I believe you have the option to make snapshots of your system differential if you can, so you'll only be storing the changed data after the initial backup. That should save you a little space.
5:1 that it is. You can bet your butt that Apple's working like hell to make it bootable. Now, take a look at Time Machine and tell me that doesn't sound a lot like ZFS.
You can't be serious. I've seen WoW on a Macbook. 30fps is the high end, even with all settings down. By contrast, your 8800GTS should be able to run everything at maximum without ever dropping below 60fps. Big difference.
I'm sick to death of those assholes at peons4hire! Sometimes I'd be getting spam from them every five minutes! I hope Blizzard sues these assholes out of existence.
If you wanted an RTS on the Mac, you bought WarCraft or StarCraft. The other options were buggy, poorly ported, or otherwise incompatible with their PC brethren.
Ahem, I seem to remember another Mac developer known as Bungie that created some damn fine RTS games in the Myth series. Sadly, Bungie has sold their souls and fucked the very people that made them what they are. No Halo for Mac. Assholes.
Um, that ad was created long before the G4 and G5 stagnated, and yes, the G3 was faster clock-for-clock than a Pentium 2. IBM hit a wall with the G5 and didn't want to make a G6 for Apple. At the same time, Intel got their head out of their asses and put out chips that were actually efficient. It was great timing, and switching was a very smart move.
Nope. This is the POWER6, not a PowerPC. IBM made the G5 (aka 970) as a derivative of the POWER4. IBM told Apple that they didn't want to make a derivative of the POWER5, so they were SOL on an upgrade path. This is not the kind of processor you would EVER see outside of a top-end workstation, server, or mainframe. It's not something Apple would have used.
Then you'd better keep them from any kind of user-based media. MMOs should never be played, and they should never get on the internet, because heaven knows all that horrible hate speech is out there! Think of the children!
Or you could teach the children to ignore it and thicken their skins a little, but hey, since daddy can't and would rather be shielded from all the naughty words and thoughts than just do the same, why should they?
I still don't think that it'll happen until Blizzard feels that WoW is waning. They don't want to split their market and wind up losing a ton of WoW players to WoSC.
As a side note I completely don't understand Apple not providing Linux compatible drivers for their machines. They are meant to be a hardware company that makes money from hardware sales. Sure they want to protect their user experience... but if that was the case they wouldn't provide boot camp! 2-5% Linux users may not sound like a lot but a) Linux and OS X users overlap heavily and b) 2-5% if they all switched to Apple hardware due to being certain everything would work would push up Apple hardware sales by around 50%. That's a big chunk of change to ignore. Sure Linux users don't pay for software... but they do tend to be the kind of people who pay for quality hardware.
And you reveal yourself for being a Linux fanboy. The amount of Linux users that would buy Apple hardware if Apple supplied drivers is TINY. Why? Because desktop Linux users are a much smaller part of the market than you make them out to be. Apple has no real incentive to supply drivers because they don't really care about Linux for reasons stated above: It would do almost nothing to help their sales. A few Linux geeks buying Apple hardware (as opposed to building a machine themselves that has known working components for cheaper than a Mac) would be a tiny fart in Apple's bottom line.
Really? I'd never seen an Error Type 3 in OS X, much less any other cryptic error message outside the once-in-a-blue-moon KP text on the screen. Interesting. Still, things have come a long way since 10.2.
Wrong. There was an EFI update that added a BIOS compatibility layer. I've installed Windows on Intel Macs right out of the box, no Boot Camp required. Boot Camp is just Apple's way of making it easy on people. It's the EFI update that made it possible.
Okay, now let's take that anecdote and compare it to the average corporate environment. You know, the kind where most people don't need to run specialized tools beyond MS Office, maybe Photoshop and other creative apps, and the company doesn't want the user supporting their own machines because most users know jack shit and would wind up messing things up further. You're not a standard corporate user. Sorry.
That's one of the things you have to accept when putting Linux on a machine, Mac or no: Not everything will be properly supported right out of the gate. The Ubuntu installer not working properly all the time makes it a nonstandard piece of shit? Maybe, but it could also be that Ubuntu just doesn't like working with every single computer you can put it on.
Corporate bulk purchases can sometimes wrangle that price down to $900, maybe $850. However, despite what the article says, the experience of just about everyone else in the industry is that TCO for the Macs is much, much lower than that of a Windows box, making the purchase pay for itself after a while.
Very true for me as well. The Macs required much less work than the Windows boxes when I was working at CWU. I'm wondering if it's because some of their "creatives" at this company are assholes who want everything just right and mess stuff up themselves.
"The Macs require a greater density of field associates. Where we have 1-to-150 PC techs to users, we're somewhere down to 1-to-100 for Macs. I think that's due partly to the technology and partly due to the users. The creatives are more demanding and you have to be more responding, because those are the people that clearly create our revenue," says Anschuetz.
That's the direct opposite of my experience (More like one Mac guy for 700-800 Macs, one PC guy for about 100-150 PCs), but I suppose a university environment is a bit different from a creative environment (at least outside the art/music/etc departments).
Remote Desktop can be configured on any OS X computer to allow connections from regular old VNC apps. I've used a free program called "Chicken of the VNC" to connect and it works great. In addition, you've got a standard POSIX layer for remote administration through the shell. I don't see what you're complaining about.
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I believe you have the option to make snapshots of your system differential if you can, so you'll only be storing the changed data after the initial backup. That should save you a little space.
5:1 that it is. You can bet your butt that Apple's working like hell to make it bootable. Now, take a look at Time Machine and tell me that doesn't sound a lot like ZFS.
