Re: .Mac - yay or nay?

Hugh Chaloner wrote: 
Graham J Lee <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Worth £70?  I know for a start I almost certainly wouldn't use the email
address, but would use the synchronisation stuff.  Do any of the other
features turn out to be must-haves?




The synchronisation is useful if you're using PCs in more than one
location - I have a laptop and two desktops which have synchronised
address books, calendars and mail.

Yeah, I was thinking that synchronising stuff would be useful. Not so sure about synchronising calendars though - I'd only do that until Sunbird becomes stable enough to deploy everywhere (I have my own WebDAV server).


The email address is useful in that it provides 1 GB (I think) of either
shared storage (iDisk) or email (imap) or a mixture of the two totalling
1 GB. It's useful to have that amount of email in common across the
machines - all important stuff is available to all 3 machines (in my
case). I knwo you could do this with a gmail account (free) but the
integration with Mail.app makes it more attractive to do via .MAc.


Again, I have my own filestore and mail server, so making that available to all of my machines is not a problem (and I'm not limited to 1GB). Integration of .Mac mail with Mail.app is just done via a Mail bundle which I can create anyway (see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1342/). The web page thingy might be useful although I think I might soon be looking for someone who can offer WebObjects hosting, which of course .Mac doesn't (given that the server is running webobjects and everything...)
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Relevant Pages

  • Project Sharing
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  • ntp .RSTR. error
    ... I have just set up all of my Redhat Linux machines to use ntp time ... is stopping the communication, which stops the synchronisation. ... For address and company registration details of certain entities ...
    (RedHat)
  • Re: Thread Synchronization over distributed Environment
    ... An environment that 'forcefully moves' threads between different machines ... don't share any common memory and thus need no synchronisation. ... the usual way to manage concurrent access to them is ... communicating and theoretically you can use whatever communication forms ...
    (comp.programming.threads)
  • Re: iLife 06 contains iWeb
    ... .Mac other than synchronisation, I'd much rather run my own domain name and put the web site on there. ... website. ... There's a replacement for its synchronisation services on versiontracker, I posted it a week or so ago. ...
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  • Re: iLife 06 contains iWeb
    ... Ian McCall wrote: ... >>> .Mac other than synchronisation, I'd much rather run my own domain name ... >>> and put the web site on there. ... > .Mac is expensive for what it offers I feel. ...
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