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Apple Announces a Mac Event On October 27, Says 'Hello Again'
Apple announced on Wednesday that it will be holding an event on October 27. The tagline of the invite is, "hello again." This suggests that the rumors are true and that the company will indeed announce a fleet of new Mac products. The original Mac was introduced with the word "hello" in 1984. People have waited for years now for Apple to refresh its Macbooks -- some of the products in Mac line haven't received an update in 1000 days. Many expert even said earlier that Apple should stop selling the old MacBooks. The new MacBooks are expected to ship with Intel Skylake processor and a contextual keyboard. Not long ago, the company was also exploring the idea of a MacBook without a 3.5mm audio jack.
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I have no idea what they will really release, but I'm pretty sure many Slashdot posters (who would never buy Apple hardware anyway) will hate whatever they change, and I'll have to explain to them all what Apple is thinking... sigh.
Thus is the internet.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Purple cups eat grass." I mean, as long as we're throwing out random words that aren't relevant to reality.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
My feelings/fear is that they'll just give up on the desktop versions and go strictly laptops.
Hello,
and,
Goodbye.
They're thinking about dropping the headphone jack. Maybe the new MacBook will be waterproof.
I have three words for you... reading comprehension!
Rootless is easily disabled, you just have to boot to recovery mode, open a terminal, and run a single command. Reboot and voila. You can load arbitrary code even in the kernel.
Combined with the new campus, Apple is now teletubbyland, with computers only a noo noo would use.
True, it's not quite to iOS levels. But you still can't run code that isn't "blessed" by Cupertino and you can't turn that off: macOS removed the ability to disable Gatekeeper.
So this is a lie? Is that you Donald?
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rootless can be disabled.
csrutil..
Yes, just boot into Recovery Mode using the DVD the ... oh wait, modern Macs don't have a DVD drive and even if they did, macOS isn't available except via download. So you can't boot of media, there is no media. So no recovery mode, so no disabling rootless.
FFS if you are going troll at least do something imaginative. Booting to Recovery Mode takes a single key press during the boot process.
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I believe the subtitle will be, "If you like your ports you can keep your ports." Then they'll lie to you and take away the standard USB ports.
I haven't yet installed MacOS Sierra, but given the number of stories I've read, it's clear that the people who are most in need of gatekeeper are the ones who are too stupid to be trusted with disabling it. A perfect example are those idiot chinese coders that downloaded pirated copies of xcode, which resulted in every app they wrote having malicious code injected.
Gatekeeper is a tremendously valuable tool because it's a solid front line of defense against malicious apps, and IMO anyone who disables it is a moron.
It's trivially easy to bypass gatekeeper on a case-by-case basis. All you do is right-click on your desired app and choose "open". It will ask you to verify whether you really want to do that, and voila, it opens. If you open an app and the OS says that it's unsigned, that's a big honking red flag, and it means you need to scrutinise the source of your application.
I have got myself a Dell XPS 13 Dev Ed after my MacBook Pro dGPU crapped out. Sick and tired of fighting mountains of new bugs that come with every new mac OS and dealing with bags of dongles.
Either you don't use a Mac, or your skill level is so low that you are exactly the kind of person for whom this change is designed. There is virtually no reason why you *should* disable Gatekeeper because it provides critical front-line security to protect you from malicious apps.
If you want to grant an exception to an individual app, that is still possible. If you want to disable gatekeeper entirely, you can still do that too, although you'd be begging to be exploited by malicious software if you did.
And, oh look! I found this on my very first google search.
https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/g...
Clearly you couldn't even be bothered to make the attempt to get more info before invoking the power of your pie hole.
These machines are marketed to, and used by, "pro" users, and built-in audio on ANY computer is not used by anyone serious about audio work.
Perhaps you are unaware but there are some professionals who are not serious about audio work and who still use the audio for things like video conferencing and who would like to have some privacy or avoid disturbing others while doing so. A headphone is rather essential for that and no a wireless thing which has to be kept charged and only lasts for a few hours is NOT a suitable replacement. Having to miss a meeting because you forgot to keep yet another device charged is anything but professional.
Last I heard USB-C was a standard USB port.
You can run code that isn't blessed by Cupertino. In fact, Gatekeeper defaults to signed and Mac App Store apps. Signed apps are apps that a developer makes that have been signed by a key generated by Apple. Apple doesn't get a chance to review those apps - the developer writes it, signs it, and releases it. Apple has revoked a few keys before, because they were used to spread malware (because even developers can't be bothered to secure their keys, so those keys got stolen).
