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by mrpippy 9y ago
I had OpenBSD more recently on my Toshiba Libretto (Pentium 166) and it was great. You can even boot the installer from floppies, for machines without a CD drive or that can’t boot from it.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
My own adventure disabling PowerBook Password Security on an old Mac: https://bslabs.net/2016/01/30/disabling-powerbook-password-s...
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Slightly ironic that ESPN itself has significantly scaled back baseball coverage/studio shows this year, yet they now own RSNs who have rights for 16 (by my count) MLB teams
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Final Cut Pro is Mac-only
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by mrpippy 9y ago
HomeKit implements all its own security on top of BLE
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by mrpippy 9y ago
spftp.info.apple? Hadn’t heard of it before, did that have Service Source files on it?
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Bring back VBL tasks. http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...
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by mrpippy 9y ago
There's no support for x86_64 binaries. Windows 10 is still available in 32-bit editions and almost all apps are still available for 32-bit, so I don't think this is a big issue. I assume any kernel drivers will need to be compile
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by mrpippy 9y ago
I would blow any dust out, and do a basic visual inspection of the logic board before you power it on. Macs of a certain age (like that LC630) have PRAM batteries which may have leaked/exploded, and capacitors which also may have leake
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Assuming you have the disk space, I would get Disk Copy onto your old Mac, and create a read-only image from the contents of your hard disk. (or create a blank image, and copy the contents of your hard disk onto it) Then copy the image to a
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by mrpippy 9y ago
The PRAM batteries on old Macs tend to leak/explode, and can make a total mess of the logic board. If you can, pull the batteries out ASAP! The electrolytic capacitors on most late-80s and early 90s Macs also will fail (and probably al
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by mrpippy 9y ago
I generally agree that Windows has done a good job of getting faster on the same hardware (particularly boot time) over the last 10 years, but the hardware requirements have changed. Disabling desktop composition (the Desktop Window Manager
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by mrpippy 9y ago
My OpenBSD router (a VM running on ESXi) is probably the most satisfying piece of modern technology I have. A joy to configure, update (every 6 months), and does exactly what I need it to with zero problems.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
True. I really wish Apple let you walk into an Apple Store and trade a Lightning-A cable for a Type-C cable.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Apple isn’t breaking old/existing binaries, the new behavior only applies to binaries compiled against the 10.13 SDK.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
qemu has PowerPC system emulation support, and can run MacOS 9/X
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by mrpippy 9y ago
HFS is open-source, both the kext and utilities (fun to see that fsck is using code from the early 90s Disk First Aid). I built the kext for Sierra and it wasn’t too hard. https://opensource.apple.com/source/hfs/hf
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Apple HomeKit devices are suddenly booming(theverge.com)
1 points by mrpippy 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Exactly. I think this will be Toyota’s last generation of head units without CarPlay/Android Auto, simply because all the competitors now have it, and the complaints will only get louder from here. In particular, when every Toyota revi
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Toyota's previous generation of head units (all Entune-branded, started rolling out in 2013/2014) used different hardware platforms and OSes, depending on the supplier. But they all ran a UI that was virtually identical, although
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Having done development with CSR chips, AAC (and also MP3) support is shipped with the SDKs just like aptX is. AAC patent licensing may be more complex though.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
iOS has supported AAC over Bluetooth A2DP for years. For some reason, it's not as widely supported by headphone makers as aptX.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Linking to the same number happens at the iCloud level. Apple already has hooks in place with carriers to enable "Wi-Fi Calling on iCloud-connected devices", so an iPad/Mac can make/answer calls from the cellular number
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by mrpippy 9y ago
This is probably why Apple doesn't expose WebKit as a public API on tvOS: regardless of how useful it would be, the danger is too great that you'll end up with garbage, lowest-common-denomiator web apps littering your platform. Th
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by mrpippy 9y ago
They didn't quite fire everyone: Alan Coopersmith ( https://twitter.com/alanc/status/904366563976896512 ) is still present. I'm sure lots of support and bug fixes will be neglected and probably moved offsh
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Oracle paid $5.6 billion for Sun. If someone else wanted to pay that much they could have submitted an offer too. The board cares about maximizing shareholder value, not about the future of any ongoing technologies. Sun had been in discussi
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Agreed. I think that point was also reached with the tens of thousands of Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep car radios/head units that were wide open to the Internet over cellular. The staggering incompetence responsible up and down the ch
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Key quote: "When you upgrade to macOS High Sierra, systems with all flash storage configurations are converted automatically. Systems with hard disk drives (HDD) and Fusion drives won’t be converted to APFS. You can’t opt-out of the tr
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APFS conversion is mandatory for SSD-equipped Macs(support.apple.com)
3 points by mrpippy 9y ago|2 comments
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by mrpippy 9y ago
+1, known as the "scope clause" in pilot union contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_clause

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