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osxrand··on Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
Editorial is a fantastic app, as is procreate, use both of those constantly. The first iPad mini with editorial took over from all my other computers for writing, well everything.

From notes, to scripts for clients servers, it just took over.

Being able to quickly sketch, or take a photo of something and add notes too it quickly is super handy.

osxrand··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
Agreed, the page loads, shows data, then goes completely blank for 1-2 seconds while the scroll bars load. Safari 8.0.6 OS X Yosemite.
osxrand··on Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve
Thanks, was running to a client and didn't have time to check it out right away.

Hmm, turns out my Mac Pro does have VMX : machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM Maybe it's the EPT mentioned by @mrsteveman1

osxrand··on Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve
I'm curious why there is a restriction of 2010 or newer mac. Is it something in the CPU that's needed? I've 10.10.3 installed on a non supported mac and wanted to use this, but getting errors when I try the test Linux
osxrand··on Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems
>> Einstein officially runs on MacOS X with partial support for iOS, Android, Linux and Windows.

Maybe one day :)

I still have an eMate sitting here, those things were (are) amazing, especially sharing (beaming) files to each other. And with the wifi card in it, I still fire it up and play occasionally

osxrand··on [dead]
The cart animations zoom the page in and out on my iPad, really annoying. When zoomed out I can only see the first story, zoomed in its all just white below the animations.

Viewing landscape and nothing but letting the page load. Mobile safari.

osxrand··on Time-Lapse Mining from Internet Photos
That's really interesting that the Wall Street bull moves over the years. I wonder if this is due to people leaning against it, or something like cleaning, or some other reason.
osxrand··on Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet
I know. There's not a single other implement in the home that could be used for defence. The government must want you beaten, raped and or murdered.
osxrand··on Touch Pianist – Tap in Rhythm and Perform Your Favourite Music
For feature requests, I'd love to be able just to watch them being played automagically one after the other on my iOS device (on the website or app), or computer via the website.

Sometimes I just want to lay there with headphones on and listens to good piano music.

Really enjoyed playing with this, actually still enjoying :)

osxrand··on Eighth-Grader Charged with Cybercrimes for Changing Teacher's Desktop Wallpaper
What ever happened to educating people vs just lashing out and punishing? There was a great teaching moment there (as well as learning moment for the staff).
osxrand··on What the Apple Watch Means for the Age of Notifications
I like the notifications grouped by app, it lets me scan and clear an entire app in one go, vs clearing each individual line. Less labour, less friction, more likely that I'll use notifications.

I've ordered the apps to show the app on top which I'm expecting important info from.

Tbh, I've almost all notifications off as well, my default for almost any new app asking to notify me is DENY.

In app choices of which sort of notifications you'd like to receive would be great, whether in the app itself or in system settings.app in the apps settings (ideally they would reflect). But failing that, it's mostly off except for anything that is actually important, then ordered by app importance.

osxrand··on Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X
Indeed, I'm running 10.10 on a 2006 Mac Pro, and it's running really really well (boot.efi replaced to get it working, not supported:).

I was surprised just how well it's working tbh.

osxrand··on Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage
I've always viewed Google drive as a checklist item to compete with others. Cloud storage? Check! Gets the job done but not a main focus.

The OS X client is passable, and the fact that you can't do things like LAN sync or rate limit the upload speed make it no good for many clients of mine.

osxrand··on Are tablets falling out of favour?
On one hand, I'm honestly surprised that this is still an issue these days. That's the issue I had with tablets back in the early 2000's when MS was pushing them, every time I picked one up I turned something on or off, drove me batty.
osxrand··on Are tablets falling out of favour?
I may be missing something here (it's really late) but I'm able to quite easily hold and type on my iPad quite easily, in fact its happening right now.

I've found that I moved most things to the iPad mini when I first got it. Dropbox + editorial (Python scripting!) + workflow and an updated IFTTT has me rarely reaching for my MacBook pro or heading to the iMac or Mac Pro.

Also Procreate (absolutely awesome app) has me sketching and painting again, now that I don't have to carve out space in my life for an easel and paint gear.

Hmm, this I guess has expanded beyond your comment and into being a bit of a reply to the no content creation mantra in a comment below, but there it is.

osxrand··on Show HN: Instagram viewer by latitude and longitude, hosted for free on Heroku
Thanks for this. I've always loved eyeballing the globe and figuring out what was at the opposite end of a hole dug directly down. Not sure why, but now it's even easier
osxrand··on Single-Tag Website
Or an interesting technical challenge. I know that's why I would have done it.
osxrand··on Show HN: One App to read them all
Nice and clean. I'd love it if when I clicked on HN comments that the list of stories would slide to the left and I'd have the comments to read without leaving this app.

