To Mac or not to Mac

It seems to be what "everyone" is doing this year.. chucking it all in with your old Windows computer in favour of something more "reliable".
Despite the price, it appears to have got through to Joe and Jackie Blogs that the initial outlay is more than compensated by the simplicity, longevity and overall troublefree-ness of owning an Apple. Or should that be a Mac?
Oh, and you don't need to spend another hundred on a good antivirus - OR DO YOU?!

ESET is just about to release ESS for the Mac (so far only the Business edition) - despite it apparently being already possible)

Even businesses are being tempted over to the less-dark side.

What prompted me to write this was a customer-friend who has been running Ubuntu without intervention for the last three years (!) but had finally needed updating to get Facebook's uploading areas to work. So I dutifully upgraded to the latest Ubuntu version (which required a repartitioning and reinstall and copy home folder and resize partition and etc etc long story.) Due to repartitioning, space was getting low, so I cloned up form 40 to 200Gigs successfully. Then relaised the CD drive was a reader which was going to make burning tricky. Burnt one CD and the drive died, just about to replace it and the customer pops in to make sure I hadn't done any work on it - as she has just waltzed home with a new iMac... say no more.

Except now I will be supporting their Mac for free, instead of supporting the Linux for free.

Maybe this is why Microsoft has stayed ahead - users are used to paying for support and repairs!?

Now just try and get an Apple Authorized Dealership...



What are your experiences?

How to use Remote Access to read Email

https://your private ipaddress here/remote

type in the numbers (as in this fictitious example)
https://203.24.156.143/remote
(see the image below for the real numbers to use)
Save this as a shortcut or bookmark


Using Internet Explorer you will see

[caption id="attachment_176" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="choose to continue to this website"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_179" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="login with your SBS username and password


With Firefox it will look like this"][/caption]





[caption id="attachment_156" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Once you type in the URL as shown you should get this prompt"]

[caption id="attachment_180" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Click on \"I understand the Risks\" and choose ADD EXCEPTION"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_181" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Choose to permanently get and store the certificate (so you won\'thave to do it every time) With either browser it will be similar from now on"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_183" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Once logged in choose to read your email as if at work"][/caption]


[caption id="attachment_184" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Almost as good as being there :)"][/caption]