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This is just for curiosity and fooling around with Mac for the first time in many years: Does anyone have any experience getting MacOS up and running in a VM, please? Like, where the heck does one get the "restore images" from, or perhaps even a preloaded Hyper-V VM?
I'm running Hyper-V on...
Full 3D remake of Riven with optional VR mode.
https://gog.com/en/game/riven
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPuhlYDBW7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN1TQm942_U
It just dropped on the iOS store and about a month ago came out on the macOS App store. It has a demo version which is free! And from now until November 20th, the full game can be unlocked for $14.99. After which it will go up to $39.99. So it seems like if you want this game and are okay...
Hey everyone,
Hoping someone may be able to provide some guidance here as I am in uncharted territory.
I recently accidentally broke a Virtual Volume running on an ARECA 1882IX-12 and as a result I am no longer able to access it (obviously) as well as the other two volumes that existed. I have...
Catalina has been out for a little while now. It would be interesting to hear people's user experiences if they've upgraded.
I haven't yet, because I know it's going to break a lot of things just be being 64-bit only. However, Catalina is also one of the biggest jumps in terms of increased...
Hello peoples of the Hard world!
I have this server motherboard...
SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7-F-O
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SL7-F
It has 2 PCI slots, a large one and a smaller one, the spec says...
1 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16) (I'm guessing this is the larger one)
1 PCI-E...
Microsoft has officially adopted the Chromium open source project for the development of Microsoft Edge. This will create better web compatibility for Microsoft customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers. This change will occur over the course of the next year. Microsoft...
Dropbox has multiple security teams to make sure that your data is secure and safe. They also conduct red team training exercises where the red team takes on the role of an attacker, and the other teams have to respond to the threat. During a recent offensive training exercise with Syndis; a...
Slacker developer Felix Rieseberg has developed a nice little app that allows you to run Windows 95 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It weighs in at a whole 129MB. However, a problem with Internet Explorer has been noted and you won't be able to use that to connect to the internet. Regardless, this...
Valve has been hard at work funding the creation of open source tools to make Windows games compatible with the Linux operating system (OS). The end goal is to create a better more robust version of Steam Play.
The first tool called Proton is a version of Wine that is directly funded by Valve...
Blender is an free and open source 3D creation suite which appeals to a demographic ranging from professionals to amateur video editors. Now they want to assist developers with understanding their system's ability to run Blender. A Blender Benchmark has been developed and released as a beta...
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Apple has announced today in a post on it's Developer page, that OpenGL and OpenCL will be depreciated in the upcoming macOS 10.14, stating that games and graphics intensive apps that use OpenGL should adopt Apple's API Metal. Similarly apps that use OpenCL for computational tasks are supposed...
It looks like the latest (10.13.4) macOS High Sierra update has a few bugs that are causing Macs to go into recovery mode upon installation completion. Some people have been able to boot into the new updated OS, but a lot of others can't. Consider this a public service announcement if you're an...
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High Sierra has been available for a short while.
Feel free to hop in and talk about experiences you're having with it.
Apple's Info:
https://www.apple.com/macos/high-sierra/
Features Article:
https://www.macworld.com/article/3199825/macs/macos-high-sierra-features-specs-pricing-faq.html
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Patrick Wardle a former NSA hacker showed off a zero-day exploit in macOS High Sierra that allows an attacker to steal every password stored in the Keychain without needing a master login password. He reported the bug to Apple earlier this month, but the patch did not make it into the release of...
Apple has always made the argument that their operating systems simply do not get viruses like the PC. The numbers certainly don't lie. Malware samples are directly proportional to how prevalent any given operating system may be in consumer or enterprise environments. With that being said...