Sure, it can connect to LDAP, AD, and all. But why does it insist in creating home directories in non-standard (according to the Mac's filesystem hierarchy) places? Namely,/home and not/Users. And there's no caching of usernames, so if the network goes down or the servers don't work, no-one can log in in a Mac. Worse again, they tend to freeze if the domain server goes down.
It's only creating homes where you tell it to. If you have the user's home attribute set to put homes in/homes then that is what it does.
I never deploy a 1-to-1 Mac solution without enabling mobile accounts for the users. These cache the user account on the workstation so you can work when not on the network.
You don't get 4-hour on-site service with Macs, you get to cut in line at the nearest Apple Stor You get it if you pay for it. http://www.apple.com/support/products/macosxserver _sw_supt.html
And Apple is more than happy to do custom AppleCare quotes for any mix of services.
You also don't get things like group policy Its not called GPO, but you can use MCX to apply policies for just about everything on Mac OS X from basics like what system preferences users can change to individual preferences inside of applications. Almost any app these days is fair game to be managed this way.
centralized (to a server in your enterprise) updates. Except that you do. Mac OS X Server includes a SUS server. All you do is turn it on, enable the updates you want to offer, and then point the clients at it with policy.
If you need help deploying and planning this stuff then Apple has a Professional Services group that can even help with that. http://www.apple.com/services/consulting/
they definitely committed grievous harm to sales of the Dreamcast by making an early announcement of bogus PS2 specs which they had to know were fraudulent
Care to share a link to a credible reference?
My thought too. Even though I would hear 13 year old kids in EB badmouthing the DC before the launch, it still managed to have (At that time.) the biggest launch in history and hit 1 million units faster than any other console.
To all the morons who would say, "I can't afford both and the PS2 will be better." I would reply that if they couldn't save a few hundred dollars in a year then they probably shouldn't get either and concentrate on things like buying food.
True the Zune might have a larger screen, but it is the same QVGA resolution as the iPod. I've wondered if video is stretched on the Zune because of this, but I haven't seen one yet to take a look.
Grand Prix Legends will let you use a three pedal setup for an analog clutch. Combined with the crashbox patch and you have a game that makes you match revs on every shift.
Act Labs makes a full line of GPL specific gear from three pedal setups to shifters with interchangeable gates to match the cars in GPL. http://www.act-labs.com/products/race1.htm
Yeah, that's because the bought Shake from someone else and it came like that. Since there is a large installed base of high-end installs for it I suppose they thought better about making a radical change in it.
Just because it doesn't have a direct keystroke by default it doesn't mean you need the mouse. Like I said before you can just use the keys to navigate the menus if you like.
1. Open System Preferences and turn on full keyboard access. If you want to be able to navigate all controls in dialog boxes then select that option as well.
2. Read the list of keystrokes that is there, you can add your own or modify as needed. By default I see that "Move focus to menu bar" is control-F2.
3. Press control-F2 and the menu bar activates. Now I can just use the arrow keys to navigate to any item I want.
If I want automation I can script the GUI just like on Windows. If I really want to get crazy I can turn on speech recognition for the menu bar.
So if someone can't find a way to avoid the mouse between the three ways I just listed they aren't trying very hard.
So what is it that you are trying to do exactly? I'm not trying to just make stuff up here. I can access the Menu bar, I can access the Dock, I can change window focus, and I can hit every dialog control and button I can find. I can even make custom keystrokes for the OS and individual apps.
Like I said, I'm not trying to make stuff up. If I'm wrong please let me know where so I'm not wrong anymore. I just don't see what you are getting at...
For a long time in the Mac OS you have been able to turn on full keyboard access to the GUI. In Mac OS X you can even script the GUI to do your bidding. It's all just a system preference setting.
Nintendo actually has a Chinese subsidiary called iQue. They sell variants of the GBA, DS, and N64 there. The iQue Player (N64) is pretty interesting as games are downloaded from kiosks into a flash cart. iQue Player. and iQue in general.
No, you're not but it might just be the two of us.
MDK2 is one of those games I put in the list of best-games-you've-never-played for most people. I love it though.
Great gameplay, great visuals and sound, great presentation, very funny, and it's old school HARD. There simply aren't enough hard games these days that don't resort to just being cheap.
You should take a look at radmind from U-Mich for total control of the OS and apps on your Macs and other *NIX machines. Essentially it is a tripwire that can restore the entire filesystem to a known, or new, state. As Mac OS X is a primary platform for radmind it has great support and tools.
In a typical update scenario you would:
1. Install the update on a freshly radminded Mac.
2. Use the radmind tools to create a difference transcript from the updated filesystem against the copy on the server.
3. Upload, again using the radmind toolset, the new transcript and files to the radmind server.
4. Then on the server you add the new transcript to the command file for the workstations you wish to update and they get the new filesystem the next time radmind runs on them.
I'm deploying it at work right now and it's been great. I know other Fortune 50 admins that are deploying it or use it as well. The largest deployments are in the edu space and I know admins there that use radmind to manage upwards of 10,000 Macs.
It's an open project that lives at sourceforge if that strokes your geek ego as well. I'm using it as a wedge to push acceptance of OSS at work.
True it is a very different philosophy, file system management vs. package management, than using an ARD task server, but it gives you things like rollback that ARD or the system Installer can't provide.
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Sure, it can connect to LDAP, AD, and all. But why does it insist in creating home directories in non-standard (according to the Mac's filesystem hierarchy) places? Namely, /home and not /Users. And there's no caching of usernames, so if the network goes down or the servers don't work, no-one can log in in a Mac. Worse again, they tend to freeze if the domain server goes down.
