There were quite a few OS 9 (and earlier versions) viruses. Hell, a Macaddict CD accidentally shipped with a worm on it! I never got said worm, but I heard reports that it caused some trouble. There were others as well. OS X has yet to see any malicious virus. The two or three pieces of malware that have been seen for it are non-malicious proof-of-concept code that never went anywhere, infecting only a few machines.
We used portable Firewire drives (bootable) with various images on them. We'd boot from the FW drive, use Netrestore to image the computer, then boot the computer, update the firmware for Boot Camp (dunno if that's necessary anymore), then boot from a Norton Ghost CD and image the Windows partition across the network. Not the fastest or most autonomous way to do it, but it worked pretty darn well. Netrestore rocks.
Not just that, but there are still the holdouts waiting for Adobe CS3 to really hit before they buy an Intel Mac. Add to that Vista being new and having the WOW factor for noobs who don't know better, and you get misleading crap like this article.
Those datacenters SHOULD have been in Moses Lake, but the Grant County PUD is so fucking stupid that they wound up going to Quincy, and, funny thing, the PUD, who owns the network, is making diddly squat off the deal. Noanet is getting the huge cash piles because the Grant County PUD has to make sure their fiber network doesn't make too much or the IRS will come calling and start sniffing around an issue of tax-free bonds used for funding it, along with other potentially shady funding practices. Grant County was lucky to get Yahoo and Microsoft to build there, but the PUD is making squat off of it. If they had actually played their cards right from the beginning, they could have datacenters like this all over the damn county.
Despite the open-source fanboy clamoring, relatively few players support.ogg, including the iPod. Ergo, selling.ogg tracks severely limits the market, which means stores don't sell anything. Ogg is a nice codec, but it's not going to become a music player standard anytime soon.
Wrong!
1. MP3 has DRM-encumbered iterations out there.
2. As far as I know, Apple is the only one that sells.AAC with DRM, and these have the.m4p suffix instead of.m4a or.aac, so they're easy to distinguish unless some boob renamed the extension, which isn't too likely.
It might have something to do with Macs breaking down a lot less often and not having to worry about antivirus/antispyware. When I was interning at Central Washington University's computer support services, I found there was ONE Mac tech for all of the 700-800 Macs on campus. A few others would poke at very simple issues, but he got anything more than that. On the other side, there were EIGHT PC techs for the 2100 or so Windows boxes on campus. You do the math. The head of CSS loved the Macs and wished more departments would use them because they required so much less maintenance and held their value longer. The campus is busy trying to flush out any P3 computers they have so they can eventually upgrade to Vista (be a while considering some nasty compatibility snags they found in testing it). They're still using low to mid range G4 computers all over campus and probably wont upgrade them for a while because they have no need to. Not to mention the campus was spending $21k a year for antivirus license renewal. Your statement here shows a surprising lack of thought and investigation into why someone might want Macs for their businesses instead of Windows (or even Linux, although that's a very different arena) boxes.
And while this is more of a personal anecdote, my brother is a video nut and is very good at filming/editing. He's used a variety of software, but refuses to use anything but Final Cut Pro if it can be helped.
Ah, I remember that one, and it was lots of fun. I got a kick of of the 2 and a half D sidescrollers like X-Men and Ninja Turtles II. I pumped a lot of quarters into both of those.
I do go outside. I breathe real air. I have sex. I don't have a girlfriend, I have a wife. Imagine that! Yep, using old, inside jokes on Slashdot sure makes me a fat geek with no social skills who does nothing but sit on a computer all day! Ass.
Sounds fairly similar to my internship at Central Washington University. There was one full-time Mac guy for all 700-800 Macs on campus. A couple others would poke at them, but they'd toss anything more than a simple problem to the Mac guy. There were about 2100 PCs on campus...and eight guys to cover all of those. Do the math.