On initially opening, it took 4 tries to load the HN stories. Kept showing me the ! At the bottom, which I thought would let me know what was wrong but instead was a refresh button. Which works, however a mouse over with a simple error message may be great as well. (Actually I guess I was impatient, it does do a mouse over; Sync Error)

Clean, uncluttered and minimalistic while providing a quo k glance at top articles. Overall I like it :)

osxrand··on Apple: Don’t do math in iOS 8’s Notification Center
Because on an ipad, there is not a calculator, so swiping up does nothing, there's no calculator button to tap.

I've installed pcalc for this reason, and love it.

osxrand··on Sun's Star7: Touchscreen Tablet of 1992
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if they had both scrolling methods on the device for testing purposes.

The noise while drawing around the room (and outside) was horrid. Nails on chalkboard type horrid. I'd have thought the visual movement was enough to convey the idea that you were navigating. But testing again I guess.

osxrand··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
Some more feedback, in the Australia section you've put New Zealand as well. Maybe you should name it Australasia to be a little more accurate?
osxrand··on “We will sell you this microwave under the following conditions”
In 10.9 (OS X) apps ask permissions to access your contacts. There is also the request for location.

It's been a while since I installed new apps on there, don't recall offhand what other permissions they can ask for. But it's there.

osxrand··on Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read
One sci-fi author that I really found refreshing was Karl Schroeder. His first book has been made available for anyone to read, and if you like nano bots, micro payments, discussions on what it means to be human, I'd highly recommend checking his works out.

http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version

osxrand··on Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
That's complete recycled bovine waste my friend.

Just because I choose to use OS X does not mean I'm ignoring the bsd base its built on, nor not enjoying using / contributing to open projects.

osxrand··on OS X Bash Update 1.0
Unless you're talking about 10.6 or older :

Quoted from 0x0

Also for 10.8: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1768 And for 10.7: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1767 Edit: Further information from the announcement is available here: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2014/Sep/m....

Just posting it here incase someone reads your comment and misses 0x0's

osxrand··on Did the Vikings Get a Bum Rap?
Thank you for posting this, that was a great half hour video. I'd never thought of using their shields like that at all.
osxrand··on Meet the Apple Watch
I am liking the idea of using the crown to help navigate around the interface. Glad they thought about it a lot more vs just compressing the phone down into a smaller UI (similar to the small iPod was). Also, how smoothly did those icons on the home screen move around? For some reason I found that really impressive, now to find out what the battery life is like (nice use of MagSafe as well for charging, IMO)

Not a fan of those animated emoji at all. Not sure why they included those tbh.

osxrand··on Introducing Apple Watch [video]
I am liking the idea of using the crown to help navigate around the interface. Glad they thought about it a lot more vs just compressing the phone down into a smaller UI (similar to the small iPod was).

Also, how smoothly did those icons on the home screen move around? For some reason I found that really impressive, now to find out what the battery life is like (nice use of MagSafe as well for charging, IMO)

osxrand··on Subnetcube – An anonymous minimal discussion board for individual subnets
Broke it, tapped new thread, then instead of entering anything, just tapped board. Not sure if it was that or just coincidence, but here's the error :

iisnode encountered an error when processing the request.

HRESULT: 0x6d HTTP status: 500 HTTP subStatus: 1013 HTTP reason: Internal Server Error You are receiving this HTTP 200 response because system.webServer/iisnode/@devErrorsEnabled configuration setting is 'true'.

In addition to the log of stdout and stderr of the node.exe process, consider using debugging and ETW traces to further diagnose the problem.

The node.exe process has not written any information to stderr or iisnode was unable to capture this information. Frequent reason is that the iisnode module is unable to create a log file to capture stdout and stderr output from node.exe. Please check that the identity of the IIS application pool running the node.js application has read and write access permissions to the directory on the server where the node.js application is located. Alternatively you can disable logging by setting system.webServer/iisnode/@loggingEnabled element of web.config to 'false'.

osxrand··on Or Else – App that helps you get stuff done
Looks interesting (I really like the colour you've chosen as well), but does it require Facebook (as it seems to from the landing page info)? If so,I'll be avoiding this unfortunately.
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