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Quote: Originally Posted by Quagga Apple would have a much stronger leg to stand on anti-piracy wise if there were ways for me to run my own code on my own device. However, since I don't have any of my own code, I don't really care about jailbre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Povilas Maybe it's just your incompetence? Because my experience is 180 degress different. What incompetence? According to the article, OS/X server is fire-and-forget. Click a button and it all just works. How is…
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When Ballmer is talking about market share being a rounding error, he's talking about browser market share, not OS market share. The latest reports show Safari is at 4% and Chrome is at 3%. Not exactly a rounding error but still a small percentage…
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The copy-on-write snapshots are only a nerd toy while they're tied to the command-line. Tie them into Time Machine and you've opened up document versions directly to users. Imagine this scenario: you're using your laptop away from home and open up…
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I forgot to mention the other major use of snapshots - system updates. Another page taken from OpenSolaris - system updates make use of the snapshot feature. You can easily roll back to before a system update. Since Apple doesn't use a system-wid…
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I think you greatly underestimate the usefulness of snapshots. Snapshots only use disk space for the block-level differences between snapshots and the current state so they take relatively little space. OpenSolaris has already implemented a Time M…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lafe An interesting side-note to this story is that it highlights the HUGE difference in data infrastructure available in other countries vs. what is available to us in the USA. AT&T's wonderful 3G upgrade still…
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Delaware is leaching sales from MD, PA and NJ due to it's tax-free status. People are quite willing to drive an hour to save $150 in sales tax.