Pick itself may not be as widespread as it once was (though recently I was at a site that had Pick running on a mainframe that was installed in '82) but you'll find there are quite a few D3 systems on NT/AIX/Linux out there. Companies like TigerLogic still sell and support the software and there are even Pick/D3 annual conferences.
was to rip off GuitarFreaks? I'm not sure how complicated that really was. TFA makes it sound like these guys imagined shit out of thin air when it had been done before.
So if I buy a $70k car today, I can in-place upgrade it for just $20k every year or two when they facelift the models or add more horsepower. Sounds awesome to me.
Stopped reading when he split the hardware. Why not do all your tests with SL, then reformat and load Win7 from scratch and do your next set of tests. Does this guy actually get paid to write this crap?
Your 3 year old _nephew_ plays MK/GTA and _you're_ not proud of it? What the hell do his parent's think of that? And cell phones at 4 is insane. Under what circumstance is a 4 year old going to be so far detached from a responsible adult family member that they'd have to make a decision to call one? I recently witness two boys, 8 and 10 years old, that literally could not stand still for 30 minutes during a wedding because they hadn't been allowed to play with their iPod Touch(es) for over an hour. I grew up with computers in the house and was given my first hand-me-down IBM XT around age 8, but hell if I ever sat at it longer than it took my friends to finish their homework so we could go skating or biking outside. If ignoring technology is a crime you can call child services on me today. They'll come to a modest apartment and find a little girl that doesn't require any electronic babysitters, a stay at home Mom that keeps her active, engaged, clean, and fed all day long, and if the timing is right a girl who smiles when her Dad gets home because she isn't buried into a soul-sucking LCD of one variance or another. We all grew up without these crutches, and while its not the popular or easy way to do it these days I sure as hell am going to try and figure out how.
Seriously, half the items under your kitchen sink can probably be used by terrorists. In fact does your home have natural gas running to it? Seal that house up, start a leak, light a long fuse... I think I've found out that you own a Weapon of Mass Neighborhood Destruction!!!! How do you sleep at night?
Maybe some in the know (not me) could fill us (people like me) in... Are there other benefits that will come from moving to ZFS? I'd guess that for the average consumer any performance gain, or loss, won't really make a difference, but what about those running servers or doing heavy video/audio work? Or are there other aspects of this filesystem that will make it that much better than HFS+?
Not an employee, but we've tried BP. Maybe I can shed some light on these questions since the arcticle was so light.
You don't actually have to go through a forced enrollment. There is an option to "silently" learn a user's profile. I also believe in the newer versions the learning is continual, so say you change your password and at first you stumble with it for a few days. No big deal really, BP (under silent enrollment) won't engage strict enforcment until its seen a pattern enough times that it can qualify against. Note that even under strict enrollment, if a user types their password 9 different ways it will fail the process and they'll have to try again later.
Also configurable is how strict it is when comparing input to your profile. I believe the default rating is 30 (out of 100, but I am told it doesn't mean 30% accuracy) and you can adjust this for all users or on an individual basis. From our testing, once that rating was much over 60 it was starting to throw failed attempts for good typists. The good side to this is there is also a log you can use that will help show how often it kicks out a login attempt so you can help control your organization and feel out what a proper setting would be. Even with a default setting though we didn't see many failed attempts but not once was someone able to mimic another.
BP does protect alot more than what the article suggests. I believe it actually also grades your username, not just the password. It also forces windows to clear out any username/password boxes that originate from explorer and other parts of the OS. If you have an intranet site that uses basic authentication (prompting a normal windows password box) that will be BP protected. Anyone that invokes the RunAs through explorer or CLI will also get BP protected input fields. Though most of this stuff is configurable.
For all those saying "oh no I hurt my hands and now I can't login!" I suppose thats true, but it only takes a few clicks in the ADU&G and your profile is cleared out and will start learning your new one handed sequences. Personally I like the idea that someone too inebreiated to type their password normally gets locked out for awhile. I'm sure some CxOs and HR Admins agree.
