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As suggested by others, not really. Only where it's DRM as required by the content owners (Movies, TV shows). It's not very hard or expensive to become an "approved" developer. Only iOS devices are restricted to the App Store, Mac owners can get their apps from anywhere they choose. However, from an end-user standpoint getting apps from a "walled garden" is safer (in regards to malware and payment details being compromised) and the user is less likely to pay for totally rubbish non-usable software because of the vetting process. Yes, it has its cons, but for many non-technical users it is a fantastic solution. Overall, there are no more restrictions or lock-in on Apple devices than PCs. If you want total freedom (but currently a lesser selection of apps) then Linux is what you want. I'm quite a fan of some of the Linux distros and I hope the Ubuntu tablet and phone devices takeoff.

Just wondering, but how does Apple "lock you in"? Do you mean the App Store and iOS? Not much different from Windows Phone. If you meant the Mac, well then there is no more lock in than on a PC. PC apps work on PCs, Mac Apps work on Macs. Both have their own company branded app stores, but both also let you download apps from anywhere and install them, or to write your own.

Just logged onto the VPN to check. we're using version 9.5.1.0 build 50 currently. It is a pain to rollback I know (had to do it when I encountered the bug at the start of the year after upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5). I took Ruckus a couple of weeks to fix it, but they did in the end (see email from Ruckus Support below)

I haven't tried 9.6 yet so I can't really say. Have you tried rolling back to the latest firmware prior to 9.6? There was a really bad bug in the first version of 9.5 that completely broke ZeroIT for OSX (it still worked with iOS though). *WARNING: rolling back the firmware may reset your ZoneDirector to factory config so make SURE you have a good config backup first.

What version of firmware are you using? There have been a few issues caused and solved with ZeroIT in a couple of firmware updates over the past year.

We've been using this setup just fine for 9 months. The only catch is that in both OS X and iOS you have to forget the provisioning SSID or the device might reconnect to it in the future (and you'll get "my WiFi isn't working" complaints). The other option is to use Zero-IT config, which can be limited so it only works for certain AD groups.

The worst car that I've ever owned in my 25 years of driving (and I've owned 14 cars) was a VW Jetta. That thing overheated and broke down on me so often that I found the Bus to be far more reliable and quicker for any trip longer than 15 minutes. Would I ever own a VW again? Yes, because I know that it was an outlier, a lemon and that the broader experience of people buying VWs is much different than my individual experience appeared to belie. Those who have problems often voice their dissatisfaction much more often and louder than those with good experiences with the same products as well, so making judgements based on the noise coming from a few customers of a product is a bad way to make a decision. It appears that you purchased your 7110 without an understanding of what you were buying. It is generally a VERY bad idea to use hardware RAID in conjunction with ZFS. The ZFS handles all of the RAID functions and a hardware RAID controller will only get in the way and possible cause corruption. It also makes the hardware RAID controller a single point of failure in the system. So, of course the 7110 uses software RAID, that is what you are getting with ZFS, which is by the way one of the best if not THE best file and RAID systems on the planet. Here's a little example of what makes ZFS so good - Suns's ZFS Demo - YouTube Now, as to poor performance, well that all depends on what you were using it for. The 7110 only has 8GB of RAM and no write caches. So, it has very little RAM to use as ARC and no upgradeability for write caches. That is a limitation on the 7110, but if you know what you're doing when spec'ing and configuring your systems (e.g. deciding on RAID level used) you would take that into account. In my case, the 7110 running in RAIDZ2 was perfectly fine until I went over 15 VM servers and 300 clients (now at 25 servers and 600 clients) at which point I had to reconfigure the raid as a mirror (resulting in much less storage space) until I recently needed to upgrade to a more suitable unit. That wasn't a problem with the 7110 per se, just that our growth far exceeded my expectations over a 3 1/2 year period. Our new 7320 has 96GB of RAM and two ZeusIOPS write caches and it blew the doors off of other equivalently priced SAN systems that I tested. So, to say that the Sun/Oracle 7000 series SANS exhibit poor performance is not the reality. Like any other system, you have to spec it for the requirements or you will be disappointed. Perhaps you were sold the 7110 by unscrupulous or ignorant salesman who lied to you, I don't know. I agree, the sun hardware is exceptional, which is why I have used it for the past 15+ years. I have also used Dell, HP, IBM, and SuperMicro hardware which was generally quite good, but just not at the same level as Sun. I also agree with the initial state of the s7000 (Fishworks) software in 2009 and early 2010. Since then though, the software has ranged from quite good to excellent now. The initial transition from Sun or Oracle did cause a bit of support hell, but it has been quite good the past couple of years (at least as good as I've experienced from HP and better than the mediocre support from VMWare).

