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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?
XCode's codebase is a mess
Sounds unlikely to be a virus. Certificate expiry seems probable if it’s happened suddenly to everyone using this software and dongle.
Whatever it is, it's changing operating system settings, so not just certificate expiry: https://twitter.com/MarcusPun/status/1176369954255331328/pho...
Whats with this kneejerk advice? Honestly who turns off their macs? Are they talking about sleep mode?
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What you're describing sounds like industry-specific anecdotes from a very common, cross-industry reality about non technical users.
I'd revise that to the far more irritating segment of users who think they're more technical than they really are. Actual non technical users are fine, because they generally know when they don't understand a thing. The thinks-their-technical users will bravely throw in whatever phrases they've heard mentioned in relation to a completely unrelated problem.
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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)
Not at all. Even people that love them refer to them as trashcans. It's just a cute nickname, since Apple doesn't give their machines any other distinguishable names.
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That must really be annoying someone over at apple. Spend all that time design something beautiful. And... Everyone calls it garbage
Beautiful? There's a reason why it got the name, it looks like a trashcan. And the old mac pro is filled with garbage(how fitting, right?). If it was any good then apple would have stuck to it, but it was garbage, so they didn't. Now we have the new mac pro, and it's a big step up from the trashcan.
The apple trashcan certainly looks vastly better than other commercially available workstations.
This 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 Take advantage of Zero Downtime I never understand what they mean with this, but now it definitely lost all its meaning.
A few years back I was working for a company that used iLok protection and had a major outage like this, we nicknamed it the iLokalypse.
This 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 Take advantage of Zero Downtime I never understand what they mean with this, but now it definitely lost all its meaning.
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> their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. They're still using that? These things were successfully cracked in the nineties, I was convinced nobody uses hardware dongles anymore.
iLok doesn't require the hardware dongle anymore, licenses can be installed onto the hard drive now. Some people prefer the dongle because they can carry their licenses from machine to machine, studio to studio etc. But as a user, I still much prefer the old-school serial number unlock without internet activation, though.