After reading all of these comments, i think i will avoid Windows. I hate to install stupid anti-virus software, that was one of the many reasons to leave Windows in the first place.
(Labview, Matlab, Origin). Since windows runs in a virtual machine, I just don't let it have access to my network connection.
Have your tried octave and scilab. I used those tools when I was working on DSL tech.
As for your virtual machine and internet connections, don't be paranoid.
The best way is to create a virtual machine, such that your virtual disk is a partition.
do not touch that partition by other programs.
Your windows VM will see just that partition, and nothing else. So it can clobber it with everything which is needed.
You can run your VM in NAT mode as oppsed to bridge mode, this will take care of all security holes.
On my home system(which is a virus and adware free windows system) I do lot of work in virtual machines, which I build myself with the vmware server,
In first I installed gentoo, in the second I am installing opensuse linux.
"SmartSleep lets your notebook just sleep while the battery has a high level. If the battery level drops below a certain point ( default is less then 20% or 20 minutes ) it will switch to sleep and hibernate. So you have the best of both worlds."
Seems like a pretty good idea for you book users.
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This looks like the place to pose this Q.
I have just installed VMware on my Intel MacPro inorder to run two pc programs in my office. We have a local mac server running DHCP for our workstations. The problem is the VMware does not see the server and therefor cant get a ip address. Is there something I still need to do so it can see the server and internal network?
I have just installed VMware on my Intel MacPro inorder to run two pc programs in my office. We have a local mac server running DHCP for our workstations. The problem is the VMware does not see the server and therefor cant get a ip address. Is there something I still need to do so it can see the server and internal network?
I knew the second I asked it would come to me Turns out I needed to change the network setting to Bridged rather than NAT, and the whole schlemiel works
Is Apple Care worth it?
I've owned my macbook for 3 months now and am starting to wonder if I should buy the Apple Care 3 year warranty. I have always avoided these types of extended plans in the past (even on my dSLR). However, as this is my first laptop and, given the history of Apple products being useable far longer than their PC equivalents, I'm seriously considering this.
Any thoughts/experiences?
E
I've owned my macbook for 3 months now and am starting to wonder if I should buy the Apple Care 3 year warranty. I have always avoided these types of extended plans in the past (even on my dSLR). However, as this is my first laptop and, given the history of Apple products being useable far longer than their PC equivalents, I'm seriously considering this.
Any thoughts/experiences?
E
All I can tell you is that I get it on my laptops.
Oh, and go one day over a year and you can't get the AppleCare. If you're going to get it, don't put it off.
I've owned my macbook for 3 months now and am starting to wonder if I should buy the Apple Care 3 year warranty. I have always avoided these types of extended plans in the past (even on my dSLR). However, as this is my first laptop and, given the history of Apple products being useable far longer than their PC equivalents, I'm seriously considering this.
Any thoughts/experiences?
E
My experience is "you can't go right". But with big ticket items like my camera bodies or my computer, I'd rather have erred on the side of having bought an extended warranty that I ended up not needing. Cellphones, P&S's, toasters . . . forget it.
I've owned my macbook for 3 months now and am starting to wonder if I should buy the Apple Care 3 year warranty. I have always avoided these types of extended plans in the past (even on my dSLR). However, as this is my first laptop and, given the history of Apple products being useable far longer than their PC equivalents, I'm seriously considering this.
Any thoughts/experiences?
E
Apple repairs are expensive, as in replace rather than repair for anything going wrong.
Normally I'm not an extended warranty type of guy... but I've bought the AppleCare for every Mac I've bought (all 7 of them). I think they price it reasonably, and the service you get is terrific. The 3 repairs I've had done over the years would have cost me more than I think I'll ever spend on apple care, so it's paid for itself for me in the long run.
Heh. You just explained part of the reason why, even though I'm a lifetime Mac user, I have never and will never buy an all-in-one iMac.
Sure, it's a trade off, but one that's well worth it, IMO. You're making a decision based on what MIGHT happen, I like the iMac for what it gives me from day one through day 1,264.
Regardless if your Mac or PC
I'm reading a book caled, "Eniacs" right now. It's about how the first computers were created and it's origins. It's really crazy how we take things for granted.
It wasn't until 1942 that the idea of using electricity in vacuum tubes instead of mechanical wheels that relied on precise positioning for accurate calculations.
I have a machine sitting quietly on my desktop that would literally fill up Qwest filed stadium to match it's computing power 50 years ago. Not to mention it would sound like a harrier taking off on your head..
It wasn't until 1942 that the idea of using electricity in vacuum tubes instead of mechanical wheels that relied on precise positioning for accurate calculations.
I spent my first few years learning & repairing valve amplifiers with the military. I think you will find that valves & their use originated way way before 1942. More like the early 1900's.
