you can't use a generic USB cd/dvd burner?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
I can, yes. I still need to make an appointment to have them disconnect the internal DVD drive so that it stops attempting to claw its way out of the case every time I start up.
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
borrow half a dozen external drives, rip six discs at a time, give drives back when done
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
my macbook has a optical drive spasm at weird times too - like if I go to open a file or something - maye its looking at all possible places a file could be or something
also my OS is obsolete and I cannot upgrade due to hardware - F U apple!!
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
also they were playing "How Soon Is Now?" while dude at the Genius Bar was running diagnostics and I was singing along and dude looked up at me, grinned, and asked "Rockin' out to some Depeche Mode, huh?"
I mean, come on
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
going to use this opportunity to share that I spent ten minutes thinking my computer was fucked up because I kept putting a blu-ray disc in the blu-ray drive I'd installed, and it kept ejecting the wrong drive tray
it turns out the blu-ray drive was the top one and I was just repeatedly putting a bd in the dvd drivexp
lolol
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
YOushoudl have said "yes I LOVE depeche mode, especially when they had Lol Tolhurst!!"
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
haha perfect
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
LOOOL kids these days xps
― sleeve, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
this "kid" was mmmmmmmmaybe 3 years younger than me
or he's led an extraordinarily tough life, dude was weathered
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
always thought it was " I am the sun and the air" transcendental Moz
why would apple name its shithead minions "geniuses" - to make them more hate-able?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
my gf's ipad had the "phantom dock connector" issue where the sound would not switch back to the internal speaker. apple incredibly gives you no way to manually force the device to use its own speaker. (just how stupid this is: you could trick the device in skype to use the internal speaker but as soon as you try most any other app - back to 'dock connector'). resetting it didn't work. restoring it didn't work. jailbreaking it and deleting one stupid preference file, that worked. -_-
― bnw, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
I'll buy an ipad when they are 20 bucks
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
I recently opened up my macbook pro and replaced the optical drive with an SSD. It's really not that hard to open up and remove it. Macsales sells drives and probably suplies instructions.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
you could open the imac and just disconnect it?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
at this point I'd be game to do that; I didn't see a clear way into the machine, which is why I took it to the Genius Bar
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 10:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha, you met one of the guys who used to live inside Napster.
I'm tired of simple things like not being able to take a screenshot of a DVD. Not being able to charge Apple products with the 3rd-party USB ports that I've been using for years prior to Mavericks. Not having an "Always Deny" option for keychain passwords. Fucking having to hit the Alt button now to view MY LIBRARY.
I've already talked about the colors and tagging. I'll settle down instead.
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
colors and tagging issue SUCKS.
I think Onyx or some other free utilities let you make the library folders permanently visible.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:54 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iMac
― caek, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
pp, in mavericks, open your home folder and tick the show library option in view options
― caek, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, Clippy.
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Third-party USB adapters seem to finally be able to charge my iPhone/Pad. Maybe it's an iOS7 thing?
― schwantz, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
It could be. The old ipod/iphone works, but the new mini doesn't.
Worst part is the little box that comes up and says "Your Mini iPad isn't charging." It KNOWS there's a mini iPad there. It even takes the time to flash a little message to me about it. And yet, it just stands by while my battery drains, like a volunteer fire department watching the house of a dues-delinquent homeowner burn down.
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
hope you're all running software update on a private network right now
― caek, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
and that you haven't been on public wifi since last week
why are you reading my posts? update your mac.
― caek, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
how do I shot private network?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
you mean just PW protected home account? got that.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
pfff I was dead set on keeping my iPad 3 on iOS6 and never update - it seems Apple found a way to force me to
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Get it from this link using a browser other than Safari to avoid MITM attacks on the App Store...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
hmm I am running an old machine w/OS 10.6.8 - am I just totally screwed?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 MB DDR2 SDRAM
can I even run anything over 10.6.8? I assumed not...
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
I obviously missed some news. What's going on?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
sleeve, the issue was only in software made in the last 1.5 years
EZ, there has been a pretty bad SSL security hole in a security library shared between OS X and iOS for the past 1.5 years or so but it's only come to the forefront recently. The iOS/OS X patches fix this, but until you have them installed, any software that uses that library (OS updates, web browser HTTPS sessions, Mail) could be subject to a man-in-the-middle attack
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Nice! Thanks for the summary. That's some bullshit.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
tbf, every developer I've shown the code that inadvertently created this security issue has kind of dismissed it with a groan and shake of the head. It's just a really dumb case-checking block where there's a fallthrough case where there shouldn't be due to a lack of brackets/bad indentation/copy-paste issues.
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
thanks mh, I will continue to remain obsolete & happy
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
I'm just here to tell you to keep on keepin' on
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
It's so serious that nobody has been affected by it for 1.5yrs. This is being blown way out of proportion by Apple haters. Install the fix but don't overhype the severity of it.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
well, we have no idea if anyone's been affected by it, is the issue. and recently people did create a few automated attacks based on that vector, so it's completely possible some people have been stealthily taking advantage of it.
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
xp utter, utter rot.
― caek, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
i know nothing about this stuff, but wouldn't downloading the update via that non-ssl link to the apple support website in chrome or whatever instead of hitting software update ultimately leave you just as open to man-in-the-middle attacks, just ones that didn't exploit this particular flaw?
― sktsh, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:04 (ten years ago) link
No, there's a second layer of defence in that Apple updates are cryptographically signed, so anyone wanting to install malware that way would have to have apple's certificate. It's not impossible, but it's still another thing a bad guy would have to crack
― stet, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
thx!
― sktsh, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link
I just went through Software Update -> App Store, hope I'll be fine....
Have a whole bunch of bitcoins that need to be protected...
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
and this is why I tell people to always use braces around blocks of code, even if the block is a single line...
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 01:19 (ten years ago) link
lol koogs, we had a nice tool installed that warned about that and a lot of other rules, but there was so much existing code, and some petty rules we couldn't be bothered to turn off, and... back to the old ways
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
this is why all the critical gubment fighter jet software is programmed in Ada
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 02:46 (ten years ago) link
no need for ada, just code reviews and decent unit tests.
or maybe the NSA wanted it there...
(if you've not seen it: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
basically comes down to this:
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0) goto fail; goto fail;// more code
that if makes the first goto fail conditional, but *only* the first one - the second one is unconditional so the code following it never executes.
it's a c'n'p error, sure, but the duplication should jump out at you as odd even with the most cursory glance.)
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
ada has mandated begin/end blocks that are named, iirc, so it's even harder to screw this up than style guides that mandate curly braces
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link