Ah man, you are in for a treat. Look for Assimilator, god's gift to system administrators (of MacOS 10 machines). It's a file system imager, rather than disk imager. Why is that a bonus? Well, the 'image' on your server is completely open copy of the file system. Need to make a small change? Just change the files on the server! No need for a full re-imaging. And the restore process is a diff rather than full re-image, so it only downloads the differences, which saves a lot of re-imaging time. The closest comparison in unix-land is probably rsync, but the difference is that you can re-image a bootable machine with this if needed.
I don't know where you were 10 years ago, but we were sitting with a notebook-sized tablet PC, less than an inch thick during that interview. Yes, it was expensive, but that's because it was 'new technology', and had it caught on, I see no reason why the price wouldn't have normalized with normal laptops over time.
My question is simply where is the new marked today?
I remember interviewing for a start-up 10 years ago which wanted to make 'revolutionary' use of the pen-based (windows) tablet PCs making it on to the market at the time. Both the products and the company sank without a trace. Considering where we are at the moment, the obvious question is, what makes it any different today? The technology doesn't appear to be fundamentally different, so has somebody come up with a killer app, or is this just a fashion revival?
To be fair, the original poster is right about Apple laptops having ADB keyboards. The built in keyboard uses a ADB bus which is not in any other way available, not USB. Just scan the USB bus and you'll notice that there is no device listing for the built-in keyboard.
What's the point of debating technological issues with a thick layer of nationalistic diatribe? Yes, there are perfectly good reasons to believe that the US might jump ahead in the 3G arena, but they have less to do with the merits of the technology (WCDMA and CDMA2K are not that different) and more to do with timing. The US has the advantage, that in being late in the game it can deploy newer technology to capture markets which are probably already relatively 'satisfied' in Europe. The problem for European operators is not the technology, but that GSM has been so successful that you are struggling to find 'must have' reasons for normal people to upgrade. In the US people will get 3G simply because what's gone before hasn't met the basic requirements.
Where is the legitimate use for this? Apart from the fact that this is done electronically, how is it any different from making it illegal to change your licence-plate number to someone elses, or changing the chassis number on a car?
The only space efficiency in rack mount cases is usually in height. More often than not they're are hopelessly deep (at least 3 times deeper than any of the other kit you are listing), and 'portability' isn't what comes to mind. It is even more painful when you realise how much space is unused in a standard 1U rack case.
What you find in/Library/Receipts are just that, receipts, not the whole package. If you want to keep a whole package you have to save it from the Software Update program just after it has finished the install, otherwise it gets deleted.
I Linux was ripping off Apple, things might actually be a lot better. Apple has managed to do a lot that makes very good sense in tems of encouraging good programming (in the context of this debate) with a unix core. There is plenty that can be learnt from it.
Sounds like you've already found the product you are looking for: the Apple Airport. I haven't tried Apple's Windows tool yet, because the Java one works fine for us (in fact I have a Mac on my desk and I still use the Java Configuratior for some tasks).
A lot if insightful comments have been made on the general topic of whether computer games qualify as art, which is perhaps not so different from the overall debate as to "what is art", which is both a valid and intersting debate.
However, on the more specific question of whether computer games (or code) is art purely for the convenience of interpretation under the law, I would say no. That is not what the art debate is about. Debate the law for on its merits, or lack thereof, rather than grasp for loopholes.
We still run a couple of machines on OS 7.5.5, I was looking at one of these the other day and it had just passed 200 days uptime, and as far as I recall the last time it was down was due to a powert-cut.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the 'minor' historical detail that a chap named Ken Thompson decided that writing something called UNIX and B would be a helpful in porting a more advanced version of Spacewar called Space Travel to a shiny new PDP, and ensure that it could be repeated easily each time a new machine was brought in.
"Doh--Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derog.): implying that another person has said or done something foolish (cf. DUH int.)." OED
The first quote is from 1952, but the main credit in the etymology goes to Dan Castellaneta. First uttered by the character Homer in Punching Bag, broadcast on 27 Nov. 1988 as part of the Tracey Ullman Show.
Actually, the relative 'fragility' of the SmartCard is an advantage over the ibutton. Why?
1) Because people are more careful handling it. It looks (and in many cases IS) a credit card. I have three in my wallet right now (1 debit, 1 credit+ 1 phone card), which is exactly where I want to keep things I don't want to loose.
If I was using ibuttons I would not want to give my users the impression that they can be 'treated any way they like' because that's what they will end up doing.
In addition there are advantages such as:
2) They are easy to dinstinguish. In real life you are going to end up with multiple 'devices' because companies aren't going to cooperate and standards are broken. With SmartCards you see instantly which is which; iButtons look too similar.