You can't be serious. I've seen WoW on a Macbook. 30fps is the high end, even with all settings down. By contrast, your 8800GTS should be able to run everything at maximum without ever dropping below 60fps. Big difference.
I'm sick to death of those assholes at peons4hire! Sometimes I'd be getting spam from them every five minutes! I hope Blizzard sues these assholes out of existence.
If you wanted an RTS on the Mac, you bought WarCraft or StarCraft. The other options were buggy, poorly ported, or otherwise incompatible with their PC brethren.
Ahem, I seem to remember another Mac developer known as Bungie that created some damn fine RTS games in the Myth series. Sadly, Bungie has sold their souls and fucked the very people that made them what they are. No Halo for Mac. Assholes.
Um, that ad was created long before the G4 and G5 stagnated, and yes, the G3 was faster clock-for-clock than a Pentium 2. IBM hit a wall with the G5 and didn't want to make a G6 for Apple. At the same time, Intel got their head out of their asses and put out chips that were actually efficient. It was great timing, and switching was a very smart move.
Nope. This is the POWER6, not a PowerPC. IBM made the G5 (aka 970) as a derivative of the POWER4. IBM told Apple that they didn't want to make a derivative of the POWER5, so they were SOL on an upgrade path. This is not the kind of processor you would EVER see outside of a top-end workstation, server, or mainframe. It's not something Apple would have used.
Then you'd better keep them from any kind of user-based media. MMOs should never be played, and they should never get on the internet, because heaven knows all that horrible hate speech is out there! Think of the children! Or you could teach the children to ignore it and thicken their skins a little, but hey, since daddy can't and would rather be shielded from all the naughty words and thoughts than just do the same, why should they?
I think you mean Barrens General.
Welcome to the internet. You must be new here. MMOs generally have an ignore feature that lets you not have to read all the naughty, offensive words.
So Hans Reiser is a full-blown sociopath? Goddamn. Looks like he may have killed ReiserFS, too.
I still don't think that it'll happen until Blizzard feels that WoW is waning. They don't want to split their market and wind up losing a ton of WoW players to WoSC.
As a side note I completely don't understand Apple not providing Linux compatible drivers for their machines. They are meant to be a hardware company that makes money from hardware sales. Sure they want to protect their user experience... but if that was the case they wouldn't provide boot camp! 2-5% Linux users may not sound like a lot but a) Linux and OS X users overlap heavily and b) 2-5% if they all switched to Apple hardware due to being certain everything would work would push up Apple hardware sales by around 50%. That's a big chunk of change to ignore. Sure Linux users don't pay for software... but they do tend to be the kind of people who pay for quality hardware.
And you reveal yourself for being a Linux fanboy. The amount of Linux users that would buy Apple hardware if Apple supplied drivers is TINY. Why? Because desktop Linux users are a much smaller part of the market than you make them out to be. Apple has no real incentive to supply drivers because they don't really care about Linux for reasons stated above: It would do almost nothing to help their sales. A few Linux geeks buying Apple hardware (as opposed to building a machine themselves that has known working components for cheaper than a Mac) would be a tiny fart in Apple's bottom line.
Which can also be done with Remote Desktop and, if you want further control, a Software Update Server for one-stop shopping of filtered updates.
Really? I'd never seen an Error Type 3 in OS X, much less any other cryptic error message outside the once-in-a-blue-moon KP text on the screen. Interesting. Still, things have come a long way since 10.2.
Wrong. There was an EFI update that added a BIOS compatibility layer. I've installed Windows on Intel Macs right out of the box, no Boot Camp required. Boot Camp is just Apple's way of making it easy on people. It's the EFI update that made it possible.
Okay, now let's take that anecdote and compare it to the average corporate environment. You know, the kind where most people don't need to run specialized tools beyond MS Office, maybe Photoshop and other creative apps, and the company doesn't want the user supporting their own machines because most users know jack shit and would wind up messing things up further. You're not a standard corporate user. Sorry.
That's one of the things you have to accept when putting Linux on a machine, Mac or no: Not everything will be properly supported right out of the gate. The Ubuntu installer not working properly all the time makes it a nonstandard piece of shit? Maybe, but it could also be that Ubuntu just doesn't like working with every single computer you can put it on.
Except they'd need a Windows license to install inside of Parallels, and there's no fucking way Apple is going to bundle THAT with a new Mac.
"Error 3" popping up when a program crashes usually /is not/ helpful.
Christ, you were using Mac OS 9 or earlier. How long ago was this?
Corporate bulk purchases can sometimes wrangle that price down to $900, maybe $850. However, despite what the article says, the experience of just about everyone else in the industry is that TCO for the Macs is much, much lower than that of a Windows box, making the purchase pay for itself after a while.
Directory services and limited user accounts, much like any other managed environment.
Very true for me as well. The Macs required much less work than the Windows boxes when I was working at CWU. I'm wondering if it's because some of their "creatives" at this company are assholes who want everything just right and mess stuff up themselves.
"The Macs require a greater density of field associates. Where we have 1-to-150 PC techs to users, we're somewhere down to 1-to-100 for Macs. I think that's due partly to the technology and partly due to the users. The creatives are more demanding and you have to be more responding, because those are the people that clearly create our revenue," says Anschuetz.
That's the direct opposite of my experience (More like one Mac guy for 700-800 Macs, one PC guy for about 100-150 PCs), but I suppose a university environment is a bit different from a creative environment (at least outside the art/music/etc departments).
Remote Desktop can be configured on any OS X computer to allow connections from regular old VNC apps. I've used a free program called "Chicken of the VNC" to connect and it works great. In addition, you've got a standard POSIX layer for remote administration through the shell. I don't see what you're complaining about.