While I'm still on iOS myself, this was a long overdue issue. It's incredibly frustrating to have to switch on/off imessage to send messages to people who have moved over to android. iMessage was/is a great idea, but it took a bit too long for this bug fix to be resolved.
I send SMS messages to Android users all the time from iMessage. What are you talking about? Are you talking about only from OS X, or iOS, too?
IRC, jabber and xabber. Good IM clients with integrated support for a bunch of protocols and servers exist for every device I've ever heard of (with the possible exception of iPhones due to Apple's 'we hate you' policy towards users)
Nice Try, Hater.
Not only is Cisco Jabber available for iOS, and according to Xabber's Blog, Xabber is currently in development for iOS; but In about 2 seconds of Googling, I found FOUR iOS IRC Clients:
Palaver
Colloquy
LimeChat
Turbo IRC
There may (probably are) more; but those are sufficient to put your little rant to rest...
Smart watches fail on look good and discrete. They look gaudy and are designed to catch others eyes so they know how cool you are.
Yeah, it's a good thing that mechanical watches are so low-key and discrete...
How many people have been infected by contact with this doctor?
Don't know yet. I don't think he has been back in the U.S. for 21 days, yet.
I blame Outbreak. http://nypdecider.files.wordpr...
One thing I don't get though... http://ebolatracking.org/ - I get there's a lot of stupid people in New York, California, Texas... but Maine? Why the hell is Maine over 10000 tweets... it's mother effing Maine.
Probably because that's where that Healthcare Worker who has been making such a stink about being voluntarily Quarantined for a whole 21 days in her own house (a Quarantine she decided on her own to break today), lives.
Companies that are for profit that want to take an even bigger cut of your money, run on public networks, and make money selling your data.
I can't say about Google Wallet; but Apple Pay takes no cut of your money, nor does it sell your data, because a sales transaction is between exactly two parties: Your bank (as your agent), and the merchant (as the other "end point"). And the Merchant doesn't get anything but a one-time transaction approval code. The Merchant has no data to sell in the case of brick and mortar stores (nor does Apple). In online transactions, you probably will be giving up your name and shipping address to the Merchant, though (duh!).
Apple does act as the intermediary between you and your bank during the setup process for a new card; but does not sell that information nor can it even decrypt the information sent back through them to update the Secure Enclave in the iOS device. Then, nothing and no-one can retrieve it directly.
I am suggesting a boycott of these two stores. Since I know for certain they accepted apple pay and then and now refusing.
Yep. That's the ticket. Adults vote with their feet.
I'm starting to think the only people they used for their focus groups were obese old people with bad vision.
Hey! I happen to be an obese old person with bad vision, you insensitive clod!
And no, I wouldn't want all-caps Menus. That actually reduces readability.
Supposedly the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard. I've heard mix-messages, but the Apple person on CHAT confirmed it. However he could be wrong too.
I guess we'll find out soon.
If it is soldered, that is a sad day indeed.
Soldered. From the Apple Store page for the 'mini: "Memory This Mac mini comes standard with 8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 memory. Please note that the memory is built into the computer, so if you think you may need more memory in the future, it is important to upgrade at the time of purchase."
There is a meager i7 option when "Built to order"
BUT!!!! No Quad Core i7. Still just a dual core.
That, combined with the soldered RAM has a bunch of people upset.
IIRC, there has never been a quad in the 'mini. Heat dissipation issues.
The memo you missed is that after some fracturing among the various open versions, they got together and formed the OpenZFS group, which does some sharing of plans and code as updates are made. Since that time, the open-source versions have matured from promising curiosities into really great implementations. The older open-source version for OS X has died, and been replaced by a derivative of the Linux version, which is a strong piece of work.
You're right, of course.
When I looked into ZFS on OS X as a way to do an ultra-fault-tolerant RAID for a friend's massive media collection (after I painstakingly recovered the data on his Buffalo RAID, as per my original post), the state of the state wasn't very promising, and so I ultimately punted on the idea. But it most certainly looks like the situation has MUCH improved, thanks in large part to the efforts of the OpenZFS Group.
Maybe now Apple will come around and take another look at full-support of ZFS, like what was going to happen in Snow Leopard Server, before Apple got cold feet.
Fortunately, Apple tends to listen to its Userbase pretty well, and there appears to be renewed interest among Users for full-on ZFS Support in OS X. At least we can hope...
At least OpenZFS is now compatible with the newly-released OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).
FreeBSD 10.0 will boot on ZFS, after an easy installation where you do shit on the command line but it's very easy due to the documentation. No idea about doing it on a Macintosh though. That was just a quick try in a vbox VM.
Thanks for the info!
Well, at least a few ZFS (albeit non-bootable?) versions that work at least up to Mavericks (10.9) seem to be alive and well on OS X, as seen here and here. And here is an informative forum thread from someone who has been using ZFS as his primary filesystem on OS X for over 2 years.
However, to answer the GGP's concerns about not supporting ZFS on a boot drive: If you are truly running a "Server"-type of setup, why, oh, why would you be keeping your main data stores on the System (boot) Drive, anyway? And once you are past that point, then it seems like ZFS is pretty much as "supported" on OS X as it is on most *NIX-based systems. That is to say, to a somewhat greater or lesser extent, depending on your needs/expectations.
But if does seem like ZFS on OS X is anything but a "dead" issue, at least as far as the F/OSS community is concerned. Yes, it would be very nice for Apple to take another look at full-support of ZFS, now that it has matured. Let's hope they get serious about it again someday...
The mini wouldn't be a bad way to go... it's not that expensive and I can still use my 27" monitor.
Was thinking the same. The good specs and lower price make the new Mini quite attractive desktop.
Speaking of specs, does anyone know why there is no i7 configuration, or did I miss a BTO option?
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
