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I was referring to the cost of data recovery if the logic board fails.

I agree that the T2 probably isn't all that expensive.

Oh, sorry. I (obviously) misunderstood...

I think that their will be 2 "paths" to data recovery (3, if you count a Time Machine backup)

1. Logic board is failed in some way; but is "up" enough to put the sick computer in "Target Disk Mode"

2. Logic board non-responsive.

In the case of #1, then a savvy User or Apple Genius (yeah, I hate the term, too!), can hook up a temporary (or permanent) Thunderbolt-Equipped Mac to be the Target of the sick computer's data, and then use the macOS "Migration Assistant" to initiate the Transfer. Then that computer can be attached to an external Drive and Time Machine used to store the data while the sick computer is repaired (and then the "Temporary Storage" computer's original Data can be Restored from ITs Time Machine Backup. When that is complete, the Time Machine backup Drive can be hooked up to the repaired computer, and Migration Assistant can be used to Restore the SDD contents. Not spectacularly efficient; but it should work.

In the case of #2, without a Time Machine backup, you're hosed. Just like anyone would be with a catastrophic disk failure and no backup. Let's face it: If your house gets hit by lightning and your computer is hooked up to ANYTHING, it's probably ALL toast. That's why doing a periodic (weekly/monthly?) backup of the Time Machine Drive to a removable drive (that is stored elsewhere when not actively engaged in the "backup of the backup") is essential for critical applications. Or, forego the use of Time Machine in favor of a conventional GFS type backup, with rotating media (raw HDDs and a USB/TB Sled). Or, you can simply disconnect your Time Machine Drive most of the time, and only hook it up nightly/weekly, and it will "catch up".

Here are some other suggestions for Mac Backup strategies. I kind of like the one using periodic Time Machine backups, along with continuous Cloud-based BackBlaze backup. for $5/mo for Unlimited, encrypted storage, BackBlaze sounds like a pretty good deal. And I like the idea that you can have your data mailed to you on a USB key or a 4 TB drive if you're in a hurry to Recover. Normally I don't like Cloud solutions; but this seems like a pretty solid system:

https://business.tutsplus.com/...

Very true, but my intention was to present Miku (along with my other examples) as something bleeding-edge that can become increasingly applicable as the technology matures and costs drop. The 3D models used for it can be re-used for other facsimiles, so Miku Hatsune can become e.g. Trisha Johnson.

It's the exact same setup as manufactured pop stars already prevalent in American culture, they've just taken the star out of the equation. For example, one person wrote many of the hits for Brittany Spears, NSYNC, and many other singers/groups. Music can be produced, at least partially, without physical instruments.

If Americans would accept a digital diva (I don't think they would, yet) you've replaced a dozen or two people (and their enormous entourage) with one song writer, two or three modelers, and maybe a handful of musicians. As an added bonus, a Vocaloid won't get drunk and drive their car into a lake, so even after the popularity of the model wains they can repurpose it.

Please check out my Building Your Startup series at Envato Tuts+. In it, I walk people through every step of building Meeting Planner. There are upcoming episodes on crowdfunding vs angel or VC investing. A lot if is development-oriented but there are wide-ranging anecdotes throughout.

All I really need is a damn spell checker in WordPad...

No, what you really need is a System-Wide Spell-and-Grammar-Checker, Dictionary and Thesaurus Service, like macOS has had since OS X 10.0.0 .

That's been around for years, it is MAINLY for remote support and what limited functionality it can do with software packages and changing, locking down, and management settings is very minimal. No doubt it works great in a small environment like a classroom or maybe even a small campus where support is the main goal but it is no comparison to what is available in the world for managing Windows machines.

When you are part of a team of 2 that manages (not talking about tier 1 and 2 support when users have problems) 1000 desktops and laptops around the world, let me know which methods you think are better. Try seamlessly moving the location of their network synchronized home directory to another storage/network location for practice

I mentioned that it had been around for years; but I don't agree with one other word of your post.

It is precisely designed to admin huge numbers of Macs, as well as Windows and Linux machines, anywhere they can be reached, including over the internet. It even includes switchable AES encryption for network traffic; so even if a VPN is not available, you can safely admin remote systems. That's a far cry from your assertions.

Also, far from your claims that ARD is mainly for "remote support" (which is actually such a broad term that I cannot discern what you really mean); but assuming you mean like Citrix' "GoToAssist", which us so wonderful you can't even cut and paste between the admin and the target, and only works between one pair of endpoints per session, or something like Goverlan, which is nowhere near as capable as ARD, and is far more expensive, or Microsoft's RSAT, which is only for Servers, or DameWare, which seems about equal to ARD, at least for Windows systems; but which would be $700 for your hypothetical two-technician setup, vs. $160 for ARD for the same two licenses, I would say that, with these specs, and a price of only $79 for unlimited Client systems, ARD neatly wins, hands down.

But since a video is worth 1,000 x 30 x VideoLengthInSeconds words, here is a nice 939 second video (that's 28,170,000 words-worth) showing ARD in action.

And, finally, addressing your "challenge": Since you can setup an Account for Remote Admin, and because you can either Remotely Run the Terminal App and/or Run Command Line scripts on the Remote machine, moving someone's Home Folder should be as simple as this.

