Re: Faster List Checking
Re: Faster List Checking
- Subject: Re: Faster List Checking
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:35:39 -0400
On or about 5/29/03 8:09 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
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At 5:22 AM -0400 29/5/03, John Stewart wrote:
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> 2. What about Mac OS X? Mac OS 9 is a dead horse and predicating
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> a script on it seems a bit limited.
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Well, in the offices that I work in, at several sites, there are lots
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of iMacs running OS9. Everyone loves their mac and no-one is buying a
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new computer unless they are forced to. If anyone here pretends that
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9 is gone they're kidding themselves. I took an LC475 off the network
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earlier this year - running system 7. It's funny how unbroken things
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keep working when you don't fix them :-) The drive in the 7500PPC
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took a bow so I decided to give the LC475's HD a new home. Very sad
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to see that machine go. I have three PPCs sitting on my desk with
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death sentences - when the drive goes they will be a lot of fancy
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junk. Can't get SCSI drives anymore :-(
Exactly. And my unbroken OS9 will be kicking for many years, I am
absolutely convinced.
Malcolm, my very own PPC7500 sits loudly to my right, and keeps up its duty
of serving FTP and allowing me to keep using my non-USB LaserWriter on the
local network. And, the SCSI scanner is right there with it. (Luckily,
Timbuktu allows me to access the PPC7500, which now runs in headless mode
without a monitor. I scan from OS9, via the PPC and TB2.)
The local school district, for which I just finished a Needs Assessment, had
one absolute: We will not move to OSX from OS9. That's 2 rolling iBook
labs, with 22 iBooks per cart, umpteen iMacs on teacher's desks, library
Macs, administration Macs, student lab Macs. Times 7 schools.
OS9 is NOT going anywhere, nor will developers if they decide to snub the
OS9 base.
I found it interesting that the number of OSX downloads and OS9 downloads
for a recent download were only about 100 downloads different. Interpret
that how you will, but to me it says that 9 is Fine.
One issue that has been raised by both education and government purchasers:
OS9 is more secure than OSX, precisely because OSX is Unix-based.
I am not technically skilled enough to weigh the detailed merits of that
argument, but it makes intuitive sense. I have never had a virus (well, a
HyperCard virus once); I have never been hacked through the LinkSys
firewall; no one has ever broken into my Mac's security (the shareware
Sesame).
--
Gary
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