Buying a Mac

I agree OSX does have flaws, no option to automount a network drive at logon? WTF?? Biggest fail on OSX I've experienced so far.
 
bwana said:
Huh?
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I have a samba(windows) drive that I access over wifi but at each logon I have to manually connect, I've looked for help on trying to automount the drive but no luck, maybe I missed something?

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@ the digicape guys, do you think you'll selling vodacom iPhones in future? ZAstore has a pre-order page so I wonder if they'll be selling them.
 
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Aqua_lung said:
I have a samba(windows) drive that I access over wifi but at each logon I have to manually connect, I've looked for help on trying to automount the drive but no luck, maybe I missed something?
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Mount the drive, drag the drive into your start up Login Items. (Its under your accounts pref pane).

Alternatively create an automator action and auto run that at startup.
 
Aqua_lung said:
I have a samba(windows) drive that I access over wifi but at each logon I have to manually connect, I've looked for help on trying to automount the drive but no luck, maybe I missed something?

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@ the digicape guys, do you think you'll selling vodacom iPhones in future? ZAstore has a pre-order page so I wonder if they'll be selling them.
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we do sell the iphones, as far as i know we have stock at the moment
as for automounting network drives it is entirely possible, u can do some terminal work if u feel like it, u can use the server hosting the shared drive to automount it, or u can use an app like automountmaker?

And i do agree each user should be responsible for their own machine, but its also irresponsible of a mac user to help the spread of the virus's around the network. Windows users arent some kind of heathen enemy??? if u can help then why not?
 
bwana said:
Mount the drive, drag the drive into your start up Login Items. (Its under your accounts pref pane).
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*gets down on knees and worships the mac*

Drag never worked but clicking add(plus) and browsing worked, thanks can't believe that I never thought of this or found the solution before.
 
Or we can trash their machines and tell them "I told you so!" then they buy Mac!

One more step to Apple's goal of taking over the world! Mwahaha! :p
 
Aqua_lung said:
*gets down on knees and worships the mac*

Drag never worked but clicking add(plus) and browsing worked, thanks can't believe that I never thought of this or found the solution before.
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No worries. :)

On a laptop I prefer the automator method so I can cancel it. Mac's suck big time when it comes to mounting missing drives/shares.
 
PeterCH said:
Well its the first gen 3GHz from the first batch Core brought into SA.
However at that time, a Dell with two dual core xeons at 3GHz
and the whole works would cost you even more. I can upgrade it to 2x quad
core though, but won't bother atm.

The Mac Pro is the closest you get to a PC in terms of upgradeability
as you can upgrade the CPU, memory, gfx card, add extra cards, add Wifi (Airport),
max of 6 HDs and BD/DVD drive(s).
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Eh? Since when can you upgrade the CPU without replacing the entire logic board?
 
Yeah I think you StbA is right, you'll need a new Logic Board if you are going to put bigger processors in. Not to mention the nightmare that you will go through to re-calibrate the thermal sensors to re-time the fans and stuff... eish...

Actually the new Mac Pro's can get up to 4 Graphics Cards. It's actually quite sick!
The memory potential is also amazing.

I'd be interested to know where you would pop the other 2 drives in the Mac Pro. It's only got 4 Drive Bays?
 
bwana said:
Can you name some viruses and malware that are in the wild infecting macs?
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Nope.

PeterCH said:
No viruses or malware unlike my PCs which warn me of virus and malware
threats on a daily basis.
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I can say the same.

None of this means that OSX is incapable of running viruses or malware.
It is important to be concise when making statements like: 'No viruses'.
It simply means, as bwana has alluded that there are currently no viruses or malware that are written for (and thus infecting) OSX, same goes for Linux.

This is a very different concept to the insinuation that it is not possible for a virus to infect a system running OSX. It is also a situation which is only true under the current circumstances, i.e.: could change at any moment (that moment being when some enterprising youngster decides to write a virus especially for OSX and all the folks out there who go round spouting things like: 'No viruses'.
 
PeterCH said:
No viruses or malware unlike my PCs which warn me of virus and malware
threats on a daily basis.
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what kinds of **** do you download man, can't remember when i last encountered a virus/malware on my 6 win xp pc's permanently connected to the inet
 
SlinkyMike said:
Nope.


