I HATE APPLE

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?

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. -_-

I'll buy an ipad when they are 20 bucks

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.

you could open the imac and just disconnect it?

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

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, 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.

colors and tagging issue SUCKS.

I think Onyx or some other free utilities let you make the library folders permanently visible.

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, February 4, 2014 11:54 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iMac

pp, in mavericks, open your home folder and tick the show library option in view options

Thanks, Clippy.

Third-party USB adapters seem to finally be able to charge my iPhone/Pad. Maybe it's an iOS7 thing?

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.

hope you're all running software update on a private network right now

and that you haven't been on public wifi since last week

why are you reading my posts? update your mac.

how do I shot private network?

you mean just PW protected home account? got that.

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

Get it from this link using a browser other than Safari to avoid MITM attacks on the App Store...

hmm I am running an old machine w/OS 10.6.8 - am I just totally screwed?

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...

I obviously missed some news. What's going on?

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

Nice! Thanks for the summary. That's some bullshit.

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.

thanks mh, I will continue to remain obsolete & happy

I'm just here to tell you to keep on keepin' on

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.

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.

xp utter, utter rot.

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?

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

thx!

I just went through Software Update -> App Store, hope I'll be fine....

Have a whole bunch of bitcoins that need to be protected...

and this is why I tell people to always use braces around blocks of code, even if the block is a single line...

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

this is why all the critical gubment fighter jet software is programmed in Ada

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.
)

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

My macbook pro has been messed up with malware since shortly after i installed whatever this latest update is called. I've never seen such a mess on a mac.

Weird!
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/01/apple-buys-ifixit/?iid=obnetwork

Oh duh, April Fools. Move along.

hahaha

The only April Fools gag I fell for was the Aperture X announcement. Sigh.

this is coming about a year too late but https://ssl.apple.com/support/iphone5-sleepwakebutton/

i'm still left with a defective volume down butt tho. worst phone i've ever owned

i'm going to pretend that typo was intentional

Got mine replaced like a year ago because of the button issue, no questions asked. Since then it's been fine...

i thought i'd bought applecare like i normally do but i apparently i didn't /: the problems didn't start appearing until i was out of warranty

I didn't have AppleCare (but it was still in warranty). If I were you I'd try and get a replacement, even out of warranty. Seems like the "geniuses" have a fair amount of leeway there.