And you're right on in saying that OS X Server is so much more intuitive in it's design that 2k3. I had taken several classes in 2k3, but had never touched OS X Server when I first installed it on a test machine. I was absolutly amazed at how much EASIER it was to setup and maintain that 2003. There's no comparison. Microsoft just loves to spread shit all over the system so that you have to know it backward and forward to get anything done and wind up opening five windows/applications. Apple put 90% of everything within two applications. Server Admin for services, Workgroup Manager for Open Directory Management. Then there are a few more little apps for managing other miscellaneous things. If only Microsoft could design something that simple, but they've proven time and time again that they're utterly incapable of it.
On an offtopic note, I used to "cool" my computers in Minnesota by placing them next to the window during the winters, I'm certain you could cut down cooling costs in Siberia using similar strategies.
Precisely. Overclockers are flocking to Siberia in droves. I hear they're breaking records with standard air cooling, and as an added bonus, there are several weeks out of the year where they don't have to put up with that pesky sun!
When I saw the AppleTV announced, my reaction was lukewarm, mostly due to limited format support. Apple can get away with it on iPods, because you don't generally put every piece of video you have on your iPod. Conversion isn't as much of a hassle as a result. With the AppleTV, you might as well stream every piece of video to your TV, and format support kills that. I'd rather get Core Duo Mac Mini that has more available options (like 1080p playback), add some adapters, and hook that up instead. Now that the AppleTV can support more formats, I must admit that it's looking like a more attractive option, although I'd still probably cough up the extra for a Mini.
You're telling me it's stupid. I'm happy as hell that I'm getting out of this idiotic state soon. They like to keep raising the minimum wage to be the highest. Now, you could say that's good for some, but in the long run, that kind of periodic raising will make companies look elsewhere. It's going to slow the growth of business in the state. Then there was the online gambling ban, which is utterly fucking STUPID. The state legislature is majorly fucked up. Why do people keep voting these boobs into office? Are boobs the best this state has to offer? Blech. I should be outta here within two months, thank God.
Yeah, but not the good kind. This strange and lovely woman is loaded with viruses and she's incredibly high maintenance.
God, I can't believe that I searched the comment page for "virus" and nothing came up!
If it ever went to court, Cicso would probably lose their trademark. For one, other products were released by other companies that used the name iPhone. Cicso did absolutely nothing. That's a big hit in a trademark lawsuit. If you don't defend it, you lose it. Second, Cicso filed the trademark renewal at almost literally the last minute, and the photo they used was an existing product with a sticker that said "iPhone" slapped on the outside of the clear plastic wrapping. So it stands that they did not have a product named "iPhone" when they renewed their trademark, which means that their renewal was more than likely invalid. If you don't use it, you lose it. Hopefully both companies sort things out, but I think if it ever came to a nasty trademark suit, Apple would wind up with the trademark.
Is this a true quantum computer, or one that simply uses certain quantum properties? Scientists weren't predicting this for another 20-30 years. Wouldn't a 1024 qubit computer be far faster than any cluser on earth? And if I'm not mistaken, a 16 qubit computer would be faster than any single computer. I'd like to see some speed comparisons for parallel tasks.
It's good to know that the record industry in the US aren't the only thugs in the business. Yeah, let's just assume everyone is a crook and charge them up front! The greed of these fuckers is absolutely endless.
Biden? Yeah right. With that guy's history of saying really stupid things, I don't think anyone would want him on their ticket. He'd probably say something like, "Yeah, Asian people look like they're constipated" or "Why do Mexicans smell so bad?" and sink the campaign faster than the Luisitania.
Because cutting out the massive bulk of the market would be a real smart idea. iTunes for Linux would be nice, but there's no way in hell that Apple is going to completely drop Windows support so they can concentrate on making iTunes work for a bunch of geeks (and I don't use that as a derogatory term).
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In addition to that, less beachballing, please. Firefox hangs more often than Safari, which is one of the reasons that I don't use it very often.
