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Apple Patches Security Flaw in Terminal.app
Currawong writes "Apple has posted Security Update 2002-09-20 for Mac OS X 10.2 and above in Software Update, fixing a security hole in Terminal.app which could 'allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary commands on the user's system.' Apple also has a useful page listing all the security updates with a short summary and links to what they patch."
>(no, it isn't the updated prebindings. I just did that myself this morning).
IIRC, you don't need to manually update prebindings anymore. It's done automatically on a weekly basis.
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I assure you that no changes were made to the program, apart from a minimal fix of the bug.
They didn't even remove the superflous NSLog's (console debugging output) even though they knew about them, since they wanted to touch as little as possible.
I didn't know a thing about this exploit until I heard there was a patch for it. Not to bash or anything, but if it was MS, it would have been all over the news before the fix came out. Guess there's something to be said for being the minority player after all :)
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If I recall correctly, this feature existed in the Sparc 2 which we had at our highschool which ran solaris. This is not a linux development. It may be a *NIX varient development, but not linux.
Linux is completely customizable, you can change everything about the desktop, kde and gnome are very flexable. If you dont like something you can pull the src apart and change it. (I wrote a couple patches my self because I like to use the mouse scroll to shade and unshade windows on the top bar)
All of this can be done with OS X too. You can even kill Aqua and just use it for apps that require Agua and use another windower in it's place for most of your work.
We have also made our own freetype fonts. So we dont have to steal them from microsoft. But we can also install the microsoft fonts if we want our desktop to look like a windows box.
Apple has their own fonts too, what's your point?
Linux developers are very innovative we have more updates and enhancements than macosx and windows put together
And how many of those updates were because they were nessesary to get a feature that has been availible in other OSes for a long time? Seriously, most of linux updates have just brought it closer to being comparable with the modern OSes, not major improvements.
A good Itunes replacement would be xmms, yes its a clone of winamp, but there is nothing wrong with that, FREE THEMES!
Themes don't replace functionality. You have no idea how useful something like a live search feature is untill you've become used to it iTunes is far superior to WinAMP
I will grant that linux developers are innovative and that Linux is a fun system to toy arround with, but they are no more innovative than paid programmers and sadly do make most of their software from other peoples ideas (because otherwise no one would use Linux because people are too fricken dumb to learn a new OS, but that's an entirely differnt rant)
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I believe Jaguar updates prebindings automatically now at boot time.
When I was running an old version of Classic Spy, OS X would write a log saying it couldn't update prebinding when I started up.
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