On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
> > Hi Bruce and all ~ > > So there's a reason that Apple's stock is dipping lately ... Nah, that would be the fact that the entire economy is doing it's best "Titanic" impression lately, and clueless and/or venal analysts on Wall Street issuing idiotic "advice". Apple is selling Macbooks and pros as fast as they can be made, and the iPhone is emerging as the gold standard for smartphones...it's beginning to look like Apple's going to own that market like they own the music player one. They're surpassing RIM in sales, and have relegated Windows Mobile devices to the dusty back of the pack...again, they aimed for where the puck was, and today there's Apple, with the iPhone/App store (Killer App store is more like it) and a whole bunch of other cellphone industry players chasing the puck, like a gaggle of 7-year olds playing soccer. They have been able to keep up their sales without killing margins, like other computer companies have had to do, and they're sitting on a walloping pile of cash and have no debt. They're pretty well ideally set to weather a serious recession. Gee, it's as if smart people run the company or something...:-) Then again, "clueless and venal" pretty much defines Wall Street these days. Off topic, but for a truly eye-opening account of "How we got into this mess" account, read <http://tinyurl.com/5s5w2b> which is by the author of "Liars Poker", the seminal account of Wall Street's greed and excess back in the 80's... > > > They're kinda dropping down there a bit there on some fronts? Nah, FileVault is a stopgap security measure that really should never have been implemented, imo. Ideally you want an encrypting file system, where individual files are encrypted on the drive, and decrypted when opened up. That's not a really workable 'this generation' solution...such systems exist (for example Pretty Good Privacy can do this) but there are significant processing hits to it. If you want to keep files safe, you can use a variant of the FileVault system: create password-protected disk images via Disk Utility and use those to store your sensitive information. This is preferable because if something messes those up all you lose is those files, not your entire user directory. Moreover, you can store, for example, each client's files in a different disk image, thus distributing your eggs among several baskets. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
