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Welcome to the Hotel California


Hey Bryce,

Wondering if you've been tuned in to WWDC '13.

It looks like they're done with cats for the foreseeable future. Now Apple's headed for California landmarks.

10.9 is to be called "Mavericks", after a rather gnarly Bay Area surfing mecca. But, "Roaring Waves" or "Making Waves" would be far too obvious a title—and lame.

So how do you plan to evolve the wiki in the wake of breaking news?

Nate

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roaringapps command-line utility


Hey all,

I've written a script that looks for the user’s installed applications and fetches compatibility data for them, using roaringapps.com as the data source.

Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/alimony/roaringapps

I would be glad for any help with testing it in various settings, let me know how it works out for you, or if you spot any bugs or similar.

Thanks!

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Re: Spammers in our midst


I've certainly noticed an increase in comment spam over the past couple of months, and have been trying my best to block offending users when I can. I've been considering allowing only registered users to post comments, but haven't yet completely committed to the idea - I want it to be as easy as is possible to ask questions and get help around here. Maybe we could force the registration just over the 'off season' to keep the spam at bay while things are otherwise quiet.

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Spammers in our midst?


Bryce,

Seems we've got three submissions that shouldn't be here:

  • Two illegal (on my side of the pond, anyway) phone tapping apps
  • An Android device (duh!)

I wonder how their creators were able to register? I mean, some joking around is excusable, but what this is, I don't know, dont want to know, and don't want a lot of blowback if security has to be enforced to hold the integrity of real work here.

"You can't have eggs, bacon, SPAM, and sausage without the SPAM."
"I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!"
—Monty Python sketch

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Re: The 2008 AlumiBook: standard, pro or both


Haha, well done. My vote would be for standard MacBook, for no particular reason.

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The 2008 AlumiBook: standard, pro or both?


OK, so I'm thinking about the Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook as I'm doing a little write-up on it yesterday, and the question comes up in my head: Is this model in a class by itself? Should it be standard, as it is now, or moved over to the MacBook Pro area? I'm looking to poll a few within this space.

Case for Standard: By Machine ID, this is a MacBook square and true. It has only USB for expansion, as many MacBooks do. Although it looks professional, techies know the score: in gigabytes of RAM, their model can have eight, but this gets only four.

Case for Pro: A trackpad for many fingers lingers here from the MacBook Air. And on the white model? Sorry, but you won't find it there. The thirteen-inch Pro owes its presence to this one-of-a-kind, and with a backlit keyboard, dare I say, it's simply divine.

What say you, Roaring Apps fans? I'm making it your call to settle this, this crazed dispute, for one time and for all.

(Not a bad attempt at poetry, methinks, but a shade out of meter.)

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Re: AppleTV: Clearing up a bug


Got it. Much obliged.

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Re: Apple devices: expanding categoories


Sounds good. A number of models are still missing info or have incomplete data, but as for Windows, consider the following if/when applying the category:

  • Apple has excluded all '06 Macs from Win 7 (see Apple Knowledgebase article referencing Boot Camp 3.1) for no obvious reason. All models demonstrate that they meet or exceed the requirements for Win 7, though the earlier '06 Macs started off with just 512 MB RAM.The latter can't roar or pounce any way you slice it, so Apple may have been in the right making said exclusion.
  • Given the above, the Late 2006 models qualified for Lion, but not ML, Lion included Boot Camp 4.0, which doesn't apply to these models…
  • ..and thus, Boot Camp 3.0-3.2 needs to be retained; and Snow Leopard is the only source for said versions,
  • All other Macs not mentioned in the first two points are supported by Boot Camp 4 and Win 7
  • The 64-bit versions are supported on:
    • iMac: all models from Late 2009 forward
    • Mac mini: Mid-2010 forward
    • Mac Pro: Early 2008 forward
    • MacBook: Late 2009 forward
    • MacBook Air: Late 2010 forward
    • MacBook Pro (13): Mid-2009 forward
    • MacBook Pro (15/17): Early 2008 forward
    • Xserve: not listed, but assumed that 2G and 3G models would qualify
  • Windows 8: Strange beastie, this one. The only significantly-changed requirement for the new edition is that the CPU needs "NX" (No eXecute) support present and turned on. All Macs are assumed to have this. What might affect it is, again, Apple's willingness to support certain older models.
  • "The Strange Case of the '07 MBP": OK, so it's got 64-bit parts all the way through—but it only supports 32-bit Windows AND won't boot to a 64-bit OS X kernel in Lion. Huh?? 64-bit Win is somehow hackable on this model, but where would the blocking issue be in a normal setup?

