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MacCentral is reporting that over 95% of all internet users are using Safari.

Any questions?

Guess their "reputation" also includes independent consumer reports studies... (note: link is to maccentral forums, but the info is from valid consumer reports articles... updated as of Jun04, I checked).

For a demonstration, see this thread on MacCentral.

Since, according to Insecure.ws, Apple was notified of this back in February, it's fairly scandalous to be waiting for a solution in May.

Most of your evidence is anecdotal, and could be applied to any manufacturer. For example, I will never buy another Compaq product again.

I doubt that apple's failure rates are significantly higher than other manufacturers, in fact, according to this thread, Consumer Reports feels they're better than other manufacturers.

The one point I'll agree with you on is that they are the only hardware shop in town if you want to use their OS and Mac software.

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It would be interesting to know exactly why they have picked an IBM chip rather than Intel or AMD. I wouldn't think the IBM (PPC?) chip would be more cost effective than the Intel/AMD but you never know...

Can someone please explain why after these changes Linux is somehow intrisically better than Windows has the potential to becomein terms of security?

Sure, the architecture is screwed. This guy says it better than I could.

This line--that Windows has the largest market share in worms and viruses because Windows has the largest market share--was trotted out in the last few weeks during the peak of the Sobig and Blaster activity, and routinely shot down. The problem is inherent design flaws, not market share. Many have pointed out that unix-type OSes run the majority of critical Internet services, and by the market-share argument, these services should be the subject of continual attack. And yet they are not.

In short, this argument that greater adoption of unix-type OSes by the masses will result in more unix-type worms and viruses is nothing short of FUD.

Have a look at Mac's Immunity to Recent Virus Attacks which came about in response to an article posted on MacCentral on this topic. In sum, some columnist repeated the assertion that "Macs have "no more inherent security" than their PC counterparts, it's just that they've failed "to capture interest" among the creators of these viruses." This post is fairly representative of many, and makes clear the vulnerabilities of Windows are real, stem from technical reasons, and not just market share.

Mac OS X is the subject of the links above because that is where my interests lie, but the jist of the arguements could apply to any unix-type OS

TheMacMind and MacCentral also has various information updates covering the Creative Pro Expo and Conference if anyone is interested.

802.11g transfer rate controversy meaningless, says Apple By Jim Dalrymple jdalrymple@maccentral.com May 23, 2003 10:10 pm ET

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE), the group responsible for setting standards in the networking industry, approved a new and final draft standard for 802.11g wireless LANs. The standard was approved by the IEEE on May 15, but will not be made publicly available until members of the IEEE 802.11 working group ratify it next month.

Recent published reports that the final standard for 802.11g will be throttled down to 20Mbit/sec aren't an indication of any actual change to the spec, according to Apple's Vice President of Software, Mike Bell.

Bell said the spec has not been throttled back at all, and explains using the familiar 802.11b specification.

"802.11g is still a 54Mbit/sec standard," Bell told MacCentral. "802.11b is 11Mbit/sec, but your actual throughput is somewhere between 4 and 5-1/2Mbit/sec. The number that's quoted is the data rate that's used between the radios (raw data rate, which includes the protocols etc.)"

Although internal tests have shown slightly higher data rates, the actual data rate for 802.11g will be approximately 20Mbit/sec, which is 4 to 5 times higher than 802.11b. Bell said the data rate has always been around 20Mbit/sec and hasn't changed in the final draft standard.

Apple chose 802.11g because of its backward compatibility with 802.11b devices. Many of Apple's own customers in business, education and in the home use the original AirPort for their wireless Internet access, as well as the many wireless HotSpots throughout the United States that use 802.11b.

If you own an 802.11g Base Station and plan to allow 802.11b devices on your network, the changes in the final specification will actually be better for you, according to Apple.

"The only change of any substance is that options were put in place so that if you want to allow legacy 'b' clients on your network, they will co-exist better with 'g' clients," said Bell. "In fact, your throughput is probably better and smoother now than what it was before. There is absolutely no difference in the data rate -- it is still 54Mbit/sec."

Apple has maintained since its release that AirPort Extreme products would follow the final specifications agreed on by the IEEE and Apple's Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, said on Friday that commitment has not changed.