There were quite a few OS 9 (and earlier versions) viruses. Hell, a Macaddict CD accidentally shipped with a worm on it! I never got said worm, but I heard reports that it caused some trouble. There were others as well. OS X has yet to see any malicious virus. The two or three pieces of malware that have been seen for it are non-malicious proof-of-concept code that never went anywhere, infecting only a few machines.
We used portable Firewire drives (bootable) with various images on them. We'd boot from the FW drive, use Netrestore to image the computer, then boot the computer, update the firmware for Boot Camp (dunno if that's necessary anymore), then boot from a Norton Ghost CD and image the Windows partition across the network. Not the fastest or most autonomous way to do it, but it worked pretty darn well. Netrestore rocks.
Not just that, but there are still the holdouts waiting for Adobe CS3 to really hit before they buy an Intel Mac. Add to that Vista being new and having the WOW factor for noobs who don't know better, and you get misleading crap like this article.
Those datacenters SHOULD have been in Moses Lake, but the Grant County PUD is so fucking stupid that they wound up going to Quincy, and, funny thing, the PUD, who owns the network, is making diddly squat off the deal. Noanet is getting the huge cash piles because the Grant County PUD has to make sure their fiber network doesn't make too much or the IRS will come calling and start sniffing around an issue of tax-free bonds used for funding it, along with other potentially shady funding practices. Grant County was lucky to get Yahoo and Microsoft to build there, but the PUD is making squat off of it. If they had actually played their cards right from the beginning, they could have datacenters like this all over the damn county.
Despite the open-source fanboy clamoring, relatively few players support .ogg, including the iPod. Ergo, selling .ogg tracks severely limits the market, which means stores don't sell anything. Ogg is a nice codec, but it's not going to become a music player standard anytime soon.
Wrong! 1. MP3 has DRM-encumbered iterations out there. 2. As far as I know, Apple is the only one that sells .AAC with DRM, and these have the .m4p suffix instead of .m4a or .aac, so they're easy to distinguish unless some boob renamed the extension, which isn't too likely.
It might have something to do with Macs breaking down a lot less often and not having to worry about antivirus/antispyware. When I was interning at Central Washington University's computer support services, I found there was ONE Mac tech for all of the 700-800 Macs on campus. A few others would poke at very simple issues, but he got anything more than that. On the other side, there were EIGHT PC techs for the 2100 or so Windows boxes on campus. You do the math. The head of CSS loved the Macs and wished more departments would use them because they required so much less maintenance and held their value longer. The campus is busy trying to flush out any P3 computers they have so they can eventually upgrade to Vista (be a while considering some nasty compatibility snags they found in testing it). They're still using low to mid range G4 computers all over campus and probably wont upgrade them for a while because they have no need to. Not to mention the campus was spending $21k a year for antivirus license renewal. Your statement here shows a surprising lack of thought and investigation into why someone might want Macs for their businesses instead of Windows (or even Linux, although that's a very different arena) boxes.
And while this is more of a personal anecdote, my brother is a video nut and is very good at filming/editing. He's used a variety of software, but refuses to use anything but Final Cut Pro if it can be helped.
Ah, I remember that one, and it was lots of fun. I got a kick of of the 2 and a half D sidescrollers like X-Men and Ninja Turtles II. I pumped a lot of quarters into both of those.
I do go outside. I breathe real air. I have sex. I don't have a girlfriend, I have a wife. Imagine that! Yep, using old, inside jokes on Slashdot sure makes me a fat geek with no social skills who does nothing but sit on a computer all day! Ass.
I, for one, welcome our new evolving hardware overlords.
God, I am so sorry, but it needed to be said...
Sounds fairly similar to my internship at Central Washington University. There was one full-time Mac guy for all 700-800 Macs on campus. A couple others would poke at them, but they'd toss anything more than a simple problem to the Mac guy. There were about 2100 PCs on campus...and eight guys to cover all of those. Do the math.
