian.
Pergatory?
I forget where now. I've basically trawled all the newsgroups and websites where TV geeks hang out. I think the reason for the delay is to make sure we don't knacker French TV. Again, I think that's the reason we don't get Channel 5 (darn).
satellite costs considerably more than Freeview (which itself is a misnomer).
... unless you live in the South East, but out of sight of Crystal Palace. No prospect of a digital transmitter able to reach my neck of the woods until Dover and Tunbridge Wells get upgraded in 2012. I'm one of the "people who can't upgrade" rather than a "who don't"
As a puerile fan of Father Ted, I feel I must snigger at the final acronym. Girls! Drink!
So I realize it's a joke and everything, but the official Iranian language is not Arabic. Rather it is Persian.
Rob.
Informative? Moderators should probably click the links in the stories before moderating. And read the sig of the poster. Or maybe they're in on it as well and I'm suffering from a sense of humour failure.
Thanks for the pointers - you're a star.
Rob.