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Are You Being Served? (12/12/00)
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So are we slipping in our old age? Well, yes, but that's not why we completely missed last Friday's Naked Mole Rat update. See, the previous NMR report was filed a mere nine days prior, and it was at that point that we had firmly established what we assumed to be the Rat's immutable six-week posting cycle-- so you can see why a new update less than a week and a half later took us completely by surprise. Not only that, but last Friday was the twentieth anniversary of John Lennon's death, so we figured that the Rat, of all people, would spend the day in silent mourning or whatever. (If he ever posts on Lou Reed's birthday, then something is horribly, horribly awry.)
Anyway, we missed it, and it fell to faithful viewer Reefdog to fill us in on the Rat's surprisingly prompt reappearance. Whereas last time around the Gay Blade regaled us with tales of Mac OS X's January Expo no-show, in this installment he tackles the thorny issue of Mac OS X Server-- the Operating System Formerly Known As Rhapsody which essentially amounted to a PowerPC port of NeXTSTEP with a Mac OS Platinum appearance, some Mac-friendly file-serving capabilities, and a notably untransparent "Blue Box" compatibility environment. It was, in short, a pre-Mac OS X Mac OS X, and it's had a spotty record of support from the Apple Store, from which the product has vanished and reappeared on a number of occasions. (It is there now, should you want a copy.)
So the future of Mac OS X Server has been in doubt, what with the impending release of the "actual" version of Mac OS X due any month now. According to the Rat, here's what's going to happen: Mac OS X Server 2.0 will actually see the light of day when the next Worldwide Developers Conference throws down in May. Rather than being a whole separate operating system (such as Windows 98 and Windows 2000), the new version of Server will actually be a host of services that sits atop the standard Mac OS X, and adds such scrummy serveresque features to the "client" OS as remote-administration capabilities, NetBoot, WebObjects, QuickTime Streaming Server, and more. Think of it sort of like AppleShare IP on steroids. So fear not, Mac OS X Server trailblazers-- it appears you aren't being orphaned after all.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/12/00 episode: December 12, 2000: Business Week has a thing or two to learn about mandatory drug testing for its writers. Meanwhile, a Cube wannabe on eBay reveals the real difference between Mac users and Wintel folks, and word has it that Mac OS X Server 2.0 is slated for a WWDC release this May...
Other scenes from that episode: 2735: Never Lick And Write, Kids (12/12/00) Well, originally we had opted to ignore Business Week's latest "Street Wise" article on Apple's alleged return to beleaguerment in hopes that the author, Sam Jaffe, would eventually realize that he has a problem and admit that he wrote it after having licked a certain species of toad... 2736: Jon Ive Isn't Paid Enough (12/12/00) Ladies and gentlemen, we have seen the dark side of human nature-- and believe us, it ain't pretty. Do you really want to know why Apple can't rely on stunning industrial design as the primary method by which it can grow its customer base?...
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