Ping Mike Rosenberg

[Bible John]

Right, but with that Mac OS version you absolutely needed Dave for
Windows filesharing. Now you don't.

You make a good point that can save me some money. I have not had a
Windows network to test, so I cant say for sure if OSX will meet my
needs. At Simpson there were hundreds of PC's and Macs on the network,
so I needed Dave. My first and second year there was a small AppleTalk
network, but I can imagine when I return to school in 2007, this will
not be the case. But then again the school I will be attending will have
some 6,000 students, while Simpson had a little under 1,000 on campus.

But even so, I dont think Tiger supports AppleTalk and cant network with
Mac OS 7-9 macs. I believe with third party software this is possible
however.

But besides the point Windows networking is much faster. I remember once
copying someones software over to my Mac (some 500 megs) and with
AppleTalk it took about a half hour or less. It would have been faster
if the file was 500 megs, rather than the folder.

However with Dave this took less than 5 minutes to copy.

However copying a 500 megabyte folder over DSL/Cable would take years.
So AppleTalk was faster than that.

I also remember how stupid some people were. I remember at least twice
some stupid students left their entire computer wide open. Second year
someone left their mac wide open via AppleTalk and third year some gal
left her entire PC wide open.

They left all their social security numbers, tax files, financial
records, parents social security and tax numbers, business id's and all
kinds of other information wide open.

I did not take anything but someone else might have. I had no idea who
these idiots were, but they were stupid. But no one hacked, they left
their computers wide open.

That's why I said Thursby can give you the full scoop on this and why I
pointed out that you can download a demo version of Dave 6.1 to see if
it works the way you want it to before paying for it.

I cant do that at this time, and will need to wait until I get in the
dorms to test.


John
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but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CERM-Church Education Resource Ministries
http://www.cerm.info

 

[Mike Rosenberg]

But even so, I dont think Tiger supports AppleTalk and cant network with
Mac OS 7-9 macs. I believe with third party software this is possible
however.

But besides the point Windows networking is much faster. I remember once
copying someones software over to my Mac (some 500 megs) and with
AppleTalk it took about a half hour or less. It would have been faster
if the file was 500 megs, rather than the folder.

I saw this post the first time you made it but didn't respond because
it's entirely off-topic for these newsgroups. However, it _is_ possible
to network Macs running OS 8.5 - 9.x with each other or with Macs
running Tiger with, using TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which eliminates
the potential bottlenecks you've encountered, and that's built right
into the OS software.

 

[Bible John]

I saw this post the first time you made it but didn't respond because
it's entirely off-topic for these newsgroups. However, it _is_ possible
to network Macs running OS 8.5 - 9.x with each other or with Macs
running Tiger with, using TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which eliminates
the potential bottlenecks you've encountered, and that's built right
into the OS software.

Yes there was bottleneck, but its nothing compared to what I experience
over Wifi or DSL.

Imagine copying a 500 MB folder over a wifi DSL/Cable connection.
AppleTalk would seem tons faster after such a experience.



John
--
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CERM-Church Education Resource Ministries
http://www.cerm.info