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Post by rezonate on May 30, 2017 8:34:52 GMT -8
The Stephen Fry article from the weekend reminded me to post about this topic. Apple once broadcast a lot of pride in their cluster computing efforts. As they moved to thunderbolt the promise of seamless sharing of processors should have become reality. Instead, we never got a consumer xGrid interface, or anything remotely resembling consumer-level distributed computing. Same thing with distributed local storage, where your home cluster could share open space. Any efforts went away in favor of iCloud. And don't get me wrong, iCloud is great for small Pages or Preview files. What about the hundreds of movies I have gathered over the years? All these home movies?
Apple wants us to store all our photos in the cloud, but unlike our music, they want us to pay for it. Why can't we just leverage the networked empty storage on our local devices? Of course the answer is 'not in Apple's financial best interest." But isn't Apple about customer experience? If Apple provided the only seamless home user infrastructure, as easy as setting up a time capsule for backups, wouldn't that be in their best interest of stickiness, ease of use, or exceptional customer experience?
With the Mac Pro due for a refresh, with Alexa etc eating up first mover advantage for home control, with local files getting ever larger, what's stopping Apple from *finally* releasing a home server solution?
And what the heck ever happened to iBeacons?
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Post by benoir on Sept 5, 2017 2:49:06 GMT -8
...and what ever happened to OSX Server? I'm still using OSX Server 10.5 at work on a 2008 Mac Pro. Reliable but every IT person I come across says don't migrate beyond 10.6.
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Post by aapl on Feb 22, 2019 17:24:28 GMT -8
Yes, stick with 10.6.8 if your software allows it - mine still does. I manage a Prepress department and still run OS X server 10.6.8 on a Mac Pro (the 2007 G5 Xserve doesn't match intel Mac Pro's) with connection via fibre to a rock solid XRaid (bought in 2007 and no failed parts or drives yet - knocking on wood as I type this) and fibre to a tape library plus 1 GB and 10GB network cards to iSCSI storage and user network. Apple didn't know what they had when they cancelled those professional products.
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Post by benoir on Feb 22, 2019 18:07:12 GMT -8
Ahh 10.6..8... what an OS We are running 10.5 server on a 2009 Mac Pro. Replaced the graphics card on it a month ago a brought it back to life. I did experiment running Mojave file server and time machine server while working out how to resurrect our Mac Pro. -
A workaround but happy being back on 10.5 server.everything just works the way I like it.
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