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Apple to Fix Security Holes in Jaguar
Simon Cozens writes "Yesterday's unsubstantiated report that Apple is refusing to supply security upgrades to Jaguar turns out to be untrue; Apple told MacCentral they will be fixing the bugs turned up by @stake. Next conspiracy, please!"
I didn't see this comming at all! Who would have thought they would be supporting their own products.
This page was generated by a Barrel of Circus Midgets, and that is the way I like it!!!
Definitely Apple deserves more credit and unlike other companies, the benefit of the doubt until official statements are made.
Conspiracy! And slashdotters believed it? Un-be-lievable!
Yeah well... well... ok I was proved wrong that time... but what about the security problems in System 7 huh huh huh Apple? I don't see THAT coming up as frontpage slashdot news do I?! Where's our fixes? I DEMAND A NEW SYSTEM ENABLER!
:P
it's a joke people
Panther, Apple's latest operating system, was not affected by the security issues outlined by @Stake -- the flaws only affect Mac OS X 10.2.8 and lower.
This PROVES it! Apple has NO INTENTION of fixing these egregious bugs in Panther! How is Apple ever going to be taken seriously in [echo]THE ENTERPRISE[/echo] when all they care about are legacy customers?!?!?!?!
Get over here.
Now. (smack) Mac (smack) OS (smack) X (smack) supports (smack) multibutton (smack) mice (smack) right (smack) out (smack) of (smack) the (smack) box!
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Now pound sand before I officially sanction a hit. Jobs is a made man, and you shall not direspect his product. Capisca?
--- Ban humanity.
At least ZDNet continues their excellent track record of fair, unbiased reporting with regards to apple.
Hello. I would like to discuss a neat little command line utility included in Mac OS X that doesn't get enough attention in my humble opinion. Living in /usr/bin/, this simple Open Source tool is something that I just can not live without. What is this wondrous textual utility that I'm talking about? It's none other than machine!
Included since 1991 with the 4.4BSD platform, machine gives you the processor name that your system is based on. I don't know if it works for Intel or any other architectures since when I opened up the binary in TextEdit.app and couldn't find any processor name strings. Here's an incomplete list of machine output that I do know of to help illustrate what I mean:
What I think is the funnest part of machine is bringing up its manual page. I wonder who was clever enough to invent this little pun, but it makes me LOL every time I do it. Sometimes I do it just to laugh, even if I don't want to learn about machine at the moment. In case you can't guess, here is the command to bring up the manual:
omfg LOL!!11! I have been accessing this program since OpenStep 4.2, then in Rhapsody DR2 and continue to use it today under Mac OS X v10.3. Kudos to NeXT and now Apple for including this Wunderwerkzeug for almost 10 years. It sure makes my Power Mac a joy to use. Check it out!
I don't want to be forced to upgrade to an Apple ][gs...
from the do-not-jump-to-the-island-of-conclusions dept.
Wow, and here I was starting to think I was the only person in the world who read "The Phantom Tollbooth".
End of lesson. You may press the button.
But did you hear that M$ is buying Google?
*smack*
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Apple did initially tell security experts they didn't plan to patch Jaguar.
That is speculation. You have no way of knowing, unless you know exactly who said what to Goldsmith. And you don't.
There is a very simple way to determine who Goldsmith talked to. Just check and see who was fired at Apple on Friday.