Finally someone gets it about the PC vs. Mac commercials

Are the gloves finally coming off?

Matt Hester's WebLog — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:33:44 GMT

My buddy John Baker sent an interesting article out the other day about how we are address concerns in

re: Finally someone gets it about the PC vs. Mac commercials

rds — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:33:18 GMT

what was sean talking about above. microsoft doesn't innovate, just copies technology and is years behind in that. what are you trying to say about apple on top of linux? lets talk about windows/vista on top of DOS! i'll take linux/unix any day of the week. if you want to talk about current operating systems, lets chat about vista. what a flop! how many people have migrated to vista? how many people have migrated to leopard? millions with no problems. leopard is so far advanced over vista it isn't even close. you indicate that mac os x is unix with 'x' windows. you have no clue what x windows is. x windows gives you a command line interface or allows you to run a gui program. get a clue on current technology. as far as the mac/pc commercials, i guess the truth hurts.

re: Finally someone gets it about the PC vs. Mac commercials

Keith Combs — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:33:00 GMT

TimeMachine Update: Stardate 1/25/2008.

It appears that the TimeMachine target I was using (a 300GB SATA disk) was failing or getting ready to fail. It is now officially dead and buried.

Which brings us to a question... Should the code in TimeMachine and OS X for that matter have shielded the OS and user from such an event?

Lets keep in mind it cratered the OS and would be comparable to a bluescreen stop in Windows, not that we've ever had that happen in Windows.

See? Software is hard!!!

re: Finally someone gets it about the PC vs. Mac commercials

Sean Kearney1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:49:12 GMT

Ahhh DPM 2007! Dying to use that. Just had to Implement 2006. Loved it. I'm hoping the few drawbacks I found are cleared out in DPM 2007.

64 Maximum entries per "Shadow" (Same as shadow copy, but if I'm wrong point out how to change that! I'd LOVE to go WAAAAAAY in the past)

In ability to deselect for shadowing specific subfolders. I would love to "Shadow" a system using DPM and simply say DON'T Shadow Sysvol and Netlogon (Like Ntbackup can).

Other than that? LOVE IT. The software is sweet!

re: Finally someone gets it about the PC vs. Mac commercials

Sean Kearney1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:44:04 GMT

I'll byte on this one.

I've never been a huge fan of "half truth" ads. Let's be honest. For once Apple. Give the truth 100%

Mac's don't get viruses.

RIGHT.

Define a virus to me. Most basic version.

It's code. A trojan is the simplest form of virus. Say one thing to you up front and do something completely different in the back.

Heck we had viruses on the Commodore 64! (Trojan game that when you ran it, formatted the floppy disk)

You keep hearing "Microsoft doesn't innovate" but what is a Mac OS X? Unix with "X" Windows. Sorry last time I checked Unix was around WELL before Apple. Using a BSD file system is not innovating.

No matter. I ranted on this a while back. It's just getting me worked up before work and I've got an overflowing plate today. Here, read if you want or port it to /dev/null.

http://ye110beard.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!952F95CB5DE3F349!151.entry

But they are a fun watch if not irritating. I'll grant them that... :)