Target/Firewire boots have been a life-saver in the Mac world and I often wonder why PC manufacturers don't incorperate this functionality.
I've been saying this since I first experienced Firewire Target Disk Mode 6 years ago on my roommates Powerbook. I just used it this weekend to copy files to his new hard disk- it's so much faster than 100 Mbps ethernet and it requires no configuration other than connecting two computers with a firewire cable and holding down the "T" key on the machine you're booting into disk mode.
Why other pc manufacturers haven't done this yet is beyond me...
I can't decide which is stupider- the weekly reports of Google doing something earth-shattering or the fact that someone modded the parent "Informative"...
For as long as I've been using it (about 2 years) they've used a Redhat bootloader. The console that you interface with is linux, but the VMWare kernel that provides all the VMWare functionality is proprietary, not a modified Linux kernel.
The vast majority of the windows servers I use at work run on top of ESX server- production and lab environments. And no, I don't work in the back-office of some podunk company with 3 servers...we're in the Fortune 20.
I know ESX server. I've been using it every day for the last couple of years. I know it uses a RH bootloader. I've installed it and watched it boot countless times. I know it uses Samba. I use it to back up the disk files.
In short, what's your point?
Nowhere in my post did I say they don't use open source. You act like I was defending them when I was simply correcting the widely held belief that the ESX kernel is just a modified Linux kernel, which is flat-out wrong.
You ought to make sure you comprehend the post before you go shooting off at the mouth.
Although everyone seems to think it is, ESX Server is NOT based on Linux. It provides a Linux console on top of it's Proprietary Kernel so that the admin can interact with the machine, but the kernel is not a Linux/Unix derivative.
Previously believed to be impossible to implement on Intel hardware architecture, VMware's breakthrough virtualization technology is based on advanced systems research conducted by the VMware engineering team. VMware's patented and patent-pending technology serves as the foundation for VMware ESX Server; it is not derived from Linux or FreeBSD.
i think the only reason my work buys licenses for office 2k3 is they don't sell licenses for 2000 anymore. I'm pretty sure they backrev the installs though. I hardly use office, and when I do, I don't use a single feature in Office that's been introduced since the 90's... most of the new "features" annoy the hell out of me so I turn them off. Go figure.
Same thing's gonna happen when they kill support for 2000 Server. We just certified 2k3 server in the last year and a half, and hardly any of the servers we run are on it. Unless there's some specialized feature we need, like volume shadow copy, the only reason we put it on new servers is because they're ending support for 2000 soon.
I can't wait for longhorn and it's new interface... WOOHOO! Innovation!
refreshed multiple times in Safari 2.0 and it still didn't work.
Works for me in Firefox 1.05 though, and it looks a LOT like the Google page...Way to rip off another idea, Redmond! Not that the idea behind aggregating the stuff on the Google page was new or anything, but the cleanliness and simplicity were.
If he doesn't like pressing "Command" instead of "Alt" - he can go into the system options and remap the two keys, easily enough.
I convinced a friend to buy a mac, and he compalined about the placement of the keys. I pointed out that you could remap them, and he did. that's it- it wasn't hard at all. I go back and forth from windows to mac every day, and I haven't felt the need to remap the keys. I grew up using macs, so I'm used to it- Windows feels funny to me.
All documents are shown in Save dialogs, because you don't want to duplicate the same filename even if it has a different.ext attached to it.
I like having all documents in the Save dialog box, and I can't stand that windows hides files from me that don't open with the app I'm working in. When I'm in a folder I don't use a whole lot, having all the files show up helps me figure out if I'm in the right place by allowing me to look for related files in the folder.
I know this debate will never be settled, but I figure my experience is worth sharing... take what you want from it.
I'm fairly proud of being able to say that I've never used windows on a regular basis except for when someone's paying me to. My current job is one of those situations, and I couldn't function at all without two buttons, because so many Windows applications make the right mouse button the only way to get to certain options.
When I get to choose my platform I use a Mac. I had a two-button mouse on my old machine, but it was an ADB mouse so I couldn't easily use it with my G5. When I bought the G5, I figured I would eventually end up buying a two-button USB mouse because I would miss having a two button mouse. I must have overestimated the amount that I use the right mouse button on my mac, 'cause I've had absolutely no desire or need for two buttons since I got it. I was kinda surprised at first, but I really don't feel like I'm missing a whole lot using a single-button mouse in OS X. All of my friends and most of my families have Macs and I can't think of a single one of them who has a two-button mouse. You really don't need one to get full use of your Mac.
