There are aftermarket batteries for vintage models that do not copy apples logo, such as the Rayovac ones for the original MacBook. The statement about batteries from demo machines running in stories is incredulous. Seriously suggesting that customers want repairs with batteries that have been trickle charged while continuously running, as would be the case for batteries from demo units, just fails Occam's razor. Story sounds like someone that is complaining after they got caught or at least should have done more research into their supplier.
After what happened with the Pebble a bunch of r/pebblers put together a list of smart watch alternatives. Might be a good place to start looking into options. I've been looking into the Garmin Fenix smart watches ( possibly the newer announced Fenix 5 ) myself as aside from looks they seem to have what I want in a smart watch. Sounds like Fibit might be looking at doing a proper watch ( as opposed to their typical fitness trackers ) as well based on their purchase of Pebble's software division and some discussions I've seen about.
Three ways I see to look at. One is they found the likely cause but want to avoid getting egg on face if it turns out they missed something. Given that they already had a double recall they probably don't want to create the appearance that they are clueless.
The second way I could see it is by pronouncing they can show down third parties releasing their own investigations and could also time when the news got released. Given that CES is this month that can be used one of two ways, either release when press is excited about some new product or to spread the impact to other companies phones that will be announced shortly by implying that it could happen to any phone using the same type of battery.
The third way I could see it is that they have developed a technology that eliminates our greatly reduces the possibility of the problem such as Utah a different type of battery. Having that ready at the same time could give them headstarts against the competitors. Look at how a lot of phones had to be reinforced after the bending iPhone cases. Once the problem is known people will start checking other phones for similar problems.
Haven't booted my 17" in a while, but knew it ran at least El Captain. Thought it was 2010 and newer for Sierra. Just noticed when searching that I better bring my system in for the recall.
It makes the view move down causing the contents or page to scroll up. In no cases should it cause the screen to move unless your device is on unstable surface.
Apple did something similar with the iPhone chargers which is why all the new ones had the green dot ( I believe it was 3G charger, which the plugs could end up detached from the charger ). They also did a recall of knock off third party chargers and replaced them with genuine ones after a bunch of issues with including a KIRF charger killing someone.
I do compilers, low level OS stuff, debuggers, code analysis tools, so I'm always having to switch languages or keep up with other languages. When I have more of a choice my current preferences are a mixture of C++14, Perl and Assembly ( especially PowerPC ). Modern C++ is a pretty nice language and I consider it distinct from C++98 and earlier. I also have way too much fun playing with meta-programming when I can. And template meta-programming is always fun for adding another level. Wrote a binary object file parser once that was pretty much all default member initializers ( thanks C++14 ) and template meta programming. Why write a function when the compiler will do it for you, especially when you are writing another compiler.
You are thinking of FaceTime. And when Apple tried to open the protocol they got sued and forced to switch protocols to one that they couldn't open. iMessage has some history with supporting the open Jabber (XMPP) protocol from back when it was iChat, at least on Macs but not under iOS.
As it's opt-in like the Apple's version was it should really be useful and not nearly as scary as it could be. There something nice about easy access to store, business and review apps while shopping. I imagine Android will do even better as it has less worry about showing off the data it already knows about you. It's one of the reasons why Google Now can do better than Siri. (Except for voice recognization. I don't know why Google needs me to say somethings like 5 or 6 times before it understands me compared to iOS only messing up ocassionally. ) While I understand the privacy concerns, this is not really a new privacy issue as Google already has the data and would just be showing it. That said it also probably makes it more obivious to users how much data Google really has.
Theoretically I might be able to improve it, but several of the links involved take ~30 minutes and while I can have several links or other parts of the build at the same time it had to break down linking too much. I did a little though by subdivide the linking into partial links of related code in archive libraries. It reduces the overall optimization but speed up the linking. There still is some build system overhead that I can reduce. One of my largest savings was switching the build system from nested make files to monolithic one created by a hand tuned generator. If I did it today, I'd probably look at cmake and ninja.
I do have tricks that let developers test small changes to the code much quicker though so hard to justify optimizing more currently.
Mostly just commented to note that slow compile times are still a real thing, didn't really expect to get much into my tools work. Alas multitasking is as well, so compiling time doesn't always equal break time as implied by linked XKCD comic it equals switch gears to another task.
Yeah I'm also really surprised that ECC hasn't become more mainstream. I spent several weeks once chasing down a "compiler / build system" bug that turned out to be the result of a memory bit flip error that had the misfortune to ended up getting cached in the build avoidance system for a fairly static source file. One of the reasons I like server class build farms these days.
It's a C++ project with a large amount of optimization to ensure it fits in the tight memory requirements of an embedded system. It also has to compile a lot of the code multiple times as it targets an embedded system which have dissimilar nodes ( different CPU / memory architectures / devices etc. ).