My job as an 18 year old nobody was to start one of these up for the sonar every morning. It used to scare the living bejebus out of me ! It was full of mercury.
I spent my first few years learning & repairing valve amplifiers with the military. I think you will find that valves & their use originated way way before 1942. More like the early 1900's.
My job as an 18 year old nobody was to start one of these up for the sonar every morning. It used to scare the living bejebus out of me ! It was full of mercury.
To act as electrical relays or computers? The vacume tube was around a long time before that. But the idea of taking the mechanical calculator and replacing it's functions w/ 100% electricity was in the early 40's. The computers were shortly following that.
Your talking about dedicated electronics that couldn't calculate 2+2. They just did their job (and very well at the time).
Mercury filled transmission receivers were invented around the 1900's but that was designed for Radar first then adopted by Sonar.
I was a Sonar Tech on the Sub in the Navy. It was a cake job, just stunk that I had to be underwater for so long. It was really cool when I got to actually do my job and be all Secret Squirrel though ..
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Also remember that the safest way to stay clear of some of the nasties is to turn it off and disconnect it from the network when you are not using it.
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As for your virtual machine and internet connections, don't be paranoid.
The best way is to create a virtual machine, such that your virtual disk is a partition.
do not touch that partition by other programs.
Your windows VM will see just that partition, and nothing else. So it can clobber it with everything which is needed.
You can run your VM in NAT mode as oppsed to bridge mode, this will take care of all security holes.
On my home system(which is a virus and adware free windows system) I do lot of work in virtual machines, which I build myself with the vmware server,
In first I installed gentoo, in the second I am installing opensuse linux.
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Maybe I should have posted that over in the Vista thread....
http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html
"SmartSleep lets your notebook just sleep while the battery has a high level. If the battery level drops below a certain point ( default is less then 20% or 20 minutes ) it will switch to sleep and hibernate. So you have the best of both worlds."
Seems like a pretty good idea for you book users.
I have just installed VMware on my Intel MacPro inorder to run two pc programs in my office. We have a local mac server running DHCP for our workstations. The problem is the VMware does not see the server and therefor cant get a ip address. Is there something I still need to do so it can see the server and internal network?
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I've owned my macbook for 3 months now and am starting to wonder if I should buy the Apple Care 3 year warranty. I have always avoided these types of extended plans in the past (even on my dSLR). However, as this is my first laptop and, given the history of Apple products being useable far longer than their PC equivalents, I'm seriously considering this.
Any thoughts/experiences?
E
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All I can tell you is that I get it on my laptops.
Oh, and go one day over a year and you can't get the AppleCare. If you're going to get it, don't put it off.
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Apple repairs are expensive, as in replace rather than repair for anything going wrong.
Normally I'm not an extended warranty type of guy... but I've bought the AppleCare for every Mac I've bought (all 7 of them). I think they price it reasonably, and the service you get is terrific. The 3 repairs I've had done over the years would have cost me more than I think I'll ever spend on apple care, so it's paid for itself for me in the long run.
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Heh. You just explained part of the reason why, even though I'm a lifetime Mac user, I have never and will never buy an all-in-one iMac.
There's a rivalry?
There are PC/Vista folks?
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EXACTLY! Where the *&^% is the desktop MAC?
Sure, it's a trade off, but one that's well worth it, IMO. You're making a decision based on what MIGHT happen, I like the iMac for what it gives me from day one through day 1,264.
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(my weekly down-time for maintenance on my Sony Vaio XP surpasses my yearly total downtime for my Macbook)
In the 1980s, the critics were saying in defence of MS-DOS that if the Mac's mouse broke, the computer would be useless!
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And how could it possibly work if it doesn't have an optical drive/3.5" floppy/5" floppy/tape drive/punch card?
And then there was the Macbook Air! Not even an optical drive.
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I'm reading a book caled, "Eniacs" right now. It's about how the first computers were created and it's origins. It's really crazy how we take things for granted.
It wasn't until 1942 that the idea of using electricity in vacuum tubes instead of mechanical wheels that relied on precise positioning for accurate calculations.
I have a machine sitting quietly on my desktop that would literally fill up Qwest filed stadium to match it's computing power 50 years ago. Not to mention it would sound like a harrier taking off on your head..
Crazy.
My job as an 18 year old nobody was to start one of these up for the sonar every morning. It used to scare the living bejebus out of me ! It was full of mercury.
Your talking about dedicated electronics that couldn't calculate 2+2. They just did their job (and very well at the time).
Mercury filled transmission receivers were invented around the 1900's but that was designed for Radar first then adopted by Sonar.
I was a Sonar Tech on the Sub in the Navy. It was a cake job, just stunk that I had to be underwater for so long. It was really cool when I got to actually do my job and be all Secret Squirrel though