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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by wila »

archagon wrote: post #23
Tehnix wrote: post #17

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Have been on it since beta 3 or something. This has been one of the more smooth transitions, no dev tools broken, and only few apps had some quirks that I filed bug reports for, which are now fixed. The APFS change really isn't something you are likely to hit, heck you'd have to go out of your way to make it a problem. Deffo recommending it :) Speed ups are nice!

Do you know if the APFS conversion affects Bootcamp at all?

If you're using VMware Fusion then your Bootcamp partition currently appears to be not accessible.

So it looks like that the conversion does confuse VMware Fusion at the moment. Not aware of any other issues with Bootcamp.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by thought_alarm »

mvdwoord wrote: post #91

Does anybody have more information on this claim of a keychain vulnerability in High Sierra... just saw it fly past on Twitter. https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/912254053849079808 >on High Sierra (unsigned) apps can programmatically dump & exfil keychain (w/ your plaintext passwords) vid: https://player.vimeo.com/video/235313957 #smh

Hasn't that always been the case?

Years ago I moved all of my important passwords to a secondary keychain that remains locked for precisely this reason.

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Post by ksec »

All of my Mac Stolen from home burglary meant I could never try it out. Have they fixed the scaling system on Retina Mac, where all enlarged scale, ( Where you choose Larger Text or Smaller Space ) fonts and windows looked washed out?

I cant be the only one who want a Retina Mac but need bigger fonts and Icons because i am getting old.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by kuschku »

allenbrunson wrote: post #204
smcleod wrote: post #57

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Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

argh! i can't believe people are still arguing about whether we should do MM/DD/YYY or DD/MM/YYYY or anything similar to that. here's how you should write a date that you are going to show to a user: Jan 11 2016 if you accept that premise, it doesn't matter (much) what order you put the elements in, because none of them can be confused with any other. a word is a month, a one- or two-digit number is the day of the mo…

Don’t you mean 11. Jan 2016? ;)

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Post by mirimir »

majewsky wrote: post #156
mirimir wrote: post #100

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If you have enough examples, you can see which field goes over 12. In undocumented datasets, that's the only option.

That assumes that the dataset is consistent with itself.

Well, you gotta assume something ;)

And you're right. I've seen some pretty strange stuff.

Sometimes, when forced to use ancient enterprise data systems, desperate staff use abandoned fields for new purposes.

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Post by [deleted] »

robin_reala wrote: post #209
E-M wrote: post #194

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I can assure you that Latvia does not use YYYY-DD-MM. Officially Latvia is using ISO 8601. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Usage

I’d update the Wikipedia article but don’t have time to go digging for official sources. Something you (or someone else with domain knowledge) could do?

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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by gumby »

4ad wrote: post #61
aneidon wrote: post #55

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Not aware of those issues, what exactly are the limitations?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786 Some highlights: > When shared, photos taken with standard point-and-shoot cameras, SLR cameras, or iOS devices have up to 2048 pixels on the long edge. > Videos can be up to five minutes in length and are delivered at up to 720p resolution. > Maximum shared albums an owner can share: 100 > Maximum shared albums a user can subscribe to:…

That’s dreadful! I had assumed that iCloud (rather than Dropbox) sharing would share the original as that is already in the cloud anyway. It would just be a pointer or DB entry

I was horrified when I learned that Google wasn’t going to save full resolution by default. Had no idea Apple would do something similar.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by wiredfool »

petercooper wrote: post #58
aneidon wrote: post #39

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. Currently they’re all but useless for something like a shared album from a vacation, because it groups photos by when family members upload them. I tend to upload photos at the end of each day, but other family members who were shooting on a normal camera waited until the end o…

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. This isn't a criticism of you, but when a major OS update comes down to trivia like this, it seems a bit of a shame to me. I remember the 10.2-10.6 releases and just how significant they were and it feels like rearranging deck chairs in comparison nowadays.

Snow Leopard was a boring release, but a very nice OS. This release feels like it might be similar.

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Post by Ivoah »

majewsky wrote: post #159
Tehnix wrote: post #26

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General animation things because of Metal 2. APFS is awesome when copy pasting (instant), Safari's faster, and general performance increase (subjective of course). There are tons of small changes here and there!

What does a filesystem have to do with copy-pasting?

I think he meant copy-pasting files.
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