1. Performance - When it comes to SANs, storage is relatively cheap, but performance is expensive. 2. Price per IO - Providing great performance for the $ or £ is the real challenge 3. Great support that doesn't cost a boatload 4. Expandable- The ability to upgrade storage with another drive tray or adding larger capacity disks as they become available, some systems provide great performance, but no way to expand the storage 5. Ease of setup and management - I would put these in the same basket because one without the other just really won't do these days. 6. Scalability - the ability to ramp up performance beyond the base configuration such as adding RAM, extra read/write caches, or additional 10GbE NICS or to go from 1Gb to 10Gb to 40Gb on the same unit.

Don't forget about cable management with the desks and benches. I would also recommend having at least one desk at bench height (900) for doing work while standing and make them deep enough as well (at least 800). And I recommend wall mounting monitors (VESA) to save as much desktop space as possible and keep cable clutter to a minimum. Don't forget about adequate lighting either especially for working on the guts of a computer, etc. small magnetic boards for laying screws onto while working on computers are also handy as are having proper tool kits. Everyone has already mentioned having plenty of power and data and storage and I second those suggestions. The whiteboard paint is a good idea, but it isn't cheap. If you can afford it go for it, but not at the expense of something else you really need.

You definitely did the right thing. It's both unfair and unethical for a staff member to ask you to possibly spend hours of your time (on the school's dollar) to try to fix a problem that is their own personal fault (no backup) while being unwilling to spend a dime on the one tool that is likely to fix it. Maybe they'll listen to you next time you tell them the solution, but don't hold your breath.

Can I ask why you want to stick with the built-in Netinstall system for imaging? There is a reason why DeployStudio is so popular. It's easy to setup, fast, and more capable than the default Apple solution. I really do think you're going through a lot of trouble for no gain, but...if you insist. Make sure you're creating a NetRestore image rather than a NetInstall image with System Image Utility. And are you certain that you are actually doing Multicast? You can image more than one client at a time without doing multicast. What have you setup that would force it to be multicast? Just thinking that the problem could be in what you have done here to try to force that (if you in fact have). By default NetRestore is not Multicast.

Actually, what I was doing is providing a more balanced view. I have stated that there are "dodgy" things done by all countries including my own (enough for there to have been 10 world wars probably), but that the primary purpose of the NSA and GCHQ was (and is) to protect the citizens of its respective countries and allies. Does that occasionally include protecting political interests and/or those of corporations at times - yes. More often though, it's a group of people diligently working to protect and defend. Stating such a heresy though only brings out the scoffers and scorn by the boat load it seems. Even though most of the "evidence" touted so far against what I have said are things actually done by the CIA - an agency I (and quite a few other NSA folks) have little respect for because they are too often arrogant cowboys. But, besides that little oversight, all of the arguments on here are just rock solid and airtight So, I won't continue to "get between a mother bear and her cubs" anymore.

Yes,of course. The USA is obviously satan himself and the NSA and GCHQ are his armour bearers. So, I'll leave you to it. Carry on as you were.

SYNACK - No one says "Director of the NSA" unless its a formal introduction. In any case, unlike Snowden or Manning I didn't steal what I had sworn to protect and don't intend to reveal still classified information. If I outlive my 75 year NDA I'll be happy to spill all. Some of us in this world still want to live honourably and keep our word. Using your logic (and that of your cohort) if your grandfather gave you some sage advice to do or not do something based on hard earned experience, you should just ignore it because you can't trust without solid evidence (and experience isn't empirical evidence after all) - so, the only way to get that evidence would be actually doing the opposite and finding out for yourself. So, go ahead jump off the bridge and see if you get hurt since you won't listen to "unsubstantiated" advice. It's why the world's going for broke in the crapshoot of life anyway...

