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"Or am I missing something?" Yes, one minor thing ... Although you are correct that Apple is not officially supporting the latest versions of OSX on that hard

by rsync 6y ago

"Or am I missing something?" Yes, one minor thing ... Although you are correct that Apple is not officially supporting the latest versions of OSX on that hardware, there is a trivially easy hack of the system that will allow you to load newer versions of OSX. So, like many of you, I am not running Catalina but I am running an updated, patched version of OSX.

gambiting 6y ago
I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro running Catalina that I still use daily. As far as I can tell it still receives security updates. There's a simple patcher you can use for these old macbooks: http://dosdude1.com/catalina/ http://dosdude1.com/catalina/
SheinhardtWigCo 6y ago
Neat, does that include System Integrity Protection and Authenticated Root Volume on your hardware?
- dinglefairy 6y ago
  from what i remember open core doesn't need to disable sip to function, just to install. the firmware is the actual firmware upgrades released by apple [everyone was shocked they supported this] that come embedded in the osx updates. my updates worked fine. I'm pretty sure sip gets re-enabled each boot, but to check for authenticated root volume i think i need to install the g20 to run crutil or whatever it is.
dinglefairy 6y ago
happy to hear that I'm not the only one [sys admin type person] doing this. although i use Windows, i do have Catalina installed [and Debian for the triple boot]. also using open core. I'm pretty sure i downloaded a copy of osx from one of their repositories 0.o I'm super lazy, it's really not that hard. my average cost for hardware since i bought my Mac is now less than 400/year CDN. is it worth it? while I'm slightly concerned about the security [I'm probably the biggest risk anyways since I'm not confident in my knowledge of secops], i get 95 fps playing pubg, can edit in 4k, run 100+ tracks in Cubase, and run 3 different OSes or as many vms as you'd like [which i think can also run bare metal vm on the 144 firmware upgrade]. on top of that the case still looks good and I've kept at least 50+lbs of ewaste out of landfills or whatever... seems pretty worth it [hopefully no one ever tries to steal pictures of my cats] [we could also get into a discussion about the right to repair bill in the EU, talking this way] do you game? i feel like that might have been intentionally left out of the interview? what info would you keep unencrypted on your servers? how much does a colo cost for a 2u server typically? how about back in 06? is rsync a good solution for video files backup? what are the benefits over say, running a home server and keeping physical backups at your friends house or iron mountain or something? can rsync use 'live' encrypted data? in other words, how do you encrypt/decrypt on the fly? say for streaming an mp3 or something? [not that you would do this if you were paying per GB...] please excuse my ignorance. I'm not a real sys admin, just an old wanna be hacker that could never get his shit together.

by rsync 6y ago

gambiting 6y ago

I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro running Catalina that I still use daily. As far as I can tell it still receives security updates. There's a simple patcher you can use for these old macbooks: http://dosdude1.com/catalina/ http://dosdude1.com/catalina/

SheinhardtWigCo 6y ago

Neat, does that include System Integrity Protection and Authenticated Root Volume on your hardware?

dinglefairy 6y ago
from what i remember open core doesn't need to disable sip to function, just to install. the firmware is the actual firmware upgrades released by apple [everyone was shocked they supported this] that come embedded in the osx updates. my updates worked fine. I'm pretty sure sip gets re-enabled each boot, but to check for authenticated root volume i think i need to install the g20 to run crutil or whatever it is.

dinglefairy 6y ago

happy to hear that I'm not the only one [sys admin type person] doing this. although i use Windows, i do have Catalina installed [and Debian for the triple boot]. also using open core. I'm pretty sure i downloaded a copy of osx from one of their repositories 0.o I'm super lazy, it's really not that hard. my average cost for hardware since i bought my Mac is now less than 400/year CDN. is it worth it? while I'm slightly concerned about the security [I'm probably the biggest risk anyways since I'm not confident in my knowledge of secops], i get 95 fps playing pubg, can edit in 4k, run 100+ tracks in Cubase, and run 3 different OSes or as many vms as you'd like [which i think can also run bare metal vm on the 144 firmware upgrade]. on top of that the case still looks good and I've kept at least 50+lbs of ewaste out of landfills or whatever... seems pretty worth it [hopefully no one ever tries to steal pictures of my cats] [we could also get into a discussion about the right to repair bill in the EU, talking this way] do you game? i feel like that might have been intentionally left out of the interview? what info would you keep unencrypted on your servers? how much does a colo cost for a 2u server typically? how about back in 06? is rsync a good solution for video files backup? what are the benefits over say, running a home server and keeping physical backups at your friends house or iron mountain or something? can rsync use 'live' encrypted data? in other words, how do you encrypt/decrypt on the fly? say for streaming an mp3 or something? [not that you would do this if you were paying per GB...] please excuse my ignorance. I'm not a real sys admin, just an old wanna be hacker that could never get his shit together.