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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody If anyone is tired of reading the loose thoughts and hateful remarks of "harley" here, there is a new interesting development. Ryan Tate of Gawker got in an email fight with Steve Jobs and posted the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cvaldes1831 Lam and Chen's careers in high-tech journalism are finished. Right now, Denton is trying to figure out the cheapest way to extract his company from this brouhaha and then unceremoniously dump his two loyal …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpotOn Lesson to be learned. You get a pre-release anything, take pictures and sell the information anonymously for cash and then dispose of the thing. Don´t tell your friends, don´t tell anyone and don´t return …
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Quote: Originally Posted by djames42 When I work from home, I use my own MacBook Pro. My company does not provide a VPN client for the Mac, but that's just fine - I prefer to run my VPN inside of a VM, so when I'm remote I am 90% working with W…
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Quote: Originally Posted by djames42 Oh, using Citrix adds a whole new (primarily wonderful) dimension. We've been doing this in my office for years as well - not (specifically) for isolating mission critical applications from the outside, but fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chris_CA It is not geared for people sitting in the office at work. It is geared towards those that travel and work from home. And it won't be an IT nightmare because about the only thing the IT department will have t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Onhka Your comments indicate to the contrary. A Case in Point: Bring your Own PC Reinvents The Corporate PC: A Citrix Systems Case Study http://simplicityispower.citrix.com/...rporate-pc.pdf And even a future pos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cgc0202 Technically, what you stated is correct to avoid discrimination. The program though was initiated to accommodate Mac users in a Wintel-based environment. Mac users were the ones who lobbied to have this option…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE It helps to read the article: "Kraft Foods helps pay for the costs with a stipend. In return, you agree to maintain your own computer and follow certain guidelines," Meaning, buy your own Mac/Linux if yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JasonQ13 I wonder if they're using the Mac XenApp client to connect to a XenApp server... this is how Citrix does BYOC... and sells it. That would make the most sense. Deploying from a central location would solve …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sfoalex I've been doing this for years. I have bought my own PCs and Macs, my own software licenses, etc. Letting your employer pick your software and hardware is easily one of the biggest mistakes in corporate america…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE Based on the article each employee who decide to use his own Mac must do his own support. I think the IT people couldn't be much happier. I've found that quasi-technical people "doing their own support" mak…
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Quote: Originally Posted by agl82 Apple had to release the kernel as open source. They stole it from FreeBSD! Nice token open source reference. Here's the truth: "With the release of Mac OS X for x86 processors, Apple has chosen to not re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Exactly. That is a world that most of us -- and Apple -- do not understand. I am not saying better or worse, just that it's different. We should be somewhat less bombastic and less dismissive in our a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by isaidso If one is comparing laptops, these are the three most important things. Anybody making an argument for a Dell or whatever other laptop, over an Mac portable, must account for these three elements. If not; you'…
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To me it's pretty obvious that gizmodo expected this. They are going to portray themselves as victims of the apple machine and do a ton of giz vs apple articles. It's what I'd do if I were them. Engadget passed after talking to their lawyers. I'm s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by WilliamG Has your hospital decided to replace anything with iPads? We're still researching. We did a proof of concept last week demoing a large number of applications to our executives. Our executives were giddy, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by NVolosin Here is a link to the video of the TV news referenced which shows the iPad in action: http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?se...ogy&id=7371667 Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdao4iPYczc …
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Quote: Originally Posted by PaulMJohnson That's a very good point, I'd not thought of that. Back in the day I wrote software in the aerospace industry (for cockpit displays and controls) and it was similar there - unless it absolutely definite…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaveGee While I might be mistaken, Citrix is a proprietary form of VNC with some additional benefits that VNC doesn't (usually?) provide for I'd be quite surprised if the client or server was actually written in/with F…