I can say the same.

None of this means that OSX is incapable of running viruses or malware.
It is important to be concise when making statements like: 'No viruses'.
It simply means, as bwana has alluded that there are currently no viruses or malware that are written for (and thus infecting) OSX, same goes for Linux.

This is a very different concept to the insinuation that it is not possible for a virus to infect a system running OSX. It is also a situation which is only true under the current circumstances, i.e.: could change at any moment (that moment being when some enterprising youngster decides to write a virus especially for OSX and all the folks out there who go round spouting things like: 'No viruses'.
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Sure, but the security models used by UNIX variants tend to be more robust than those used by Windows.
 
wcoetzee said:
what kinds of **** do you download man, can't remember when i last encountered a virus/malware on my 6 win xp pc's permanently connected to the inet
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Google warns of malicious sites.
Kaspersky and Bitdefender (diff machines) warn about
risky html/active x controls/java script etc
Firewall blocks intrusion attempts on a common basis
 
PeterCH said:
Google warns of malicious sites.
Kaspersky and Bitdefender (diff machines) warn about
risky html/active x controls/java script etc
Firewall blocks intrusion attempts on a common basis
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stay away from the pr0n and crack search sites:D
as for the firewall, its what its designed for and still does not effect my pc and btw macs can be hacked too, its just code nothing to do with hardware
google? good for them
;)
 
wcoetzee said:
stay away from the pr0n and crack search sites:D
as for the firewall, its what its designed for and still does not effect my pc and btw macs can be hacked too, its just code nothing to do with hardware
google? good for them
;)
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That's on ordinary sites. I don't download from a.....box.sk any more, not since the 90's have ended. As for pr0n MET doesn't do Javascript or active-x,
ordinary sites do :). (kidding about MET though, it's way too expensive) :)

Having to run an AV product which wants 1-3MB per day in updates,
a Firewall product and an Anti-malware product not to mention a HIPS
product too. Don't need any of that nonsense on Mac. Not to mention
the ton of .exe virus attachments I get in my already scanned mweb mailbox.

The constant prompts about Program X reading Program Y's memory or windows
services want to connect out even though they were not asked too, its just too much
time. Constant popups - this update necessary or your USB device works (mouse) or
your network is connected or your network is malfunctioning (even though it works - iburps)
- no such nonsense on the Mac.

Honestly the Mac is the serious, mature OS. Windoze is a constant attention whore.
And the thing I hate most about Windows is when it steals the focus of attention, you
are typing something away, a stupid non-critical error dialog box appears and
your typing all goes to waste. Obviously the USER is the least important person in
this equation.
 
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That's on ordinary sites. I don't download from a.....box.sk any more, not since the 90's have ended. As for pr0n MET doesn't do Javascript or active-x,
ordinary sites do . (kidding about MET though, it's way too expensive)

I don't know man, I don't get that. btw I use FF3 maybe its a ie thing;)

Having to run an AV product which wants 1-3MB per day in updates,

I don't know what av you use on win but nod32 update is very small probably +- 200k

a Firewall product and an Anti-malware product not to mention a HIPS
product too. Don't need any of that nonsense on Mac. Not to mention
the ton of .exe virus attachments I get in my already scanned mweb mailbox.

i never get .exe virus attachments in my inbox, don't know where you picked up that bad luck:p

The constant prompts about Program X reading Program Y's memory or windows
services want to connect out even though they were not asked too, its just too much time.

your firewall is set too aggressive and or ask on every incident. set it to auto, don't worry it knows all the rules;)

Constant popups - this update necessary or your USB device works (mouse) or your network is connected or your network is malfunctioning (even though it works - iburps)
- no such nonsense on the Mac.

i actually like knowing what is happening instead of happily typing away blissfully ignorant

Honestly the Mac is the serious, mature OS. Windoze is a constant attention whore.
And the thing I hate most about Windows is when it steals the focus of attention, you are typing something away, a stupid non-critical error dialog box appears and your typing all goes to waste. Obviously the USER is the least important person in
this equation.

have to agree with you on the focus thing:(
 
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