Posts by JEDIDIAH

Re: This is for several reasons

"I can hold it in my hand" is a pretty compelling USP.

I originally got a 7" Samsung tablet to give to my kid but the wife took it instead. She replaced her iPad with it. It's big enough for her requirements plus it is more portable. It's good enough while being small and cheap.

She dumped her iPhone for an S3 too. Got tired of waiting for the iPhone 5.

A 7" tablet is cheap enough to be an impulse buy, an Apple tablet not so much.

Re: Kaleidescape

I call bullsh*t on the 42TB storage.

I tried pricing out my own setup based on what little information I could tease from support forums online. A mere 30K is not going to get you 42TB of Kaledescape storage.

I already have a 2000 disk jukebox setup.

You can build an entire commodity based multi-room system for what Kscape will try to charge you for one thin client decoder.

Mush for brains...

To top it all off, this article includes a device that has has been declared illegal.

The Kaledescape is in a bit of legal limbo right now.

The whole lot seemed to be a total fantasy completely divorced from reality or requirements of any sort beyond being really expensive.

Project mayhem.

> # apt-get install bugzilla

Exactly.

Like I said: YOU choose your level of involvement with Project Mayhem.

You can use the App Store approach or you can build from source. It's entirely up to you. Admittedly, this leaves the whole thing vulnerable to criticism by idiots that will find the hard way to do something even in MacOS.

Re: A bit off topic but...

Your post is outdated nonsense. It's FUD from another century.

You don't need to forge your own tools to use it. You can chose your own level of involvement. That can be as little as possible or as much as possible. This nonsense that you have to be a coder in order to use it is just assinine. It really wasn't even true in the 90s. Never mind now.

It just gets repeated over and over again by idiots.

Re: my $0.02 worth

"commercial point of view" is nonsense. The platform continues to grow and thrive independent of this.

That is the whole point of Free Software to begin with. Everything is independent of a "commercial point of view". You don't have to worry about Atari and Commodore failing or Netscape having it's air supply cut off. Free Software exists outside and despite of the market.

It's like MS-DOS and Windows but without the bling.

Re: RTFM attitude hasn't helped

> a) People should know how to do stuff through the shell

Nonsense. Being a Unix user doesn't mean being a masochist. It means being lazy.

If I ever even touch the shell it is to be lazy.

Something is faster or more automated than the drudge work of doing some visual thing n+ times.

Beyond that, the "burden of the shell" is gravely overrated/

Re: What prevents Linux from conquering the consumer PC market?

No. You are not likely to look at your friends with their Macs and start to get jealous. If anything, those Mac users will likely have the same exact problems as you do.

A Mac is nothing to lord over Linux. It doesn't matter how overhyped and trendy it is. It still has the same "but it's not the monopoly platform" problems that Linux does.

Short of games, if you aren't brand fixated to the exclusion of what you actually want to do then none of the platforms are at much of a disadvantage to the others. Although Macs have an NIH and group think problem.

Re: What prevents Linux from conquering the consumer PC market?

> But when the user wants to watch some youtube flicks it might get frustrated. Put in a film on DVD: frustration again.

Nope. Both are pretty simple and actually rather stupid things to try to criticize Linux for.

Re: Blame

These idiots whine about inconsistency and confusion and churn and completely ignore this kind of thing when it happens in Windows. Windows game development is the essence of churn and this is where you're going to get your most severe problems.

Who cares about the init system really? Miguel is just on crack when it comes to that sort of thing.

I laugh when I hear cries about Linux being tough for (presumably commercial) software vendors when I see serious Unix vendors dealing with even wider variations between different Unixen.

Re: Torvalds is turning out to be --@boltar

Stallman doesn't go out of his way to be disliked.

What he actually does is to NOT go out of his way to be liked.

He has his position and his reasons and he sticks to that.

A certain type of herd follower misinterprets this as being anti-social.

Re: Torvalds is turning out to be

If Linus had never been born, the GNU tools would still be very useful on other commercial Unixen.

Free Software doesn't begin and end with Linux.

The kernel is a key bit but it doesn't make the rest of the OS irrelevant.

Re: Enterprises expensive loss? Posted Thursday 30th August 2012 10:55 GMT Anonymous Coward

> Your comments about AD are just clueless. It goes way beyond LDAP.

