The "Thank you Apple" title sounds like a gushing fanboi love letter. I almost didn't read the post (which is quite good, glad I did). I just think the title should be a little more clear (like add a "not" at the end).
Rob Pike is a Canadian :)
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Re: Thank you Apple
#62IMHO not having install media as the default option is a problem. It doesn't matter if all the media does is boot up a network stack and FTP it from somewhere and then run it but recovery scenarios aren't something you should have to twist yourself into a loop to solve. One of the advantages of the App Store model is that software is (AFAIK) easily redownloaded and reinstalled, so much so that I know people who have…
>>>> Why Rob Pike wouldn't fork over $80 for Aperture and save himself the hassle is beyond me. You can say "it's the principle of the thing; I've already paid for it!" but really? What is your time worth?
Well, the trouble with that approach is that money votes. When you pay this extra $80 you reinforce the behavior.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting in that his industry veteran status gives this merit or interesting in that his employment makes him a shill?
Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he knows what he's doing.
Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he [Rob Pike] knows what he's doing.
Clearly not. For one thing you just don't erase a working drive with your data on it until the repair is successful. If it's some warranty thing and they are going to take the drive then you at least make a 1:1 image of it using dd or equivalent block copy first. If they are replacing it with the same size just dd the image back for that matter.
The worst part is this repair is trivial for anybody that knows what he's doing. You just order a replacement drive from newegg (or wherever), mount the new and old drives using target disk mode or external enclosure, and copy the disk. Then you swap the drives. This wasn't an Air or something difficult, just unscrew the case and replace the drive. Or if you really don't want to take it apart yourself have the repairman do the swap.
It's really easy, especially with a second Apple available. I did it just a few weeks ago for a family member, the only actual time investment is opening the case to swap the drives.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he knows what he's doing.
Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he [Rob Pike] knows what he's doing. Clearly not. For one thing you just don't erase a working drive with your data on it until the repair is successful. If it's some warranty thing and they are going to take the drive then you at least make a 1:1 image of it using dd or equivalent block copy first. If they are replacing it with the same size just dd the image back for…
First off: you're responding to someone saying "he knows what he's doing," and you saw an opening to insult Rob Pike so you took it. That's the entire point of your post. For everyone else:
The whole fucking point isn't that he's a genius and can fix computers, it's that he called Apple and repeatedly trusted them to take care of him and they failed. That's why he's contrasting their support against the electrician in the story.
He trusted their backup solution to be satisfactory for backing up his machine. For trusting that when he called Apple's Pro Tools folks for a license key, he wouldn't just get bitched at for not doing something he actually had already done.
If you're calling him a moron for trusting Apple to do these things for him, say so. We'd probably all agree with you.
Oh wait - you're hate on him because he works for Google on Go, because you're a notorious anti-Go, and in general an anti-Google troll. (Others: see the same username on Reddit.) That's why you ignored context, the electrician story, the whole point of the blog post and instead just wasted a few sentences calling Rob Pike incompetent.
Now your comment makes a lot more sense.
Re: Thank you Apple
#65IMHO not having install media as the default option is a problem. It doesn't matter if all the media does is boot up a network stack and FTP it from somewhere and then run it but recovery scenarios aren't something you should have to twist yourself into a loop to solve. One of the advantages of the App Store model is that software is (AFAIK) easily redownloaded and reinstalled, so much so that I know people who have…
>>>> Why Rob Pike wouldn't fork over $80 for Aperture and save himself the hassle is beyond me. You can say "it's the principle of the thing; I've already paid for it!" but really? What is your time worth? Well, the trouble with that approach is that money votes. When you pay this extra $80 you reinforce the behavior.
And you wouldn't want to reinforce the behavior of providing a time-saving service for money?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>>> Why Rob Pike wouldn't fork over $80 for Aperture and save himself the hassle is beyond me. You can say "it's the principle of the thing; I've already paid for it!" but really? What is your time worth? Well, the trouble with that approach is that money votes. When you pay this extra $80 you reinforce the behavior.
And you wouldn't want to reinforce the behavior of providing a time-saving service for money?
And they wonder why people pirate.
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#67(This does not in any way excuse anything he encountered. That is and will always remain inexcusable.) Apple is aware of those problems and hard at work fixing them. All current Macs, for example, now come with Internet Recovery, meaning it is possible to boot them into the recovery manager (and from there it’s possible to run Disk Utility, the Terminal or the installer), even with a completely empty HDD. All the iLi…
The reality is that Disk Utility lies. There is a recovery partition it hides from you. What you're describing is impossible without a relatively huge EFI partition, or net boot.
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#68I wanted to blog about something similar myself, but currently lack a blog. Apple's rejection of physical media is, I would argue, extremely harmful. I have an old, 2008 Macbook (not Pro) 4,1. The old white plastic kind. Lion performs atrociously (at best) on it, so around half a year ago I installed Linux on it. Recently, I got around to buying a new laptop (a Lenovo), and wanted to restore OSX on the old Macbook in…
You have a lot of patience. I would have resorted to piracy at around step 2 of the process.
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#69Can someone advise me on the point in the article about how Time Machine is insufficient to backup one's entire computer?
My wife's Macbook Air uses Time Machine to backup, and I haven't done any other sort of backup with it. If her hard drive crashes, will she lose information, or is Time Machine reliable enough to restore her entire laptop? I just assumed it was good enough. If this isn't true, and if she loses any information, it's not Tim Cook who will need to deal with her wrath...
Re: Thank you Apple
#70Can someone advise me on the point in the article about how Time Machine is insufficient to backup one's entire computer? My wife's Macbook Air uses Time Machine to backup, and I haven't done any other sort of backup with it. If her hard drive crashes, will she lose information, or is Time Machine reliable enough to restore her entire laptop? I just assumed it was good enough. If this isn't true, and if she loses any…
I've successfully restored and migrated from my Time Machine backup, so I don't think there's currently any widespread issue.