"We applaud the changes they have made in the final specification," said Joswiak. "As we always said, there is nothing of significance technically that we can't put out in a software update. We expect to have an update available in the future for the final specification."

Apple was one of the first companies to ship a wireless product based on the new 802.11g standard when they announced AirPort Extreme at Macworld Expo in San Francisco in January. Joswiak said Apple picked 802.11g because it was the best choice for Apple's customers.

"We could have chosen any standard we wanted; we had no obligations that would make us select 'g' over 'a' except it was a better solution for our customers," said Joswiak. "We feel really good about out decision, but unfortunately there are some folks out there that are making a last ditch effort to try to cause confusion in the market and that's really unfortunate."

Actually, in a way, you're right. Dell stopped selling iPods because of Apple's iron grip of a contract. However, according to MacCentral, Dell, Fry's, and Micro Center all re-signed their retail contract with Apple.

Unless I'm moderating I usually just skim the top with highest scores first although I regularly work my way to the first posts at the bottom. Not to join on the bandwagon but moderation has gotten terrible so I've set all the negative moderations to have a 1+ value in my preferences. This in effect negates them so an article has as fair a chance of reaching me as any other not moderated. I haven't decided that all negative moderations are evil so I also haven't come to the conclusion that any moderation is worth my attention. I'll set my preferences to 2+ if that ever happens.

I follow up slashdot with a somethingawful.com chaser to set my mind at ease and to be reassured that getting aggrevated is futile since the internet makes you stupid.

After reading the day's feature, I then check their Awful Link of the Day. Unless it belongs to a very original freak or a freak ailed by something an acquaintance suffers from, I pass. If it can't give me ammo to tease friends I always opt for my own nomination, macosrumors.com

In the rare case of an update I'll read it for laughs unless it's a processor based update. I don't have a comedy chaser ready for those instances so there's no point in winding myself up into a murderous rage.

A quick stop afterwards at maccentral.com usually satisfies the need for real Mac news although I'm thinking of solely switching to macdevcenter.com since they have Mac Central updates on a sidebar.

The subject says "5 daily reads" and for now that's macdevcenter.com which I got into by following slashdot articles. This slot is always being contested and it's a good thing I only read The Filthy Critic on Monday. --- and then I got tired of proofreading my post

By even the most cautious estimates, there are more Linux users than Mac users.

Do you have any facts to back this up? Remember that "Market Share" is actually % of annual sales. A study quoted here shows that macs are replaced less frequently than PCs, leading to lower yearly sales. This does not mean that there are fewer mac users, it means that there were fewer macs replaced.

Interesting that you brought up the term "holy war". I just read a great post over at MacCentral by an individual who goes by the name objectivist. Well worth the read I think.

Ummm... did anyone else notice this article was actually published on 03/29/02. Not exactly breaking news, folks. MacCentral is REAL source for up-to-the-minute Mac info/news.

... that we live in a "free" (``Free" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in ``free beer.'' ) country - the good ole USA!

Computers are only tools to enhance the way we live. It is the individual who decides to use it for good or evil. I would not like to see a day that I could not get a computer that don't have copyright protection on it. That will be the day that we live in a "Police State". Everyone will need a permit to have a computer or run one.

WAKE UP people! Don't let them take your God given rights as citizens of the United States of America. Fight for those rights, since those are the only thing worth living for!

Big companies - wants you to do this....
Buy their products and shut up
Buy more of their products and shut up

This goes to the major recording industry and the movie industry trying to protect their bottom line or profit margin. They don't care of your individual rights. All they want is for you do buy their products and shut up. They want you to be the cattle while they are the cowboys hearding us to the pasture!

What about those prople that buy thier music or movies legally. Would they punish the innocent? Would they monitor the way we use our computer? Will they handicap your computer so you can't do nothing with it?

There are more pressing problems that needs to be solve in this little planet we call Earth. Hunger, Famine, Cancer, National resources, etc... etc.. etc..

I urge you to boycott the movie and music industry. Stop buying their DVD, their music, their products! We as united can stand up againts this tyranny!

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Linux for Development
Palm for Mobility
Windows for Solitaire

Republished with permission from the author. Original publication from Maccentral Forum by hidozage.

