The use of 'trashcan' to refer to the MacPro by multiple users in the link is pretty amusing. > Has anyone had their trashcans go down today out of nowhere?
Have never called them anything else even in Russian. It's truly an iconic design.
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#42Sound like someone messed up a removal routine, equivalent to "rm $base_dir/$temp_dir -rf".
Yeah, that’s exactly what the behaviour sounded like to me too, having inadvertently done this to myself a few times over the years, and given that many autoupdaters run with root permission, it’s perfectly plausible.
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#43The use of 'trashcan' to refer to the MacPro by multiple users in the link is pretty amusing. > Has anyone had their trashcans go down today out of nowhere?
That must really be annoying someone over at apple. Spend all that time design something beautiful. And... Everyone calls it garbage
Surely the implication is that what's inside is garbage. :P
(which, these days is mostly true, a single socket CPU on a workstation of that grade is a poor design choice)
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#44The use of 'trashcan' to refer to the MacPro by multiple users in the link is pretty amusing. > Has anyone had their trashcans go down today out of nowhere?
They threw the kitchen sink at the problem but just ended up buying cheese graters!
Apple Cheese Grater CNC and performance testing on Pecorino:
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#45rule 1 of hollywood tech support: Always take what the editor says with a massive pinch of salt. I spent ten years in the movie industry, and the people that were the most forthright, and almost universally wrong about technical things were editors. "The monitor is out of grade" No, you've set the background lights to red. "The sound is out of sync" No, you've turned off the amp and somehow managed to get the crappy…
Any non tech savvy would provide or will be treated by grain of salt.
But, I have several reports from colleagues.
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#46This is what Avid sends you after creating an account:
Your iLok account allows you to:
- Use the free iLok License Manager application to manage your licenses
- Take advantage of Zero Downtime and Theft & Loss Coverage premium services to help protect your investment
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#47The use of 'trashcan' to refer to the MacPro by multiple users in the link is pretty amusing. > Has anyone had their trashcans go down today out of nowhere?
That must really be annoying someone over at apple. Spend all that time design something beautiful. And... Everyone calls it garbage
We also call them "trashcans" in conversation. It's an identifiable and memorable term, rather than "mac pro (original/2006)", "mac pro (cylinder/2013)" or "mac pro (cheese grater/2019)"
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
That must really be annoying someone over at apple. Spend all that time design something beautiful. And... Everyone calls it garbage
Surely the implication is that what's inside is garbage. :P (which, these days is mostly true, a single socket CPU on a workstation of that grade is a poor design choice)
Personally, I actually like the design of the current Mac Pro, but I can understand why many wouldn't.
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#49Whats with this kneejerk advice? Honestly who turns off their macs? Are they talking about sleep mode?
i, as an app developer, have to reboot my mac atleast two times the week to get xcode back into a working state. not to sound like a jerk, but if you dont have to powercycle you prob not pushing your machine far enough
Or running stable software that locks up less? Maybe Xcode is just badly written?
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#50yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
> their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok MacOS Catalina makes running kernel extensions hard, they probably were testing new iLok version for Catalina.
Catalina major change is ANY dll should know pass through security. That's why notirisation also for software plug-ins is needed meaning also runtime hardening in future and proper entitlements by host and plug in