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Peeve Farm
Breeding peeves for show, not just to keep as pets

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Monday, May 13, 2002
00:30 - Tomorrow's R/M-Day...	(top)
May 14th is the day that Steve said, last week, that the wraps would be taken off of the new Apple rack-mount server. It's anybody's guess what kind of machine this will be. What I've heard is that it will be 2U, with 4-way or 8-way multi-CPU configurations. I'd guess that it will have redundant SCSI disks, at least 1GB of RAM, and there's the remote possibility of this event being the unveiling of the long-rumored 64-bit G5 and/or that 400MHz system bus. Wouldn't that be something? It would have to have a standardized video/input system, so that would mean it'd need to have serial ports, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, or those integrated serial connectors they have on NetFinity boxes-- because if they have to rely on USB for input, that would seriously slow adoption. (Once again, we're held back by PC hardware from the Max Headroom Age.) Video out wouldn't be a problem-- Apple has always had standard VGA out-- but it's this input channel that could be problematic, especially under OS X. Speaking of which, how is OS X supposed to run headless? I guess it doesn't really need to, considering that Windows servers are happily being deployed everywhere despite the stupid lack of good remote-presence software. (This, incidentally, is why I think open-source (and command-line-driven) OSes make much better servers. You can do everything remotely that you can do on the remote console-- everything-- short of physically opening up the box.) So maybe Apple will tout Remote Desktop as the solution of choice, or perhaps the unveiling will be accompanied by a software package that adds thin-client remote administration capabilities to OS X server: an OS X tool that lets you do configuration of the services on the server by making the changes on the local control panel, which then communicates them back to the server through a secure tunnel. That would be pretty cool. I think Windows might have something like this, but this is an opportunity for Apple to show how to do such a thing right. I've watched our IT guy spend enough time swearing at Microsoft's remote DNS administration stuff to know that there's room for improvement and a "usability vacuum" for IT people. ...On another note, I was just thinking about how cool InkWell could be. Considering that Preview and Mail have been majorly updated for Jaguar, it stands to reason that TextEdit has too; which means that because InkWell can be used in any application that takes text input, TextEdit might support it to such a degree that TextEdit can become a "note pad" app on the order of the Newton. Words you write would be converted to text, and drawings would be re-rendered on the fly as PDFs and incorporated into the document body right where you drew them (anti-aliased, too!). This would be child's play in Quartz, and just imagine showing it off to a Windows-using friend... Another member of my team has now had his interest piqued enough by my and Kris' enthusiasm that he's playing with OS X on Kris' old iBook. He's already being indoctrinated in various Mac design philosophies, and it's looking rather like he'll be joining our ever-growing cabal before a whole lot longer. The hard part, I think, is over-- Apple has pulled off a superhuman feat in getting OS X to where it is now. And now we're going to start reaping the rewards, of which Jaguar is only the beginning.