At the 2006 WWDC in San Fransisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced several new products during his opening keynote speech. Read more for a chronological summary of the keynote-- including the much-debated preview of Mac OS 10.5, Leopard, which, according to Steve Jobs, will ship this spring. Update: Apparantly, a similar feature to Time Machine already exists in Linux. It is called 'Dervish'.
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Member since:2005-06-29
You mean something like Apple Remote Desktop, which is built into every version of OS X since at least 10.3 (that's when I started using it). You can view it either with the reasonably cheap Remote Desktop application or with a standard VNC viewer. Apple's Remote Desktop does much more than Microsoft's, as well. You can manange multiple machines from one application, perform remote operations (installing software, rebooting, etc.) without actually logging into the machine, you can group and bookmark machines. You can generate reports about one or many machines of what software & hardware they have installed, accounts, file systems, whatever. It greatly simplifies running large labs of Macs.
Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2005-11-13
Apple's Remote Desktop does much more than Microsoft's, as well. You can manange multiple machines from one application, perform remote operations (installing software, rebooting, etc.) without actually logging into the machine, you can group and bookmark machines. You can generate reports about one or many machines of what software & hardware they have installed, accounts, file systems, whatever. It greatly simplifies running large labs of Macs.
In all fairness you can achieve these same results with Microsoft Management Console on windows, which is what a lot of admins use for various system administration so there really is no need for it to be included in RDP.
Sounds like a nice app that apple has put together all the same!
Member since:2005-07-06
I've used the VNC software on quite a few different combinations of platforms - and while it's handy (especially listen mode), unless Apple has somehow made their implementation orders of magnitude faster than the other impelmentations out there, it doesn't really compare to RDP.
VNC, as far as I can tell, sends images of what's running on the server (essentially a stream of screenshots, updated constantly so they appear live). RDP, on the other hand, appears to be much more comparable to exporting an X session under *nix.
There are, of course, tricks that even the free VNC implementations use to increase speed (polling only the foreground window / under the mouse cursor). But it's still been much slower than RDP in my experience.
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2005-06-29
Would make a good feature to sell more OS X.
It's XP's best feature IMO.
Hope the keynote will be DLable.