And it's possible to bypass gatekeeper quite easily. First off, it only affects "unsafe" distribution methods, like software downloads from the Internet. So if you install an app from say, a CD, it works just fine (since these will be older, they will be unsigned). And code that the compiler produces is also trusted, presumably you've verified that yourself. Another way is it relies on extended attributes, so clearing those also bypasses it.
Or you can give an unsigned app permission to run permanantly, requiring little more than a few extra seconds to press the Ctrl key and clicking Open.
For file protection, you can disable it easily enough, though it requires a trip through the recovery mode console Even Wikipedia has the basic command you need to disable it.
Honestly, the options are there to take full control of the machine, if you want to. For the vast, vast majority of users, including power users, leaving it at the defaults is just fine.
Perhaps you are unaware
of USB headphones for video conferencing?
Right Click -> Open
Try again, sport.
Except, you know, the utility that Apple ships - csrutil - that allows you to turn it off by booting to recovery mode, running the command, and booting back to normal mode.
Because people didn't know if it was "OSX" or "OS X" or "MAC OS X" or "MAC OSX"? Because people didn't know if it was pronounced "OS Ten" or "OS EX"? Because their marketing department wanted a more consistent and user-friendly name?
Holy hell man, if you think the NAME indicates some sort of strategic technological shift, you're an idiot.
I hate laptops. I have a monitor, keyboard mouse everywhere I need to work so I tote my mac-mini around. It has always been under powered and unexpandible however the form factor and durability of this machine is nice and wins out for doing actual work. Doubles as a means to stream/play movies. When it wears out no worries, I can get peripherals anywhere. Hope they continue to support it...
It's just AtEase all over again.
For 90% of the population they'll get by just fine. You'll still have a way to get to a bash prompt if you want. (Just like I could launch into Finder when the rest of my family had their own personal AtEase pages)
... I would actually be expecting something pretty amazing right now.
The "Pro. Go. Whoa." tagline of the introduction of the original (Bondi Blue) iMac was something that was actually pretty astonishing and well worth the -- rather low-key, in retrospect -- hype going into it. The iMac itself was advertised displaying the infamous 1984 "hello" image on its front:
http://lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/hello-again-imac.jpg via
http://lowendmac.com/1998/1998-good-bye-newton-hello-os-8-1-wallstreet-and-imac/
Since we don't have Jobs around any more, I'm not really sure what to expect. New form factors, perhaps, but it's weird to think of Apple caring much about its Mac line nowadays.
Whatever it is, it better be good.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Cant we move -forward-? reminds me of "Captain Queeg: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers... "
Do you remember the good old times of college, when on an old dumb VT100 terminals everything you got was a simple "hello, world!" printed on green phosphors ?
Now Apple Inc. is proud to introduce iVT100, the new way to access your mainframe. "Hello again, world!"
You Sir, are a fucking idiot.
I hope the announce the death of that annoying default calendar reminder sound.
with Adele.
> A perfect example are those idiot chinese coders that downloaded pirated copies of xcode
I still don't get that. Xcode is a FREE download directly from Apple. Why on earth would you pirate it??
From what I read, it was pure impatience. The official Apple link was apparently slow, and they could get it faster with some local pirated link.
I agree with all of your sentiments except this one: "...anyone who disables it is a moron" When gatekeeper was first introduced, refind-it had some problems, so that if you were using it to dual-boot into, say, linux as well, you needed to temporarily run csrutil for the refind-it install to work. Then re-enable afterwards. That is the *only* good reason for doing so that I have encountered. The issue has been rectified by the refind-it people since then, so you don't even need that now. So, I hear you...
Well, we won't have all the things we have now in the future. I remember when audio cassettes gave way to hard drives, when 5"1/4 floppies gave way to 3.5" ones and then later to cd's cd-r's and then dvds and blue ray.
Serial ports gave way to USB which is giving way to thunderbolt and maybe the lighting adapter. It wasn't even five years ago that borrowing someone's charger meant you had to have the same manufacturer of cell phone. Nobody complained about the standardization of micro USB when it happened and it drove the market.
Apple is a business. They make what the majority of their customers will buy, and they charge what they can get for it. Are there a lot of pro users out there? Sure. But how many of them are there compared to teenybopper kids who have to have a new iPhone every 10 months and who don't respect their equipment because phone carriers have spent the last decade telling them with a contract their phones cost a nickel?
That's why things are the way they are. Millennials not taking care of the stuff they own because they never had to work for it, bending and breaking their cases and screens and driving a repair industry. As long as that's where the money is, why wouldn't Apple take it?
Now, as for macs and MacBooks, Apple makes it easy to submit feedback for what you want, how many submit it? Probably very few compared to the people who complain the day before a press release.