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Although it's aimed more at content publishers, this is what GenericMedia seem to be doing. You send them a master copy in your favourite format, they serve it up in whatever format/bit rate/etc your users actually want. There's more info on it here.

-dair

Here is one that hold up to 128 MB.

If scalability is an issue, I think Quicktime holds up very well in that regard too.

Jobs gave only one example of a specific retailer -- that of Circuit City -- in which Apple had verified customer experiences where sales people had deliberately steered customers from the Apple store-within-a-store area and toward Windows-based products. Jobs called such situations "unacceptable."

The independant dealers were actually pretty pleased to have this meeting. This was not a challange to them. Many of the smaller independent dealers give good service to Mac customers. Its the big box stores that don't know crap about computers, but we already know that. This really aimed at John Q. Public who doesn't know much about computers and is looking for an easy to use first computer.

POIU

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This article at MacCentral had much better coverage. Rather than focussing on the language that Jobs used to skake his audience into paying attention, they covered what he was actually fucking saying:

That buying a Mac at CompUSA and Sears et al. is an exercise in futility and frustration. If you go to a car dealership, they don't steer you away from the model you ask for to show you another brand and try to bullshit you while they do it.

I think Apple should sell on the Web and exclusively through its Mac retailers like MacZone, MacMall.

Screw the pimply-faced, rat-assed, pig-ignorant kids who try to screw the Mac customer for the sake of an idiotic loyalty to someone who has ripped off their parents out of of billions of dollars.

fine, they "borrowed" it. they certainly didn't create the idea of the GUI and probably wouldn't have if they had never seen Alto.

BTW - i assume that post is factual enough for you...it had the info i remembered except for the stock payment part....

Damn straight. The most bone-chilling comment on Aqua that I've read so far came from Bruce Tognazzini, usability guru and founder of the Apple Human Interface Group -- the main guy responsible for the stuff you love/hate about the Mac GUI. His quote:

I'm trying to get my Mac fully tricked out before January, when the Mac operating system is no more. At that point, I want my machine perfect, so I can go as long as possible before switching over to Windows.

Tog was probably gone by the time OS 8 added tabbed windows, but I definitely would have a bad time using a Mac without them. And FinderPop.

You may want to contact Sorenson or a Linux developer to look into the possibilty of licensing Sorenson Video 2 for a Linux player.

Here's a mention

Here is the e-mail I sent to this guy...It pretty much sums up my rants:

"After seeing Mac OS X and seeing Apple repeat its 1997 strategy, I predict a mass exodus of Mac users as a result of the arrogant and irresponsible policy Apple has created for Mac OS X. Poor backward compatibility for old apps. Requiring hundreds of dollars of memory upgrades and possibly even processor upgrades. Added to the insult of having to pay to beta test."

So why then has Apple already sold 80,000 copies of Mac OS X Beta by last Monday, September 18th? What is it that you suggest Apple do to move on to a modern operating system while still maintaining speedy backward compatibility? Win 95,98, and 2000 all have a DOS underlying, what's wrong with having a Mac OS 9 underlying as well?

Secondly, this is a beta. There is still code to be optimized. I'm sure that your Win 95 machine running on a 386/20 with 8mb does not run very responsively. Obviously, a 386/20 with 8mb of RAM is below the sys requirements that MSFT released for Win 95, and the same thing can be done for Mac OS X. You CAN run Mac OS X on your 300mhz/604 it's just not recommended or supported. If you called up Microsoft complaining about Windows 95 running on your 386/20 do you think they'd care? No because it was below the min. system requirements.

Thanks for your time.

As far as I can tell, Bungie was a privately held company, with 20% held by TakeTwo. MS bought TakeTwo's ownership, TakeTwo got ownership of programs, including Myth & Oni, as well access to current and future technologies.

So blame Oni's absence on TakeTwo.

If I'm correct, and Bungie is a private company, then they weren't bought unless they (the owners) wanted to be bought. By all accounts, this was not a corporate raid, or hostile takeover. MS made an offer that Bungie liked, and they went with it.

So blame Bungie if Bungie is screwed by MS. If they made a pact with the devil, it's their own doing.

Another perspective comes from their CEO. They saw the writing on the wall (and to infer), didn't want to go the way of Looking Glass Studios. So they got a big company with deep pockets to give them access to what they would need to stay in business for a good while longer.

