AirPort Software Base Station back in Jaguar...
If this is widely known already, feel free to delete this thread (sorry for the clutter), but I just found this:
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/morefeatures.html"; target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/morefeatures.html</a>;
Scroll down to the bottom where it talks about networking and all.
Very good news!
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/morefeatures.html"; target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/morefeatures.html</a>;
Scroll down to the bottom where it talks about networking and all.
Very good news!
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But to have it FINALLY there, as a REAL feature, FROM Apple, as easy/logical to configure and use as it was in OS 9 is what I'm talking about.
NOBODY liked messing around with the various workarounds and stuff. And they shouldn't HAVE to, since Apple themselves had it in a previous OS. They only needed to extract they heads from their iButts and bring it back to OS X.
All the power and stability of OS X married with some of the nicer, more used features of OS 9 (spring loaded folders, software Base Station, etc.) makes for a really wonderful computing experience.
No reason to throw out EVERYTHING from the OS 9 era, you know? Just adapt it, make it better, put a pretty Aqua shell on it, make thousands of Mac users happy, etc.
Isn't rocket science...
Does anyone know if the software base station can do bridging?
"Isn't rocket science"
These two quotes say a lot about how people mistakenly view the transition from OS 9 to OS X. They are common views, but utterly wrong.
There is a perception out there that if something that was part of OS 9 isn't in OS X, then this proves that Apple isn't doing its job well. The issue of the software base station is an excellent example of how wrong this attitude is. The interactions between software and hardware within the computer are sometimes so completely different between OS 9 and OS X that creating a software base station for OS X had very little to do with how they did it in OS 9.
It IS rocket science; meaning that it's genuinely hard to twist the UNIX part of OS X to accomplish what the designers want. [A really good example of this is spring-loaded folders. Many people's response to its presence in 10.2 has been "It's about time!!!" Instead, people should be hailing this incredible manipulation of an entirely new graphical interface as a major achievement.]
Sorry for the rant, but I just felt that this issue was a good example of a common theme that I think that people should keep in mind as we progress into OS X.
Any help is appreciated!!
As for sleep I don't know if it works or not in Jaguar.
And of course both computers have to have a airport card, how do you expect to serve up internet connections if you can't broadcast with anything.
In OS 9, software basestation took up some CPU but you could still do other things at the same time, it's not like it's solely devoted to serving.
Airport BaseStation(That trianglular little wireless server) emulated through software.
$300 if you would but an Apple basestation
maybe $150 if you'd buy a DLINK or Netgear basestation.
But, $100 less if you wouldn't otherwise buy an Airport card for the Mac you'd use as a basestation
Advantage: Convenient in a pinch
It's nice if you just happen to plug in someplace and want to share the wireless connection.
Disadvantage: Leave the Mac on all day
Since you'll have to keep the basestation Mac running all the time; this brings some marginal electricity cost, plus inconvenience, noise, etc.
Disadvantage: It's not a base station
* The coverage won't be as good as some of the better basestations (but about the same as an Apple basestation).
* Every time you reboot that Mac for a software update, or just mess it up, everyone else loses their internet connection.