All Things Mac/ Apple
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Been writing powershell all night for work, and the bloody telco yesterday that took my line out still has it out :|.
As shoque has said/you assumed, you'll get better performance if you run another access 2/3rds down the house. New Airport Expresses might fit the bill, small/dual band etc. Little bit of Apple Tax, but they're a pretty simple/solid device.
To answer the new device/range question. Newer devices are generally covering lesser areas at higher throughput. 5Ghz stuff has short range, 2.4Ghz has heaps of interference, but better range.
So can I stick the cat 6 from the billion in to the back of an airport express?
As I cant with the wifi extender.Building on this and having a look at the airport range I want to be able to store my music mainly but photos and movies etc on an external harddrive that can be shared on the network, think it is called a NAS? So I can look and listen to what’s on there from different computers. I would also like to back up to it and just be able to grab it and go in case of a fire etc. I would want at least 3 tb if not more.
So thinking an airport extreme/ time capsule then an express to extended range.
I would still need a modem?Would this step up be easy to use with windows?
Is using apple the easiest/ best solution?
Cheers
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Hi mate, In order,
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Yes you can stick Cat 6 from billion to Airport express. You'll need to configure both, but it's meant to work like that
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It makes more sense if you buy a NAS and get it sharing (Synology). Airport Extreme + HDD will work, but it's bending the solution
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You're in an Apple thread, if it's mostly for windows I wouldn't go Airport Express/Extreme. It won't make much difference, but the ease of updating and where the Airports come in handy goes when used on Windows.
It sounds like you should sign up for Backblaze incase of fire/theft or failure, as well as NAS.
You will still need your ADSL Modem, yes.
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Nov 14th I'll get the 5S. Normally I'd wait for the 6, but the motion and fingerprint sensors are cool.
On another note, the 64-bit A7 makes me think that we could be looking at ARM MacBook Airs soon and iPads with 4GB or greater memory soon after that…
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Apple is the best technology company in the world for taking such risks with. Might sound fanboyish, but it's the simple truth. They are strategic and vertically integrated and iterative.
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I'm a big fan of the build-perfection of MacBooks since lately. I will never again carry a device with me that weights more than 1 kg.
But the hype of the iPhones is beyond my understanding. I would never exchange my Galaxy S3 Android-device for an iPhone. Have been using a 4S and a 5 for a short time and I hated the experience. It's oversimplified and I hate the 1-button-concept. I just cannot work efficiently without the back and menu button. Plus why would one pay so much more compared to a technically stronger Android-device. The next thing is the nazified AppStore, it is just so damn inflexible for users and developers.Flame war officially started.
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^lol, life's too short for flame wars, and we're generally a respectful bunch :).
My phone has not been rebooted for over 3 months and works flawlessly. That's exactly what I look for. I don't want to spend time fiddling, Apple makes the phone a device that requires no thought. The Touch ID is a one of the main features got me rushing to get it. Added it's a nice upgrade from the 4S, and will scream with IOS7.
The main app I use on my phone is a cycling/location tracking app which will be done via the co-processor, instead of CPU. Another nice feature. Enough little features for the boost, and the phones are rock solid. They're not for tinkers but that suits me :). I tinker on *nix boxes enough, as you know
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Apple versus Android is polarizing in the sense that you either like one or the other, I see no reason to carry it past that. To me, the exact opposite is true, I find the back button to be very confusing, as its operation changes with context. I prefer simplicity and consistency in a device. This doesn't make Android wrong, it makes it wrong for me.
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The thumb print deal kinda weirdo me out in all honesty….say hello to big brother.
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Meh, they've already got my prints
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The thumb print deal kinda weirdo me out in all honesty….say hello to big brother.
Yeah not a big fan of that at all.
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Meh, they've already got my prints
Please don't see that as a personal insult, but the problem nowadays is that western society is so spoilt by wealth that almost nobody cares any more about the highest good in a democracy => privacy. I myself give up privacy for comfort in some cases (using GMail, Dropbox, etc.), but I try to minimize my exposure to governmental monitoring.
Sorry if I sound like a smartass, I just try my best to convince people to worship more their basic rights.
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It is optional and biometric data is stored on the SoC. I think it's a great idea, I always worry about shoulder surfers seeing a PIN.
I hope none of you use the same PIN on your phone as an ATM.
I also hope this can be used as a second factor of authentication.
If Google is smart, they will add an iris scanner to Glass.
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I am super paranoid about the government and privacy. I am not kidding or trivializing things when I say they have my prints.
The prints are kept on the A7 and if privacy is a concern, I'd be more worried about Google than this. YMMV.
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I should have mentioned that I'm not talking about Apple devices, but about gadgets in general. Of course one can throw Google in the same pot.
I made so many terrible experiences with friends and colleagues at Uni who study IT(!) with me, and when we talk about that stuff I usually get a reply a la "Well, I don't have anything to hide" or "Well I'm just a regular person, why would they care about me?" Maybe for an average person this whole talking about privacy and monitoring might be too abstract, but for people who study IT this is VERY frightening imho. I get furious when people reply something like that. Don't people use their brains any more?The worst part: Politicians in Austria and Germany usually pretend that there is no problem regarding the NSA-scandal. Usually official statements are something like "The NSA confirmed that they will only search/access monitored data when there is a court order". WTF, they can't be serious.
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We are on the same page, believe me…
The whole "I don't have anything to hide" and "if you don't have anything to hide, why are you worried about it" mentality is despicable and the antithesis of democracy. It makes me nuts that we in America so complacently trade freedom for convenience and are too complacent to challenge the continuous narrowing of our liberties. We have betrayed the principles on which our nation was founded. We let the fear of terror and just plain laziness push us towards an autocratic police state.
Ben Franklin said it best:
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
All that said, Apple is a lesser evil in terms of privacy than is google just based on the less cloud-y nature of it. All phones leak data, some deliberately, but by putting all of it in google's cloud I am compromising more of my privacy than I am with apple. Just my opinion.
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^Shoque, you've got to come back out the other side mate. Having done Information Security (not just "IT") for global telcos and setup some of the core Lawful Interception (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception) networks, it's not a fun place/view of the world. There is enlightenment post Information Security, life becomes an accepted risk management.
There's no way Apple could do something other then they've said on this, it would cost them the company's reputation massively. That's not misplaced/guided trust, that's logical common sense, that will be mathematically proven rather soon.
Life's too short to worry about the boogy man. Assume everything you say/do is already being recorded/archived and tracked, and get on with living. There's nothing you can do about it and you can't opt out, it's the price of entry for a global economy, stability, and information network.
On the Touch ID specifically, I'm with MCL, I'm more concerned about shoulder surfing and theft of my device. The Touch ID only works with living cells, meaning that a finger print can't be cloned, nor a finger cut off. That makes my device only useable be me. I protect my data and secure it as best as possible, that's the flip side of privacy; data protection. /ends hijack
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When "measuring" Apple against Google, you are totally right. Google is the privacy-holocaust: Search history, mails, drive, contacts, calendar, talk/hangout.
The more I think about it the more desperate and depressed I get.
The Ben Franklin quote really sums up what has been going on in the USA, but also in Europe, in the past few decades.
