The Macintosh
Guild Articles |
Mac Guild Newsletter Just
in time for Christmas! From Appletalk to iBooks, the Mac Guild Newsletter covers
some of the more interesting articles posted as well as informative editorials straight
from the Mac Guild mailing list.Mac Guild Newsletter for December 1999 (12-25-99) |
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A Campus Window on Enterprise
IT's Future Stanford's
web page now depicts the Macintosh (in comparison to a PC) as "more user-friendly,
easier to set up and network, easier to troubleshoot, more consistent in behavior,
less prone to virus attacks, and more likely to be specifically required for a particular
class." There's a tide moving... be sure to catch the wave!PC Week article about what's on center stage in the desktop arena (6-3-99) |
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Appletalk Chattiness - Fact
OR Fiction There
is an age-old myth that Appletalk is too chatty on intranet networks. Many mis-informed
or uninformed administrators have used this as a reason to keep Macintosh computers
off of company local networks. Users who prefer Macintosh computers over Wintel machines
are often left defenseless, not understanding enough about the issue to argue the
point. Here is a compilation of articles which help dispell this myth. Articles on the Myth of Appletalk Chattiness (2-15-99) |
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Lockheed Martin Photoshop Guild  For
experts and novice users alike, the Lockheed Martin Photoshop mailing list provides
a forum to discuss issues related to using Photoshop. Have a question about Photoshop
3, 4 or 5? Do you wonder what others at Lockheed Martin are using Photoshop for?
Do you have expertise which others can benefit from? Join the mailing list. The mailing
list web page also provides a growing number of links to Photoshop web sites. Join the Photoshop Guild. (10/27/98) |
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iMac has Landed The new Apple iMac is shipping. Click here to read all about it. (9/1/98) |
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WWDC '98 Larry Peng has written an excellent white paper on what he learned from this year's World Wide Developer's Conference in San Jose, CA, from May 11-15, 1998. At WWDC 1998, Apple announced the next step in the evolution of both software and hardware. There were many technical subjects and details, so only a sampling is presented here. Click here to read the white paper. (5/29/98) |
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Degrees of Freedom The
picture above represents the classic puffer train. This is an excellent essay
on the "Degrees of Freedom", a system's unique ways to move, as it applies
to moving to a single computer software standard. It explains why embracing Microsoft
as the standard will ultimately lead to the loss of our degrees of freedom. Very
informative and interesting reading. |
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NASASOFT This
reading is not for the faint of heart. It is the complete story as it transpired
at JSC/NASA. It includes details of the Microsoft takeover, quotes from JSC and from
the Inspector General, several links to other documents, information about congressional
inquiries, and a chronological list of letters, articles, and events. This is must
reading, not because it provides answers to the problems of dealing with monopolistic
powers and corrupt management, but because it will heighten your awareness of the
problem. The parallel is frighteningly close to a situation right here at home. Click here to read about the Microsoft Takeover at JSC. (3/25/98) |
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Rhapsody Kitchen
Click
here to view the trip report.
(2/24/98) |
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Rhapsody - An Overview Larry
Peng, engineer for Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California, has been using the
developer's release of Rhapsody for some time. He has put together a white paper
providing a good overview of Apple's upcoming operating system, Rhapsody. In a nutshell,
the contents of the white paper are:WHAT IS RHAPSODY? What it is, and what it is not General Structure WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT RHAPSODY? The Blue Box--Mac OS compatibility Yellow Box--The Development Platform Application Deployment--Mac OS/Windows/UNIX Java WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF RHAPSODY? Developers Users THE OVERALL PICTURE The Rhapsody Package Power Mac versus PC Compatibles Rhapsody versus other cross-platform alternatives Conclusions Click here to view the white paper. (2/25/98) |
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G3 Speed! As
shown in the latest Apple commercials, the G3 has been shown to be up to twice as
fast as the Pentium II. If you missed the latest Apple commercial, you can view it
from this site (it requires the QuickTime Plug-in). It's fun to watch!Warning: The volume is a bit loud, so you might want to turn it down while the movie is being loaded. Click here to see the commercial. (2/6/98) |
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The Death of a Thousand
Stings If
you have ever wanted to capture in words the differences between the Mac OS and Windows
'95, then read this article. It does not summarize all of the differences, nor does
it even touch on areas of graphics and multimeda where the Mac really excels. It
does, however, detail extremely well the small day-to-day incidences which, when
added up, illustrate why using the Mac is so much more productive than using Windows
'95.Click here to see the article. (1/29/98) |
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It's A
Wonderful Machine After
the grim news from Joan
Cox about the
future of the Mac at Lockheed Martin, I thought you all might enjoy this article taken from the January 1998 issue
of MacWorld. I think it really captures the spirit of the Macintosh community.Click here to view the story. (1/1/98) |
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| Joan Cox - "The Reality Is..." The LMMUG user meeting on Nov. 13, 1997 featured Joan Cox speaking about the future of desktop computers at Lockheed Martin. Prior to the meeting, Joan was presented a list of questions compiled from the Mac user community. Most of those questions were addressed at the meeting. Click here to view Joan's response. (1/1/98) |
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OS 8 Survey Users
who have upgraded to OS 8 are well aware of the advantages of this new Mac OS over
its predecessors, both in terms of ease-of-use and stability. A survey was conducted
to quantify these experiences and present them to the Lockheed Martin Standards Committee.