Let me back this up with something I wrote in another forum... I play WoW and I've had the game for a bit over a year. On all my characters combined I probably have about 30 days played total.
I:
1. Still have the same girlfriend (of 5+ years)
2. Still have the same job (of 4+ years)
3. Still take vacation days with*out* the intention of playing
4. Still meet with friends to hang out, work on cars, work on my photography hobby, grab some dinner, etc
5. Still $BASICALLY_DO_EVERYTHING_I_DID_BEFORE_BUYING_WOW (except watch TV, which many would argue as an improvement given the current selection of trash and vomit on the tube)
I play without the intention of getting to 60 in 8 real days, and without the desire to spend 4+ days per week raiding. People that read about new gear and ignore the rest of their life to get it are making a conscious decision to do so, just like I can make a conscious decision *not* to do so...
Don't bother. Use VMWare for everything. It works great and your VMs will be portable across all your host servers. We have ESX here running Windows 2000 / 2003 / Ubuntu LAMP servers. I have Workstation and Player running light testing machines for Office 2007 Beta. I don't have to smash my laptop into pieces testing pre-release or beta software, including OS. If I have an image I need someone else to look at I can copy it and port it around our network. Having a mix of MS VPC and VMware would make that suck to the point of not being useful.
Ohya, and the only place I've seen virtualization used that WAS NOT VMWare, were some Microsoft courses I took awhile back.
One power cable, there is one power cable that drives the whole machine. No power brick, just the cable. No VGA/DVI cables because of the integration. As it sits on the desk its very clean and neat. The only cables coming out the back of mine are Power, 1 USB (my G15 keyboard hosts the mouse port), 1 Ethernet. On a few occasions I've moved it from the office into the living room and plugged in the S-Video dongle to connect to our TV. I would never try this with a whole 'setup' machine but this thing was only a bit more trouble than hauling a laptop around, because of the lack of integrated keyboard and mouse.
Moving the entire computer is pretty easy because of the VESA compliant optional mount. My whole computer swings up and down, tilts, rotates, and I can push it out of the way if needed. Your argument is wierd anyway, *most* lcd monitors dont offer height adjustability so thats pretty normal for most folk.
If Apple pumped gaming-class hardware in their iMac (which my older G5 definitely does NOT have) I could see it being the ultimate LAN party machine. Its so easy to carry around compared to lugging basically an whole extra box (the computer).
Opening the case is pretty impressive, actually. It was very easy for me to upgrade RAM and add my Airport card. If I had to R&R the harddrive it looked rather straightforward too. I'm not sure what else you are supposed to be able to do with an integrated machine like that though...
So, none of that is appealing? Or are you just Mac Bashing for the heck of it?
I remember that TV show too. The quote was something like, "imagine if we replaced all the worlds airbags with spikes that would impale the driver if they so much as tapped something at 1 MPH - how different do you think people would drive then?"
More of the episode studied how roads in America have wide lanes compared to Europe and that these lanes give people the bad perception that they can drive *faster* because there is more room for error. Some high-speed but long corners on American roadways were something like 50% wider than similar corners on European highways.
I wish I remember the name of that program, it was well done. The best part was when they were interviewing an 'expert' on traffic saftey or something and they were doing the interview while he was driving. The man kept going on and on about distractions and people not paying attention while driving. Suddenly he takes off his glasses and grabs the steering wheel with his knees, then uses his available hands to clean the glasses with his shirt and puts them back on and continues his rant.
It seems the best solution at this point then is to simply HIDE the feedback until both parties have left it, this way there is no influence on one or the other and we're done with feedback hostages.
To assume that buying Apple hardware is just means-to-an-end for getting their software is quite ridiculous. Yes, OSX is great and I've been happily using it since 10.0.3 on a first gen ti-powerbook.