3) SmartCards are multi-function: Including analog. They can carry mag-stripes and bar-codes for legacy electronic system, and purely human readable information or old-fashion carbon-printing credit-card transactions (as I used only two days ago in a pub where 'machine' was broken.
4) Better security, because the card can carry a picture of its owner and a signature sample.
And so on......just because something is the latest technolog, it doesn't make it better.
I really don't understand the hoopla about rack-mounts. They only make sense where you pay big bucks for space (in a rack). They cost more, are less robust (due to poorer cooling), harder to service (have you ever been inside a G4 desktop?) and less expandable.
Basically, these clusters are made from desktops because it is a lot cheaper and convenient as long you have the space.
In fact RMS gives reasons why it is not acceptable, even their new 'version 1.2' APSL release. In fact RMS fails to explain why 1.2 is unacceptable on the GNU site. The commentary is primarily about the APSL 1.0 which is not relevant to Darwin as released this week.
Surely the best deal at the moment must be the combo DVD-R/CD-RW drive available for £3499, housed in a sleek graphite box with the following additional features:
733MHz PowerPC G4
256K L2 & 1MB L3 cache
256MB SDRAM memory
60GB Ultra ATA drive
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Gigabit Ethernet
56K internal modem
Just go to the Apple Store and select the 'ultimate' configuration.
I wonder how many of the posters on this group concluding that these solutions all "deserved their fate" hold the same opinion when it comes to OSes.Are all alternative OSes to M$ Windows 'inferior' by the same reasoning?
Mac OS X Server is also BSD in most respects. Darwin and workstation is just update version along the same evolutionary path, taking the kernel to Mach 3 rather than 2.5+++
In the context of the original posters comments, there is little to seperate server and workstation in the future simply because workstation has a more advanced core, and all it would take to make a new, improved 'server' would be to bundle the right software to a workstation core. For a current server user that would look exactly like a 1.x to 2.x upgrade.
Trust me, I work with both Server and PB every day; they are basically different versions in the same product family.
From a unix perspective there is no real difference between MacOS X and MacOS X Server, so I'm not sure what the point here is meant to be. MacOS X (workstation) is at its core the same as MacOS X Server (Darwin essentially), but more up-to-date and with the Aqua user-interface and a few other bits. In particular the BSD components and layout are in practice the same.
And to get a compiler for Rhapsody you don't have to pay anything! MacOS X Server comes with a complete development environment (on the WebObjects CD). For MacOS X (workstation) you have to download the development software seperately, but it is still free.
The next incarnation of MacOS X Server will in practice be MacOS X (workstation) bundled with server components.
Yes, you are indeed missing something. Netinfo was developed by one of the YP/NIS creators as the next generation of directory/configuration services. That should be a pretty good clue that it is more than YP/NIS.
As for the question of where things are looked up, of course local info is consulted before a remote query is made. Why don't people do their homework before posting?
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Ah man, you are in for a treat. Look for Assimilator, god's gift to system administrators (of MacOS 10 machines). It's a file system imager, rather than disk imager. Why is that a bonus? Well, the 'image' on your server is completely open copy of the file system. Need to make a small change? Just change the files on the server! No need for a full re-imaging. And the restore process is a diff rather than full re-image, so it only downloads the differences, which saves a lot of re-imaging time. The closest comparison in unix-land is probably rsync, but the difference is that you can re-image a bootable machine with this if needed.
I don't know where you were 10 years ago, but we were sitting with a notebook-sized tablet PC, less than an inch thick during that interview. Yes, it was expensive, but that's because it was 'new technology', and had it caught on, I see no reason why the price wouldn't have normalized with normal laptops over time.
My question is simply where is the new marked today?
I remember interviewing for a start-up 10 years ago which wanted to make 'revolutionary' use of the pen-based (windows) tablet PCs making it on to the market at the time. Both the products and the company sank without a trace. Considering where we are at the moment, the obvious question is, what makes it any different today? The technology doesn't appear to be fundamentally different, so has somebody come up with a killer app, or is this just a fashion revival?
To be fair, the original poster is right about Apple laptops having ADB keyboards. The built in keyboard uses a ADB bus which is not in any other way available, not USB. Just scan the USB bus and you'll notice that there is no device listing for the built-in keyboard.
Why this would be a problem I can't phantom.
What's the point of debating technological issues with a thick layer of nationalistic diatribe? Yes, there are perfectly good reasons to believe that the US might jump ahead in the 3G arena, but they have less to do with the merits of the technology (WCDMA and CDMA2K are not that different) and more to do with timing. The US has the advantage, that in being late in the game it can deploy newer technology to capture markets which are probably already relatively 'satisfied' in Europe. The problem for European operators is not the technology, but that GSM has been so successful that you are struggling to find 'must have' reasons for normal people to upgrade. In the US people will get 3G simply because what's gone before hasn't met the basic requirements.
