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Mac OS X Security Criticisms Countered
Paradox writes "In response to the recent PC Magazine story criticizing Mac OS X security, technologist/author Richard Forno has written a rebuttal criticizing the author and raising some good points about the fundamental differences between Windows and Mac OS X. Considering Lance Ulanoff's tone during his article, a rebuttal from the Mac OS X community was inevitable." Forno's conclusion: "Trustworthy computing must be more than a catchy marketing phrase. Ironically, despite a few hiccups along the way, it's becoming clear that Mac OS, not Windows, epitomizes Microsoft's new mantra of 'secure by design, default, and deployment'."
Um, this is MAC OS X we're talking about here, not Linux.
Um, this is MAC OS X we're talking about here, not Linux.
Exactly. OS X is way cooler. *rimshot*
I've been having trouble in school lately. The other kids won't leave me alone. Maybe it's my glasses, or that I'm better than them in math. I came home yesterday and cried. I know slashdotters have had to deal with this before. What did you do? My father has a handgun somewhere in his room. I've seen it before. THEY HAVE TO PAY, ALL OF THEM.
What's up, nerds?
after his ATV crash.
The real question is, was he breathing on his own BEFORE the crash?
I AM Saddam Hussein!!!
MY asshole is secure by design. CmdrTaco's asshole, however, is intentioanlly wwide open.
You're bright, study chemistry. Or biology. Your yield will be higher, hence more efficient. And you stand a good chance at getting away scott free! Sure is a terrible thing about the lunch ladies not exercising proper food hygeine and giving botuluism to 1100 of your dear classmates.
but Windows is often broken, hence the bugs crawl in..
The Adult Happy Meal - "I'm lovin' it!"
Are you retarded?
This may be off topic, but I am running Afterstep 1.6 and you guys seem like a pretty smart bunch so I thought I'd give you a try.
/etc/XF86Config and I have tried both the Microsoft setting and the pc102 settings. neither helped (I have one of those funky split keyboards. I don't know if it is a "true Microsoft natural" keyboard, but it is brand new. I got it with my new dell computer). Finally, this only happens in terminal windows. It does not happen in text editors or anything else. It will however happen in any application that runs "full screen" in the terminal (like pico).
I (finally) got my linux going again (I got a new computer for Christmas and was fretting over drivers and X servers and the like). I grabbed XFree86 ver 3.3.3 and got it working (STB nVidia TNT 16 meg video card). But there's one strange problem. When I run X and open a terminal window, about once a minute a single ` character (the un-shifted tilde ~) appears in the terminal. Right where I would be typing in commands. It even sometimes puts them in right while I am typing. I don't even have to be at the computer doing anything. If I leave for a few minutes and come back, there will be a row of a dozen of them. This behavior does not happen if I don't run x and just stay in plain linux. It turns out that the ` characters appear in the terminal every 70 seconds like clockwork, but only if the terminal window has the focus. If it doesn't have the focus, the characters are not stored in a buffer, so that when xterm does get the focus again, there is not a quick stream of a bunch of them. I have double-checked my keyboard entries in
Is my computer possessed?
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I've heard that Apple runs a x86 version that's parrallel to the current releases just in case they were to switch platforms someday. I would definately pay for OSX but I want to use my normal hardware. And I think Apple could even sell it and driver manufacturers would support it. ATI would have little trouble supporting the rest of their cards and many of them are mac compatible already.
APPLE Please get a clue you could tromp all over MS any day with our OS!!!
...or the equivalent number of ethernet cards, SCSI controllers, supported chipsets, etc. OSX can be stable because the hardware platform is under control.
Apple is also organized as a hardware company. They would have to sell much, much more software to stay alive.
They would probably die in the conversion to x86, and they would end up producing an OS than ran on a small subset of the available systems anyway.
And as you can get an OSX-capable system for under $100, why complain? The cost to try it out is negligable.
Sir,
Your point does not go unnoticed. However I am sick to death of listening to the BS of trolls be regurgitated by (and i dont know how nature allows this) the more ignorant and more stupid.