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I was with C-COR/ARRIS when we bought N-Cube for their VOD streaming technology (cable television). You'd be very surprised at the difference between the amount of content stored and the 5 minute buffered content currently being streamed. I'm not surprised at the amount of memory OR that the server isn't sweating under the workload.

I guess now that clients can't attach, it's technically in the warm-down phase of its workout.
Oh God. Just... wtf. Apple really is trying to get out of anything that's not iOS?! macOS Server is the equivalent of MS's Small Business Server package, and now they're, essentially, removing core features out of it.
Sorry to hear this. But it sounds like careless system management. I work at a lot of video shops and none of them are even on Sierra, let alone High Sierra.
Update one laptop and test. Apple has put AFP on the backseat for several years now (since they switched the default in Mavericks), in favour of SMB2.
Apparently, so did Lehner in his younger days.

Fortunately, he realised that evidence is better than ignorant speculation and, as a consequence, has done quite a lot for our understanding of the period and the great pyramids in particular.
I knew about G.E.R.T. but the other two are new to me, very nice!

(I was going for a tongue-in-cheek ribbing of the Go-haters - in retrospect my wording sounds a bit passive-aggressive, probably should have ended with an exclamation mark and a smily or something)
Skype is frankly a disaster. Not only the personal app, also the Skype for Business app. Chatting works, but don't try to use any other functionality, since it breaks so easily.

But first (with great distance) on the list of failed Microsoft products is their accounts. Ever tried to login into msdn? Even our sysadmin who's is daily job is to get this right fails many times. The UX is so confusing and ambiguous, it's not funny. Everytime I need to deal with it I am seriously considering moving away from the whole MS ecosystem.
And someone who's been working in fast food since high school to support their family is unlikely to have the chance to get the education necessary to become a hedge fund manager, nor the connections to help them get their first interview if they do manage to get that education. Even if they have an equal or greater aptitude for the work than the kid who's about to matriculate to Yale with tuition and expenses paid in full by his well-connected family.

This cartoon illustrates it well: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
You are absolutely right. Apple quit the Server buisness when they killed the Xserve, and relying on Macs as servers is really a bad idea given their support interval for macOS. Seems the author is very angry that his next server cannot be a fancy Apple device.
That explains a lot. Thank you.
Can we just ban medium? There's a high correlation between fancy blogs and useless fluff inside them.
I would consider that an addiction as much as I would consider a carpenter to be addicted to a hammer. At least for the scenarios you have described. If you can't stop using those tools for no other reason that you don't feel capable of stopping using them, then yes, you are addicted. But if you need them (because there aren't other alternatives available like an in-person course) or it's more comfortable using them (for example, avoiding the annoyance to go the cinema to watch a movie with the queues and all that), then it's not an addiction.
My first thought was along the lines of "what's left in macOS Server to make it a server?".
> Mass transit fundamentally depends on having a lot of people who want to get from point A to point B, all at the same time. Since this is never true, you have to relax the requirements.

There is also induced demand. If you make it very easy to get from point a to point b. Lots of people will want to live at a and work at b or vice versa. Right now we focus most of our energy and resources on making it as easy as possible for everyone to drive their car, so that's what they do.
> They’re as establishment as it gets.

It depends on your definition of "establishment". The Guardian writers tend to represent middle- and upper-middle-class istances, which are not the same as working-class ones but can also be pretty divergent from proper upper-class objectives.
This is factually incorrect. I fly through Schiphol 10+ times a year and never had to take off my shoes. Neither did I in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, London, Copenhagen, so "it's not a European thing" either.

I did see officers asking specific individuals to take off their shoes, with a specific justification: when either the shoes obviously contain metal, or the individuals go through the X ray machine and it complains and there is no obvious other metallic item.
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I'm easing into it :-)
> MacOS isn't getting major updates

There is new version each year. And if you are talking about features, what feature would you consider "major update"? New filesystem maybe?

> the development team has been largely disbanded

Source?

> only exists to develop iOS apps

Source?

> Apple markets and wants iOS to replace your laptops

Source?

But I agree that they probably do not care about server markets.
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I wonder why there still isn't a company making highest quality products like Apple once did, while not being a total dick about customer support?