Earlier this month, the CEA giddily released data showing that of America's 285 million TVs only 12 percent (33.6 million) are used for watching OTA broadcasts of what the local TV stations in this country call "entertainment". In a further revelation, the CEA's numbers say that approximately 3 million (around 10 percent) aren't used for viewing broadcast television at all. Instead, the electricity gobbled up by these sets is used to play videogames, watch movies on DVD, or view old Jane Fonda exercise tapes.
10% of 285 million != ~3 million
1% of 285 million = ~3 million.
Maybe they should concentrate as much on their calculations as they do on making funny references to Jane Fonda's excercise video empire.
My dad got the Sonos a couple of months ago, and I saw it in action last weekend. It's really cool stuff and well implemented.
The big selling point for him was being able to have all the "zones" synchronously play the same song in every room. None of the other solutions he looked at were able to do that.
As far as I remember, the scrool wheel doesn't move- it's touch based, like on the recent iPods.
I just wish I had the money to buy one for myself...
I just use ass@face.com.
Face.com exists, but I kinda doubt there is an actual person with the email ass@face.com. At least I hope there isn't, for their sake.
i've been thinking the same exact thing since I started reading his articles.
Not only is he a brilliant computer scientest who knows his shit in-and-out, but he's a very gifted writer with an uncanny ability to write articles targeted at manny different levels of ability. He also does a great job of staying out of the OS flame war by always looking at OS's from an objective point of view.
As far as I can tell by looking at the dates on his resume, he's only in his late-twenties or early-thirties, which makes his level of expertise even more impressive.
I'm almost willing to bet that apple has contacted him but he turned down the offer- he has a research position with IBM, and you can tell from his writing that research is where his passion is. If I were him, there wouldn't be a whole lot that could drag me away from that job.
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I'm using Lotus Notes 6.5 and it goes right from the 2nd to the 14th. Honest to god.
Target/Firewire boots have been a life-saver in the Mac world and I often wonder why PC manufacturers don't incorperate this functionality.
I've been saying this since I first experienced Firewire Target Disk Mode 6 years ago on my roommates Powerbook. I just used it this weekend to copy files to his new hard disk- it's so much faster than 100 Mbps ethernet and it requires no configuration other than connecting two computers with a firewire cable and holding down the "T" key on the machine you're booting into disk mode.
Why other pc manufacturers haven't done this yet is beyond me...
I can't decide which is stupider- the weekly reports of Google doing something earth-shattering or the fact that someone modded the parent "Informative"...
For as long as I've been using it (about 2 years) they've used a Redhat bootloader.
The console that you interface with is linux, but the VMWare kernel that provides all the VMWare functionality is proprietary, not a modified Linux kernel.
way to reply as an AC.
The vast majority of the windows servers I use at work run on top of ESX server- production and lab environments. And no, I don't work in the back-office of some podunk company with 3 servers...we're in the Fortune 20.
I know ESX server. I've been using it every day for the last couple of years.
I know it uses a RH bootloader. I've installed it and watched it boot countless times.
I know it uses Samba. I use it to back up the disk files.
In short, what's your point?
Nowhere in my post did I say they don't use open source. You act like I was defending them when I was simply correcting the widely held belief that the ESX kernel is just a modified Linux kernel, which is flat-out wrong.
You ought to make sure you comprehend the post before you go shooting off at the mouth.
Yes, it's the The brains behind Apple's Rosetta.
There are some other links on the Transitive Home Page about Apple using it for Rosetta.
VMWare ESX is NOT Linux...
From http://www.ibm.qassociates.co.uk/vmware-esx-serve
The company's name is Tranitive, but I don't believe they have a trade name for their software.
Rosetta is just what Apple is calling the version they're providing with OS X-86.
i think the only reason my work buys licenses for office 2k3 is they don't sell licenses for 2000 anymore. I'm pretty sure they backrev the installs though. I hardly use office, and when I do, I don't use a single feature in Office that's been introduced since the 90's... most of the new "features" annoy the hell out of me so I turn them off.
