Re: [CGUYS] Apple's Mobile Mess
Macbreak weekly 98 had Merlin Mann nearly beside himself and going on a tear about Apple's crappy migration. At one point he admitted he no longer felt comfortable slamming MS as he had the last fifteen years because clearly things got more difficult for companies when scaling was involved. Leo Laporte agreed with him and on the windows weekly podcast...both of them are serious gliterati. Interesting listen. Mike On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today the press finally announced that the emperor has no clothes. Apple's MobileMe service is a screwed up mess. http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/07/24/technology/circuitsemail/index.ht mlhttp://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/07/24/technology/circuitsemail/index.htmland several others. Back when dot Mac was just a nice add-on service for desktop Macs it didn't matter that much that Apple is terrible at running a cloud service. Now it is central to the functioning of the iPhones and shitty performance won't cut it. I also think that giving dot Mac the heave ho with almost zero notice is very unbusinesslike. Some important dot Mac features did not make it to Mobile Me and anyone who depended on those features got no chance for an orderly migration. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Apple's Mobile Mess
I dumped Dot Mac when they started charging for services that I could get free from Yahoo or elsewhere. .Mac was slow and not particularly reliable. MobileMe is not up to prime time either. More about MobileMe's failure to launch: MobileMe Fails to Launch Well, But Finally Launches, http://db.tidbits.com/article/9689 MobileMea Culpa: Apple Apologizes and Explains Tiger Situation, http://db.tidbits.com/article/9695 Betty Today the press finally announced that the emperor has no clothes. Apple's MobileMe service is a screwed up mess. http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/07/24/technology/circuitsemail/index.ht ml and several others. Back when dot Mac was just a nice add-on service for desktop Macs it didn't matter that much that Apple is terrible at running a cloud service. Now it is central to the functioning of the iPhones and shitty performance won't cut it. I also think that giving dot Mac the heave ho with almost zero notice is very unbusinesslike. Some important dot Mac features did not make it to Mobile Me and anyone who depended on those features got no chance for an orderly migration. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Ripping off American consumers [was Re: T-Mobile?]
I think the 7-11 SpeakOut phone service uses Rogers in Canada. Canada does not have as big a problem as we do as they have less vendors covering their cell phones. (Rogers and Bell are the two biggest if I remember) Plus we pay more for our cell phone coverage because we get discounts on our phones. They subsidies their phones with higher rates. Plus our landline coverage is cheaper than it is in Europe. (They all have metered service!!!) The discounts on our phones are pretty bad compared to some of the discounts I see elsewhere. In Ireland last summer Orange had a deal for a free Nokia N73 [N82 this year] quadband music phone plus free broadband with an 18 month contract at €35/month with either 600 or 650 minutes and 100 texts. In the Netherlands T-Mobile has the Nokia N-95 quadband WiFi phone for less than €20 with a choice of 3 contracts. iPhone 3G [€79.95/€1,00/€1,0] contract is €29,95/€44,95/€64,95 including mobile Internet. You can get good contracts for as low as €15/mo. Verizon gives you 30 minutes for $15-20/mo. in a rip-off emergency plan. ATT has no emergency plans. And you can also get Skype phones for as low as €9/mo. unless you find one of the thousands of free open WiFi networks. [Can these Skype phones work in Philly where the city's WiFi network is free?] I have Verizon metered service in Maryland. I like it. I don't use our landline for local calls much, and I use an MCI/Verizon phone card [2.x cents/min] or T-Mobile cell phone for long distance and overseas; the PIN is programmed into our phones. Costs us $17/month, much cheaper than any telco package I've seen. It is easy to complain when you compare apples and plums. It's easier to complain rationally when you have the actual figures to compare. Mobile service here is expensive, no matter which fruits you choose to compare. OTOH, most electronics are cheaper in the US--computers, cameras, home theater components, etc., not just because of the cheap dollar; electronics were cheaper here even with a stronger dollar. Foreigners come to the US on buying trips carrying many empty suitcases, even to expensive places like NYC and Miami Beach. Too bad the excessively paranoid INS is making it harder for people to come here and spend lots of cash now that they've changed the visa requirements for friendly countries. Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)
top-post Oh no! You won't get me to argue top vs bottom posting. Might as well join the battle of big-endians vs. little-endians. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)
Original Message - From: Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE) Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all been taught to read from the top of the page to the bottom of page. Please clarify... am I bottom quoting or top quoting in this message? - Brian * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] esata
- Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CGUYS] esata I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list for drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a setting? Perhaps a BIOS setting? RAID is not enabled on the box. SATA (and by extension eSATA) are expected (by applications and the operating system) to act like a PATA drive... which is typically available from boot to shut down. Yes, you can 'hot swap' all of these drives if you use a RAID configuration and a RAID controller, but that is not what Mike intends to do here. I think Mike wants the ability to put a completely different data volume on the same eSATA port without rebooting. ^ A comparison with Ultra ATA Technology (PDF). SATA-IO. Retrieved on 2007-07-12. - Brian * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message - From: Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE) Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all been taught to read from the top of the page to the bottom of page. Please clarify... am I bottom quoting or top quoting in this message? As an old usenet hack top posting is one of the greater evils. It is hard to avoid using gmail and Googles text editor. Quotes just disappear into a line labeled -show quoted text-. -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)
Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all been taught to read from the top of the page to the bottom of page. Please clarify... am I bottom quoting or top quoting in this message? Top quoting. See how this flow thing works? :-) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] esata
Unlike PATA, both SATA and eSATA are designed to support hot-swapping. However, this feature requires proper support at the host, device (drive), and operating-system level. In general, all SATA/devices (drives) support hot-swapping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-swapping (due to the requirements on the device-side), but requisite support is less common on SATA host adapters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_adapter That's from wiki on esata...untrue? I've never heard that esata was not hot swappable, I mean isn't that the point of external drives? Mike On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CGUYS] esata I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list for drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a setting? Perhaps a BIOS setting? RAID is not enabled on the box. SATA (and by extension eSATA) are expected (by applications and the operating system) to act like a PATA drive... which is typically available from boot to shut down. Yes, you can 'hot swap' all of these drives if you use a RAID configuration and a RAID controller, but that is not what Mike intends to do here. I think Mike wants the ability to put a completely different data volume on the same eSATA port without rebooting. ^ A comparison with Ultra ATA Technology (PDF). SATA-IO. Retrieved on 2007-07-12. - Brian * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] esata
SATA is just a new way of attaching fixed drives. E-SATA is an external connection that is shielded (uses shielded cable), while internal SATA connections are unshielded. While in principle, one could make such connections removable (or whatever), I don't think it is done by default. Is Vista supposed to make all SATA drives removable? Just those for which the motherboard supports it? Fred Holmes At 08:19 PM 7/23/2008, mike wrote: I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list for drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a setting? Perhaps a BIOS setting? RAID is not enabled on the box. Mike * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
