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When will emacs or vim be available for Mac???

You mean like they already are?

Python packages are also a huge problem on a Mac. It is not like setuptools exist for Mac OS X....

Do you just just not know how to google that shit?

Also, when I develop for the web I always format all my devices to HFS+. I will never use FTP or SAMBA as they do not work on Mac.

What on earth?! Are you suggesting you can't just FTP from or to a Mac? Are you trying to mount a Mac drive as a Samba share? why?

Malware that targets services is rare. Malware typically targets users and applications - in that order. Services certainly can be targeted when the opportunity arises, but those opportunities don't come very often, especially in the last several years after debacles like code red hit us and Windows started shipping with the firewall turned on by default.

The one service you mention as an example, UPnP, has had maybe three vulnerabilities in the last decade (two are listed on secunia, but they only go back to 2003; I know there was one in 2001).

You claim that UPnP is not adequately sandboxed, but give no reason why. Checking services, I see that UPnP runs as the local service account. This local service has no special rights on the system and can't even read user files. How is that not sandboxed enough and what does OSX do to further sandbox it's services?

As for this...

On Windows more are exposed by default, they're easier to exploit, and they are usually proprietary; all of which leads to less security regardless of market share.

The first claim is downright wrong and the last two are completely unqualified. How are they easier to exploit. How does being proprietary lead to less security?

As for services being more exposed by default, since XPSP2, the firewall has come on by default, meaning precisely zero services were exposed by default. Despite that, millions of Windows users continued to get infected to this day.

And another thing about UPnp. It is not a proprietary Microsoft technology. It is a standard which was developed by hardware vendors. Microsoft just supports it. You calling it proprietary is like calling TCP/IP proprietary because Microsoft's TCP/IP implementation is proprietary.

On a related note, an amusing quip about OS X and UPnP from the.taoofmac.com..

"Of course, Apple seem to keep wanting to do their own thing, and their own thing only, so there is no native UPnP support in Mac OS X"

One of my non-geek friends got an Aspire One. It hasn't exactly been plain sailing.

The Aspire One runs Linpus Linux, it's a Fedora variant but they've modified lots of packages, and there's no online repository for their custom RPMs, and the changes weren't fed upstream. There are some major problems: "yum update" (either global, or anything that touches the modified packages) will replace the custom packages and break stuff, mplayer has very few codecs (no xvid), installing vlc requires manually linking directories, the menu system is non-standard so installed software isn't in the menu (in fact, the custom openoffice packages do set up menu entries, but if you update them to the fedora packages they break), and you can't update to firefox 3 without major hassles.

A hacked up Chinese Fedora clone isn't exactly a great example of a fluid Linux experience - stock Ubuntu would have been far preferable, and saved me from all those "this is Linux? I thought you said it was better than Windows. This would've been far easier in Windows." comments.

A far more pressing concern is that data is transmitted to and from your iDisk insecurely. No one should be storing any sensitive data on their iDisk.

I'm thinking the iPhone has to take the cake. What other continuously-running (not off and on, like the buyout/merger rumors) Apple rumor has had legs for this long? The iPhone rumor has been in full force for at least two and a half years.

But they have...

The guy does have a point - Linux has been spending too much time on geeky stuff and very little on actual usability.

I read an article about this earlier today that focused on the presence notification that AOL has integrated with Outlook. Apparently this is new to the Windows world, but I've had presence notification for a while now, along with a framework to integrate it into other applications, such as Beagle. Looks like promising stuff.

is over at Tao Of Mac. The guy worked out the math for average quotas, prices, and even how much it will cost Microsoft to compete.