The results of that survey are now available to the Lockheed Martin community.Click here to view the Survey Results. (11/13/97) |
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NASA CIO Briefing Over
the past 18 months there has been a move at some of the NASA centers toward standardizing
computer technology on a single platform. This has caused concern not only among
those vendors who are affected but, more importantly, among the scientists and engineers
who feel their work and productivity are being impacted by these decisions. NASA's
plan is to move toward outsourcing the IT functions while the agency concentrates
on its goals of building the International Space Station, planning and executing
interplanetary travel, determining whether we are alone in the universe and educating
the public and Congress on the importance of these missions to our country and all
mankind.This paper will show why a heterogeneous computing environment makes good business sense and why, in particular, the Macintosh environment is cheaper, faster and better. Click here for the complete briefing. (10/13/97) |
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Rules for Revolutionaries If you
missed Guy Kawasaki's recent talk here at Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, you can download
the talk from here. First, you will need to grab a copy of RealPlayer (download
it here). Then,
you need a copy of "Rules for Revolutionaries.rm". Go to your Chooser,
select AppleShare, zone SVL-B153_1C9_NET, server MacDEMON, volume Public. Copy the
file to your hard disk for faster performance, then double-click it to view Guy's
top ten rules for the revolutionary. |
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Why Mac? Why Not NT? The
MacKido Warrior has put together a business perspective white paper which discusses
the often overlooked issues with Mac OS and Windows NT. The paper discusses speed,
performance, reliability, security, and many other important business issues.Click here to read the paper. |
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Dual Platform Support Costs Gartner Group Consulting Services recently concluded an extensive
survey of actual dual-platform costs collected from real organizations in the US.
Conventional wisdom indicates that it costs more to support both Macintosh and Windows
than to support Windows alone. In their report titled "Technical Support Costs
and Dual-Platform Desktops: Managed Diversity," (copyright © 1995 by Gartner
Group) Gartner Group concludes there is no support cost premium associated
with having both Macintosh and Windows (that is, heterogeneous computing)
over being single platform (homogeneous computing).Click here for a detailed summary of the report. |
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Digital Industry is More
Profitable With
Macintosh A
Survey of Over 30,000 Creative Professionals Makes a Clear Case for the Return-on-Investment
(ROI) Benefits of the Apple Macintosh.Apple recently made a press release from SigGraph regarding a study performed by Gistics of Larkspur, California. The study outlines the advantages of using Macintosh computers versus Windows computers, and provides numbers backing up the return on investment. Check out the press release. |
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Have
Mac,
Will
Get
Return
On
Investment  Buy
a Macintosh, improve your return on investment. That's the finding of a study to
be published in August by high-technology market researcher Gistics, in Larkspur,
California. The company's research also suggests IT leaders emphasize ROI over simply driving down the total cost of ownership. Check out the complete article. |
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Merlin's Cavern Check
out Merlin's
Cavern for downloads
of Freeware and Shareware applications for the Macintosh. |
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Strategy Tips from NASA
Click here to see the complete article. |
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| WWDC
'97This
year's World Wide Developer's Conference in San Jose featured some very exciting
news for Macintosh developers and users. As an attendee, I experienced
hands-on demonstrations of some of the technology that Apple
presented at the conference. For those interested, I have written up a summary about Rhapsody, the future operating system
for Macintosh, and the highlight of this year's WWDC. |
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