Aggressively staking its claim as the lone company outside of Apple selling Mac OS X systems
Oh please... Aggressively? Staking a claim? Give me a break. Come on AI, let's stop with the sensationalistic "journalism" already. Or are you trying to be funny?
Oh thank god someone brought back the floppy drive after a 10 year absence. 1.4 MB of storage is the gold-standard you know, especially for server software! They are very reliable too. LOL. Wow, these guys are really dumb! I don't think anyone has purchased a Pycrap system, except for Macworld, to prove how crappy it really is!
I have a box of floppies from the early Mac days and after upgrading, realized I don't have any hardware to read them anymore. Thankfully I found a floppy drive in good condition on eBay for $49. There was an LC 575 wrapped around the drive too. He he. Always nice to boot up System 7 to run some old classic programs from time to time. It is even connected to my home network with a CommSlot Ethernet card. FileSharing only works using Fetch and FTP to Leopard, but it prints to my LaserJet 6MP, also on Ethernet.
A server with a floppy drive! Damn, that is funny!
Oh please... Aggressively? Staking a claim? Give me a break. Come on AI, let's stop with the sensationalistic "journalism" already. Or are you trying to be funny?
I don't see anything wrong with it. I know of no other company selling OSx86 on a pre-built PC. I also see the odd move to sell an OSx86 Server as quite aggressive.
...until they confirm whether I can have one of these custom built with 6 floppy drives. I plan to set my server up with a flopRAID so I can really move some bytes.
Sometimes, some comments on AI sound pretty clueless.
Floppy is used to install drivers and update firmware. For example, you bought a new RAID card, hook up 6 super fast SAS drives, and want to install Windows on it, but Windows installer doesn't have the driver. Download the driver to the floppy and Windows will find it.
And for a server, RAID is absolutely necessary.
Or...you want to update the BIOS...same thing, copy the firmware updater to the floppy and boot from floppy.
Mac users don't encounter this problem because Apple is simply more elegant..... and there are much fewer hardware choices (how many RAID card are available for Mac?) than for PC.
So, stop making fun of the floppy drive. It will still be standard component on servers for the next ten years....and even if it is not internal, the server admin would have a USB floppy drive hidden somewhere.
Oh thank god someone brought back the floppy drive after a 10 year absence. 1.4 MB of storage is the gold-standard you know, especially for server software! They are very reliable too.
You made my Day. Seriously though, It is VERY strange that Apple Hasn't Issued at least a "hi" note to Pystar. Apple, While Ignoring things and hoping they go away is a suprisingly effective strategy, It's not gonna happen with these people.
I was always one of those who argued that Apple would never, in 10 million years, license OS X. However, with the purchase of PA Semi, the announcement of Snow Leopard, and the lack of action against Psystar, I'm beginning to reevaluate that. If in a year or so they release new Macs with dedicated hardware accelerators (yeah, I know a lot of you don't think that's possible, but just as a wild speculation, OK?) to run the Core functions on, and Snow Leopard, as a lean, mean OS to orchestrate all those functions, maybe then they would license Leopard to run on generic PCs. In addition to giving Psystar a kick in the oblongs (who needs them when you can run OS X on any PC?) Apple would be able to say: "Here--try OS X and see if you like it! You do? Well, how would you like it to run 100 times faster? You would? Oh, sorry, you've got to buy a real Mac to do that!"
Of course, people have been talking about instantiating Window's function calls in hardware for at least 18 years that I've been reading about it. How come this has never happened? Because it's impossible? Because Microsoft won't let them? Because they can't even get a look at the code to emulate? Because Windows is such a convoluted Byzantine mess that it can't be done? I don't know. But if Apple did do this, I don't think they'd have any competition to worry about until Microsoft rebuilds Windows from the ground up as a modern, functional OS. (So...never.)
I'm not saying this is the path Apple will take, just that it's a path they could take, and it fits in with some of the puzzling events of recent weeks.
I wonder how Apple will ensure that you cant install OS X on normal PC, I know this will hurt the OSX86 community . Cause if Psystar action is not silenced, it is bound that more mac clones will start to appear in the market.
don't be short sighted. if it's well done, cracked and recompiled software can be more stable than the original piece, not to mention being less resource hog if they eliminate the continuous copy protection check.
just like how iphone jailbreak apps are stable, right?
seriously, what happens when apple updates the software and everything has to be cracked again? a real enterprise can't deal with all that. a real enterprise can afford xserves if they really need them over windows or linux servers.
psystar is also doing a huge disservice to the osx86 community, stealing their work for commercial product. psystar isn't contributing a thing.
