How Steve Jobs got Microsoft to pay for Jaguar’s Development.
Mac OS X has already become a hit with many consumers. Now, with Jaguar, Apple is about to make their systems as easy to adopt in the corporate world as they have been for consumers to do at home.
Jaguar, Apple’s next major update to OS X, is going to be packed so full of juicy networking compatibility for the corporate market, it isn’t even funny. By adding VPN connections, Exchange Server compatibility for e-mail services, the ability to hook up to any IP network and dynamically seek out available shares, servers and printers without typing in long and involved paths, the ability to share files from a Mac to Window’s users, to visually browse a windows network; suddenly there’s virtually nothing standing in the way of using a Mac on an enterprise network. Except for IT, that is.
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Last Sunday night Barbara and I had a group of friends over for dinner. Discussion centered on “Unfaithful,” a current movie starring Diane Lane and Richard Gere. Everyone had strong feelings about the film. We were urged to view it soon.
Yesterday afternoon we saw “Unfaithful,” and reacted immediately to it, but not in a way we anticipated. The following comments are for readers either who have already been to this picture, or who don’t plan to watch it. If you intend to go to “Unfaithful,” wait until afterward to read these essays.
Like “In the Bedroom,” another celebrated recent serious adult drama, “Unfaithful” is over-rated. We should have read the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes before going, because we wouldn’t have bothered. Earlier this week we saw “Monsoon Wedding,” which was our most enjoyable movie in months.
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LINKSYS “Instant PowerLine Series”
Company: LINKSYS
EtherFast 10/100 Bridge #PLEBR10 ($99.00)
LINKSYS “Instant Broadband Series”
EtherFast Cable/DSL Router #BEFSR41 ($79.00)
http://www.linksys.com
MyMac.com is privileged to be the initial publication covering a new way of sharing broadband Internet service among two or more Macintosh computers. This technology must be sophisticated, but the concept is simple: plug your broadband Ethernet source cable into a router, which distributes the 14Mbps (that’s fast!) signal over your normal electrical lines to the destination Macs via “bridge” units using additional Ethernet cables.
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