The software I support takes about an hour to compile with a 20 way build on an enterprise class server blade farm. Before I optimized and increased the parallelization of the build process it used to take 10+ hours. Not every project compiles and links that quickly.
Old versions of articles are still viewable in the page history. I wonder if this related to the bots that I've seen recently that vandalize a page with "random" garbage and then immediately self-reverts.
Yeah booting from media is harder than it used to be, though single user mode and recovery partitions do most of it anyways. ( I actually run a netboot server myself, so just have to boot via network at worse. )
newgrp doesn't exit it but executes a child shell which replaces the newgrp process. It's within shell that has access to file descriptor 3.
For why the file needs to have the same setuid is that is what the exploit takes advantage of, normally writing to a setuid file clears the setuid bit, but that doesn't happen if the writer is already root. Which means that using the exploit ( and some tricks to get out of append mode ) someone can turn a setuid file into any program that will run as root when it is launched.
You can also just boot from an OS X image, for example download the OS X installer extract the installESD.dmg file ( typing from memory but pretty sure that is the name ), install that to a USB drive and boot from it holding the option key when the computer starts up. ( again typing from memory might be command-option or the like ) In fact depending on the age of the computer it might already have a recovery partition that you can just boot directly from and then launch disk utility to mount the main partition and terminal to fix it.
And what if I want to bring up two separate branches side-by-side to do some copying? Can't fucking do it in Git.
For side by side comparisions you can always just do a lightweight clone which pretty much should happen automatically if you clone to another directory within the same filesystem, i.e. git clone -b branch orig_repo branch_repo
Most likely, and if something similar to the patient issue with FaceTime crops up I wouldn't be surprised on a reversed course similar to what happened with FaceTime. That said I'm assuming that the hints that they wanted to open source the language at it's introduction combined with delay between then and the announcement of planning to open source meant they may have taken steps to avoid such issues this time.
Yea, before I gave up using google search I found I often had to do searches of the form: "phrase A" -"wrong A1" -"wrong A2" -"wrong A3" etc. And it would still start the results with stuff like: Did you mean to search for "wrong A1" -"wrong A1"...?
Won't this just encourage SEO sites to include a bunch of trivial facts but easily verifiable facts within page to get a good truth like quality as far as Google is concerned?
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There are aftermarket batteries for vintage models that do not copy apples logo, such as the Rayovac ones for the original MacBook. The statement about batteries from demo machines running in stories is incredulous. Seriously suggesting that customers want repairs with batteries that have been trickle charged while continuously running, as would be the case for batteries from demo units, just fails Occam's razor. Story sounds like someone that is complaining after they got caught or at least should have done more research into their supplier.
After what happened with the Pebble a bunch of r/pebblers put together a list of smart watch alternatives. Might be a good place to start looking into options. I've been looking into the Garmin Fenix smart watches ( possibly the newer announced Fenix 5 ) myself as aside from looks they seem to have what I want in a smart watch. Sounds like Fibit might be looking at doing a proper watch ( as opposed to their typical fitness trackers ) as well based on their purchase of Pebble's software division and some discussions I've seen about.
Three ways I see to look at. One is they found the likely cause but want to avoid getting egg on face if it turns out they missed something. Given that they already had a double recall they probably don't want to create the appearance that they are clueless.
The second way I could see it is by pronouncing they can show down third parties releasing their own investigations and could also time when the news got released. Given that CES is this month that can be used one of two ways, either release when press is excited about some new product or to spread the impact to other companies phones that will be announced shortly by implying that it could happen to any phone using the same type of battery.
The third way I could see it is that they have developed a technology that eliminates our greatly reduces the possibility of the problem such as Utah a different type of battery. Having that ready at the same time could give them headstarts against the competitors. Look at how a lot of phones had to be reinforced after the bending iPhone cases. Once the problem is known people will start checking other phones for similar problems.
Haven't booted my 17" in a while, but knew it ran at least El Captain. Thought it was 2010 and newer for Sierra. Just noticed when searching that I better bring my system in for the recall.
Are there any thunderbolt equipped Macs that don't support 10.12.2?
It makes the view move down causing the contents or page to scroll up. In no cases should it cause the screen to move unless your device is on unstable surface.
Apple did something similar with the iPhone chargers which is why all the new ones had the green dot ( I believe it was 3G charger, which the plugs could end up detached from the charger ). They also did a recall of knock off third party chargers and replaced them with genuine ones after a bunch of issues with including a KIRF charger killing someone.
I do compilers, low level OS stuff, debuggers, code analysis tools, so I'm always having to switch languages or keep up with other languages. When I have more of a choice my current preferences are a mixture of C++14, Perl and Assembly ( especially PowerPC ). Modern C++ is a pretty nice language and I consider it distinct from C++98 and earlier. I also have way too much fun playing with meta-programming when I can. And template meta-programming is always fun for adding another level. Wrote a binary object file parser once that was pretty much all default member initializers ( thanks C++14 ) and template meta programming. Why write a function when the compiler will do it for you, especially when you are writing another compiler.