Here's the full quote:
Why is this happening?

For two reasons:

A. Microsoft is offering us the opportunity to lead the way on a next-generation console system. We will not only be one of the premier developers for the platform, but we'll be working directly with the Xbox team, helping to optimize the hardware and software for each other. We'll influence the design of the system; we'll help to ensure that the Xbox is the best platform to code for, and the most impressive console on the block. Such an opportunity does not come often. Bungie has always tried to keep abreast of the industry, if not ahead of it, and next-gen consoles seem like the place to be if you develop games. This deal allows us to get into that market in a big way.

B. The business of publishing entertainment software independently has changed enormously since Bungie started. Bungie was not in immediate danger of going under, but we realized that within a few years we'd need a strong partner if we wanted to keep making games the way we always have. We opted to make what we saw as an inevitable move while we were still in a position of strength, rather than wait for circumstances to force our hand. The ultimate goal is to ensure Bungie continues to exist and continues to produce the high-caliber games for which it is known.

Here are locations of info:

MacCentral report on acquisition
Bungie Corporate Info
NDB.com
Bungie Acquisition FAQ

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No, quite honestly I'd prefer for the RIAA to go away, die completely, and let the actual content producers (read: "artists") take control of their own product back.

The content producers who own their own copyrights have spoken loud and clear about how they feel about sharing music.

I have no idea where the mistaken assumption comes from that artists are OK with their music being pirated. it's just one of those slashdot myths I guess.

Like I said when I submitted it, if Steve had been more pissed about this major leak than they were about ATI fsckup, my new dual-500 G4 that I'm typing this on might have a nice Radeon instead of last year's crummy video card. Grrrrrrr.....

Like I said when I submitted it, if Steve had been more pissed about this major leak than they were about ATI fsckup, my new dual-500 G4 that I'm typing this on might have a nice Radeon instead of last year's crummy video card. Grrrrrrr.....

My guess at an average game: 100,000 copies of an "A" title computer software game, at $45. That's 4.5mil for the whole title.

My guess at an average movie: 10,000,000 tickets of an "A" title cinema release, at $7. That's 70mil for the whole title, and that's just in the theater.....

And it takes $40 million to make that movie. And there are more games made than Hollywood movies. And the best games sell way more than 100,000 copies, even on computers. Oh yeah -- let's not even get into Nintendo and Playstation games, since PC games are small potatoes by comparison.

So there, I can invent my own incomplete (and basically arbitrary) premises to prove my own conclusion too. Or I could just point you here or here, or, if that's not enough, here. Hogwash indeed.

Cheers,
Greg

A list of what is included is here.

Corel® LINUX® OS Second Edition is available for download here. You can choose to download an ISO image (451 MB) or compressed version (347 MB) in the form of a gzipped ISO image.

If you do not have a CD-writer, a download CD can be ordered from Corel Customer Service for US $4.95 plus shipping, handling and applicable taxes.

Press Release is here

Same PR says that CorelDRAW 9 Graphics Suite for Linux is scheduled to begin shipping by the end of August, 2000 for a suggested retail price of US $249.

BTW Corel rep says there is no truth to Mac WordPerfect Office rumors.

MP4?

If I remeber correctly, the MP4 you reffer to is a closed, commercial format, which uses an integrated player [0]. Hmm, space efficent, and cross platform.

It also has the problem that you have to pay to use it. That's a problem.

MP3 is also pay to encode.

VQF, sure it might sound good, but try doing a seek on a VQF file - Mute and fast forward. Also closed, so you can't fix that. Any player that needs all my CPU time to jump to the middle of a track doesn't get my vote.

The push for OGG will probably not come from home encoding, or hardware. It's most likely to come from web music sites, and internet 'radio'.

With this sort of push, it doesn't actually need to be better than MP3 [1], just cheaper [2].

[0] Did initially. May have changed by now.
MP4 audio format not compatible with Macs.

[1] Although I think it is.

[2] Free to use and smaller files

Macromedia's response.

Hold on a minute, I don't remember Apple sueing any web sites! According to MacCentral,

Sources indicate that the person or persons named in the suit are possibly employees of Apple and/or Apple's trusted third-party developers -- individuals who had access to Apple's trade secrets.

