And why say he needs an XServe, did you completely miss the news about XServes being discontinued entirely?
Oh Em Jee. Super mega Whoosh. I was pointing out that Apple's flippant response about using mac minis as servers (when they provide no realistic pseudo-mac-mini-horizontal-blade solution) is ridiculous. And what he really needs is an XServe. But Apple won't sell him one. So he'll buy an OS-less server and put FreeBSD or Linux on it and Apple loses out.
I bet I can use cookies to hijack accounts too. "A free chocolate chip cookie if you log in to example.com on this professional, secure kiosk here and do XYZ."
I prefer glossy because with glossy, I can just change the angle to remove the glare. With matte, I'm stuck with a bright glowing matte faded out monitor.
Which a user would have to know to hold down "C" to boot from since there is no auto-boot or auto-run from media unless your main HD is toast...
If the user wants to boot from the CD, a little googling is all it takes to figure that out (and then how to reset the nvram). Obscurity should not be relied upon.
Or maybe it's the way Apple doesn't fix a known Java flaw for a year?
And that affects what desktop software exactly?
Um, it affected the Java that Apple distributed. It shows a pattern of not caring about security. Java mainline had the fix. Apple dropped the ball in not compiling and distributing an update.
We've been told no more xServes, as they're convinced that everyone would be fine with either a MacPro mounted sideways (which doesn't have the same density per RU, or a bunch of minis (you can get shelves for 'em... I'd go for the 1U that holds two, as the 2U ones that hold 4 just doesn't have sufficient space for cables), which doesn't have sufficient cores to handle heavy loads.
What you need is a 1U drawer that can pull out from the rack where you set 6 mac minis, with fans in the back to pull air through the drawer. A lot better use of space. Or what you really need is an XServe.
One reason I personally have seen Macs being deployed is because of the security aspect
What aspect is that? The one where the firewall is turned off by default with no GUI, or the nvram setup password that is trivial to reset (allowing anyone to muck about in the HDD with a boot CD)? Or maybe it's the way Apple doesn't fix a known Java flaw for a year?
When you think about it, how hard is it really to understand conditional statements, loops, and methods? That's all a CS1 course really teaches.
... in the first day (or week) along with non programming concepts. If a beginning CS course takes a semester to teach only loops, conditions, and methods, then there's something seriously wrong.
We had a particular course module at uni, which after 3 weeks expected us to be experts enough in C (and in *NIX type systems) such that we could properly start the actual course which was about Systems Programming in *NIX.
Three weeks? That's just asking for pointer mis-use and memory leaks. I would expect no less than a full semester as a prerequisite to teach students all of the things they shouldn't do with C (and *NIX systems).
On my Win 7 laptop I have full disk encryption [...] because to safely use windows you need that protection. At home, I donâ(TM)t have any of those overheads on my Macs
LOL I don't have to even take your HDD out to access your Mac data; just reboot into target mode, add a cable and you're pwn'd. Disk encryption is about securing data in the event of theft (or preventing meddling with the OS of an offline disk). Also, without some sort of AV on Macs, 90% of the people who aren't as savvy as you will run a trojan at some point.
A [insert OS here] computer managed by competent IT staff is likely to be far more secure than an an unmanaged [insert same OS here] computer brought in from the outside.
Yes, even Windows.
I would normally agree, except that stupid business decisions make security a third or fourth tier concern on managed machines. ie IE6 Often times, competent IT staff are ordered to suck it up and get used to reimaging regularly.
At one of my old workplaces, they provided lockers to the call center folk because all their phones had cameras. They were to put their phones/cameras/ipods in the lockers before they were allowed in to the general building where they could finally be allowed to use the company provided computers. Bringing a camera on site wasn't just grounds for firing; the company would sue you (to get access to your electronic devices to determine if you used them on site).
ie, Gen Z needs to learn that they don't get to bring every new tech they own to work. I don't get to bring a railgun or a fog machine. If an iphone is essential to company productivity, the company will provide one. If *your* iPhone is essential to company productivity, then the company will buy it from you, wipe it, set appropriate app-store settings, then give it back to you.
The specific memories I'm referring to are from fifteen years ago when I was teaching a "this is a mouse, this is a keyboard" class. People wouldnt explore the (then) text-based menus in the various word processors we showed them. It was baffling to me.
The one thing I've noticed about "computer-stupid" people of any age group is that they're unwilling to click on anything unknown or just test something. It's like they've lost the capacity for experimental play and refuse to learn on their own.
Apple with its fully closed garden is some kind of white knight...
Black knight at the moment. White knight is unavailable until six months after black knight release due to technical difficulties with the light sensors.
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And why say he needs an XServe, did you completely miss the news about XServes being discontinued entirely?
Oh Em Jee. Super mega Whoosh. I was pointing out that Apple's flippant response about using mac minis as servers (when they provide no realistic pseudo-mac-mini-horizontal-blade solution) is ridiculous. And what he really needs is an XServe. But Apple won't sell him one. So he'll buy an OS-less server and put FreeBSD or Linux on it and Apple loses out.
XXX is also booze.
I bet I can use cookies to hijack accounts too. "A free chocolate chip cookie if you log in to example.com on this professional, secure kiosk here and do XYZ."
