Did you get the feeling that Steve Jobs hates the Mac mini?

[Dr. Dastardly]

Has anyone noticed that Steve is always seems more excited at WWDC then MWSF? I think its because Steve is a power user, plain and simple. Do you really think he is going to use a Mac mini is his house? Come on. The low end line is not his bag. I actually think that they should have Phil Schiller do MWSF and base that on more of the lowend/consumer side and Jobs do WWDC and focus on the power line and Xserves. Of course I dont have to tell you that that will never ever happen.

The only consumer product that Steve gets excited about is the iMac and thats only because that was his baby.

 

[Kiwi-Todd]

Correct. However, I'd use ARD or VNC so I can use the apps that don't have a client for distributed rendering. This would allow me to utilize the Mac mini without buying a second monitor, mouse or keyboard, or being stuck keeping it on my desk hooked up to a KVM.

Best,
Logicat

Logitech, all this talk of having a render box excites me greatly - from your posts its sounds like I have the similar issues as you - I hit terrible bottlenecks in my workflow when encoding DVDs or rendering FCP projects. Ideally I would like to get a DP powermac but I enjoy eating!

I instantly thought of a mini mac as a render unit but it seemed messy to me - Take DVD SP for example - would I require a second copy of compressor on the mini to encode on? - do I have to duplicate the video assets to the mini or could I just link it over a network?

So I have some questions for you if you would be kind enough to explain -

Would the networked mini be able to see/use a FW drive hooked into my PB?

Is apple remote desktop separate program or is it integral to Panther? - I've never needed to look until now...

What are these SSH, ARD, VNC commands/apps?

If you could provide a brief overview of your proposed workflow I would be really appreciative - as this would improve my workflow (and cashflow!) greatly!

Cheers - Kiwi-Todd

 

[ravenvii]

I believe it's now the default behavior for a brand new installation of OS X: the very first time that an application is ever run for a given user account, that user is prompted to allow it or not. If you answer 'yes', you shouldn't be prompted again for the same document type + application.

For example, you could double-click what looks like a Photoshop document, and instead launch the virus payload application that you've unwittingly downloaded, which is executed with your full user rights.

This dialog box should foil a trojan horse by intercepting the action. The OS would actually stop the payload's execution and confirm that you really want this new application to run for the very first time.

Best,
Logicat

I've never seen this behavior before either. Is it only for brand-new installations of OS X 3,7? If I have 3.0, and install a combined update to 3.7, this behavior won't show itself?

Say, how do I enable this behavior? I'm curious!