In other words, the people Apple is actually sueing signed contracts with Apple not to divulge trade secrets. So there's the basis for the suit. The rumor sites that posted the leaked pics and info were threatened, but never sued, as far as I know. I agree that Apple would have little basis to sue web sites that had made no agreements with Apple. So their threats were out of line, but they haven't actually gone as far as sueing. Please post if I've missed something.

Even given their comments at E3? It certainly seems to me that 3dfx wants to pursue the Macintosh market.

There was a petition circulating at Accelerate Your Mac pleading with Apple to do what 3dfx was asking: make the Voodoo4 and 5 build-to-order options in the G4 towers. This is possibly more likely now that Apple is angry at ATI.

Theoretically, I suppose that this could be done with the Cube as well, but I wonder about heat concerns.

http://www.maccentral.com/news /0008/02.lawsuit.shtml

You need to remove the double quotes from the end of the link. Mac Story

Someone should have pressed Preview first

Anyways, I highly doubt that upper figure. Especially considering this recent report by IDC at MacCentral about Linux overtaking the server market. ...current numbers that show Windows having 87 percent share of a 98.5 million shipment market...and Linux paid copies having just under four percent.

Even if you were to say every Windows user in the "shipment market" had Linux on their machine, you still wouldn't hit that high number. And the low number indicates a 50% market share, also unlikely.

Except for maybe Quake 3! That will probably rock nearly as well as Q3 for BeOS will on the (perpetualy) forthcoming dual Athlons.

Macintouch has the same keynote coverage, in a pleasantly digested summary. MacCentral has point-by-point coverage, but for some reason it's writting in reverse order.

There's a story at MacCentral.com talking about an upcoming Mac release, as well.

According to this story on MacCentral

Mac Central is updated daily, and hosts Andy Inahtko's columns.

Low End Mac Posts links to everything interesting about macs (including the occational link to /.) and has detailed specs for the entire mac line, 1984 - today.

MacWeek sucks, but they cover the trade shows fairly well.

Mac News Network seems to me like it is mostly a forum for product releases and press statements, but a lot of people consider it a favorite. (They were the first one I saw publish the ETA for the Diablo II port, so there's one notch on their belt, anyway.)

And of course, there is the new kid on the block, MacSlash, who took the slash code, and added ugly aqua-themed graphics to it.

Check out this article posted today at MacCentral. This is the second of two article covering "Road to Mac OS X: Unix and Mac OS X Part II." The first article is here and contains some more details regarding how this merger is going to take place.

There is also a LOT more information at MacSecurity.org which goes into much more detail regarding all the ill-informed posts here on permissions and questions regarding security.

The optional installs will make the box as secure, or open, as you would imagine. But like an true server, the knowledge of the admin/user is the crucial part in the safety of the system.

All in all, these two articles and one site will give you the answers to most of the questions regarding how this project is coming together.

I think we may be in for a surprise when OS X comes out. Good or bad is yet to be determined.

Check out this article posted today at MacCentral. This is the second of two article covering "Road to Mac OS X: Unix and Mac OS X Part II." The first article is here and contains some more details regarding how this merger is going to take place.

There is also a LOT more information at MacSecurity.org which goes into much more detail regarding all the ill-informed posts here on permissions and questions regarding security.

The optional installs will make the box as secure, or open, as you would imagine. But like an true server, the knowledge of the admin/user is the crucial part in the safety of the system.

All in all, these two articles and one site will give you the answers to most of the questions regarding how this project is coming together.

I think we may be in for a surprise when OS X comes out. Good or bad is yet to be determined.

Check out this article posted today at MacCentral. This is the second of two article covering "Road to Mac OS X: Unix and Mac OS X Part II." The first article is here and contains some more details regarding how this merger is going to take place.

There is also a LOT more information at MacSecurity.org which goes into much more detail regarding all the ill-informed posts here on permissions and questions regarding security.

The optional installs will make the box as secure, or open, as you would imagine. But like an true server, the knowledge of the admin/user is the crucial part in the safety of the system.

All in all, these two articles and one site will give you the answers to most of the questions regarding how this project is coming together.

I think we may be in for a surprise when OS X comes out. Good or bad is yet to be determined.