The more you say, the more I can see that you have a general hatred for the US and appear quite fine with anything that harms the US. I likely have more to fear from people with angry, misinformed and prejudiced views like you than from any "jihadist". As to why I would comment on such subjects on a forum, I become frustrated seeing people make misinformed comments that are akin to someone finding a single page of Shakespeare's MacBeth and believing they then know the whole story. You see a couple of bad cops and then assume the whole police force is bad, corrupt, and operates in such a fashion. So, never mind, I've wasted my time as you will only believe what you think you've seen and wouldn't be likely to believe even DIRNSA himself if he told you to your face. Yet...not nearly as unsafe as you would feel living in Pakistan. But, hey you just might get to experience it one day, especially if there are more like you showing so little support (more like extreme animosity) towards those dedicated to protecting you - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16522447

Civil war is by definition a "civilian" war and civilians are the target because everyone capable of using a weapon of any sort is a potential or actual combatant. Look at Vietnam, Uganda, and all of the other nations that have had civil wars that involved child soldiers. There are no "clean" wars and therefore war should always be a very last resort under ALL circumstances, which was the subject of my original post. Terrorism is an overused and ill-defined term because many tactics used during war are designed to produce maximum terror in the civilian population in hopes that it will break moral and cause the other side to give up (mass bombing of civilian and military targets in Germany one example). If the combatants are those of a nation state, it's deemed a "normal" war, but if they are stateless it's "terrorism". It's often just so much rhetoric. You don't know what your country was actually doing behind the scenes, but as long as you don't know it's ok though so that you can continue to maintain a superior mindset and look down upon the USA. I will leave you with your naive and incorrect view as I have better things to do than argue with you, especially as you didn't even seem to realise Northern Ireland was part of your nation, but tried to school me on my geography anyway.

DriveWarrior or Data Rescue are the best bets. If the user doesn't have a backup or want to pay for DriveWarrior to possible recover their data, then I wonder how much they really care about it. The drive needs to be replaced anyway so just install a new drive put Lion on it, give the user their old disk and send them on their way. Recovering the data without the proper tools is unlikely and most likely a waste of your time.

Then you don't have an understanding of the way war really works. It's not all pretty and neat where civilian casualties are minimised. In WW2 civilian casualties were very high on both sides, Germany bombed British citizens daily and the allies firebombed Japan (creating more civilian casualties than even the A-bombs). So, is that terrorism or war?I really wish people really understood this rather than the fairy tale world where it's possible for wars to be prosecuted entirely with surgical strikes and near zero civilian casualties if only we wanted to. There would be far fewer wars if the truth were understood. Great, I'll let them know that Northern Ireland is no longer part of the United Kingdom....

Now, I hate to burst your bubble, but that intel wasn't provided by the NSA. It was from the CIA. Always thought they were arrogant and sloppy myself. We did have verifiable (on ground) evidence of WDMs in Iraq up until late 1999, but since I left the agency in 2000 and the evidence presented was from 2003 I can't say. A lot can happen in three years time. I will say that Saddam went to great lengths to convince everyone that he had very dangerous capabilities, both to his enemies and his own people. Probably had something to do with ruling with an iron fist. If the fist has no iron, it can't rule very well, so I think Saddam probably did as good a job of framing himself on the WDMs as the CIA did. You seem to think that I agree with the actions taken during the Iraq war and other conflicts or find the death toll acceptable. How you got that from my comments in defending the primary purpose of the NSA and GCHQ and what they do behind the scenes to protect the citizens of their respective countries is a stretch.

I never said it would give anyone the right, but an extreme response is most likely what would have occurred. You seem to have quite a hatred for any Americans who may have supported the IRA in deed or spirit. Much to my point about what would be going on in the world if the citizens of every nation really knew all that was going on between nations and the justice they would demand from their governments. civil war: [noun] a war between political factions or regions within the same country. So, yes, of course it was.

