Didn't Thomas Hobbes argue that in the state of nature "the wife of man is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short." Or have I misquoted somehow?
Fanboy basically means "no matter if they do good or bad I'll follow them", which is just another way of saying "I'm a fucking idiot". Seriously, being called fanboy is a bad thing.
I think you've got it wrong. An Apple fanboy is anyone who is less critical of Apple than you are, while an Apple-hater is anyone who is more critical of Apple than you are. At least that's how I've seen the words used on
If you don't like the Time Capsule, then you're not a true Apple fanboy.
Oh crap. Do I also have to tolerate Apple mice to maintain my fanboy status?
When your system comes with a backup utility that you can literally turn on and forget about until you need it, it's pretty damned stupid to not use it.
~Philly
Not especially useful when you only have about 100GB or so to play with.
I'm not sure where your 100GB number is coming from. You do have to buy a large enough back-up drive, but once you plug that in, you just turn on Time Machine and forget about it.
I'm not a big fan of the Time Capsule, Apple sells, but it would be the right tool if you had a MacBook Air (with its single USB port and no FireWire). For anything else, get a FireWire external drive. The first time you plug it in to your Mac, you'll be prompted to set it up as a Time Machine device.
Of course I'm not trying to dismiss this serious bug by talking about back-ups, but Apple should be credited with integrating a very decent backup system into the OS. There really is no excuse for not making backups.
our Apple drones are so upset over this, they are planing to buy another Mac, just in case one got erased.
That's me!
As an Apple fanboy, I find this bug very embarrassing. From what I read, I do fall into the "very small number of users" that this bug could catch. That is, I've had a guest account before upgrading to Snow Leopard. I guess that I've never been hit by this because I've never logged out of the guest account and then logged in to an admin account. In fact, the guest account and the admin account are both very rarely used. (My account is a "regular" account.)
The only reason that I've enabled the Guest account is because my Macs (that's plural, so you see I really am a fanboy) have a "phone home" system in case of theft. And I figure that having a guest account will allow the thing, if stolen, to stay in use longer before getting wiped.
As for back-ups, I don't really think the Time Capsule is something I'd recommend to most users. Instead just use Time Machine with an external drive. I do think that Apple should be given lots of credit for Time Machine. It really makes back-ups so easy there is no excuse for anyone not to make back-ups.
I've been to Slovenia several times. The first few times the country I was visiting was Yugoslavia. On this last trip, the country was Slovenia. So although I visited the same location multiple times (so should only be counted once), it was a different country on different visits (so should be counted twice).
I could potentially ask the same question about Slovakia and Czechoslovakia, but my last visit to Slovakia was really just in transit so I won't count that at all.
Either way, I exceed 10, but was wondering how to count this.
I've long since come to the conclusion that Richard Stallman and Darl McBride share the same crazy belief. Both are convinced that free software is an anti-capitalist plot. The difference between the two is that for RMS this is a good thing.
A consequence of this is that RMS sees anyone who supports capitalists as the enemy. I really don't know enough about the case with Mono, and I am certainly skeptical of any dealings with Microsoft, but I am also highly suspicious of RMS's judgement in these matters.
Sorry, but I stuck to Gmail years ago...
I moved to Fastmail before Gmail existed. But I remember all of hype about Gmail when it hit beta. Other than the quantity of storage space (which was much larger) it offered only a proper subset of the features that Fastmail already had. And it didn't fully implement IMAP so you couldn't get all the features it did offer in the mail client of your choice.
Fastmail runs the kind of system that I would have [liked] to design.
Why thanks
You are very welcome.
I designed a lot of the current system (Cyrus replication slots and stores plus the "10 minutes to reinstall any server" and "make -C conf install" to get config up to date on any server)
Bron ( sysadmin at FastMail )
Cool. Some day I would like to learn how IMAP service is distributed over several boxes. In the late 90s I thought about that problem and decided that I didn't have the sysadm skills to do it (so just threw more memory and faster disks at our IMAP server).
Well now you have heard of them. If you take your email seriously, this is a service you should seriously look into. These guys grokked IMAP from the very beginning. Also keep in mind that their business depends on providing good email service. Your ISP only provides email services so that you get locked into their domain name for your address.
I had really shopped around for email services (as well as running my own on a VPS for a while) before settling on fastmail many years ago. Fastmail runs the kind of system that I would have like to design.
Other than as a very happy (and a very demanding) customer, I have no connection to Fastmail. But if you haven't heard of them you should check them out.
It is not exactly rocket surgery, is it? Or even "brain science".
Indeed, it is not. And so, as politically incorrect as it may be, I sometimes question the wisdom of rebuilding a city that is largely below the water line of a huge river.
Once when I was leaving a job (because my family was moving) I had plenty of lead time to give notice, and, among other things, I was asked to draft the job description for my replacement. One of the things that I put in that was, "never leave the boss alone with a salesman." My boss chuckled at this, but somehow that bit did get cut from the final version.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
