I have received 6 "How to reset your Apple ID password" Email from Apple during the last couple of days, none of which was triggered by me. Could this be related?
Same here.
Apple Developer Center still down
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#92My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. If you've ever poked around with the way that Apple's website works, you can see that the entire place is a huge mess. There's old servers running ancient (pre-2004) perl scripts alongside the brand new iCloud gear. I can't imagine how the authentication for AppleID is working as login details still work on the ancient pages (think pinstripes and glassy butt…
I work at an Apple Premium Reseller, and when we order stuff from Apple we use http://reseller.apple.com (which now seems to redirect to https://ecommerce.apple.com/ ) and all those systems feels hacked together just as you're saying. The Reseller Store has been down the whole time the Developer Center has been down. Even more interesting perhaps, our company's "master apple id", which is used to place multi 100K USD…
Do you have access to the CRT? If yes, does that still work? It hinges on the same login infrastructure as reseller.apple.com AFAIK.
I have nothing to do with Apple anymore so I can't check it myself :)
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you work for the Foundry? I find that Nuke for OSX is by far the crashiest. Was wondering why.
What version (OS X and Nuke) and how does it crash doing what as an example?
Mostly things that smelled like memory leaks (pull a matte, leave it for a while, come back and tweak it => long coffee break). Also, restoring from idle seemed to be the hardest on Snow Leopard.
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#94If it weren't Sunday, I wouldn't speculate, but it is. My 2 cents: iOS7 updates galore. Just imagine everything that could be overhauled. Even the old gray textured background we see is not very much like iOS 7. iOS is in a big transition here. You can't even update apps at all unless you now include 'widescreen' support, for example. If you don't, iTunes reports an Invalid Binary (no default 586 image, etc). So I wo…
Being sunday has nothing to do with it - notice the title is "still down" - it's been down since thursday. If this was planned, any sane company would give notice to their developers, Apple's success implies they're sane. Don't forget that developers get 30%, when Apple show off (rightfully so) a huge sum paid to developers, they've been paid significantly more than that - developers seriously matter.
Developers get 70%, and Apple gets 30%, not the other way around. The sum paid to developers is substantially larger than the sum paid to Apple.
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#95What's even worse is that we, the developers, their customers, will never get to know what happened. Because that's the Apple way. I'd really love that Apple proves me wrong on this one and comes clean on the problem, the cause and prevention measures being put in place so this won't happen again, whatever it is.
They'll have to come clean on this. People pay for this service AND many businesses rely on it. If I'm correct enterprise businesses won't be able to add new devices to the system for example. Apple will need a good explanation for this and if it is a security problem they'll probably be issuing password reset requests and maybe invalidating certificates - you can't just do those things without an explanation.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
What version (OS X and Nuke) and how does it crash doing what as an example?
Mostly things that smelled like memory leaks (pull a matte, leave it for a while, come back and tweak it => long coffee break). Also, restoring from idle seemed to be the hardest on Snow Leopard.
Which keyer? Primatte's had a few issues in 6.3 and previous.
on 10.6 (and 10.7), memory allocation/paging is pretty atrocious if you haven't got much free mem left.
Basically, OS X prioritises paging to disk over freeing up Inactive memory (which isn't actually being used for anything at present), which is pretty crap. So it's very easy to make it page when it shouldn't when you allocate loads of memory, and the system will generally just grind to a halt.
Apple fixed this in 10.8, so now it will free up Inactive memory first, before it starts paging.
But neither of these explain any crashes within Nuke.
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#97This reminds me, yesterday i got an obviously spoofed phishing email from "apple" telling me to reset my passwords and reenter my CC info. Anybody else get that? http://imgur.com/hyta4bC
Can you have a look at the mail headers and check if it was just a standard phishing mail?
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#98If it weren't Sunday, I wouldn't speculate, but it is. My 2 cents: iOS7 updates galore. Just imagine everything that could be overhauled. Even the old gray textured background we see is not very much like iOS 7. iOS is in a big transition here. You can't even update apps at all unless you now include 'widescreen' support, for example. If you don't, iTunes reports an Invalid Binary (no default 586 image, etc). So I wo…
So I would guess a huge overhaul, and typical Apple, is taking care of that vs. arguing or commenting on theories. A design overhaul wouldn't require the dev centre to go down at all - they could just prepare all the assets etc on testing servers and switch them over when they are ready. Given the normal warning given on any maintenance, and the obvious negative consequences for Apple's business of any extended outag…
Keep in mind, this is the company which takes their whole store down when they need to add new products to it.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mostly things that smelled like memory leaks (pull a matte, leave it for a while, come back and tweak it => long coffee break). Also, restoring from idle seemed to be the hardest on Snow Leopard.
Which keyer? Primatte's had a few issues in 6.3 and previous. on 10.6 (and 10.7), memory allocation/paging is pretty atrocious if you haven't got much free mem left. Basically, OS X prioritises paging to disk over freeing up Inactive memory (which isn't actually being used for anything at present), which is pretty crap. So it's very easy to make it page when it shouldn't when you allocate loads of memory, and the sys…
Indeed Primatte. This explains a lot. Thanks!
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I completely follow you. I would calculate on the basis of developers building software that runs on top of Linux, so that would include a large proportion of all web applications as well as various embedded applications. You could probably include android in there also. Now it's true that this isn't quite apples to apples since Linux is more fungible than iOS in most regards, mostly thanks to it's open…
The biggest point is probably that the existence of an Open Source/Free operating system has probably enabled more profitable businesses to exist than iOS. Maybe. On the one hand, I know exactly how great it is to have development tools that are a free download away (I remember shelling out hundreds on a C++ compiler in the mid-90s). Open source definitely rocks in this respect. On the other hand, I know that without…
He's just trolling ...