lukeh

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1. 241.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   I don't think 3. is an issue for Apple, because there is no static libSystem.
2. 242.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   What’s stopping Apple switching its default allocator?
3. 243.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   AES keys are salted. Moreover, if you use public key authentication (e.g. smartcard, FIDO) it's not a requirement that any keys are provisioned on the user. I'm not sure if you can disable the generation of the NTLM key when using
4. 244.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   Rhapsody was still pre-Mk but had 4.4BSD userland. It could run OPENSTEP binaries if you copied the shared libraries over, from memory one of the ex-NeXT engineers did this for fun.
5. 245.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   Right, from memory that was going to be A/UX 4.0. But as you say, that never happened.
6. 246.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   I agree with the positive comments in this thread. I too was a C++ hater, and I by no means understand it as well as C, but recompiling a small (~15KLOCs) project today with a C++ compiler caught a few issues. And on another project, it was
7. 247.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   Plus also linking with groups, from memory, -Wl,-Bgroup although this may be a Solaris ism.
8. 248.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   RTLD_LOCAL?
9. 249.▲
   by lukeh 5y ago

   I used it 25 years ago (!) to build a tool for provisioning servers from a configuration file, i.e. generating files in /etc using macro substitution. I'm sure the kids are doing this more elegantly today, but it sure saved us a l
10. 250.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    We used LDAP over domain sockets with SO_PEERCRED many years ago, to tightly couple other services that needed different authorization to remote users.
11. 251.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    The macOS CIFS client was from BSD, not from Samba.
12. 252.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    Are you sure? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/wow... suggests otherwise.
13. 253.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    Super interesting! I wonder how close it is to the Rosetta 2 ABI mapping.
14. 254.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    I worked at Novell in 2006-7 after they bought (what became) Domain Services for Windows from my company. This enabled eDirectory to become an Active Directory compatible domain controller. Integrating the two worlds (whilst imperfect) was
15. 255.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    Post-Copland, Apple apparently looked at Solaris and the NT kernel (source: Wikipedia), before BeOS and NEXTSTEP.
16. 256.▲
    The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby(bbc.com)

    4 points by lukeh 5y ago|0 comments
17. 257.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    The example in the article is an exception but, companies (including Sun) are generally very careful about using open source, and using it without attribution would be the exception not the rule. Large companies are slow, indeed. In the lat
18. 258.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    Good story; I do find the “Australians are just the little guys” narrative a bit frustrating and a self-fulfilling prophecy though.
19. 259.▲
    A Requiem for Sparc(youtube.com)

    1 points by lukeh 5y ago|0 comments
20. 260.▲
    The NSA Instruction (2019)(vaibhavsagar.com)

    1 points by lukeh 5y ago|0 comments
21. 261.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    I think Installer.app triggers the AOT translation, too?
22. 262.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    I had a similar story. A search for internet access in high school (which wasn't common in mid-1990s Australia) led me to working for a ISP, then working for a company that ported bits of NEXTSTEP to other Unices, then interning at App
23. 263.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    Perhaps the Intel Mac Pro?
24. 264.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    I believe they do.
25. 265.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    That was my main development machine (Sun had a generous developer discount) until customers stopped asking for Solaris builds.
26. 266.▲
    by lukeh 5y ago

    Well, if your portable rack happens to be way deeper than most audio racks…
27. 267.▲
    by lukeh 6y ago

    Not the NetApp kind.
28. 268.▲
    by lukeh 6y ago

    There's some interesting work going on in the AES to support synchronised audio over wide area networks, either through better recovery of PTP clocks distributed through WANs or using PTP with GNSS. https://www.youtube.com&#
29. 269.▲
    by lukeh 6y ago

    Perhaps, for their data centers?
30. 270.▲
    by lukeh 6y ago

    I like the Juniper SRX series, BSD-based and find the configuration syntax (mostly) very logical. But, no WiFi (I use Ubiquiti for that).