The machine seemed to work fine, despite its age. Why this smugness "Why don't you upgrade to/buy a newer inferior more expensive product which doesn't suit your needs at all?"?

Is a product obsolete as soon there is a newer product? Where is the line between products which provide infrastructure services and interchangeable consumer products?
Incremental improvements are happening in opusenc, current status (as of 1.2 and 1.3-beta) is that musical content is generally transparent at ~96kbps VBR, with a few needing ~128kbps and a tiny minority needing ~160kbps.

The developers are slowly reducing the required bitrate for transparency, it wouldn't surprise me if they reach transparency at ~64kbps VBR in a year or two.
It seems that the Pro is designed to appeal only to the faithful and have a very limited lifespan.

Putting everything in an integrated system with limited to no expansion possibilities rules out a lot of potential users (anyone with common sense) and means that if one component fails or becomes obsolete the whole thing is useless. If there were awards for excellence in planned obsolescence those systems would be a shoe in.
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I'd suggest looking at a replacement solution around an open filesystem. Then, even if the world moves on to other technologies, you still have the source you can update or even hire someone to maintain.
Apple file formats are surprisingly easy to work with; many of the native apps use sqlite for storing data. I just looked into this for you, and it looks like notes are indeed stored in a sqlite db.

On your Mac, you can find the notes in `~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes`. On mine there is a file called `NotesV6.storedata` that I can open in an sqlite browser. It should have everything you need.
It should be pretty obvious that trees can't reproduce anywhere near as quickly as we can pull them down. It's simple maths that the net loss due to human activity is 6 billion. Trees will reproduce at a higher rate than they die if they have the space to do so, but why do you assume that they do? The problem is those trees were pulled down to make room for other things and the trees can no longer replace themselves in that area.
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What I find odd is that no analysts are asking Tim about the direction Apple is taking wrt. to build quality and developer support.

To me, Apple seems to have chosen a direction that will push developers over to other platforms. This will not happen overnight, but I suspect that in 2-3 years time the guys who have to develop on Macs will be the ones groaning over their OS - not the Windows people.

The combo of too expensive hardware and low build quality on OSX + bad DX is Apples biggest threat at the moment.
The idea of non-architectural changes to software is a dangerous myth. The "architecture" should reflect the problem, and when the problem changes so does the design. You almost never want to replace a component without changing the interface.
Which is funny because you can't build an iOS app without OS X (err.. MacOS*)
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Anecdotally, I've been migrating macOS client networks away from macOS Server for a few years. The preferred solution is an HPE MicroServer with Linux (typically Ubuntu LTS) with `netatalk` and various trimmings (`avahi` etc). Bonus points are garnered for a Time Machine option, too.

The icing on the cake is the clients can also choose their "Mac" server icon for Finder:

http://simonwheatley.co.uk/2008/04/avahi-finder-icons/
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I run a nearly identical server at home (the Mac Pro that is, not the massive RAID).

I made the decision to install FreeBSD when I set it up and haven't regretted that for a minute. The hardware is actually lovely, right down to the literal nuts and bolts.

Just stay away from the Apple software ecosystem and you'll be fine.
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The TomTom situation is worse than that for some (many?) users though. This isn't a device losing support because it is at the end of its physical life expectancy, or because of tech advances in th eX years since the customer bought it (as some of the devices are still available to buy), but because they can't be bothered to keep it up-to-date. They could at least maintain a slightly cut down version that does work on the older designs, for instance.

If someone bought one of those devices in the last year or few I would hope there is a case for it being returned as "not fit for purpose". You could argue that it still works with older maps, but in some cases this could potentially be dangerous. In the case of a sports watch like mine not getting updates wouldn't be a big issue (I might not get new features, but the old ones would still work, I could still use it as a distance tracker and to tell the time) but for a mapping the device up-to-date maps are an essential part.

For devices still on shop shelves, any sold near a statement that updates are a feature are actively being mis-sold. Who picks up the hit for having to sell these devices off cheap: TomTom or the retailer? Some retailers are going to be as irritated as the end users.
I don't have the time to locate all those source reference requests, but I know I've seen stories related to each point here on HN recently.

