We had a similar setup with a *disk drive* but apparently it didn't have a proper built-in shared access manager because we had to raise our hands and ask for teacher's permission to load and save from it, otherwise it would flake out badly.
The big problem with this is that storage is too cheap. ie. it's cheaper to keep buying more storage than to spend the time deciding on what to retain and what to delete.
And this was a point made 5 years ago, not by me, but a senior exec from storage division of a technology giant developing new ways of increasing hard disk capacity!
Seriously? "Maybe 100 machines" and people here are advising you to run for the hills? Can I send this: Diagnosis to all of you? (Don't worry, it's not going to bring the internet to it's knees).
If you understand them, it's not a miracle. It might be awesome (or awe aspiring to not confuse things), but it's not: * not explicable by natural or scientific laws * the work of divine agency * highly improbable or extraordinary
it may be:
* an amazing product or achievement
but that's just a tail-end definition of the word.
Have you ever been served tea in America? You know the kind where someone has splashed some hot water in a cold cup and left the tea-bag on the side, so that by the time it gets to you all you can do is dunk the poor thing in some luke warm water and hope for some tannins seep out for some token coloration of your tepid water? I bet the reason JLP orders it that way is because that is how poor Patrick Stewart had to specify it every day to get something drinkable.
Is there an obvious follow-up question which need to be raised: What other organisations have been similarly subpoenaed but didn't or haven't been able to challenge it. Is it really realsitic that this is only about twitter?
The hardware was certainly versatile. Dartmouth College built its mid-80s network infrastructure around multi-purpose network gateways around boards made by NED (makers of the Synclavier) and at the time was probably the world's largest LocalTalk network.
Prof. Andy Fabian's (of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and president of the Royal Astronomical Society) entertaining lecture on this very topic, entitled Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy is available on-line in a range of formats.. Enjoy!
Having run infrastructure on MacOS X, Linux with some windows boxes thrown in, in desperation, since MacOS X was MacOS Server and nothing else, my observation would be that there is now not much distance between MacOS X and Linux in terms of stability, and while our MacOS X boxes are painful to upgrade in major upgrades (10.X to 10.X+1), our Linux boxes are more likely to break during minor update. And if you are in any kind of heterogeneous environment, the work that Apple has done for you to make things 'just work' between platforms is nothing short of saving you a life-time of aggravation.
I personally use presentation software not to present information to others, but as "cue cards" for myself.
I sincerely hope this doesn't meant you are projecting your cue cards to the audience! Using your 'slides' as cue cards is easily in the top 3 mortal sins in doing presentations, and yet it happens everywhere. If your presentation is important enough for someone to listen to, practice it!
To add some perspective to this I would recommend reading this edited extract from the book "The Backroom Boys" called Masters of their universe about the development of Elite. It is a pretty decent explanation of how the battle with mediocrity already existed in the early days of PCs, but also how outstanding efforts burst through from time to time and perhaps do enough to rescue their generation? You certainly don't have go all the way back to pong to find outstanding games.
You can set all windows to default to alphabetized icon view by selecting Show View Options in any Finder window, selecting the "All Windows" option and "Keep arranged by" + "Name"
Keyboard switching between windows in an application is done by apple-` as has already been pointed out. It's the first shortcut listed if you search the help system for 'keyboard shortcuts'
Of course, that doesn't work correctly with Macs running Panther, then you would have to do softwareupdate --install --all and schedule the reboot separately in ARD because IIRC the single-letter switches don't seem to work for the softwareupdate command in Panther, and Panther won't wait until softwareupdate is done to execute the reboot.
The single letter switches work fine in Panther, but you can't merge them, ie. it has to be exactly as specified in the original post: softwareupdate -i -a not softwareupdate -ia.
This problem would be far simpler if it were possible to simply instruct client machines to run Software Update and install all available updates
That's trivial. In ARD, create a Unix command task to execute as root with the command:
softwareupdate -i -a
This will install all the updates you would otherwise see in the GUI Software Update on the selected clients. Schedule it if you are so inclined, and don't forget to set a reboot task if one of the updates require it.
No kidding. Verdana was designed by Matthew Carter, and it's hard to imagine a more highly renowned type designer. To give you an idea of his talent: he trained as a punchcutter back in the old world, cutting out type faces in hard metal.
Cute story, but missing the bit which would put it in perspective. Apart from the chipset (designed) by Apple, the clones were sub-par. I still have a umax on a shelf somewhere around here, which has the dubious honor of being completely unable to take a standard DIMM because the slot is to tight to fit one in (and there is only one).
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We had a similar setup with a *disk drive* but apparently it didn't have a proper built-in shared access manager because we had to raise our hands and ask for teacher's permission to load and save from it, otherwise it would flake out badly.
The big problem with this is that storage is too cheap. ie. it's cheaper to keep buying more storage than to spend the time deciding on what to retain and what to delete.
And this was a point made 5 years ago, not by me, but a senior exec from storage division of a technology giant developing new ways of increasing hard disk capacity!
It's called 'probability'. Yes people don't understand it well, but inventing new terminology isn't the answer.
