Comment Re: Fixed that for you (Score 3, Funny) 387
Dear Steve,
Heard about the reorganization.
Sounds great! Keep up the good work!
It's visionaries like you that have made Microsoff what it is today.
-Tim Cook
Seriously, don't use iOS for anything requiring real security.
I hate those FTFY posts, but in this case I believe it's called for: Don't use a phone of any kind for anything requiring real security.
I'll see that, and raise it to the more effective method of "Don't keep sensitive information anywhere but your brain."
The protection they rely on is holding the device like they should. If it's taken the PIN will be trivially bypassed anyway. Now I feel like an idiot for replying to what probably amounts to a troll, but you never know.
Exactly!
That's why I don't store extensive Contact information in my phone (that's what my personal protein-based storage is for), and ZERO really juicy information. My Apple ID is stored somewhere in the phone, but not my very non-trivial password.
That way, if my phone is lost and compromised, or simply compromised, all the data-thief gets is... wait for it... a PHONE.
BTW, this is also why I don't participate in any of the voluntary data-gathering that is disguised as "social networking". It's bad enough that I have a gmail account; but I don't use that for anything anyone would be able to gain any more interesting information about me than could be gleaned by looking at my grocery-store receipts. And it's bad enough that the last 4 digits of my debit card appears on them...
Bottom line: Stop trusting others' coding and/or algorithmic prowess for your security! Security begins by not storing stuff in places other than your brain. If someone wants to kidnap me and get out the fingernail-pullers, they can have any information they want, and in short order. But absent that, unless someone successfully does a fairly-complicated (I would imagine) MITM attack between my bank's secure website and me, there's little of REAL value that could be gained by examining any of my online data, or by stealing my phone, tablet, work laptop, or home computers. They simply don't HAVE the information. My brain does.
Has my method occasionally caused me inconvenience? You bet! But security and convenience are pretty much mutually exclusive concepts, anyway, right?
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
This page is pretty helpful in that regard.
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
This page is pretty helpful in that regard.
13 inc MBRP are having same issue and so are the new iMacs. Not looking good.
Well, on the 15 inch rMBP, the new version of the LG display, p/n LP154WT1-SJA2, (the "2"at the end being the all-important difference), dose NOT seem to exhibit IR; so, I would imagine that similar fixes for the 13 MBP and the iMacs are either in the pipe, or already on store shelves.
Having said all that, I'm not particularly proud of the way Apple has handled this; but I suspect that the Contract Manufacturer, (presumably Foxconn) has a measure of blame in how long this has taken to resolve. That's because CMs tend to but stuff in bulk, and are loathe to throw away "perfectly-good" components, rather than just burning through the old stuff...
LCDs have lazy pixels. OLEDs, however, have burn-in as well.
That's a BIG 10-4!!!
One recent product design I was working on was an industrial motor controller/drive.For the design refresh, I desperately wanted to switch out the venerable 7-seg LED display with a nice graphical OLED display. Had a nice long-life (75 k hrs.) amber monochrome OLED display picked out, was nice and bright, cost was reasonable, display fit in the package, things were looking good...
Unfortunately, these displays typically would be showing a static image for LOOOOONG periods of time. OLEDS had a big time problem with burn-in, and the usual workaround (walk the displayed image slowly around in a small grid of pixels) was simply an attempt to smear the damage over a wider area.
The LCD vendors, however, produced displays that exhibited NO burn-in (but were deemed unsuitable by management, because they weren't nice, lambertian light sources, like LEDs). But I digress...
You're confused. It wasn't the $199 Wing Wang Wong China Special that had problems working with Linux. It was the Retina Macbook.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple_mbpr_linux&num=1
I think you have that backwards. It was the Linux devs. that had the onus of providing compatibility; not Apple.
Coupled with several nasty doses of IL-2 (which does bad things to you)
No doubt!