Seems fairly common knowledge that Apple have disbanded macOS team and is focusing on iOS based future. Am I mistaken?
Apple scheduled AFP for deprecation with OS X 10.9 in 2013 - 4.5 years ago. There has been plenty of time between then and now to prepare for this.
Also GPT partitions have little use when using mdraid/dm-crypt/lvm2 (or zfs) stack. IIRC Windows have similar features with dynamic partitions, so I don't see any reason to use bios partitioning for anything beyond boot (and MBR is enough for it, even without extended partitions).
I think that depends on pressures and variation as well; without selection pressure I don't think that there is a reason why the variation in the overall population will change.
Can you explain what your second paragraph means, if not that?
You can use the following link (in french) to be able to do it on Windows:

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This is a good example to bring up when people talk about a digital bill of rights. It fundamentally shouldn't be so easy to undermine individual privacy and military op sec, but when you allow private data to be shared recklessly, you get that.
I can only hope for Apple to revive the Mac Mini, or the "	Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard and Mouse" concept.

I think there is a (small) market for Apple, but it is also a way bring new users into the Mac ecosystem (although the iPhone/iPad do this).

I want a small, but affordable Mac to have as a backup and toy around... and as a Mac user, the Mac Mini was perfect. I'll cross my fingers.
A single computer release doesn't make up for:

- removing features and essentially deprecating OS X Server: http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-death-of-macos-server/

- letting the Mac Pro languish for _four years_ without a single update or mention until recently

- the Touch Bar, which clearly shows they put some work into the technical aspects, given how it integrates with included Apple programs and thorough developer support. But they seemingly never talked to any actual users or developers in usability testing, given how well it's caught on.

- ignoring the keyboard quality issues in their "Pro" laptop line

- replacing included programs with crappy, feature-poor replacements (e.g. iPhoto to Photos, Disk Utility, etc)

The evidence seems to indicate that Apple doesn't care about the Mac and hasn't since 2011 or so. If they've started caring again, good, but it's going to take quite a few sustained Mac releases over the next couple of years for me to take them seriously again.
Planned obsolescence is cancer. It's not just Apple that does it though.
I'm quite interested in migrating to APFS, I just can't find any hardware that can connect to Serial Attached Storage.
GDScript has nothing to do with graphics. It is for building game logic, and having access to powerful math libraries is important for things like map representation and pathfinding (voronoi and graphs), or running the game simulation without having to naively step through every actor (statistical models).

And then there's stuff like PyTorch or scikit-learn for building higher-power AI, or even just basic clustering and classification.

Being able to use the full depth of libraries in the python ecosystem is the reason I've been looking for a game engine that supports python. The ones where the entire engine is written in python just don't cut it and lack documentation/features, and now that Godot finally has python support, it's a winner.
It takes me 35 minutes to take the train from Fife to central Edinburgh - absolutely no chance of doing it by car in that time in the morning. If I had to drive into the center of Edinburgh in the morning I'd probably give it well over an hour and that would ignore the hassle and costs of parking once I get here.

Edit: And with the train I can sit and sip coffee and try and spot seals and herons and enjoy the splendid views....
Not sure about that. The trash can mac pro seemed like that at the time too. Let’s see when they’ll abandon this toy.

My MacBook Pro 2016 keyboard finally failed beyond “usable” level and Apple has been keeping it in the shop, refusing a warranty repair. Another MBP we have started having issues with the keyboard.

I believe they are going downhill fast on the Mac front, both hardware and software.
It means none of those things and it is totally baffling to me that you refuse to accept that other people may have different views on these systems' utility to them and that they aren't idiots without "common sense" for that.
I think the A7 being the first 6-wide core in the mobile space was far more important than the fact it was 64 bit. That gave it unprecedented single threaded performance and competitors are struggling to keep pace on that front to this day, despite them also being 64 bit for several generations now.
> So one of the groups, either the "in Africa group" or the "out of Africa" group still should have the "old style brains" unless magically the changed happened in both groups at simultaneously.

Just because one group migrated earlier doesn't mean they were genetically isolated. Presumably there were subsequent migrations, counter-migrations (of large populations and smaller groups) and associated interbreeding between them.
>Christopher Dorner.

