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Tiger's 200 New Features
An anonymous reader writes "If this hasn't already been posted, Apple set up a page listing,
by software section, all of the new features for OS X.4, or Tiger.
Given that every upgrade touts over a hundred features, it is interesting to see all of the enhancements to this upgrade to see what adopters get out of the box.
There are a lot which are tweaks, some new non-Spotlight oriented features and a few that are interesting, mostly security related features.
2 words: stealth mode.
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If this hasn't already been posted
:-P
I think you really meant : "If this has already been posted"!
O yeah, My first first post maybe?
I'd rather be sailing...
This new feature allows you to use different systems like base 8 or hexadecimal. Take that Microsoft.
of Longhorn another 6 months.
Coincidence?
I think not!
Creative Commons music that doesn't suck: emptydrum.com
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -i ! eth0 -j ACCEPT
/bin/echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
iptables -P INPUT DROP
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
Cats rock!
I was just sitting at my freelance gig, reading some online encyclopedia (win supersite, I believe) and the scientist there said that there are only 2 features: spotlight and something else. He stated that all other ones are pretty much nothing.
He also said, and I'll have to agree with him on this one, that SP 2 is a much better update than Tiger, and it's FREE!
I don't even know what you MAC people are cheering about, you're not even getting a firewall OR pop-up blocker, not to mention malicious software detector with you're upgrade your paying $$ 4! LOL!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Why is a barn door not stable?
Hmm, I wonder if font book is scriptable.
Also, Playing DVDs in the dock is by far the only reason I am getting Tiger.
You're right, that didn't need a GUI at all.
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
I think a lot of network admins will breath a sigh of partial relief when they see the Password Helper. There will always be the "[kids_name]123" password people, but there are a decent number of users who want something secure but easy to remember, and to know roughly how secure a particular password is.
No, you don't understand. This tool asks you the name of your child and then adds a number from a certain pool to it. The pool contains numbers like '111','321' and '123'.
In need of reliable and affordable server monitoring?
With Quicksilver, one can spare oneself a lot of poking about and futzing with the mouse
With Bash, one can spare oneself ALL use of the mouse.
Being both a Mac User and a Command LIne Junky. This makes me happy.
Ditto here!
(ducks, runs for cover)
Please help metamoderate.
Oh, I can just see telling my 80 year old mother to type that in!
Considering how horribly slow 10.0 was, it could only get faster.
Calm down man... Longhorn will be here in... hmmm... sometime. ;)
a) they dont mind posting a dupe
Neither do Apple - "Scriptable Font Book" counts as two seperate features.
Don't know about you guys, but I'm almost creaming myself at the thought of the Korn shell being included. ;)
The other 199 features can go take a hike.
Also includes ground-breaking new usability features, a couple of which weren't borrowed from Mac OS X Tiger (we got them from KDE and Gnome)! New security failure features as well!!
This won't change anything! There is still no software available for Macs! They still can't run:
1) Netsky-P
2) Zafi-B
3) Sasser
4) Netsky-B
5) Netsky-D
6) Netsky-Z
7) MyDoom-A
8) Sober-I
9) Netsky-C
10) Bagle-AA
What good are they?
Cool art gallery, if you're into that sort of thing.
How about:
That's my favourite so far :)
Now perhaps you could explain Sun's versioning scheme for us.
That's GNU/Linuxtard, sir.
that'll come in the Cougar release, once OS X "matures".
Mac OS XI ditches the previous Unix underpinnings and goes back to OS 9 technologies; the long awaited Copland.
I've got an early beta here.
Shit I've broken my NDA with Apple....
No, that's the beauty of it. Tiger's built-in AI reads the document, figures out what it says, and then writes something subtly different over it. That way, when the NSA gets your Hard-drive and they try to recover data from it, they'll stop when they find the note to Suzy telling her to buy milk, and won't keep looking for the plans to bomb to the San Diego zoo in that same file.
Simply save it to a shell script called view_grandchild_photos and give it desktop link. Voila - she'll be running in stealth mode in no time! ;)
There's some pretty exciting stuff coming in the next few years.
Unfortunately, you won't be at Apple when it comes.
Why not? Information is supposed to be free, isn't it?