Category: OSX / Apple / Steve Jobbs

Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]

the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]

in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]

Apple wants to become the new Google: BigBadBoldBigDataMothership as a once proud Apple user… (yes GNU Linux Debian 10 actually runs pretty well on the Intel-Macbook-Pros) yes they are beautiful spies… Pure Beauty & Nostalgia: Apple Macbook Pro 9,2 (A1278) […]

Apple: from RISC CPU (PowerPC) to CISC CPU (x86 Intel) back to RISC CPU (ARM) what is the difference? short version: CISC CPUs (usually need more energy) have more instruction sets, for example: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU […]

Pure Beauty: “the glow” “IT JUST WORKS” 🙂 wifi works two-finger-scroll touchpad works sound works (hey! startup sounds are important 🙂 admitted: the keyboard will need some time of getting used to X-D (per default Macbook Pro A1278 would run […]

Why Hybrid? “Most hybrid kernels start as monolithic kernels and begin moving components into user land, primarily as security to support 3rd-party components and drivers which may be malicious or buggy. An example of a hybrid kernel design may keep […]

Update: 2021-05: https://www.golem.de/news/irland-erste-patientendaten-im-netz-aufgetaucht-2105-156599.html Drei Krankheiten: erfolgreich kaputt gespart: schlechte Bezahlung: im Vergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern und auch USA steht Deutschland schlecht da was die Entlohnung von Ärzte an geht auch schlechter als Japan und gar Italien (!) das ist vermutlich […]

not sure if the news rang through… the Amazon Cloud (AWS) guy will be the new CEO of Amazon. What cloud? Amazon “cloud” Hetzner “cloud” cloud (centralized digital infrastructure) can be designed / implemented in different ways. from: the user/admin […]

if hfs+ is greyed out in gparted there is hfs+ compatibility software missing hint: sudo should be up and running, or gparted won’t be able to open a display (as root) and won’t be able to create partitions (as non […]

“Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) is a key protocol in Apple’s ecosystem used by over one billion iOS and macOS devices for device-to-device communications. AWDL is a proprietary extension of the IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standard and integrates with Bluetooth Low […]

contains advertisement. to be honest, it is hard to keep up the speed at which cyber incidents are reported. here is the latest take on “Russian IT Sec Updates”. have phun!   SecurityLab, [28.09.20 08:20] Last month, TikTok developers rolled […]

scroll down and behave! (slaves of digital dictatorships) this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? probably THE most important film, that every school kid (of the age of 16) should have seen (highly recommend to cut […]

Weapons of Mac Destruction: MACs OSX no longer safe? Apple takes it security seriously iOS secured locked down “blackbox” zero days exist against fully patched iOS devices: at the same time the lock down makes it almost impossible for user […]

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to be straight: have not managed yet to unlock a pin locked ipad 3 and ipad 4 and/or recover the data. it is easy to just overwrite the ipad with the latest firmware via itunes. but i want to backup […]

On computers with SSD system drives any iOS device backups can take up a significant proportion of the available space. iTunes doesn’t provide a mechanism for choosing where this backup data is stored, but it can be relocated onto another […]

aim: the harddisk of a macbook has grown too small (256GB), so all data shall be transferred to a new bigger harddisk (512GB SSD) hardware: you will need an external harddisk and switch in your new bigger harddisk. usb to […]

Macs used to be overpriced high quality hardware: this iMac model A1418 with Retina Display costs 1500€ and it does not even come with an SSD! DESPITE i5 QUADCORE CPU AND 8GB OF RAM – IT IS HORRIBLY SLOW! APPLE […]

most people will probably use a usb cable to iphone<->PC/Laptop<->USB-Stick. But can it be done iphone<->USB-Stick? Apple’s devices do NOT come with a file explorer per default. which sucks. So you will have to rely on the quality of 3rd […]

2021: update! the old Mumble App (Plumble) does not work well with Android v10 and higher. luckily, someone made an updated version called “Mumla”: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ backup: https://dwaves.de/software/apps/Mumla_se.lublin.mumla.zip (sha512sum: e3d9f366a1c3895e24c051a96f6114a30d89713e3098de77a7716ff9187b0b47db58b98eaca3386ddfd09433cd3f1a3aa5a1e29043cb9d40cb280d966852b42e) (tested and works with LineageOS 17 / Android 10) what is great […]

200Watt WHEN IDLE ! 300Watt under Full CPU Load. WTF? Quiet a lot 😀 Get a GIADA F-300 and reduce it (including Screent) to 50Watts!

did i actually mention how i love it that those Gnome guys copied the OSX settings menu? ( can’t wait until Microloft comes around) it’s pretty and good usability.. simply search for something… and find the right setting. here is […]

… das ist deswegen, weil man wenigstens ein zuverlässiges Gerät braucht (auf welchem so gut wie keine Software installiert ist, nur das nötigste), welches zuverlässig die E-Mails abruft und einen relativ sicher im Internet surfen lässt und auch so “einfache” Dinge […]

OSX can Run 64Bit Processes on 32Bit Kernel! (and hardware?) wow! http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/2498/why-can-mac-os-x-32-bit-access-all-4gb-of-memory-while-windows-32-bit-cant http://superuser.com/questions/453090/mac-osx-32bit-or-64bit OSX is 32Bit an CAN address more than 4GB of RAM ! (this line is written on a Dual XEON with 12GB RAM) All Versions of OSX have a […]

When Windows goes out of RAM… things get slow… when Apple goes out of RAM things get “sluggish”… (you really can almost see the cursor stutter) I really don’t know what happened… okay i loaded my 50MB TODO List (it’s […]

How to remove and clean Macbook Pro keyboard keys the problem with the spacebar was that a tiny tiny tiny little piece of plastic broke off the bar and caused the bar to stick.

Apple was innovative while Jobs was alive, but also was taking freedom away from it’s users by forcing them to use iTunes to upload music to their iPods and iPhones. OSX won’t even let you remove iTunes… but you can […]

# become root sudo bash # edit file vim /etc/rc.common # this is how the end of the file looks like # hit Ctrl+G to jump to the bottom of the file ## # Generic action handler ## RunService () […]

The Story: Beeing fed up with OSX 10.8.6 (performance is significantly worse (my old macbook boots faster than the new one) they changed hotkeys and menus and i can’t produce *.gif with preview no more… since Jobs is dead – […]