All of the Microsoft marketing materials make AD sound just like LDAP.

If there's more to it than that then you certainly helping clear anything up.

Although the main problem here is "fitting in". So it really doesn't matter how good AD is supposed to be if you are supporting a bunch of Windows machine. It's like how msoffice will always be best at reading a word document.

Re: possibly the first Apple product that I really want to try out

A Mini under the stairs would be a big sprawling mess compared to any comparable PC option.

The biggest problem by far with running any MacOS server (or just MacOS in general) is being forced to deal with Apple hardware. MacOS server could sorely use the ability to be run virtualized.

Of course Apple would never allow this.

Re: SMBs?

Nonsense. Macs are more expensive and they aren't cheaper to operate. The support options for Macs also gravely lag behind the options available from PC vendors. A PC can quietly do it's job until it's costs have been amortized and you are ready to discard them.

"Support costs" if any are driven by helpless types that are going to be bothersome regardless of what OS you're using.

Re: Come on people! @AC

I think someone said something about Mac Server being for 1-10 person offices.

You're unlikely to outgrow a NAS appliance with such a puny office.

Re: Sadly

No. Laymen just like to pretend they're helpless rather than taking responsibility for themselves.

A lot of this stuff is pretty trivial. The boundary between what is and what is not a server is pretty arbitrary. That's especially true when your own "server product" offers very little and is just an extra app.

Stuff like file sharing is something that any Windows user from 1994 should be able to handle. The GUI for setting this up is terribly trivial and always has been.

If this product doesn't offer serious Mac-only services then you've really got to wonder what the point is.

Re: Tablets?

> That's not long after they produced the first GUI based computers outside of a research lab.

So? That research lab is prior art.

The fact that something is hidden from you laymen doens't mean it hasn't been invented yet.

Also, anything from 1987 should be well expired by now patent-wise.

Re: Kudos to the author

It's all about stock valuation.

That's the new yardstick: How absurd is your PE ratio?

Re: Apple do innovate

> You're not doing yourself any favours using terms like "iFans". It makes you come across as a teenage kid.

Don't get your pretensious tight ass panties in a buch. It's certainly not the worse thing people could come up with. It's no worse than net.this and net.that and is very much in line with Apple's own naming conventions.

If anyone has some growing up to do, it's you.

Re: A friend of mine works for Samsung

New IOS on an older iPhone might be a big part of why my local iFan defected to Android. New PhoneOS on an old phone was definitely bogging down and making her pine for a newer device. The delay on iPhone 5 just helped things along.

Re: The Fanbois

It is very likely that NEITHER side should have "won".

The American patent office has been running amok for quite some time now. Chances are that out of 100 patents, only one of them is anywhere near reasonable.

Re: @ turtle

In short: "Apple is entitled to abuse the system".

This has nothing to do with Android. Some of us have been ranting about the broken patent system for a long time. This is just the latest episode. Calling us "competing fanboys" won't alter the fact that we're arguing based on principle and you're just a corporate shill.

Re: Well what do you know!

My local former iFan now uses (Samsung) Android devices for how they are NOT like Apple products.

The same goes for me.

It's nice to have choices. Not everyone agrees with your fascist vision for technology.

Re: Is it really though?

> Really? Did you not think that Android phones are much cheapers than the iPhone's?

I have never thought of this. On the other hand, I actually have an informed opinion that has come from actually looking at the facts and not just being content to spread someone else's propaganda talking points.

Android phones are no more or less subsidized than any Apple product.

"Cheap" simply isn't the issue.

Re: "“Did you use open source code to save time, and the virus was hidden in it?”"

When many "must have" apps will willingly execute any random script or executable they are given, you don't really need to put trojans in the code. While it is certainly possible, it is entirely uncessary.

If the code is open, all you need is one kid who wants to make a name for himself.

If the code is closed, you just have to depend on the good intentions of the likes of Apple or Microsoft.

Re: I would care...

Does the machine have the Cajones to run Flash?

If so then you have access to enough games to keep the kids distracted indefinitely.

Re: As freetard...

Quite. My use of Free Software is mainly an artifact of being ignored by those making decent software.

You had your chance Sun and you blew it quite spectacularly.

Re: freetards?

No. "Freetard" has always been an aphorism to insult Free Software.

It's only occasionally used to refer to pirates who already have a term of derision custom crafted for them.