I use to make my own firewall on a spare pc. It is well known in my public and private life I have a strong anti-Apple bias. So much so that my teenage daughter rebelled by picking up an iPhone when she was 15.
My firewall always limited usage by OS. Linux and my desktop had the full fire hose. Everything else 75% and Apple products had 10% and video played at only low quality.
The only way people could get the 75% was to connect with their iPhone to my guest wifi Apple_Evil and type in the password applesucks. Great funs, but this hack, you get to personally own up and see their faces and not break stuff.
I was waiting for that story to end with “… and then I turned 12 and outgrew this”.
What ever happened to promoting OSS by making it better? Forcing people to play juvenile games seems like a great way to turn everyone off on Linux permanently.
Look at the bright side: if his children rebel by buying Apple products that's relatively harmless. Maybe they will consider that rebellion enough and refrain from the more dangerous actions.
You're right. That is very immature. But OS detection can have good sides to it.
For example, a stateful antivirus scanner turns on only for Windows machines. Or with Linux, certain connections and services are made available. Or it can also be used as a layer of defense in security (we know we have 2 windows machines and 3 linux machines, mac addresses bla bla, throw security tripwire).
I'm mixed on that - it has initial wins but inevitably leads to an arms race where malicious coders try to spoof the least-restricted OS. I strongly prefer to assume that no client can be trusted and avoid special-cases in security policy. It avoids surprises when someone reuses an old IP/NIC for a different role in the future.
No I am a Dad with 5 kids. This to me is a great Dad joke with everyone who comes into my home. If your my kids teenage friend or the mayor of our city you have to play with my rules :)
If I can't mess with them and their friends it is a sad life :)
I am not forcing anyone to do Linux. I just know if I jump on my machines I got top priority and my son's league of legends game isn't going to bother me one bit nor my kids watching Netflix or YouTube videos. Also everyone has a laugh when they realize what is happening because they forgot.
Goodness sakes. I used to be 'anti-Apple' because I thought it was a bunch of people following a trend. Then I entered high school and realized that I was acting like a child and people have different preferences.
I shudder to think what my middle school self would think of me as I type this from my MBP. I use a Mac as my laptop. So what? I run Linux on my desktop and have an Android phone. This all seems unnecessarily petty.
The rest of the tech people were like how can a PowerPC CPU be faster? It is plain 1 and 0 and the more 1 and 0 you get through the faster the processor. It ended up being 4 to 6 times faster. The Apple fanboys were famous for this time of Apple history. Also Apple knew the truth since they were always running an x86 OS X for 5 years and knew the numbers and just were fine spreading "Apple Truths."
At various times, PPC was indeed faster than Intel's finest, either outright or in certain niches (particularly SIMD).
> Also Apple knew the truth since they were always running an x86 OS X for 5 years and knew the numbers and just were fine spreading "Apple Truths."
Consider what would have happened if the Intel switch had happened two years earlier. Take the iBook (then, AFAIK, Apple's best-selling product). They could have gone to Pentium M (the P3-based one), which was at best in the same speed range as the G4s used in Apple laptops, and used somewhat more power, resulting in diminished battery life. Or they could have gone to Pentium 4-M (the P4-based one), which would have been somewhat faster, and used vastly more power, resulting in massively diminished battery life.
Apple also at the time had the not unreasonable expectation that IBM would produce faster PPC970s, and mobile-suitable PPC970s, as was in their roadmap.
The Intel switch happened because it made sense at the time; the Core Duo laptops resulted in better performance vs the G4 and only a modest battery life it, while the high-end desktop waited for the Core 2 Duo Xeons, which resulted in better performance vs the G5. It would not, however, have made sense much earlier.
Obviously, they had MacOS 10 running on x86; NeXTStep did, after all, and it'd never be wise to close off options. I mean, _Windows_ supported PPC, Alpha and MIPS for a long time.
My firewall always limited usage by OS. Linux and my desktop had the full fire hose. Everything else 75% and Apple products had 10% and video played at only low quality.
The only way people could get the 75% was to connect with their iPhone to my guest wifi Apple_Evil and type in the password applesucks. Great funs, but this hack, you get to personally own up and see their faces and not break stuff.