It's only creating homes where you tell it to. If you have the user's home attribute set to put homes inI never deploy a 1-to-1 Mac solution without enabling mobile accounts for the users. These cache the user account on the workstation so you can work when not on the network.
http://www.apple.com/support/products/macosxserve
And Apple is more than happy to do custom AppleCare quotes for any mix of services.
You also don't get things like group policy Its not called GPO, but you can use MCX to apply policies for just about everything on Mac OS X from basics like what system preferences users can change to individual preferences inside of applications. Almost any app these days is fair game to be managed this way.
centralized (to a server in your enterprise) updates. Except that you do. Mac OS X Server includes a SUS server. All you do is turn it on, enable the updates you want to offer, and then point the clients at it with policy.
If you need help deploying and planning this stuff then Apple has a Professional Services group that can even help with that. http://www.apple.com/services/consulting/
Care to share a link to a credible reference?
My thought too. Even though I would hear 13 year old kids in EB badmouthing the DC before the launch, it still managed to have (At that time.) the biggest launch in history and hit 1 million units faster than any other console.
To all the morons who would say, "I can't afford both and the PS2 will be better." I would reply that if they couldn't save a few hundred dollars in a year then they probably shouldn't get either and concentrate on things like buying food.
Review here...
(I've never actually played Thief, but I remember my roommate dragging the bodies into closets all the time.)
Dude. I hope you got a new roommate...
What 128GB bug? Do you mean that the ATA controller was made before BigDisk support was added to ATA?
True the Zune might have a larger screen, but it is the same QVGA resolution as the iPod. I've wondered if video is stretched on the Zune because of this, but I haven't seen one yet to take a look.
Grand Prix Legends will let you use a three pedal setup for an analog clutch. Combined with the crashbox patch and you have a game that makes you match revs on every shift.
Act Labs makes a full line of GPL specific gear from three pedal setups to shifters with interchangeable gates to match the cars in GPL. http://www.act-labs.com/products/race1.htm
Aircraft are the last refuge against idiots blathering constantly on cell phones. Hopefully they won't allow BT headsets too.
Yeah, that's because the bought Shake from someone else and it came like that. Since there is a large installed base of high-end installs for it I suppose they thought better about making a radical change in it.
1. Open System Preferences and turn on full keyboard access. If you want to be able to navigate all controls in dialog boxes then select that option as well.
2. Read the list of keystrokes that is there, you can add your own or modify as needed. By default I see that "Move focus to menu bar" is control-F2.
3. Press control-F2 and the menu bar activates. Now I can just use the arrow keys to navigate to any item I want.
If I want automation I can script the GUI just like on Windows. If I really want to get crazy I can turn on speech recognition for the menu bar.
So if someone can't find a way to avoid the mouse between the three ways I just listed they aren't trying very hard.
So what is it that you are trying to do exactly? I'm not trying to just make stuff up here. I can access the Menu bar, I can access the Dock, I can change window focus, and I can hit every dialog control and button I can find. I can even make custom keystrokes for the OS and individual apps.
Like I said, I'm not trying to make stuff up. If I'm wrong please let me know where so I'm not wrong anymore. I just don't see what you are getting at...
Locate works just fine on Mac OS X. The DB gets built/updated by launchd running the periodic weekly scripts at 3:15 am on Friday night.
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-w eekly.plist and /etc/periodic/weekly/500.weekly.
See
For a long time in the Mac OS you have been able to turn on full keyboard access to the GUI. In Mac OS X you can even script the GUI to do your bidding. It's all just a system preference setting.
Heh, Sega sold 1 million units inside 90 days on the market. I think worldwide sales ended up around 5 million at the end...
Bacon?
With enough multi-taps, and a big enough screen to not go blind, you could play 10-player Bomberman on the Saturn.
Nintendo actually has a Chinese subsidiary called iQue. They sell variants of the GBA, DS, and N64 there. The iQue Player (N64) is pretty interesting as games are downloaded from kiosks into a flash cart. iQue Player. and iQue in general.
Anyone else find it annoying that TFA talks about how good the game looks and then only has screenshots of the pre-rendered videos or hand drawn art?
BOO!
"mash-up"? No fair! You RTFA!
At least it comes with free shipping!
MKLinux was Linux on the Mach kernel.
No, you're not but it might just be the two of us.
MDK2 is one of those games I put in the list of best-games-you've-never-played for most people. I love it though.
Great gameplay, great visuals and sound, great presentation, very funny, and it's old school HARD. There simply aren't enough hard games these days that don't resort to just being cheap.
In a typical update scenario you would:
1. Install the update on a freshly radminded Mac.
2. Use the radmind tools to create a difference transcript from the updated filesystem against the copy on the server.
3. Upload, again using the radmind toolset, the new transcript and files to the radmind server.
4. Then on the server you add the new transcript to the command file for the workstations you wish to update and they get the new filesystem the next time radmind runs on them.
I'm deploying it at work right now and it's been great. I know other Fortune 50 admins that are deploying it or use it as well. The largest deployments are in the edu space and I know admins there that use radmind to manage upwards of 10,000 Macs.
It's an open project that lives at sourceforge if that strokes your geek ego as well. I'm using it as a wedge to push acceptance of OSS at work.
True it is a very different philosophy, file system management vs. package management, than using an ARD task server, but it gives you things like rollback that ARD or the system Installer can't provide.