Go figure.
Same thing's gonna happen when they kill support for 2000 Server. We just certified 2k3 server in the last year and a half, and hardly any of the servers we run are on it. Unless there's some specialized feature we need, like volume shadow copy, the only reason we put it on new servers is because they're ending support for 2000 soon.
I can't wait for longhorn and it's new interface... WOOHOO! Innovation!
refreshed multiple times in Safari 2.0 and it still didn't work.
Works for me in Firefox 1.05 though, and it looks a LOT like the Google page...Way to rip off another idea, Redmond! Not that the idea behind aggregating the stuff on the Google page was new or anything, but the cleanliness and simplicity were.
Right when my mod points expire...
.ext attached to it.
If he doesn't like pressing "Command" instead of "Alt" - he can go into the system options and remap the two keys, easily enough.
I convinced a friend to buy a mac, and he compalined about the placement of the keys. I pointed out that you could remap them, and he did. that's it- it wasn't hard at all. I go back and forth from windows to mac every day, and I haven't felt the need to remap the keys. I grew up using macs, so I'm used to it- Windows feels funny to me.
All documents are shown in Save dialogs, because you don't want to duplicate the same filename even if it has a different
I like having all documents in the Save dialog box, and I can't stand that windows hides files from me that don't open with the app I'm working in. When I'm in a folder I don't use a whole lot, having all the files show up helps me figure out if I'm in the right place by allowing me to look for related files in the folder.
I know this debate will never be settled, but I figure my experience is worth sharing... take what you want from it.
I'm fairly proud of being able to say that I've never used windows on a regular basis except for when someone's paying me to. My current job is one of those situations, and I couldn't function at all without two buttons, because so many Windows applications make the right mouse button the only way to get to certain options.
When I get to choose my platform I use a Mac. I had a two-button mouse on my old machine, but it was an ADB mouse so I couldn't easily use it with my G5. When I bought the G5, I figured I would eventually end up buying a two-button USB mouse because I would miss having a two button mouse. I must have overestimated the amount that I use the right mouse button on my mac, 'cause I've had absolutely no desire or need for two buttons since I got it. I was kinda surprised at first, but I really don't feel like I'm missing a whole lot using a single-button mouse in OS X. All of my friends and most of my families have Macs and I can't think of a single one of them who has a two-button mouse. You really don't need one to get full use of your Mac.
Earlier this month, the CEA giddily released data showing that of America's 285 million TVs only 12 percent (33.6 million) are used for watching OTA broadcasts of what the local TV stations in this country call "entertainment". In a further revelation, the CEA's numbers say that approximately 3 million (around 10 percent) aren't used for viewing broadcast television at all. Instead, the electricity gobbled up by these sets is used to play videogames, watch movies on DVD, or view old Jane Fonda exercise tapes.
10% of 285 million != ~3 million
1% of 285 million = ~3 million.
Maybe they should concentrate as much on their calculations as they do on making funny references to Jane Fonda's excercise video empire.
I didn't see a single backyard pool in that map of Fallujah. NO WONDER THEY'RE SO GODDAMN MAD.
My dad got the Sonos a couple of months ago, and I saw it in action last weekend. It's really cool stuff and well implemented.
The big selling point for him was being able to have all the "zones" synchronously play the same song in every room. None of the other solutions he looked at were able to do that.
As far as I remember, the scrool wheel doesn't move- it's touch based, like on the recent iPods.
I just wish I had the money to buy one for myself...
I just use ass@face.com. Face.com exists, but I kinda doubt there is an actual person with the email ass@face.com. At least I hope there isn't, for their sake.
i've been thinking the same exact thing since I started reading his articles.
Not only is he a brilliant computer scientest who knows his shit in-and-out, but he's a very gifted writer with an uncanny ability to write articles targeted at manny different levels of ability. He also does a great job of staying out of the OS flame war by always looking at OS's from an objective point of view.
As far as I can tell by looking at the dates on his resume, he's only in his late-twenties or early-thirties, which makes his level of expertise even more impressive.
I'm almost willing to bet that apple has contacted him but he turned down the offer- he has a research position with IBM, and you can tell from his writing that research is where his passion is. If I were him, there wouldn't be a whole lot that could drag me away from that job.