On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:41 AM, John C. Welch wrote:
Ah, you want magic. You want to turn it on, enter a serial number,
and have
a server magically configure itself to whatever network setup you
have, with
100% flawless performance every time, and you never have to look at
the box
for any reason.
That's magic. You expect a generic software product to, quite
literally,
read your mind for data you don't know, map your network, read it's
configuration perfectly, and then set itself up perfectly.
I hate to sound like a fanboy (too old for that) but if you remember,
this is one of the things that Apple has done rather well in the past,
making complex setup easy.
I submit the Mac OS installation as an example of that.
However, I can also submit areas of great suckage from Apple where
improvement is seriously needed or has been in the past thereby
relinquishing my budding fanboy status.
I submit changing the configuration of an airport after you have
purchased it from someone else in that regard.
Also, I do remember the simplicity of Apple's pre OS X Server -
something that was very easy to use (deploy) yet limited to that old
crashy OS we knew and loved/tolerated.
Apple can do this. It's not magic, it's good design.
Cheers,
- Alex Zavatone
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