I didn't realise that was the NSA or GCHQ killing journalists in the videos...oh wait it wasn't. Never mind, bad example. No, I'm speaking as someone with first person knowledge and many years of it. I wouldn't expect you to understand or accept what really goes on because much of it was a shock to me as a young, naive new agent. Let's just say the scales fell off of the eyes rather quickly and that several "respected" world leaders are exceedingly narcissistic and bordering on insanity.

Unless anyone else on this thread actually worked for the NSA for nearly a decade, then yes I suppose you will. ...or option B, I honour my word. The IRA killed around 1,800 people over a 30 year period with the majority of those being police or military personnel. Whereas 3,000 civilians died in a single morning due to terrorists flying airliners into buildings in 2001. If the IRA had ever resorted to such tactics the response would have been severe and aggressive I assure you. The conflict with the IRA was more the UK's civil war than a war on terror. It really is a pale comparison. I recommend visiting terrorist occupied areas of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, or Syria sometime if you're not quite sure what differentiates the US and UK from the terrorists. Might be an eye opener. I'm not saying that I agree with everything that has been done in the name of fighting terrorists, but you really don't understand their mindset and the things they have attempted to do in your country and many others, which have been stopped by good intel.

Precisely the point. You DON'T see or hear about 99.999999999999% of what the NSA or GCHQ do and the "bits" you do see are usually when someone has really stuffed up their job. The "general population" lives in a fantasy world in this regard and what is being kept in the dark is far more than just nations protecting their own interests. I am speaking of things that occur regularly that would be sufficient for a declaration of war, and many citizens of those nations would demand such if they knew about them. This had been known about for years before Snowden, and was reported on by the press at least as early as 2008 based on information provided by some former low-level NSA employees who had worked in comms intercept sites. These intercepts are not operating outside of government (legal) oversight and are fully lawful. When the leaders of the US and UK abandoned the protections that were set out in USSIDs 18 and 9 and laws such as the Patriot Act and new Presidential Executive Orders (some public, some classified) were enacted by Bush and Obama (or that Obama saw fit to keep, so don't blame Bush for it all) the NSA and other intel agencies were given new guidelines and orders and are in fact operating legally and within their authority. Any denials to such by either government in that regard is complete BS. Presidents have been able to operate this way for decades, and even under Clinton there were some things going on and Executive Orders issued that many people would find rather "unsavoury". The point is don't blame the Intel Agencies for doing what they've been ordered to do by the leaders that the citizens have elected. Those laws were deemed to be too laborious and slow moving (by our elected leaders) to allow intelligence agencies with the ability to gather and respond adequately to real-time or near real-time intelligence, particularly in regards to terrorism. The requirement to obtain court orders and such for every proposed intercept does not work when dealing with terrorists in particular. If the government didn't take these actions and terrorist acts regularly hit our cities, planes, schools, hospitals, dams, power plants, military bases, etc. then the public outcry would border on open revolt. Governments are in a damned if they do, damned if they don't situation. So, the laws have not been ignored, but have been superseded by new laws by leaders who legally have the power to enact such laws either publicly or privately (per the existing laws of the US or UK giving them the power to do so).

Not sure if that amount of time spent was worth the money you saved by purchasing a very old Mac Mini, but I suppose if you've learned a fair bit about them in the process then maybe so.

What most people in the world fail to realise about the work done by the NSA and GCHQ is that they tend to deal with potentially volatile situations and dangerous events in the world rather quietly in the interest of protecting peace and order as much as possible. If the general population knew what other supposedly friendly nations were doing to or against them the world would be at war continuously (on a large and violent scale). Mankind is not good at heart or generally charitable towards his neighbour and much of the hospitality between many nations is a complete facade. Snowden is a fool in the sense that he is like a bull in a china shop having no understanding of the true nature and purpose of the intelligence he had access to. He thinks he knows much, but he understands very little because he only has a few pieces to a very large puzzle and no picture to guide him. It's as if a small child stumbled upon a loaded machine gun...