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Nah. Macs have far worse and basic problems all over the place. For example, finder not having a cut function, or a keyboard shortcut to rename files.Of course if has no useful extensions like TortoiseSVN either. The "app bar" thing sucks, and so does alt-tab not cycling through minimized programs, and there's no equivalent to alt-f4 either. The whole damn thing seems horribly crippled. It's by far the worst user interface I've ever used (including various Linux flavors, OS/2 and others)

"Cut" in Finder would be a ridiculously-dangerous thing; however, if you hold the Option key while Drag-Copying a file, it WILL do a "Move" instead of a Copy. That has existed since the MacOS Classic days (don't remember which version, but it was pretty early-on). And, holding "Shift" while Drag-Copying a file will create an Alias (Shortcut) instead of copying the source file.

El Capitan (OS X 10.11) will introduce a Contextual Menu Item "Rename", and with OS X, it is trivial to add Keyboard Shortcuts to Applications (or system-wide). So that's another one down....

As for the other things, it sounds like you're simply wanting OS X to act like Windows. ALT-F4 is HARDLY a Universal Standard, get over it. Learn Command-Q. My biggest issue going back and forth between Windows and OS X has always been Windows' use of Ctrl-C/X/V/Z for the almost always-used Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo. It ALWAYS trips me up when I am at work on my Windows laptop, and then use my Mac at home. Yes, Keyboard Maestro can remap Command-C/X/V/Z, but then I feel "unclean" using them on my Mac, LOL!

As for TortoiseSVN, I am not too familiar with that, but there are Subversion clients for OS X. Here's one I found in about 2 seconds on Google. Here is a list of more alternatives to Tortoise for OS X.

As for the ALT-TAB not cycling through minimized apps: Here is a way to do it from the keyboard. I'll admit it seems a little kludgy; but name me any OS that doesn't have a few of those. Personally, I can count on about 3 fingers the number of times I have used Command-TAB on my Mac in the fifteen years I have used OS X.

Sorry to reply to myself, but after reading the full details on this vulnerability it's not like the previous Thunderbolt exploits I've seen, and my prior advice may not be sufficient protection.

It uses a string of vulnerabilities to flash itself into the firmware using Diagnostic Mode, which exists outside the protection of FileVault. To fully secure yourself you probably need to set a firmware password... not as easy as turning on FileVault, but it should only take a couple minutes on a modern Mac: instructions

Hopefully Apple will take steps to close the vulnerabilities but it's not likely to affect many people; it requires prolonged physical access to the machine, multiple reboots and connection of hardware, and finally the cooperation of the user (logging in again) for the attacker to steal any useful information. Virtually any machine could be compromised under the same circumstances.

Conventional wisdom is that iPhone users have more disposable income than Android users, and you need a Mac to debug in Mobile Safari. Making something broken on iPhone could cause more affluent, more influential people not to share your site.

Yes.

An interesting post is here on how to create a forum from scratch. The use of foreign keys to control this sort of referential deletion is part of the article. A pretty good primer, actually.

The lack of type safety when it tries to otherwise be much like Java means you get junior developers who frequently put strings in items expecting integers and vice-versa, causing big problems.

How did they gain employment working on production code written in a language that they clearly do not know? Why do you not have asserts to validate the input during development / testing?

There's gotchas and bugs in just about every language and runtime. Dynamic typing in javascript is not a bug or a gotcha, it's a feature of the language. You say you've been working in javascript for 4 years and yet you fail to realize this?

You could not find the "Skip" button on this screen?
http://cdn.tutsplus.com/mac.tutsplus.com/authors/john-winter/appleID-Mac.jpg

Start your re-education here old man:

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html

http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-layout/

Developing for multiple different screen sizes is not that big of a deal, unless your brain is trapped in the printed-page analogy. Its been done this way for 20 years. In this day and age Its. just. not. a. problem.

Clearly the one who has no clue about the modern world is you.

Windows8 still has lots of problems even without METRO.

As we saw with people still preferring XP today in 2013 that people like me wont ever upgrade from Windows 7 even with classic shell. Too many apps and the hassle is not worth it.

Windows 8 got rid of aero, Windows key + tab browsing, dvd movie playback, rounded corners, and all sane colors. Office 2013 is a horrible horrible GUI that gives me migraines! It is like a fucking time warp back to 1985 CGA/EGA time.

For the extremist design change for MS on Windows 8/Office 2013 look here. I can understand skeumorphism might not always be ideal, but it dam looks nice and not extreme like blinding white voids of color that MS is taking with METRO.

Until this is fixed I am staying with Windows 7 regardless of whether Metro is in it or not.

I wouldn't consider JQuery a framework, and if that's what you were looking for, no wonder you had problems. JQuery is a nice collection of shortcuts with a selector engine and some cross-platform abstraction, that over time has grown into something more powerful simply because of how common it is. It's getting better, especially as they throw away some backwards compatibility with older versions, but I wouldn't use it as my starting point for a full web app or an ERP system.

If you wanted an honest-to-goodness framework, you should at least have gone with MooTools (which was built ground-up to be a cleaner object-oriented solution), or a full Framework.

The UDID is used by developers to provision an app for a phone so it can be installed without going through the app store (see here.)

Some of the magic can be found in the screencasts of the software: http://macromates.com/screencasts

Notice though that these were shot in 2008 and earlier...

Integration with the OS has been a big feature of TextMate and Coda (which is why the users are such zealots)... oh yeah and editable snippet bundles per programming language. http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/editorials/are-textmate-and-coda-yesterdays-editors/

I don't know about that. I mean, I realise that what Burger Christ or whatever they're called probably photograph pieces of painted styrofoam instead of food, but this page seems to indicate that respectable images of actual food are entirely possible.

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