Re: TheDigitalLifestyle.tv: Why buy .Mac these days?
Posted on May 13, 2008
| Erik
TheDigitalLifestyle.tv: Why buy .Mac these days?: “Sync & Backup: These two features almost don’t deserve any attention. Backup has been replaced by Time Machine or just an external HD. Sync is not worth any part of the $99 price tag and thus deserves none of our attention or yours.”
Via TheDigitalLifestyle.tv
That’s funny. I find the sync features the most compelling reason to purchase the .mac service. I agree that most of the other basic services of .
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iPhone localization and the missing keyboard
Posted on May 11, 2008
| Erik
I’m following the discussion around the upcoming 2.0 release of the iPhone, combined with the anticipated hardware refresh that will undoubtedly bring 3G to the plate and have noticed that the missing keyboard meme has come back around. I think that (as usual) Gruber covers the major points nicely, but there are a couple of additional things I’d like to address.
The first one has to do with localization. I live in France and communicate in both English and French on a regular basis with my iPhone.
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Why Dell will not bounce back
Posted on May 11, 2008
| Erik
_Why Dell will not bounce back: “Bottom line is this: the only innovations worth making are the ones involving product ideas and product design. I mean, Duh. Right? It’s pretty obvious. What’s amazing to me is how few companies actually seem to realize it. To sustain an edge in any market you must make better products than your competitors, consistently, over and over and over again. Just making the same products as everyone else but taking a little friction out of the system can give you an advantage, but only a temporary one.
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Why Apple's iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC - page 2 - at ZDNet.co.uk
Posted on May 7, 2008
| Erik
_Why Apple’s iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC - page 2 - at ZDNet.co.uk: “Perhaps the best arguments against Apple allowing background tasks are that they take up too much airtime, draining the battery, and that there’s no way for them to communicate to the user when they need attention. If either of these two things were a given for background tasks, then Apple would have a point. But they’re not, and it doesn’t.
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Canadian cell carrier Rogers announces iPhone deal
Posted on April 29, 2008
| Erik
Macworld | Canadian cell carrier Rogers announces iPhone deal: “Canadian cell service provider Rogers Communications will be bringing its users the iPhone, according to a statement. ‘We’re thrilled to announced that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year,’ said Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications. ‘We can’t tell you any more about it right now, but stay tuned.’”
(Via MacWorld.
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iPhone chat to use Jabber?
Posted on April 29, 2008
| Erik
Found in multiple articles
Well duh.
If you look at the specs for OS X Server and your current iChat client, you’ll discover that Jabber is built-into both and when you use OS X Server to manage your accounts you get a secure end-to-end enterprise chat solution. See iChat Server at Apple.
For more details on how to extend your iChat Server out to external services such as Google Talk, see the OS X Server Wiki.
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Apple in the enterprise
Posted on April 28, 2008
| Erik
Wow, following a few links here and there and ended up on this thread which is pretty much representative of all of the Apple in the enterprise threads that I see on message boards: a whole lot of non-sequiturs. It’s not even a discussion, there’s just people popping in with comments out of the blue that are for the most part wrong, anecdotal and do nothing to move the discussion forward.
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Fibre Channel to Software iSCSI Failover Failures
Posted on April 28, 2008
| Erik
Fibre Channel to Software iSCSI Failover Failures: “Based on these results, I’m inclined to say that one of two things is true. Either: I did something very, very wrong; or ESX isn’t quite right to support automatic failover between FC and software iSCSI. Has anyone else tried this, or am I the only one? If you have tried it, did it work? If so, what steps did you have to take—if any—to make it work properly?
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More on the Mini
Posted on April 28, 2008
| Erik
I’ve been following along the fiasco that is Psystar and noticed that a recurring theme in many forums was the comparison of the machine proposed by Psystar to the Mac Mini.
At the risk of being horribly cliché, this is comparing apples to oranges.
The Mini is the machine that begs the comparison since it’s the closest thing that Apple sells that targets the entry-level market. But there are a number of very important reasons that this is pointless, leaving aside the entire OS X compatibility question (more on that later).
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Re: Is Xen ready for the data center? Is that the right question?
Posted on April 28, 2008
| Erik
Sitting in my drafts folder forever.
Is Xen ready for the data center? Is that the right question?:
Actually I think that the question is “Is Xen ready for your datacenter and your staff? Or perhaps, are your staff ready for Xen?”
Globally speaking, the article covers the bases nicely and it’s true that Xen is a solid virtualisation solution quite capable of producing really excellent performance. However, the virtualization engine itself is only a small piece of the puzzle.
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