Yeah whoever mentioned the '95 Darwin award was right, but at some point Apple won't stoop to the level of such morons. You get a server for reliability and support; if you're selling big-ticket items and your server(s) go(es) down, the money you saved on hardware goes out the window. I can't imagine Apple wasting lawyer time on ankle-biters like these guys; best defense is a good offence; now the acquisition of PA Semi makes even more sense; apple will innovate their way out competition that thinks all that they offer is a prettier box
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Aggressively staking its claim as the lone company outside of Apple selling Mac OS X systems
Oh please... Aggressively? Staking a claim? Give me a break. Come on AI, let's stop with the sensationalistic "journalism" already. Or are you trying to be funny?
I have a box of floppies from the early Mac days and after upgrading, realized I don't have any hardware to read them anymore. Thankfully I found a floppy drive in good condition on eBay for $49. There was an LC 575 wrapped around the drive too. He he. Always nice to boot up System 7 to run some old classic programs from time to time. It is even connected to my home network with a CommSlot Ethernet card. FileSharing only works using Fetch and FTP to Leopard, but it prints to my LaserJet 6MP, also on Ethernet.
A server with a floppy drive! Damn, that is funny!
Oh please... Aggressively? Staking a claim? Give me a break. Come on AI, let's stop with the sensationalistic "journalism" already. Or are you trying to be funny?
I don't see anything wrong with it. I know of no other company selling OSx86 on a pre-built PC. I also see the odd move to sell an OSx86 Server as quite aggressive.
Floppy is used to install drivers and update firmware. For example, you bought a new RAID card, hook up 6 super fast SAS drives, and want to install Windows on it, but Windows installer doesn't have the driver. Download the driver to the floppy and Windows will find it.
And for a server, RAID is absolutely necessary.
Or...you want to update the BIOS...same thing, copy the firmware updater to the floppy and boot from floppy.
Mac users don't encounter this problem because Apple is simply more elegant..... and there are much fewer hardware choices (how many RAID card are available for Mac?) than for PC.
So, stop making fun of the floppy drive. It will still be standard component on servers for the next ten years....and even if it is not internal, the server admin would have a USB floppy drive hidden somewhere.
Sometimes, some comments on AI sound pretty clueless.
CDs and Network connections are the norm and have been for some time. Even Dell's rack mounted servers only offer it as an external USB device.
But if you are going to use a hacked copy of OS X Server in your network then wanting or using a floppy drive may not be too far fetched.
Oh thank god someone brought back the floppy drive after a 10 year absence. 1.4 MB of storage is the gold-standard you know, especially for server software! They are very reliable too.
You made my Day. Seriously though, It is VERY strange that Apple Hasn't Issued at least a "hi" note to Pystar. Apple, While Ignoring things and hoping they go away is a suprisingly effective strategy, It's not gonna happen with these people.
Of course, people have been talking about instantiating Window's function calls in hardware for at least 18 years that I've been reading about it. How come this has never happened? Because it's impossible? Because Microsoft won't let them? Because they can't even get a look at the code to emulate? Because Windows is such a convoluted Byzantine mess that it can't be done? I don't know. But if Apple did do this, I don't think they'd have any competition to worry about until Microsoft rebuilds Windows from the ground up as a modern, functional OS. (So...never.)
I'm not saying this is the path Apple will take, just that it's a path they could take, and it fits in with some of the puzzling events of recent weeks.
if that wasn't bad enough, THESE GUYS still sell 8" floppies.
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And you can buy them in bulk if you need to!
And you can buy them in bulk if you need to!
Yeah, buy 'em in bulk. I bet a stack of them would be great glued together to use as a table base!
I like this one better:
Sounds better anyway.
don't be short sighted. if it's well done, cracked and recompiled software can be more stable than the original piece, not to mention being less resource hog if they eliminate the continuous copy protection check.
just like how iphone jailbreak apps are stable, right?
seriously, what happens when apple updates the software and everything has to be cracked again? a real enterprise can't deal with all that. a real enterprise can afford xserves if they really need them over windows or linux servers.
psystar is also doing a huge disservice to the osx86 community, stealing their work for commercial product. psystar isn't contributing a thing.
Psystar on Thursday has unveiled a pair of Xserve-like rackmount computers unofficially based on Apple's Mac OS X Leopard Server.
You mean you just noticed them on Thursday, they were on on PsyStar's website before Thursday.
I can't imagine any IT department supporting a server based system that's completely hacked.
OOOooooo! The plot thickens!