When are LED (not LED backlight, I mean true LED) monitors going to show up in a decent resolution?
there's an LED billboard on my way in to work. Annoyingly bright even during the day, but it sure is pretty.
I prefer glossy because with glossy, I can just change the angle to remove the glare. With matte, I'm stuck with a bright glowing matte faded out monitor.
The iRapture is no doubt imminent
The problem with the iRapture is that only the livers of the faithful taken to be with Jobs.
Which a user would have to know to hold down "C" to boot from since there is no auto-boot or auto-run from media unless your main HD is toast...
If the user wants to boot from the CD, a little googling is all it takes to figure that out (and then how to reset the nvram). Obscurity should not be relied upon.
Or maybe it's the way Apple doesn't fix a known Java flaw for a year?
And that affects what desktop software exactly?
Um, it affected the Java that Apple distributed. It shows a pattern of not caring about security. Java mainline had the fix. Apple dropped the ball in not compiling and distributing an update.
We've been told no more xServes, as they're convinced that everyone would be fine with either a MacPro mounted sideways (which doesn't have the same density per RU, or a bunch of minis (you can get shelves for 'em ... I'd go for the 1U that holds two, as the 2U ones that hold 4 just doesn't have sufficient space for cables), which doesn't have sufficient cores to handle heavy loads.
What you need is a 1U drawer that can pull out from the rack where you set 6 mac minis, with fans in the back to pull air through the drawer. A lot better use of space. Or what you really need is an XServe.
One reason I personally have seen Macs being deployed is because of the security aspect
What aspect is that? The one where the firewall is turned off by default with no GUI, or the nvram setup password that is trivial to reset (allowing anyone to muck about in the HDD with a boot CD)? Or maybe it's the way Apple doesn't fix a known Java flaw for a year?
Your hands are way too big, proportionally speaking?
When you think about it, how hard is it really to understand conditional statements, loops, and methods? That's all a CS1 course really teaches.
... in the first day (or week) along with non programming concepts. If a beginning CS course takes a semester to teach only loops, conditions, and methods, then there's something seriously wrong.
Or the headphones for the in flight movie?
We had a particular course module at uni, which after 3 weeks expected us to be experts enough in C (and in *NIX type systems) such that we could properly start the actual course which was about Systems Programming in *NIX.
Three weeks? That's just asking for pointer mis-use and memory leaks. I would expect no less than a full semester as a prerequisite to teach students all of the things they shouldn't do with C (and *NIX systems).
Isn't one of the purposes of education to teach people, even so-so ones, a job?
That's the purpose of vocational education, not university education.
Not only does Iceland have chess on TV, and hot babes, but they have cool volcanoes on top of it! How can it really get any better?
They could have hot babes on tv and chess on top of volcanoes!
Volcanoes on TV and chess with hot babes? Strip chess?
Has the Internet seen an increased number of trolls?
At least they have their secretaries print out their emails for them, else all those phishing emails that directly target them would wreak havok.
On my Win 7 laptop I have full disk encryption [...] because to safely use windows you need that protection. At home, I donâ(TM)t have any of those overheads on my Macs
LOL I don't have to even take your HDD out to access your Mac data; just reboot into target mode, add a cable and you're pwn'd. Disk encryption is about securing data in the event of theft (or preventing meddling with the OS of an offline disk). Also, without some sort of AV on Macs, 90% of the people who aren't as savvy as you will run a trojan at some point.
A [insert OS here] computer managed by competent IT staff is likely to be far more secure than an an unmanaged [insert same OS here] computer brought in from the outside.
Yes, even Windows.
I would normally agree, except that stupid business decisions make security a third or fourth tier concern on managed machines. ie IE6 Often times, competent IT staff are ordered to suck it up and get used to reimaging regularly.
At one of my old workplaces, they provided lockers to the call center folk because all their phones had cameras. They were to put their phones/cameras/ipods in the lockers before they were allowed in to the general building where they could finally be allowed to use the company provided computers. Bringing a camera on site wasn't just grounds for firing; the company would sue you (to get access to your electronic devices to determine if you used them on site).
ie, Gen Z needs to learn that they don't get to bring every new tech they own to work. I don't get to bring a railgun or a fog machine. If an iphone is essential to company productivity, the company will provide one. If *your* iPhone is essential to company productivity, then the company will buy it from you, wipe it, set appropriate app-store settings, then give it back to you.
Nothing to do with infections. It's cockney rhyming slang. septics == septic tanks == yanks
It's rhyming slang rather than general abuse (unless you take offense at being called a yank, of course, which I guess quite a few people could).
So Cockney Brits won't be offended if I call them little pricks? prick==cock==cockney
She's the grand vizier for more transitory kings and queens (PMs).
The specific memories I'm referring to are from fifteen years ago when I was teaching a "this is a mouse, this is a keyboard" class. People wouldnt explore the (then) text-based menus in the various word processors we showed them. It was baffling to me.
The one thing I've noticed about "computer-stupid" people of any age group is that they're unwilling to click on anything unknown or just test something. It's like they've lost the capacity for experimental play and refuse to learn on their own.
Apple with its fully closed garden is some kind of white knight...
Black knight at the moment. White knight is unavailable until six months after black knight release due to technical difficulties with the light sensors.