Where is the legitimate use for this? Apart from the fact that this is done electronically, how is it any different from making it illegal to change your licence-plate number to someone elses, or changing the chassis number on a car?
The only space efficiency in rack mount cases is usually in height. More often than not they're are hopelessly deep (at least 3 times deeper than any of the other kit you are listing), and 'portability' isn't what comes to mind. It is even more painful when you realise how much space is unused in a standard 1U rack case.
What you find in /Library/Receipts are just that, receipts, not the whole package. If you want to keep a whole package you have to save it from the Software Update program just after it has finished the install, otherwise it gets deleted.
The problem is that those countries have bans on the advertisement of alcohol.
Next should we complain that the original film (this is a remake), was set in the north of Norway?
I Linux was ripping off Apple, things might actually be a lot better. Apple has managed to do a lot that makes very good sense in tems of encouraging good programming (in the context of this debate) with a unix core. There is plenty that can be learnt from it.
Sounds like you've already found the product you are looking for: the Apple Airport. I haven't tried Apple's Windows tool yet, because the Java one works fine for us (in fact I have a Mac on my desk and I still use the Java Configuratior for some tasks).
However, on the more specific question of whether computer games (or code) is art purely for the convenience of interpretation under the law, I would say no. That is not what the art debate is about. Debate the law for on its merits, or lack thereof, rather than grasp for loopholes.
The site www.macnn.com is running Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1 on Linux
Is this the answer you were looking for?
We still run a couple of machines on OS 7.5.5, I was looking at one of these the other day and it had just passed 200 days uptime, and as far as I recall the last time it was down was due to a powert-cut.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the 'minor' historical detail that a chap named Ken Thompson decided that writing something called UNIX and B would be a helpful in porting a more advanced version of Spacewar called Space Travel to a shiny new PDP, and ensure that it could be repeated easily each time a new machine was brought in.
The first quote is from 1952, but the main credit in the etymology goes to Dan Castellaneta. First uttered by the character Homer in Punching Bag, broadcast on 27 Nov. 1988 as part of the Tracey Ullman Show.
1) Because people are more careful handling it. It looks (and in many cases IS) a credit card. I have three in my wallet right now (1 debit, 1 credit+ 1 phone card), which is exactly where I want to keep things I don't want to loose.
If I was using ibuttons I would not want to give my users the impression that they can be 'treated any way they like' because that's what they will end up doing.
In addition there are advantages such as:
2) They are easy to dinstinguish. In real life you are going to end up with multiple 'devices' because companies aren't going to cooperate and standards are broken. With SmartCards you see instantly which is which; iButtons look too similar.
3) SmartCards are multi-function: Including analog. They can carry mag-stripes and bar-codes for legacy electronic system, and purely human readable information or old-fashion carbon-printing credit-card transactions (as I used only two days ago in a pub where 'machine' was broken.
4) Better security, because the card can carry a picture of its owner and a signature sample. And so on......just because something is the latest technolog, it doesn't make it better.
Basically, these clusters are made from desktops because it is a lot cheaper and convenient as long you have the space.
In fact RMS gives reasons why it is not acceptable, even their new 'version 1.2' APSL release.
In fact RMS fails to explain why 1.2 is unacceptable on the GNU site. The commentary is primarily about the APSL 1.0 which is not relevant to Darwin as released this week.
Surely the best deal at the moment must be the combo DVD-R /CD-RW drive available for £3499, housed in a sleek graphite box with the following additional features:
733MHz PowerPC G4
256K L2 & 1MB L3 cache
256MB SDRAM memory
60GB Ultra ATA drive
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Gigabit Ethernet
56K internal modem
Just go to the Apple Store and select the 'ultimate' configuration.
I wonder how many of the posters on this group concluding that these solutions all "deserved their fate" hold the same opinion when it comes to OSes.Are all alternative OSes to M$ Windows 'inferior' by the same reasoning?
In the context of the original posters comments, there is little to seperate server and workstation in the future simply because workstation has a more advanced core, and all it would take to make a new, improved 'server' would be to bundle the right software to a workstation core. For a current server user that would look exactly like a 1.x to 2.x upgrade.
Trust me, I work with both Server and PB every day; they are basically different versions in the same product family.
And to get a compiler for Rhapsody you don't have to pay anything! MacOS X Server comes with a complete development environment (on the WebObjects CD). For MacOS X (workstation) you have to download the development software seperately, but it is still free.
The next incarnation of MacOS X Server will in practice be MacOS X (workstation) bundled with server components.
As for the question of where things are looked up, of course local info is consulted before a remote query is made. Why don't people do their homework before posting?