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Mac OS X Buffer Overflow Found
MacDork writes "Well, if default settings in Mac OS X made Lance Ulanoff excited, this is really going to make him do the monkey boy dance... SecurityFocus's Bugtraq mailing list just posted a buffer overflow, in the utility for mounting and probing ISO 9660 file systems. No exploits were mentioned. No word on whether 'Max' alerted Apple or anyone outside of the Bugtraq mailing list though." Also, 'Max' made entirely unfounded, sweeping statements about the general quality of Mac OS X from this one little item, but oh well. When you're on top, you make a tempting target.
Top secret Slashdot document flowchart recreated for your viewing pleasure. This was taken with a micro camera like in the mission impossible movie, but I was dangling over a wet heap of smelly socks and unwashed bodies and they had just passed out from eating frozen pizza, they can't afford the real stuff. I took this picture and digitized it. I narrowly escaped this ordeal and am still mixing Chlorine Bleach and Battery Acid to produce Chlorine gas to get the smell of the Slashdot hovel out of my nose. Unwashed clothing, greasy matter hair, fart saturated furniture at every turn. Open cases of crappy K6 based white-box china-hardware strewn about, half ass 4 wire extra cheesy barely twisted CAT3 wire being used as CAT5 because "it works fine" 400 distributions of Linux lying around messily unboxed and documentation strewn about. The smell of feces was in the air, along with rotting food and marinating sweat from the foul underarms of the Slashdot team. Upon obtaining this evidence I now know more about things are done around here. It is a very interesting process that outlines the depravity of the programming here.
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where are my mod points when i need them?
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He'll like that - he always does...
I seriously doubt that. Ever heard of linux?
Apple sell more Unix than any other vendor in the world at the moment, so they are on top in at least one respect.
Yeah, on top in commercial desktop unices. That's really a big market, almost like being on top in mountain-exploration scuba-gear (Not that there isn't a market for that, it just isn't that big, or that purposeful).
Apple used to hold an important niche in the DTP market. Maybe they still do. At least, it's a more important market then commercial desktop unices...