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I like that Apple uses Torx. On machine that use phillips, I've found, even with much care and using the right size head, they tend to strip rather quickly.
My PB has been pulled apart many times, and the torx screws show very little sign of wear.
I went out and got a nice screwdriver with interchangeable bits. Had I not needed torx, I wouldn't have. But now I've used that screwdriver so many times for other things, I'm really glad I got it.
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Back on the ZFS note, I found one thing I don't like:
No more volumes
Every time you add a disk to your Mac you see another disk icon on the desktop. If you want to RAID some disks you use Disk Utility (or something) to create the volume. Slow, error-prone, confusing.
ZFS eliminates the whole volume concept. Add a disk or five to your system and it joins your storage pool. More capacity. Not more management.
I like having different volumes. I put the system on one, files on another... that should work faster than striping the system and the files across two drives. Not only that, but what about taking precautions against drive failure? I like to put files on one drive, then copy to another drive each night. If I can no longer do that, wont I lose data when a drive fails?
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[quote M A V I C]
I like having different volumes. I put the system on one, files on another... that should work faster than striping the system and the files across two drives. Not only that, but what about taking precautions against drive failure? I like to put files on one drive, then copy to another drive each night. If I can no longer do that, wont I lose data when a drive fails?
I would think that you could still have separate "volumes". For example, you could group two drives into volume A, and three drives into volume B, etc. Not just sucking every available drive into one virtual disk (unless you wanted it to).
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> I remember that company that sold the $25 Mac Case Cracker Kit, it was
> the same company that in 1986 starting selling the $30 "ADB Extender" cable,
> it was the same gray six foot S-Video cable extender I would buy in Studio City
> for five bucks.
Yes! That was me that bought the Cracker Kit! But not $25 -- more like $20. You see, I got a deal along with the ImageWriter Ribbon Re-Inking Machine. Wow, did that thing ever make a mess.
Is an ADB cable really the same as S-Video? (*shocked*) (*wish I'd thought of this*)
This is killing me.
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[quote tenders]Is an ADB cable really the same as S-Video? (*shocked*) (*wish I'd thought of this*)
This is killing me.
Almost exactly, the impedance is off by a bit, but I never had one fail!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_video#Connector
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[quote tenders]> TORX screws used on the original Mac, called "Proprietary" by the industry
> pundits, "the tools required to open up the Mac are only available from Apple" total
> BS, TORX screws were invented by Textron and were an industry standard years
> before Apple was even a company.
I dunno about this one. You must admit that didn't *help* consumers open their Macs considering that most other $2000 PC hardware at the time used Phillips screws. The HEADS of the Mac Plus retaining screws most certainly were standard Torx (and are used on lots of other things, including car taillight lenses) but at least two of those screws sat at the bottom of a deep, narrow tunnel. Any ordinary driver was both too short and too fat to fit down there. The TOOL to open the Plus was a bizarre piece of hex-sided metal rod, 12 inches long, with a handle twisted in the shape of a "T"...you can't tell me that's a standard part.
This was not accidental. The original Macs were deliberately designed not to be owner upgradable; as per Jobs' vision for the product, an owner would NEVER crack a Mac case.
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[quote BigGuynRusty]ADB "Apple Proprietary, cable only available from Apple for megabucks!" More BS, it is a mini-DIN cable, also called "S-Video" cables.
In all fairness, ADB hit the market well before S-video did (at least at the consumer level). ADB was introduced in 1987, while consumer S-Video was introduced sometime around 1991, IIRC.
[quote BigGuynRusty]3,5" Floppies, the industry flipped when Apple introed the Sony discs. Quickly adopted by the same industry that flipped out over another perceived "Apple Proprietary" item.
LOVED those when they came out (didn't love the price premium, though). I never understood why it took the industry so long to make the switch.
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While Apple has added ZFS support to Leopard, so far Apple HAS NOT implemented it in any way that allows BOOTING from a ZFS partition.
Apple has been playing at supporting common Unix and Linux file systems in Leopard. When Leopard is released, it is likely that you will be able to initialize data drives as ZFS volumes. It is extremely unlikely that Leopard will boot from a ZFS volume.
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BTW, here's a great marketing logo for the forthcoming OS update:
"Leopard: It's splenZFerouS!"
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> Is creating "just a GUI" like Time Machine really that easy? I'd imagine that if 'anyone
> could do it,' someone else already would have done so...
You mean, like Microsoft?
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsSer...x?mfr=true
It does have pretty animations, though. MS didn't do that. It's an Apple first!
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