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[longmarch]

The Macolytes must be catching on to UNIX quicker than expected. I'm in the Willow Bend Apple store, and Terminal is disabled on everything but the new towers. Ran the bench on the towers, but some guy kept going around and shutting down my sessions as I walked from one machine to the next.

[Magus]

Wow, the Macolytes are improving to match their OS.
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<Paolo|Work> anything that has to do with Java is by definition stupid

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-HitScan

Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone

[longmarch]

Shortly after I posted this I discovered:

1) The portly blackshirt killing my terminals was killing aps on all the machines, presumably to render them more snappy;

and

2) The one kid in the store who seemed somewhat UNIX savy (and the only one there who knows jack about OS X Server) didn't know about the openssl speed test. He thought it was pretty neat.

In retrospect, it seems I was overestimating the Apple Store's deviousness, though I still don't know why they had terminal disabled on all the slow machines but not the towers.

I will give them this: Apple lets you screw with their demo models more than any vendor I've ever seen.

Edit: I should add that, as expected the dual 867 runs these routines around twice as fast as my single 400, the differnce being that the speed doesn't degrade when you have a bunch of other aps running. The creamy smoothness of SMP in action. I was also interested to see that Virtual PC 5, despite supposedly being coded for SMP, is still pretty slow, perhaps somewhat slower than the old 50% rule of thumb.

[jdsmith575]

Screw VirtualPC. Give Remote Desktop Connection a try. I just showed it to the Mac guy at the local CompUSA. It looked like he was going to crap his pants in excitement. As long as you have an available PC handy, it's great. www.mactopia.com
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[Magus]

Remote Desktop? Is that anything like Terminal Services?
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<Paolo|Work> anything that has to do with Java is by definition stupid

1 The Network is my domain, I shall not want; 2 though it makes me wait upon collision, it leads me to the Internet; 3 it restores my connection. It leads me in paths of hypertext transfer for google's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of power failures, I fear no data corruption; for backups art with me; thy UPS and thy status light, they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a firewall before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my CD-R with BurnProof, my buffer never underflows. 6 Surely good deals and pr0n shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Datacenter for ever.
-HitScan

Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone

[jdsmith575]

Possibly maybe.
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I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are.
"I can tell that you're a renaissance man... and by that I mean a sissy." - Scott Adams
"Gold Bond works wonders though, it's like 1000 fairies blowing on your nuts." - Short Bus Driver
"I learned something really important in college today. I don't want to be there." - King of the Hill

[longmarch]

JD, you were saying on Ars that it was as slow as Dan Quayle doing addition. What gives? Is it as slow as VPC?

I need VPC or Bochs or something if I ever buy the iBook that has my name on it. Bochs is free, but the last time I looked at it, it was barely operational.

[jdsmith575]

I don't think I've ever said anything regarding Dan Quayle, ever. Must have been someone else.

Personal experience:
VirtualPC running XP on a 2x1Ghz G4 with 256 DDR = fairly slow. Like, annoyingly slow. Like, I'd much rather pull out an old PC, reformat it, and put XP on it, slow.
RDC connecting to a PC running XP with decent specs = fairly slow, but better than VirtualPC.
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I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are.
"I can tell that you're a renaissance man... and by that I mean a sissy." - Scott Adams
"Gold Bond works wonders though, it's like 1000 fairies blowing on your nuts." - Short Bus Driver
"I learned something really important in college today. I don't want to be there." - King of the Hill

[longmarch]

[jdsmith575]

It isn't a replacement for gameing though. (The one true use for Windows. )
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I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are.
"I can tell that you're a renaissance man... and by that I mean a sissy." - Scott Adams
"Gold Bond works wonders though, it's like 1000 fairies blowing on your nuts." - Short Bus Driver
"I learned something really important in college today. I don't want to be there." - King of the Hill