My Mac notified me that it had already been downloaded and installed. Technology these days is so cool!
Think again. Even Mac Pros sold within the last TWO YEARS don't even support some of the Yosemite features! That's just not acceptable.
Think again. Even Mac Pros sold within the last TWO YEARS don't even support some of the Yosemite features! That's just not acceptable.
Here are the links:
Yosemite:
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...rhk71sugqqfuzgojq6lwg0s/NTPUpdateYosemite.pkg
Mavericks:
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...m82vcazio5r7p9wienvf8c/NTPUpdateMavericks.pkg
Mountain Lion:
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...71kg0zyyj7wza9kr140/NTPUpdateMountainLion.pkg
UPDATE:
Apple have now posted them onto their support website:
Yosemite:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1782
Mavericks:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1783
Mountain Lion:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1781
My Mac notified me that it had already been downloaded and installed. Technology these days is so cool!
As for updating Ubuntu, that isn't a problem, due to my only needing it for web surfing - with the latest version of Firefox.
You see, software is the real problem with Apple OS updates - they may become obsolete, purely because Apple changed a file structure or something.
Again, Ubuntu does the same things. But clearly cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias are powerful things. Enjoy the switch.
When your main source of income is deception for financial gain, you are not employed, you are an antisocial degenerate. Yes, there are those who put in a good 40 hours doing whatever they do, and then put in another 40 at night doing something more nefarious.
I am a bit miffed my 1970 Ford Cortina doesn't have ABS and Satnav. So short sighted of Ford back then.
When a stupid game like Flappy Birds can make 20K per day, I'm hard pressed to believe that hacking computers and sending out SPAM is more profitable.
I'm having a hard time believing that it is actually motivated by money as much as it used to be since there are so many (easier) ways to make money online.
I believe that it has to be some sort of degenerate psychosis created by the anonymity of the internet. People have evolved over the last 20 years or so as the internet evolved to take pleasure in the misfortune of others. Its almost like the thrill of hacking a computer and knowing that you have ruined lives without being caught is the thing and the money is just the icing on the cake.
And that's an excuse for not providing it with security updates anymore? Microsoft platforms receive security updates for at least a decade. MS also communicates very clearly the support cycle of a product before it is even launched. But unlike Apple, they are serving enterprise customers where you simply cannot expect your customers to roll out a new operating system every year. Maybe that explains their much better support cycles...
i very rarely see what publications are talking about on my app store updates page... like, never. where do people see these things? i don't want to update to 10.10.1 because i've heard CS6 horror stories and i'm broke and freelancing, so not gonna happen. how dangerous is this? who would be targeted and why?
i despise all these security updates forcing me to gamble with all my software functionalities when i rely on them for my rent and food....
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where did you find these?? i swear, i'm getting less and less tech savvy the more i know about tech.
You describe the situation accurately, although your opening sentence predictably tries to put the most negative spin on it you can. Apple was absent from the Enterprise market for many years, while this was Microsoft's primary business. There is no reason for Apple to have policies that are in place to support a market in which they are not present.
That's not quite accurate. Flappy Bird itself makes 20K per day. Other games that are "like" Flappy Bird do not make anything close to that.
That may seem like a nit, but it's key. It requires the luck or imagination to come up with a hit product that syncs with the market in order to get rich via Apps. That's a very rare occurrence. If you just have programming skills (and no morals), hacking may seem to be a more achievable way to make money.
Sure, but it's ****. I get tired of **** smeared in my face every day.Microsoft supports their software for at least a decade.
That article is from 2011 when there wasn't much unity love. He can put any DE on top of Ubuntu he'd like, heck even no DE at all. He'll be fine on Ubuntu when 14.04 goes EOL he'll just use the upgrade manager and switch to the next LTS. Worst case is he clean installs once every 5 years isn't that big of a deal.
They are there now:
Yosemite:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1782
Mavericks:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1783
Mountain Lion:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1781
Alternatively, use the direct links instead, which I posted earlier:
It's little things like this that have been showing people like me, who many, many people depend on for their tech recommendations, and who bought into the Apple thing because they were supposed to be so much better than evil Microsoft, that Apple is now only just incredibly better at lying, also known known as Marketing. I keep what I have now, it all works fine, but Apple gets no more money from me. And by word of mouth, their reputation is going to hell.
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Ah yes, ridicule, great argument technique. Interesting it is the technique both most employed, and most effectively employed by governments and corporations in their various mindshare campaigns when faced with troublesome facts or people.
If Apple would take security seriously, they wouldn't be running something like ntp as root. There is no reason whatsoever that a daemon like ntp needs to run as root and OS X is probably the only system in the world that still does.
Fine, it's your choice. Don't upgrade your OS ever again. It's entirely your choice. I guess there are some people still using DOS who don't want to be troubled by bothersome new features such as access to the Internet or PNG graphics. Good luck to them if they're happy with what they've got.
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro in *great* (not "old, beat up") condition. It runs just fine, does everything I want, and there is no reason whatsoever I should replace it . . . except that it cannot be upgraded past Lion, because Apple has artificially limited their support for this older hardware.
I don't plan on replacing it for a few more years, so I guess I'm just SOL WRT security issues until then :/
That's not quite accurate. Flappy Bird itself makes 20K per day. Other games that are "like" Flappy Bird do not make anything close to that.
That may seem like a nit, but it's key. It requires the luck or imagination to come up with a hit product that syncs with the market in order to get rich via Apps. That's a very rare occurrence. If you just have programming skills (and no morals), hacking may seem to be a more achievable way to make money.
Yawn.
Guys, relax.
You CAN control this. It's a seperate option under App store settings. It's a new option in Yosemite so even if you turned off automatic regular updates, you may have it turned on since your upgrade.
That said, I see no reason to turn this off. I'd rather critical security updates get installed ASAP.
Then let me be blunt: the level of risk is high, and will grow higher with every new security threat.
Sitting around, putting your fingers in your ears and saying "I don't know from these newfangled bugs!" and hoping nothing happens to your system isn't going to make the problem go away. If you insist on keeping Snow Leopard on your computer, then you need to learn how to use Brew or Macports to figure out how to compile and patch new versions of the low-level packages that run on your computer. That's the price you pay for wanting to run old software on the public Internet.