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Re: Apple devices: expanding categoories


So maybe all that's needed is an extra field to describe the device's support for Windows? Whether or not the device runs the OS in 32- or 64-bit mode can be described in the existing Notes section.

Unfortunately there's no way to automatically select N/A for older OS fields if the device shipped with a new version of the OS.

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Re: AppleTV: Clearing up a bug


It looks like you've sorted it out with the sub-categories:

         / OS-X based
Apple TV  
         \ iOS based

I've changed around the Apple TV page to show the two sub-categories (and hidden them from the main page).

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AppleTV: Clearing up a bug


I just noticed something odd re: categories, and it has messed up the categorization of the ATV, though it works for other devices. Here's the problem I'm trying to solve:

  • The FIRST GEN ATV ran off of an OS X Tiger base with Front Row. This was progressively modified up to software update 3.2, the last version to run off this base
  • The SECOND and THIRD GEN ATV units are iOS devices, though they can't yet use all iOS features. The 2G unit carried iOS 4.1 as ATV 4.0; the 3G unit started with iOS 5.1 as ATV 5.0.

That said, and having established different bases for the PVR and streaming units, then:

  • If correctly divided into their proper sub-categories, only the sub is displayed in the Device page
  • Rightly, the Apple TV category should instead open to the two sub-categories we've set up

This shouldn't adversely affect other device types, but what we COULD do is allow the user to filter along different device types.

Any workaround?

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Re: Apple devices: expanding categoories


What could be…? Hmm..

I wouldn't know how to explain it, but:

  • Cleanup: Pare down/remove devices that cannot run iOS 5 nor 6, and all Macs that cannot run Lion nor Mountain Lion
  • For Macs, let's put it this way: Apple didn't want to bother making 64-bit drivers for '06-'07 Intel IGP's (950, X3100), which will disqualify them from ML, but not Lion (affected models can only boot a 32-bit kernel, but will run apps in 64-bit user space)
  • Qualifying Macs also have specific versions of Windows that Apple will support; and within these, Apple has defined also the architecture(s) that may be used. In general, models possessing a maximum of 4 GB or less will only be supported under 32-bit Windows, even if they can run ML. It was thought that the EFI ROM had something to do with this, BUT a few '07 units not qualifying for ML actually have a 64-bit ROM (verifiable under Micromat's MachineProfile tool). Apple simply blocks certain models from Win64 based on its own criteria. XP and Vista aren't supported by Apple from September '10 forward, but here, the reasons are a bit more clear: XP is getting old, and Vista was a mess to support.
  • Apple has not defined plans for Win8 yet, but you can bet a few models will be dropped with an updated Boot Camp
  • Nice to have: Models shipping with iOS 6 obviously can't run iOS 5, so the latter spinbox can be set to "N/A" to keep things nice.

The site I'm comparing to, has a hoard of information, most of which is highly geeky and not very relevant to us here. But a little history of each device should get people talking,

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Re: Apple devices: expanding categoories


What extra information/fields would you like to see added?

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Apple devices: expanding categoories?


Now that I think about it, the device section is starting to look a bit like it could be an Apple product guide, along the veins of Brock Kyle's excellent EveryMac network.

Could this wiki add a few more categories if the device is a computer, so that we cab add a few more differentiating characteristics of each unit?

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OmniPlan 2.1.2 in Mountain Lion


Has anyone tested OmniPlan 2.1.2 in Mountain Lion? Are there substantial issues or can I safely upgrade now?

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AtomicView, fine with Lion


Hello

I just discover your site, it's great.

I works with AtomicView on Lion from one year.
No problem.

Soizic (french, bad english !)

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Re: View by Status


You can now view all apps incompatible with Mountain Lion here. The toggle link on top of the main table has been updated to point to the new page as well.

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Re: View by Status


yes, but you still have to load each page and then re-filter. Is there a way to load ALL incompatible apps on one page? Then I could scan through the list. Manually searching for the probably hundreds of apps I have is far slower.

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CS3 Indesigne on mountain lion?


Weiss jemand bereits wie sich CS3 Indesigne auf Mountain lion verhaltet?

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Re: Vue 9.5


Well, 9.5 works but crashes a lot. There are also a lot of display anomalies if you are using an iMac. But V10. does not seem to suffer in that way. It actually is very fast on an iMac, and if you send the renders off to another machine using Net Render, the performance is also ok. So much better than the earlier versions of this app…

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