At 2:44 AM +1000 4/11/2009, Brian Christmas wrote: > >Situation: a mail room getting HEAPS of artwork that has to be >printed on a tight turnaround time schedule. 30-40 emails per hour. >The email and art has to be date/time stamped and archived to the mac >AND the server on a network.
Won't help you right now, but the guys developing Dropbox have indicated they'll eventually do some p2p (direct peer to peer) sync. With that you could create "mirrored" folders on each system involved. ...Right now, Dropbox only syncs to/from their servers with an encrypted Amazon S3 cloud backing-store. >Latest situation in last hour. We've compared the performance of the >power mac to my iMac 8000 miles away (I'm the author of the >Applescript handling the printing/saving) and discovered that the end >user had a HP laser running on his power mac using AppleTalk. We >removed the printer, turned AppleTalk off (and set to automatic) and >now the server is nearly as fast as the external drive. We can turn >AppleTalk back on, and still maintain the speed as long as the printer >is removed from the printer list. > >New Question. Can we do anything to use this printer and maintain >speed? Try switch the printer to use IPP instead of AppleTalk. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