You are thinking of FaceTime. And when Apple tried to open the protocol they got sued and forced to switch protocols to one that they couldn't open. iMessage has some history with supporting the open Jabber (XMPP) protocol from back when it was iChat, at least on Macs but not under iOS.
As it's opt-in like the Apple's version was it should really be useful and not nearly as scary as it could be. There something nice about easy access to store, business and review apps while shopping. I imagine Android will do even better as it has less worry about showing off the data it already knows about you. It's one of the reasons why Google Now can do better than Siri. (Except for voice recognization. I don't know why Google needs me to say somethings like 5 or 6 times before it understands me compared to iOS only messing up ocassionally. ) While I understand the privacy concerns, this is not really a new privacy issue as Google already has the data and would just be showing it. That said it also probably makes it more obivious to users how much data Google really has.
Theoretically I might be able to improve it, but several of the links involved take ~30 minutes and while I can have several links or other parts of the build at the same time it had to break down linking too much. I did a little though by subdivide the linking into partial links of related code in archive libraries. It reduces the overall optimization but speed up the linking. There still is some build system overhead that I can reduce. One of my largest savings was switching the build system from nested make files to monolithic one created by a hand tuned generator. If I did it today, I'd probably look at cmake and ninja.
I do have tricks that let developers test small changes to the code much quicker though so hard to justify optimizing more currently.
Mostly just commented to note that slow compile times are still a real thing, didn't really expect to get much into my tools work. Alas multitasking is as well, so compiling time doesn't always equal break time as implied by linked XKCD comic it equals switch gears to another task.
Yeah I'm also really surprised that ECC hasn't become more mainstream. I spent several weeks once chasing down a "compiler / build system" bug that turned out to be the result of a memory bit flip error that had the misfortune to ended up getting cached in the build avoidance system for a fairly static source file. One of the reasons I like server class build farms these days.
It's a C++ project with a large amount of optimization to ensure it fits in the tight memory requirements of an embedded system. It also has to compile a lot of the code multiple times as it targets an embedded system which have dissimilar nodes ( different CPU / memory architectures / devices etc. ).
The software I support takes about an hour to compile with a 20 way build on an enterprise class server blade farm. Before I optimized and increased the parallelization of the build process it used to take 10+ hours. Not every project compiles and links that quickly.
Old versions of articles are still viewable in the page history. I wonder if this related to the bots that I've seen recently that vandalize a page with "random" garbage and then immediately self-reverts.
electric company account (please break in and pay my bill for me!)
You might want to move electric company account up the list. Utilities bills are often used as proof of address when verifying identity.
Since the article is talking about the UK guidelines here, check out this list.
electric company account (please break in and pay my bill for me!)
You might want to move electric company account up the list. Utilities bills are often used as proof of address when verifying identity.
Yeah booting from media is harder than it used to be, though single user mode and recovery partitions do most of it anyways. ( I actually run a netboot server myself, so just have to boot via network at worse. )
newgrp doesn't exit it but executes a child shell which replaces the newgrp process. It's within shell that has access to file descriptor 3.
For why the file needs to have the same setuid is that is what the exploit takes advantage of, normally writing to a setuid file clears the setuid bit, but that doesn't happen if the writer is already root. Which means that using the exploit ( and some tricks to get out of append mode ) someone can turn a setuid file into any program that will run as root when it is launched.
You can also just boot from an OS X image, for example download the OS X installer extract the installESD.dmg file ( typing from memory but pretty sure that is the name ), install that to a USB drive and boot from it holding the option key when the computer starts up. ( again typing from memory might be command-option or the like ) In fact depending on the age of the computer it might already have a recovery partition that you can just boot directly from and then launch disk utility to mount the main partition and terminal to fix it.
And what if I want to bring up two separate branches side-by-side to do some copying? Can't fucking do it in Git.
For side by side comparisions you can always just do a lightweight clone which pretty much should happen automatically if you clone to another directory within the same filesystem, i.e.
git clone -b branch orig_repo branch_repo
Just like they plan on open-sourcing Facetime?
Most likely, and if something similar to the patient issue with FaceTime crops up I wouldn't be surprised on a reversed course similar to what happened with FaceTime. That said I'm assuming that the hints that they wanted to open source the language at it's introduction combined with delay between then and the announcement of planning to open source meant they may have taken steps to avoid such issues this time.
Yea, before I gave up using google search I found I often had to do searches of the form: "phrase A" -"wrong A1" -"wrong A2" -"wrong A3" etc. And it would still start the results with stuff like: Did you mean to search for "wrong A1" -"wrong A1"...?
Won't this just encourage SEO sites to include a bunch of trivial facts but easily verifiable facts within page to get a good truth like quality as far as Google is concerned?