And you're right on in saying that OS X Server is so much more intuitive in it's design that 2k3. I had taken several classes in 2k3, but had never touched OS X Server when I first installed it on a test machine. I was absolutly amazed at how much EASIER it was to setup and maintain that 2003. There's no comparison. Microsoft just loves to spread shit all over the system so that you have to know it backward and forward to get anything done and wind up opening five windows/applications. Apple put 90% of everything within two applications. Server Admin for services, Workgroup Manager for Open Directory Management. Then there are a few more little apps for managing other miscellaneous things. If only Microsoft could design something that simple, but they've proven time and time again that they're utterly incapable of it.
On an offtopic note, I used to "cool" my computers in Minnesota by placing them next to the window during the winters, I'm certain you could cut down cooling costs in Siberia using similar strategies. Precisely. Overclockers are flocking to Siberia in droves. I hear they're breaking records with standard air cooling, and as an added bonus, there are several weeks out of the year where they don't have to put up with that pesky sun!
When I saw the AppleTV announced, my reaction was lukewarm, mostly due to limited format support. Apple can get away with it on iPods, because you don't generally put every piece of video you have on your iPod. Conversion isn't as much of a hassle as a result. With the AppleTV, you might as well stream every piece of video to your TV, and format support kills that. I'd rather get Core Duo Mac Mini that has more available options (like 1080p playback), add some adapters, and hook that up instead. Now that the AppleTV can support more formats, I must admit that it's looking like a more attractive option, although I'd still probably cough up the extra for a Mini.
You're telling me it's stupid. I'm happy as hell that I'm getting out of this idiotic state soon. They like to keep raising the minimum wage to be the highest. Now, you could say that's good for some, but in the long run, that kind of periodic raising will make companies look elsewhere. It's going to slow the growth of business in the state. Then there was the online gambling ban, which is utterly fucking STUPID. The state legislature is majorly fucked up. Why do people keep voting these boobs into office? Are boobs the best this state has to offer? Blech. I should be outta here within two months, thank God.
I haven't seen that, but trying to add my own tags can sometimes tank the browser.
Yeah, but not the good kind. This strange and lovely woman is loaded with viruses and she's incredibly high maintenance. God, I can't believe that I searched the comment page for "virus" and nothing came up!
If it ever went to court, Cicso would probably lose their trademark. For one, other products were released by other companies that used the name iPhone. Cicso did absolutely nothing. That's a big hit in a trademark lawsuit. If you don't defend it, you lose it. Second, Cicso filed the trademark renewal at almost literally the last minute, and the photo they used was an existing product with a sticker that said "iPhone" slapped on the outside of the clear plastic wrapping. So it stands that they did not have a product named "iPhone" when they renewed their trademark, which means that their renewal was more than likely invalid. If you don't use it, you lose it. Hopefully both companies sort things out, but I think if it ever came to a nasty trademark suit, Apple would wind up with the trademark.
The same goes for any cluster on earth. I realize that. Quantum computers are best at highly parallel tasks.
Is this a true quantum computer, or one that simply uses certain quantum properties? Scientists weren't predicting this for another 20-30 years. Wouldn't a 1024 qubit computer be far faster than any cluser on earth? And if I'm not mistaken, a 16 qubit computer would be faster than any single computer. I'd like to see some speed comparisons for parallel tasks.
It's good to know that the record industry in the US aren't the only thugs in the business. Yeah, let's just assume everyone is a crook and charge them up front! The greed of these fuckers is absolutely endless.
If the elimination of filesystem lag when opening folders is any indication, then Spotlight should be much faster as well.
Biden? Yeah right. With that guy's history of saying really stupid things, I don't think anyone would want him on their ticket. He'd probably say something like, "Yeah, Asian people look like they're constipated" or "Why do Mexicans smell so bad?" and sink the campaign faster than the Luisitania.
Um, no. The original 5GB iPod was $500. iPods have never cost more than $500 unless you're talking about Canadian dollars.
Because cutting out the massive bulk of the market would be a real smart idea. iTunes for Linux would be nice, but there's no way in hell that Apple is going to completely drop Windows support so they can concentrate on making iTunes work for a bunch of geeks (and I don't use that as a derogatory term).