So back to the hardware. Whatever premium you think exists (I disagree) on Mac Gear is what my good friend and I call "Worth Every Penny." I've seen an iBook that a caring mother drove over with her BMW X5, sure the LCD was cracked but system still booted in FireWire mode and I was able to retrieve all the documents they needed. My own 12" alBook has been used and abused by myself since they were released and through nearly 2 years now (3 years on an iBook) of my sister's college education without a single failure. I'm kind of upset that I even bothered buying AppleCare for it since I've never had to call them once, not once.
My iMac G5 is one of the most brilliant home computers ever created. One power cord runs the whole system. One. The case is practically seamless and is almost as easy to move around my home as my old powerbook was. When I first shipped it to work some antiMac socialist went crazy and asked why I didn't buy some gateway that was "the same case and form factor and is no different" - http://content.gateway.com/www.gateway.com/img/pro d/249x176/prf55c_pd.jpg - ya freaking right.
I will unplug my internet connection and live in a cave before I buy a "Mac" installed on some beige box AlienDellWare piece of shitbox.
Sorry for the rant, I was up for a little karmaburn anyway.
Find your favorite place to startup Norton, right-click and select "Run as..." then pop in the credentials of your admin user. Its like one extra step to get an application to run under a different set of privs without having to logoff/logon. So you can keep running as your non-admin and "sudo" up to get your virus updates.
That being said its crappy you can't schedule them, are you sure you can't run Norton from the command line with some switches? Then you'd at least be able to schedule a batch file and supply admin credentials for the job.
I don't think you get it. Locking users out of customizing icons wont change anything because some other random 'trick' will come by that does something equally misleading. The OS doesn't matter in cases like this yet you are still nailing mac users to the wall. If you can keep the nasties off of 6 windows boxes and 1 linux box then you will probably find that *gasp* you can accomplish the same with a mac.
It seems that as much as you are sick of mac users throwing cliche lines about how they aren't affected by viruses (which, by the way, still, as of now, _they aren't_) you are becoming among the growing population of cliche mac bashers that reek of anti-anti-virus jealousy.
Also, I will standup to anyone and argue until blue in the face that people who are more computer literate purchase macs, and the sheep, as you say, are the ones buying those hard to use operating systems - such an elegant description of windows by the way.
Back to your regularly scheduled symantec updates...
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Pick itself may not be as widespread as it once was (though recently I was at a site that had Pick running on a mainframe that was installed in '82) but you'll find there are quite a few D3 systems on NT/AIX/Linux out there. Companies like TigerLogic still sell and support the software and there are even Pick/D3 annual conferences.
No manual entry for shower
was to rip off GuitarFreaks? I'm not sure how complicated that really was. TFA makes it sound like these guys imagined shit out of thin air when it had been done before.
can!=must
So if I buy a $70k car today, I can in-place upgrade it for just $20k every year or two when they facelift the models or add more horsepower. Sounds awesome to me.
Stopped reading when he split the hardware. Why not do all your tests with SL, then reformat and load Win7 from scratch and do your next set of tests. Does this guy actually get paid to write this crap?
Your 3 year old _nephew_ plays MK/GTA and _you're_ not proud of it? What the hell do his parent's think of that? And cell phones at 4 is insane. Under what circumstance is a 4 year old going to be so far detached from a responsible adult family member that they'd have to make a decision to call one? I recently witness two boys, 8 and 10 years old, that literally could not stand still for 30 minutes during a wedding because they hadn't been allowed to play with their iPod Touch(es) for over an hour. I grew up with computers in the house and was given my first hand-me-down IBM XT around age 8, but hell if I ever sat at it longer than it took my friends to finish their homework so we could go skating or biking outside. If ignoring technology is a crime you can call child services on me today. They'll come to a modest apartment and find a little girl that doesn't require any electronic babysitters, a stay at home Mom that keeps her active, engaged, clean, and fed all day long, and if the timing is right a girl who smiles when her Dad gets home because she isn't buried into a soul-sucking LCD of one variance or another. We all grew up without these crutches, and while its not the popular or easy way to do it these days I sure as hell am going to try and figure out how.
