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Submission + - MacTech Looking for 25 year stories (mactech.com)

Submitted by neilticktin on Thursday December 24, 2009 @02:07PM

neilticktin writes: MacTech Magazine has kicked off it’s 25th Anniversary celebration. The magazine is seeking out great stories and memories from those who have been in the community a while. What kind of stories? Well, it depends on your background. For example, tech support stories, Macs and celebrities, wacky network stories, funny programming stories, etc... The best stories will be published in the magazine over the next year. http://www.mactech.com/25thAnnivStories/ has the submission form.

Bookmark MacTech Looking for 25 year stories (mactech.com)

by neilticktin on Thursday December 24, 2009 @02:05PM

Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? 180

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 15, 2009 @07:01PM from the glob-glob-glob dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Has anyone setup a system to aggregate multiple ISP connections to form a high bandwidth site-to-site link? Load Sharing SCTP looked interesting, but it doesn't look like it has been widely adopted. Multi-Link PPP appears to be more widely supported for clients, but I can't find any good guides for setting up both sides of the connection for a site-to-site link. The hardware solutions I've found are expensive for a small business. Does anyone have experience using hardware solutions from Mushroom Networks (Virtual Leased Line, p2 of this document), Ecessa (site-to-Site Channel Bonding), or others?"

Submission + - Ridiculous bundle deal (macte.ch)

Submitted by

neilticktin

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @12:48PM

neilticktin writes: "MacUpdate has put together a bundle of applications: including Parallels 4, TechTool Pro 5, Circus Ponies Notebook 3, Intego NetBarrier X5, DVDRemaster Pro 5, Multiplex, RipIt, MoneyWell, Paperless, Posterino, and BetterZip. Given what's included, the pricing is ridiculous. $50 for everything."

Comment Re:Benchmarks or No Benchmarks... (Score 1) 195

by neilticktin on Thursday March 05, 2009 @03:16AM (#27074629) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

All depends which versions you are talking about. That's not what we saw in the most recent versions when doing the benchmarks.

Comment Re:This violates VMware's EULA (Score 1) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @09:18PM (#27072319) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

For the record, both Parallels and VMware had a chance to review the article for technical accuracy prior to publishing.

Comment Re:Apparently the final benchmark is still underwa (Score 3, Informative) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:38PM (#27071373) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Damn ... you caught us! (Love the IIS comment). Actually, the banner ad system got crushed by SlashDot. Once we took OpenAds out of the picture, all went well. Try it again now. http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/

Comment Re:Slashdotted after 3 comments (Score 1) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:37PM (#27071359) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Unfortunately, the problem was the banner server. OpenAds got crushed by SlashDot. Once we figured that out ... all was fine. Try the article again now. http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/

Comment Re:slashdotted but anyone buying/using parallels 4 (Score 0, Redundant) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:35PM (#27071337) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Try the article again now. Server bottleneck is restored (OpenAds was struggling with the load).

Comment Re:Article is Flawed (Score 1) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:34PM (#27071321) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Actually, we know that. The sentence is primarily talking about Windows.

Comment Re:Does Parallells 4 freeze up the system as often (Score 1) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:32PM (#27071307) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Nope. Works quite nicely actually.

Comment Re:This violates VMware's EULA (Score 1) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:23PM (#27071197) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Interesting. When we asked VMware to review the article as a fact check, they didn't mention anything about this. Didn't do it last time either. Are you sure this is in the VMware Fusion EULA? Or maybe it's their other products.

Comment Re:Apparently the final benchmark is still underwa (Score 1) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:20PM (#27071153) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Sorry ... all is better now. Try it again. OpenAds was having trouble and once we figured that out, all is fine. Thanks - Neil

Comment Hosting server issue resolved, article loads bette (Score 1, Informative) 195

by neilticktin on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:19PM (#27071139) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

Sorry all for the slowness this morning. Turns out that OpenAds was struggling with the load from being slashdotted. Once we figured that out, everything is loading much better now. Thanks for your patience. Neil Ticktin Publisher/Editor-in-Chief MacTech Magazine

Submission + - Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware (mactech.com)

Submitted by

neilticktin

on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @03:57PM

neilticktin writes: "MacTech performed an exhaustive set of benchmarks comparing Parallels Desktop 4 to VMWare Fusion 2 to run Windows on a Mac. To tackle this problem, MacTech undertook a huge benchmarking project starting in December — over 2500 tests by stopwatch. The goal was to see how the recent versions of VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop performed on different levels of Mac hardware, using XP, Vista, 64-bit, multi-procs, games, etc... As usual, results vary by what's important to you. http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/index.html"

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