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I hear of that Apple computer has some advantages over graphics design over Windows PC.
is this claim really true? I am debating if I should get a Mac Pro to play around with it.
Any experience or tips to share?
diligent hands rule....
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There was a time when this was true. However, this has become unnecessary for at least five years. I think ....
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There was a time when that was true, back in the 80's and 90's, but that time has long since passed.
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I agree. Not an advantage anymore.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Southmountain wrote: I hear of that Apple computer has some advantages over graphics design over Windows PC.
That entirely depends on software when you think about it--nothing hardware related--doesn't it? There's no hardware on the Apple side that presents any sort of advantage, that doesn't have an equivalent (or better) on a PC.
As others have pointed out, Windows app have caught up.
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I try to get a license of Adobe Photoshop and think about installing on which machine...
diligent hands rule....
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There are probably browser based apps now that are equivalent to Mac apps from the 90’s
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great link
diligent hands rule....
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I think a (smart) "graphic designer" would focus on the software he thinks he needs first; then find the hardware to run that software.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Maybe there was a time when it was true.
Graphic designers used Mac for a long time and it worked.
And it's takes a lot for people to change platforms.
You get used to how things are done on Mac (or on Windows) and switching between platforms can take some time and can be aggravating.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Our county was one of the hardest hit.
120 MPH winds.
Getting the power back on was quite a struggle, involving many people. Because the line coming to the house got pulled down by a branch.
We had to get to get an electrician in the middle of an emergency...Thank god we found one that came right out.
We called the electric company and they said we would have to get it inspected before they would hook it up.
The county seat where the inspector is was totally destroyed, 18 miles from us.
So we called the people that repaired the line and they called the electric company and said that they would hook it up since it was an emergency and they would call us. No Call!
So this morning I say a truck drive by I stopped him and he said sure I'll have a crew here as soon as one is free.
15 min. later a truck arrived, hook us back up and we have power again.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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Mike Hankey wrote: 15 min. later a truck arrived, hook us back up and we have power again.
Nice!
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Yeah, Mike that was quite a storm. Glad you made it through. Wow, 120MPH is cat 3 stuff. Sounds like you have some experience.
We had similar problem in 2008 when hurricane IKE hit Houston. Our winds were not quite as strong at <110mph. Our houses were designed to handle 115 mph so no roof damage. But power was very tricky. Some here, some there, across the street out, but ours on. The big difference is our lines are underground, so to tie ones line to a break was complicated.
Anyway, glad to hear you have power back. Lots of downed branches though. Chain saw time.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yep,
Here is a small failure you probably won't see in the news media. Recently the FBI and CISA announced the closure of "Operation Duck Hunt". An astute reader might have noticed it being described as a "disruption". While the initial media reports described it as a "takedown". Allow me to shed some light on that.
They basically wrote a DLL that would be loaded by Qbot and issues the QPCMD_BOT_SHUTDOWN command. Then sent a C2 command to around 700,000 bots instructing them to download and execute the DLL. A good and solid plan.
But what you haven't heard is that the FBI/CISA tool authors dynamically linked to the C runtime. Guess what happens if you try to run a DLL (dynamic linked to C runtime) but without the C runtime installed?
Those 700,000 computers will certainly have a large percentage without the Visual C++ Redistributable package installed. I can understand why they left the (persistence modules) WMI and scheduled tasks untouched, but dynamic linking the uninstall library looks like rookie ineptitude.
Luckily the C2 servers were apparently seized so it was ultimately a success. But the client software uninstall was a failure.
"I wrote a C++ program that only runs on my computer" is something you might imagine a high school student asking. But I didn't expect that from our nations brightest security teams.
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It was probably written by ChatGPT and c opy'n'pasted without any thought being involved. 
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FBI wrote: As a result of this operation, the FBI and the Dutch National Police
The Dutch National Police.
Does anyone else still own a fax machine?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Boy does that bring back memories. Years ago, many years ago, I had written this app for whatever company I was working for then, and it simply wouldn't run anywhere but on my computer. Yup -- dynamically linked to the C runtime, which nobody else had installed.
Granted the problem was easily fixed, though as I recall it took a few hours to figure out why it failed, no error message given.
And then there were more interesting problems, like different DLL versions (often on the sales people's computers) and somehow the app was loading the wrong, older, DLL or something like that, from who knows what folder, and the solution was usually to wipe any residue of the old app and DLL's off the computer, something of a PITA in DOS days, though del foo.dll /s should have worked - I don't really remember why it was more complex than that.
I still have that problem with the .NET runtimes occasionally, but at least the app is kind enough to tell me that the required so-and-so .NET framework is not installed, and here's the unclickable link to go to. Unclickable because it's a popup message where the URL isn't a clicky and the text isn't copy-and-paste'able. 
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I hate DLL's.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Randor wrote: But I didn't expect that from our nations brightest security teams.
But they are responsible for security, not software support. Just because it's the FBI does not mean they employ the best software engineers.
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Probably sourced the engineers from Freelancer site for the lowest price possible. 
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They should have asked me, I have extensive experience of writing bad software.
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They would have hired the lowest bidder who would then have used H1-B’s to write it. Those H1-Bs - brought to you by Democrats and RINOs - are lowering wages and bill rates in IT…all to make the big tech owners richer. If you don’t believe me compare the salary of a cloud engineer from 2020 to 2023.
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A lot of software written in C run on a clean Windows install with no further prerequisite; Windows does ship with a version of the runtime.
I suspect - if the details are true - they might have targeted a newer version, which would result in what you're relaying.
Could've been something else altogether. Just sayin' you generally can't count on mainstream reporters for technical accuracy either.
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