"Dorner issued a single demand: a public admission by the LAPD that his termination was in retaliation for reporting excessive force. He also asked journalists to pursue "the truth", pointing out specific lines of investigation for reporters to follow under the Freedom of Information Act, and said that "video evidence" was sent to multiple news agencies."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...

Usually I don't side with people who go on murderous rampaged but Dorner went on his rampage because he was pissed off by the LAPD's use of excessive force.
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Can you not use OSX to perform the conversion for you in place?[1] There should also be a `diskutil` command that does it as well. Then you get snapshots and better volume management.

As always do your research first, this conversion is a one-way thing.

[1] https://datarecovery.wondershare.com/apfs/how-to-convert-hfs...
I did not mean that to illustrate rock-bottom, merely as a datapoint. Yes, things are much worse than that. But this one is pretty easy to understand without further context.
"Opens a large hole in, allowing violations to large numbers of travelers at governmental discretion and thus doesn't usefully constrain the government against those in the area" is well within charitable interpretation of the quotation.

Apparently small loopholes can be readily, repeatedly violated.
This is also supported on FreeNAS and works like a charm.
Sure there is! It's actually pretty easy. Just send me the shipping costs by wire transfer and I'll post you a book that explains how.
> what made it a killer app was that it took the best of the IRC experience and made it a universal experience between devices and browsers

A post ago you were saying users didn't care about mobile apps.

> Plus it can use a company's SSO

So can IRC, so can HipChat, that wasn't the issue.

> When it first came out, it was also not very complicated. I remember when it didn't have reactions or threads, but it was a breath of fresh air after having come from using things like HipChat and Gchat, both of which were pretty dreadful.

They were dreadful in the UX department. Slack and HipChat in particular are indistinguishable at the feature level.
I have a NAS with both SMB and AFP (netatalk-based) support, and despite Apple deprecating AFP, it's is still faster and more stable than Apple's SMB support. I guess the Apple devs who made that stuff in the 90's knew what they were doing...
I'm assuming you didn't read the article since it is about the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) and not APFS.
Which EFI firmware should your Mac be using?
I have never heard anyone say that in terms of server infrastructure, Apple makes "excellent products".

Once upon a time they did. The Xserver and Xserver RAID where really amazing products when they where first released. However they couldn't really gain traction and quickly gave up on that market.
Strava has even a toggle "Include my anonymized public activity data in Strava Metro and the Heatmaps" for controlling does location data from sport activities end up into heatmaps or not.

Interesting, that in media this "news" has been mostly about Strava doing something it openly says it does. There hasn't been much critique about military not educating their personnel not to publish the exact locations of military bases in Internet's sport services. If that is even a problem in their perspective.
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The formula for constant growth over time, for example, a 2% increase every year, would be starting salary * 1.02 ^ t where t is the number of years. So there is an exponent present, and constant growth is an exponential process.
given that BSD is having trouble of keeping enough contributors to keep up with security issues its not an idle claim that Apple is going down the drain...its in fact reality but its like boiling a frog in boiling water its tarting out slow
>New filesystem maybe?

You mean the one that shipped on iOS first and benefits iOS the most? To me, that shows how far the Mac has fallen in Apple's priority list.
Facebook was more likely to threaten Google. But I think they failed, amazon won't be a threat.

Ps. A possible big competitor is not not considered a threat in this context. Just as Facebook is a big competitor to Google, but failed to be a threat
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> Clearly your server is obsolete

The server works as well as it ever did. The problem is entirely in the software used on the client machines. That's not what "obsolete" means.
I agree, as a video archivist, we support a lot of technologies that are much older than most computer systems. e.g. uMatic, half inch tape, BetaSP, Film etc. Albeit daunting, there is a slower decline in support for these machines.
Probably dupe check and other things that rely on the correct domain.
Unfortunately, Gen8 microserver requires proprietary driver for it's RAID controller (for SATA-2!) and fan control; and Gen10 doesn't support hotplug for drives.
> Apple really is trying to get out of anything that's not iOS?!

Yes, this has been obvious for years now
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As someone else pointed out, the deprecation of AFP was announced over 4 years ago, 8 years into this servers lifespan (it’s a 2006 model, right?). This was a problem their network administrator should have been aware of for 4 years, that’s probably enough time to figure out a solution!