Seriously, half the items under your kitchen sink can probably be used by terrorists. In fact does your home have natural gas running to it? Seal that house up, start a leak, light a long fuse... I think I've found out that you own a Weapon of Mass Neighborhood Destruction!!!! How do you sleep at night?
Maybe some in the know (not me) could fill us (people like me) in... Are there other benefits that will come from moving to ZFS? I'd guess that for the average consumer any performance gain, or loss, won't really make a difference, but what about those running servers or doing heavy video/audio work? Or are there other aspects of this filesystem that will make it that much better than HFS+?
still in bed... hook up *a* robotic arm... So, you just need a robotic lubing/catching glove and you really would be set.
Not an employee, but we've tried BP. Maybe I can shed some light on these questions since the arcticle was so light.
You don't actually have to go through a forced enrollment. There is an option to "silently" learn a user's profile. I also believe in the newer versions the learning is continual, so say you change your password and at first you stumble with it for a few days. No big deal really, BP (under silent enrollment) won't engage strict enforcment until its seen a pattern enough times that it can qualify against. Note that even under strict enrollment, if a user types their password 9 different ways it will fail the process and they'll have to try again later.
Also configurable is how strict it is when comparing input to your profile. I believe the default rating is 30 (out of 100, but I am told it doesn't mean 30% accuracy) and you can adjust this for all users or on an individual basis. From our testing, once that rating was much over 60 it was starting to throw failed attempts for good typists. The good side to this is there is also a log you can use that will help show how often it kicks out a login attempt so you can help control your organization and feel out what a proper setting would be. Even with a default setting though we didn't see many failed attempts but not once was someone able to mimic another.
BP does protect alot more than what the article suggests. I believe it actually also grades your username, not just the password. It also forces windows to clear out any username/password boxes that originate from explorer and other parts of the OS. If you have an intranet site that uses basic authentication (prompting a normal windows password box) that will be BP protected. Anyone that invokes the RunAs through explorer or CLI will also get BP protected input fields. Though most of this stuff is configurable.
For all those saying "oh no I hurt my hands and now I can't login!" I suppose thats true, but it only takes a few clicks in the ADU&G and your profile is cleared out and will start learning your new one handed sequences. Personally I like the idea that someone too inebreiated to type their password normally gets locked out for awhile. I'm sure some CxOs and HR Admins agree.
Hopefully that clears up at least a little air.
I:
1. Still have the same girlfriend (of 5+ years)
2. Still have the same job (of 4+ years)
3. Still take vacation days with*out* the intention of playing
4. Still meet with friends to hang out, work on cars, work on my photography hobby, grab some dinner, etc
5. Still $BASICALLY_DO_EVERYTHING_I_DID_BEFORE_BUYING_WOW (except watch TV, which many would argue as an improvement given the current selection of trash and vomit on the tube)
I play without the intention of getting to 60 in 8 real days, and without the desire to spend 4+ days per week raiding. People that read about new gear and ignore the rest of their life to get it are making a conscious decision to do so, just like I can make a conscious decision *not* to do so...
Don't bother. Use VMWare for everything. It works great and your VMs will be portable across all your host servers. We have ESX here running Windows 2000 / 2003 / Ubuntu LAMP servers. I have Workstation and Player running light testing machines for Office 2007 Beta. I don't have to smash my laptop into pieces testing pre-release or beta software, including OS. If I have an image I need someone else to look at I can copy it and port it around our network. Having a mix of MS VPC and VMware would make that suck to the point of not being useful.
Ohya, and the only place I've seen virtualization used that WAS NOT VMWare, were some Microsoft courses I took awhile back.
One power cable, there is one power cable that drives the whole machine. No power brick, just the cable. No VGA/DVI cables because of the integration. As it sits on the desk its very clean and neat. The only cables coming out the back of mine are Power, 1 USB (my G15 keyboard hosts the mouse port), 1 Ethernet. On a few occasions I've moved it from the office into the living room and plugged in the S-Video dongle to connect to our TV. I would never try this with a whole 'setup' machine but this thing was only a bit more trouble than hauling a laptop around, because of the lack of integrated keyboard and mouse.