The remaining half gets diluted by the luddites who aren't smart enough to take up the offer.
I'm a little buzzed...
and you still think it's ok to drive as long as you don't get caught?
Seriously? "Maybe 100 machines" and people here are advising you to run for the hills? Can I send this: Diagnosis to all of you? (Don't worry, it's not going to bring the internet to it's knees).
If you understand them, it's not a miracle. It might be awesome (or awe aspiring to not confuse things), but it's not:
* not explicable by natural or scientific laws
* the work of divine agency
* highly improbable or extraordinary
it may be:
* an amazing product or achievement
but that's just a tail-end definition of the word.
McCarthy was an ass but he didn't jail anybody.
Come again? HUAC sited a number of people who criticised it's tactics for contempt and sentenced them to prison terms.
Have you ever been served tea in America? You know the kind where someone has splashed some hot water in a cold cup and left the tea-bag on the side, so that by the time it gets to you all you can do is dunk the poor thing in some luke warm water and hope for some tannins seep out for some token coloration of your tepid water? I bet the reason JLP orders it that way is because that is how poor Patrick Stewart had to specify it every day to get something drinkable.
Is there an obvious follow-up question which need to be raised: What other organisations have been similarly subpoenaed but didn't or haven't been able to challenge it. Is it really realsitic that this is only about twitter?
"a RADIUS box" which replaces WPA2 for security? Yeah, let's mark that 'insightful'.
The hardware was certainly versatile. Dartmouth College built its mid-80s network infrastructure around multi-purpose network gateways around boards made by NED (makers of the Synclavier) and at the time was probably the world's largest LocalTalk network.
Confused much? EDS is HP. The customer was BskyB.
Prof. Andy Fabian's (of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and president of the Royal Astronomical Society) entertaining lecture on this very topic, entitled Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy is available on-line in a range of formats.. Enjoy!
Having run infrastructure on MacOS X, Linux with some windows boxes thrown in, in desperation, since MacOS X was MacOS Server and nothing else, my observation would be that there is now not much distance between MacOS X and Linux in terms of stability, and while our MacOS X boxes are painful to upgrade in major upgrades (10.X to 10.X+1), our Linux boxes are more likely to break during minor update. And if you are in any kind of heterogeneous environment, the work that Apple has done for you to make things 'just work' between platforms is nothing short of saving you a life-time of aggravation.
I personally use presentation software not to present information to others, but as "cue cards" for myself.
I sincerely hope this doesn't meant you are projecting your cue cards to the audience! Using your 'slides' as cue cards is easily in the top 3 mortal sins in doing presentations, and yet it happens everywhere. If your presentation is important enough for someone to listen to, practice it!
To add some perspective to this I would recommend reading this edited extract from the book "The Backroom Boys" called Masters of their universe about the development of Elite. It is a pretty decent explanation of how the battle with mediocrity already existed in the early days of PCs, but also how outstanding efforts burst through from time to time and perhaps do enough to rescue their generation? You certainly don't have go all the way back to pong to find outstanding games.
You can set all windows to default to alphabetized icon view by selecting Show View Options in any Finder window, selecting the "All Windows" option and "Keep arranged by" + "Name"
Keyboard switching between windows in an application is done by apple-` as has already been pointed out. It's the first shortcut listed if you search the help system for 'keyboard shortcuts'
Of course, that doesn't work correctly with Macs running Panther, then you would have to do softwareupdate --install --all and schedule the reboot separately in ARD because IIRC the single-letter switches don't seem to work for the softwareupdate command in Panther, and Panther won't wait until softwareupdate is done to execute the reboot.
The single letter switches work fine in Panther, but you can't merge them, ie. it has to be exactly as specified in the original post: softwareupdate -i -a not softwareupdate -ia.
This problem would be far simpler if it were possible to simply instruct client machines to run Software Update and install all available updates
That's trivial. In ARD, create a Unix command task to execute as root with the command:
softwareupdate -i -a
This will install all the updates you would otherwise see in the GUI Software Update on the selected clients. Schedule it if you are so inclined, and don't forget to set a reboot task if one of the updates require it.
One word for you: podcasts
Now I get to listen to the radio programs I want away from the tyranny of the schedulers.
No kidding. Verdana was designed by Matthew Carter, and it's hard to imagine a more highly renowned type designer. To give you an idea of his talent: he trained as a punchcutter back in the old world, cutting out type faces in hard metal.
Cute story, but missing the bit which would put it in perspective. Apart from the chipset (designed) by Apple, the clones were sub-par. I still have a umax on a shelf somewhere around here, which has the dubious honor of being completely unable to take a standard DIMM because the slot is to tight to fit one in (and there is only one).
I would have thought the URL was a clue:
e e_enterprise/2004/20040524_104736.htm
http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/about/press/mcaf
It's in there twice: 2004.
The press release just says May 24, perhaps they are counting on Slashdot to rehash it for them every year.
First-time buyers at a retailer could see higher prices than a firm's repeat customers
That seems like an odd strategy to me. A potential first-time buyer may simply be lost to another retailer with a lower starting price.