On 03/10/2008 11:11 AM, "Alex Zavatone" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
Oh, there's tons more. Dynamic DNS, the DNS UI in general, changing IPs on
the server, the inabilty to view your entire directory as a whole, the lack
of extensibility for Server Admin, in spite of many years of "real soon
now", SNMP in 10.4 on Intel boxes, etc. Apple has, like every other vendor,
a LONG list of "Things That Suck".
>
> 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.
Having archived far too much mail from the ASIP list, there were just as
many complaints about how hard it was to do things, how Apple was lying,
etc. ASIP was indeed easy to deply, *if you knew what you were doing*. If
you did not, you could, and many people constantly did, screw it right into
the ground. ESPECIALLY where Mac Manager was concerned.
>
> Apple can do this. It's not magic, it's good design.
Making it easier and better is always a goal. Making it so that you have to
do no work whatsoever, nor know anything about your network to set up a
server is magic.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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