What's the point in buying Apple Mini with preinstalled Mac OS X, when I may buy some of VIA-based boxes and install Linux on familiar x86 platform.
Yes, I know PowerPC advocates have the point, but I prefer to deal with just one hardware platform, that's easier.
They are not czech. The founder is russian and the whole dev team are russians. The company was founded in Pragues because of... umm.. tax optimization.
Imagine me saying that many successful American companies are not American, but belong to Bahamas. Funny? Funny it is.
I'll be definitely modded down as a flamebait, but I haven't heard any meaningful explanation why Episodes I&II suck. Any insights?
They have at least some eye candy. I find older episodes extremely boring.
That is probably a good idea for 'Ask slashdot' theme: why do you love (or hate) StarTrek/StarWars/Babylon5/XFiles/Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (I listed iconoclastic books/movies that make me yawn).
Not necessarily.
Look at TiVo, which is a pioneer of DVRs, its name even became a verb. Tivo is screwed up.
Now look at Dell. Nobody in good mental health would call Dell innovative. However is Dell is leading PC market and having a good piece of server market.
Funny that you mentioned google. There was some blog entry (http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html) (I beleive that was discussed on Slashdot earlier), where author argues that Goolge relies on high redundancy, instead of high availability of a single computer.
Bits of experience form my days of administrating a heterogenous network of desktops-as-servers in an ISV shop (disclaimer: I am professional software developer, I did administration because I was most knowledgeable OS geek).
Several reasons why you don't want dektops to be servers:
* Power supplies. Beleive me, PSUs DO fail. And more hosts you have the higher probability of failure you get. Even if you keep a stock of PSUs in the closet. It still takes you about 20 mins to get desktop/server up and running again, and night failure is far worse.
* Rack mounting is not a vendor trick to charge you more money. If you have more than trivial infrastructure, wiring on desktops and "floor-tops" is going to be your favourite nightmare.
* SCSI and SCSI raids are just a waste of money on a desktop but it is must have for intense, parallel access of many users to their homes, mailboxes, whatever on server.
* not last and not least: having someone working on a server is probably most stupid idea in the whole IT. Whatever OS you use, beleive me, users will find a way to devour 98% CPU time and 99% of memory. That leaves for server applications.. well.. do the math:)
There are many other things, I just came up with whatever came into my mind right now.
There's at least one OS X feature that is not present neither on Linux nor on Windows (let alone other OSs)..Mac - it is really wonderful thing when you may keep your vital information synchronized between server and several computers. Oh yes, you could rsync a slice of your $HOME, but it is bot a replacement for specific, built into application, support.
Though, I am not ready to pay for overpriced hardware just to get that feature.
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What's the point in buying Apple Mini with preinstalled Mac OS X, when I may buy some of VIA-based boxes and install Linux on familiar x86 platform. Yes, I know PowerPC advocates have the point, but I prefer to deal with just one hardware platform, that's easier.
They are not czech. The founder is russian and the whole dev team are russians. The company was founded in Pragues because of ... umm .. tax optimization.
Imagine me saying that many successful American companies are not American, but belong to Bahamas. Funny? Funny it is.
I'll be definitely modded down as a flamebait, but I haven't heard any meaningful explanation why Episodes I&II suck. Any insights? They have at least some eye candy. I find older episodes extremely boring. That is probably a good idea for 'Ask slashdot' theme: why do you love (or hate) StarTrek/StarWars/Babylon5/XFiles/Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (I listed iconoclastic books/movies that make me yawn).
This guy dsicovered that Linus uses PowerPC and Pine a month ago.
It is not the funny thing though. Recently I discovered that Linus uses Pine. Now that's a geek icon!
to read it "porn-popcorn"? Another freudiam slip. Nevermind.
Not necessarily. Look at TiVo, which is a pioneer of DVRs, its name even became a verb. Tivo is screwed up. Now look at Dell. Nobody in good mental health would call Dell innovative. However is Dell is leading PC market and having a good piece of server market.
Funny that you mentioned google. There was some blog entry (http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html) (I beleive that was discussed on Slashdot earlier), where author argues that Goolge relies on high redundancy, instead of high availability of a single computer.
Bits of experience form my days of administrating a heterogenous network of desktops-as-servers in an ISV shop (disclaimer: I am professional software developer, I did administration because I was most knowledgeable OS geek). Several reasons why you don't want dektops to be servers: * Power supplies. Beleive me, PSUs DO fail. And more hosts you have the higher probability of failure you get. Even if you keep a stock of PSUs in the closet. It still takes you about 20 mins to get desktop/server up and running again, and night failure is far worse. * Rack mounting is not a vendor trick to charge you more money. If you have more than trivial infrastructure, wiring on desktops and "floor-tops" is going to be your favourite nightmare. * SCSI and SCSI raids are just a waste of money on a desktop but it is must have for intense, parallel access of many users to their homes, mailboxes, whatever on server. * not last and not least: having someone working on a server is probably most stupid idea in the whole IT. Whatever OS you use, beleive me, users will find a way to devour 98% CPU time and 99% of memory. That leaves for server applications.. well .. do the math :)
There are many other things, I just came up with whatever came into my mind right now.
There's at least one OS X feature that is not present neither on Linux nor on Windows (let alone other OSs). .Mac - it is really wonderful thing when you may keep your vital information synchronized between server and several computers. Oh yes, you could rsync a slice of your $HOME, but it is bot a replacement for specific, built into application, support.
Though, I am not ready to pay for overpriced hardware just to get that feature.