That's scary stuff!!! How did they avoid you going into Septic Shock after INTENTIONALLY INJECTING Interleukin-2. especially after your immune system was "rebooted"?
But however they did it, congrats!
Any computer that doesn't stand 2 ft. tall and sound like a damned jet isn't going to have enough internal storage for a decent-sized media library, and so will be using external storage. The 2 ft tall part isn't usually a problem, but that damned jet-noise just doesn't cut it in a media application.
My fileserver has sixteen drives in it. You can't even tell it's on in a room with normal levels of ambient noise.
Impressive.
I assume you listen to headphones/earbuds a lot?
But when that single, oversold, 5U rack "monster server" (which has been oversold because you have to make that $24k back somehow!) falls over, you'd better have ANOTHER $24k server to swap it out, pronto; because now FIFTY clients are breathing down your neck while you spend a couple of hours getting everything reloaded and working again (that is, assuming you even HAVE that spare $24k server just lying around)...
Except you wouldn't have a single 5U server, you'd have 2x 2U servers or 4x1U servers and a virtualisation cluster. So a single hardware outage would mean a bunch of VMs just restarted automatically (and nearly instantly) on another host. Or if you were really fancy and were using VMware's Fault Tolerance, they'd never have gone down at all.
I will admit that, if you had the staff to setup and maintain that across several VM's in a fault-tolerant cluster, that might actually be a superior way to go, both cost and reliability-wise. I sometimes forget how good virtualization has gotten in the past few years.
So now, the use case is down to whether Apple-Specific services are required. But for those cases, the Mac mini is reliable, reasonably low-cost, and relatively easy to administer for those with *nix skills.
The 2 ft tall part isn't usually a problem, but that damned jet-noise just doesn't cut it in a media application.
If hard drive noise for quiet drives is a problem, then there is no solution, as SSDs are too expensive for the storage amount a media server needs.
Who said anything about SSDs? Nice try. But do go on...
Otherwise, though, there is nothing that requires a computer to be noisy. My HTPC only makes any noise because it has a video card that is beefy enough to play games. I have a fanless card that would do just as well if I was only playing media, and the processor is the same Core i5 as the base Mac Mini. The power supply has a fan that only runs when it gets too hot, but it never will as the parts in the machine can't ever draw enough power.
You mention that your "HTPC only makes noise because..."
Who cares WHY it makes noise. It makes noise. Next...
The HTPC case is brushed aluminun with a standard media rack size,
Whatever a "media rack" is. The Mac mini is brushed aluminum, too. So?
and can hold two 3.5" drives and two 2.5" drives internally, which could easily be 10TB (the 2.5" drives don't have height limits, so I can use the Western Digital 2TB drives). This looks far better than a Mac Mini with 2-3 external drives connected to it.
So, you're going to do backups to the same box as your media library? I hope you realize that you are one Power Supply failure from losing your entire collection, and that a RAID (if you are silly enough to put your trust in consumer-level RAID) is no substitute for backups... So, since I ASSUME you aren't that stupid, exactly HOW do you avoid having "external drives", whether directly attached, or somewhere else?
Also, those 2TB 2.5" WD drives are $189 apiece; so you have 2 HARD DRIVES that are 2/3 of the cost of an entire base-model Mac mini. Yeah, sounds like a great deal you have going there...
The best solution is a storage server in a different room, and then you can use anything for a media player..
No, all you need then is ????ft long HDMI and/or RCA cables, and a perfectly-positioned "other room". A lot of people don't have that luxury.
.you don't need a full-fleged computer like the Mini. I've got sub-$100 media players that can play back pretty much anything, and they have no moving parts, so are completely silent, and draw less than 30W from the wall plug.
Oh, you mean like an AppleTV, right? Yeah, you can have one of those, too, for the other TV. And then you know what? Because of how AirPlay works, you can then essentially have TWO "HTPC"s.
Oh, and I note that you DIDN'T crow about how your HTPC was "so much cheaper" than a Mac mini. Telling,
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