Moving the entire computer is pretty easy because of the VESA compliant optional mount. My whole computer swings up and down, tilts, rotates, and I can push it out of the way if needed. Your argument is wierd anyway, *most* lcd monitors dont offer height adjustability so thats pretty normal for most folk.
If Apple pumped gaming-class hardware in their iMac (which my older G5 definitely does NOT have) I could see it being the ultimate LAN party machine. Its so easy to carry around compared to lugging basically an whole extra box (the computer).
Opening the case is pretty impressive, actually. It was very easy for me to upgrade RAM and add my Airport card. If I had to R&R the harddrive it looked rather straightforward too. I'm not sure what else you are supposed to be able to do with an integrated machine like that though...
So, none of that is appealing? Or are you just Mac Bashing for the heck of it?
Remember that as of right now, computers only do what we tell them to do.
afterwards, did he take up chess?
If movies taught me anything its that The Red Book is NSA Trusted Networks and doesn't fit on shelves.
More of the episode studied how roads in America have wide lanes compared to Europe and that these lanes give people the bad perception that they can drive *faster* because there is more room for error. Some high-speed but long corners on American roadways were something like 50% wider than similar corners on European highways.
I wish I remember the name of that program, it was well done. The best part was when they were interviewing an 'expert' on traffic saftey or something and they were doing the interview while he was driving. The man kept going on and on about distractions and people not paying attention while driving. Suddenly he takes off his glasses and grabs the steering wheel with his knees, then uses his available hands to clean the glasses with his shirt and puts them back on and continues his rant.
It seems the best solution at this point then is to simply HIDE the feedback until both parties have left it, this way there is no influence on one or the other and we're done with feedback hostages.
[...begins work on constructing a Faraday cage for his new car.]
So back to the hardware. Whatever premium you think exists (I disagree) on Mac Gear is what my good friend and I call "Worth Every Penny." I've seen an iBook that a caring mother drove over with her BMW X5, sure the LCD was cracked but system still booted in FireWire mode and I was able to retrieve all the documents they needed. My own 12" alBook has been used and abused by myself since they were released and through nearly 2 years now (3 years on an iBook) of my sister's college education without a single failure. I'm kind of upset that I even bothered buying AppleCare for it since I've never had to call them once, not once.
My iMac G5 is one of the most brilliant home computers ever created. One power cord runs the whole system. One. The case is practically seamless and is almost as easy to move around my home as my old powerbook was. When I first shipped it to work some antiMac socialist went crazy and asked why I didn't buy some gateway that was "the same case and form factor and is no different" - http://content.gateway.com/www.gateway.com/img/pro d/249x176/prf55c_pd.jpg - ya freaking right.
I will unplug my internet connection and live in a cave before I buy a "Mac" installed on some beige box AlienDellWare piece of shitbox.
Sorry for the rant, I was up for a little karmaburn anyway.
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That being said its crappy you can't schedule them, are you sure you can't run Norton from the command line with some switches? Then you'd at least be able to schedule a batch file and supply admin credentials for the job.
I don't think you get it. Locking users out of customizing icons wont change anything because some other random 'trick' will come by that does something equally misleading. The OS doesn't matter in cases like this yet you are still nailing mac users to the wall. If you can keep the nasties off of 6 windows boxes and 1 linux box then you will probably find that *gasp* you can accomplish the same with a mac. It seems that as much as you are sick of mac users throwing cliche lines about how they aren't affected by viruses (which, by the way, still, as of now, _they aren't_) you are becoming among the growing population of cliche mac bashers that reek of anti-anti-virus jealousy. Also, I will standup to anyone and argue until blue in the face that people who are more computer literate purchase macs, and the sheep, as you say, are the ones buying those hard to use operating systems - such an elegant description of windows by the way. Back to your regularly scheduled symantec updates...