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by mrpippy 9y ago
As I remember, that was a special-case arrangement for some kind of family reason (and after he had worked in Cupertino for several years). There are current Apple engineers with the arrangement you describe though, I know of at least one o
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Location: Orange County, CA Remote: Would be great Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Embedded firmware (ARM, PIC, Bluetooth, USB, Apple MFi). Embedded Linux (including GStreamer). macOS (Cocoa and Carbon) app development, also Qt. Linke
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Fascinating! Do you remember which traps you patched? :) jGNEFilter?
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Buy? I've never seen anything to suggest that special entitlements from Apple (KEXT signing on Mac, Network Extension usage on iOS, etc.) requires any payment besides the $100/yr developer program fee
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Win 10S can run desktop apps that have been "converted" using the Desktop App Converter (nee Centennial) and uploaded to the Store. This is how iTunes will be coming to the Store later this year. Currently the only device shipping
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by mrpippy 9y ago
You can get IPv6 connectivity (tunneled over v4) for free: https://tunnelbroker.net
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Exactly, and the Linux version was similarly bad and unmaintained. I don't think they released a 64-bit x86 version until 2008/2009 when Linux on amd64 had been common since 2005 if not before. I remember having to either keep a 3
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by mrpippy 9y ago
They're using a proprietary mesh protocol (either vendor-specific or product-specific). This is a standard, blessed by the SIG and should be supported by many vendors.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
I did the same thing at UCSB 10 years ago to constantly poll for seats opening up in a class. This was back when GOLD was a primitive web interface that was clearly screen-scraping an IBM AS/400 terminal app. I used python and twill--p
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by mrpippy 9y ago
I've had OpenBSD on my Libretto 100ct (ran quite well and floppy+net install was easy), and installed OPENSTEP 4.0 for giggles last year: http://bslabs.net/2016/02/29/openstep-on-the-libretto-100ct/
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Express Logic? (makers of ThreadX)
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by mrpippy 9y ago
If it's like how iCloud Keychain works now, you have to approve the new device on every existing device, and I believe each device pair generates keys known only to them.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Yeah, it's been mentioned in all the posts. I assume it was enough work just to get x86 working, and there's almost no 64-bit-only Windows software (certainly nothing you would want to run emulated). "only 32-bit x86 support
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by mrpippy 9y ago
MODE32. Virtual PC. Virtual Game Station (PS1 emulator). RAM Doubler. Speed Doubler. QuickCam. One hell of a run.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
That is odd. IBM bought Transitive and owns the tech (so no ongoing license fees to pay) and I would thimk that x86 binary support for POWER would still be a useful migration tool.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Here's an insane idea--what if every Win10 ARM laptop also included a Pentium 4 or Athlon XP chip (from a junked PC) glued inside the case? Would the x86 patent rights from that chip cover an emulator running on the ARM? (I'm pret
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Worth noting that Microsoft's emulator is only emulating x86, not AMD64 (at least not yet)
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Ford is more open about vehicle info than any other carmaker I can think of (see http://openxcplatform.com ), but that's not saying much, and I don't think they would give out dbc files without a lot of lawyers being in
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Indeed. Especially important when you remember that most of the (many!) devices in a car sitting on CAN buses come from outside suppliers, and black-box testing of these modules can only go so far to verify the CAN implementation and stabil
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Very cool! You're the last one here? http://s3.bslabs.net/wwdc/1997/401%20Web%20Server%20Programm...
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What Really Happened with Vista(hackernoon.com)
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Looking Back at WWDC 97(bslabs.net)
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Known as "power by the hour", or maybe TaaS ("thrust as a service") would be more appropriate for HN
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Possibly related: every 737 variant ever made is certified under the same FAA type certification. It's on at least revision 58: http://www.b737.org.uk/a16we.pdf I have read on forums (but don't know enough to
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by mrpippy 9y ago
5.4.0 was just stabilized on amd64 in the last few weeks, so you're not far behind. You do have to rebuild a lot of packages (anything C++), but it all went smoothly for me.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Yep, if you held down the menu bar no other applications would get any time or events except for interrupt-time callbacks like VBL tasks and async IO completion routines. Any application that actually did something on classic MacOS while th
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by mrpippy 10y ago
First blog I thought of, although it's not a company: Dolphin. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/ As for actual companies, as an embedded dev I think Atomic Object ( https://spin.atomicobject.com ) and Free E
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by mrpippy 10y ago
It seems to me that if you wanted a multi head-capable supercomputer in the 90s, SGI is exactly who you would buy from. A rackmount Onyx or Onyx2 could support lots of graphics heads, at least 8 CPUs, tons of memory, and it was a fairly nor
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by mrpippy 10y ago
The server requirement was only true for 10.5 and 10.6. With 10.7 and up, the regular client OS X can also be virtualized on Apple hardware.
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by mrpippy 10y ago
iNES is the NES emulator I remember from my childhood, for Mac in particular (although it also ran on Windows, DOS, and every UNIX platform). With a core written in PPC assembly, it was able to run at full speed on any PPC Mac (60 MHz being

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