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Month of Apple Fixes
das writes "On the same day as the launch of the Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) (blog), Landon Fuller, a programmer, Darwin developer, and former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group, has launched an effort to provide runtime fixes for each MOAB issue as they are released. A fix has already been posted for the first MOAB issue."
So some third party is going to try to rush out daily fixes? How much testing is done on these fixes, none? And how do you uninstall these quick fix hacks when Apple releases the legit fixes?
And this is being done all to save Apple's rep, so Apple fanboys can say, "ALREADY FIXED!!!"?
I'll wait for the real fixes than deploy some untested hack that some kook cooked up in his basement without having the first clue as to the wider impact of his "fix". 10 to 1, the "fix" will be worse than the bug. Hell, it might even be an exploit itself.
The stupid anti-aliased font rendering in OS X?
I just heard this and I don't understand this. Kevin Finisterre can't be serious about this. It's supposed to be Apple, right? Everyone can be up in arms because Michael Richards or Mel Gibson call someone something racially motivated and then when other people do something like this it's just fine. I guess it wasn't true what they said about OS X. I'm mixed but I have a light complexion so no one really called me that, but plenty of my cousins were called that. Black girls often called them that for being friends with white people and I always thought that was completely ridiculous but it was also meant to be an insult just the way anyone would use any other racial slur. But this will be a drop in the bucket because black people can say whatever they want. In my entire life the only people who have ever been "racist" toward me were black people. No one acknowledges how racist black people can be. It's like they get a free pass.
I think I'll wait to apply Landon's fix until Preston, Spencer, and Chaz have had a chance to review it.
Seriously, who would give their kid some fag name list Landon?
Call it what you want, ignore it if you want, defend [insert OS here] all you want, but the point is the same. If it runs on your system and you have it on your system, you ARE susceptible. You can rally around a specific group of people that all agree with each other and say, "Hey, it is not a [insert OS name here] problem so screw you!". Bottom line, it IS a problem. The excuse of "Well it affects [insert other OS here]" and stick your tongue out if that that makes you feel better. You do realize doing that does not make it go away or make it any less of a problem.
- My Ford caught on fire, but so did my neighbors Honda.
- My Firestone tires on my Ford exploded but so did the Firestone tires on my neighbors Honda.
- My Firestone tires on my Ford exploded because I never checked the tire pressure but so did the Firestone tires on my neighbors Honda and he never checked either.
- I drove my Ford with no oil and it died, but my neighbor with a Honda did the same.
It sets eip to a hard-coded address, therefor, it is exploitable. You are fucking retarded. Just because the proof of concept only crashes it doesn't mean it's not exploitable.
On the mac you install a program or two to get full video support. Granted, it's not a big deal. On the other hand, on my Ubuntu install, I used automatix2 (installing automatix boils down to copying and pasting some lines of text so it's not a big deal) and it just gave me checkboxes to click to download pretty much everything I need on the system. Then I went and copied and pasted some other lines of text from another website and got IE5 through IE6 under wine so that I can use them to test webpages and use pages that don't work in firefox etc. Not that I've seen any of those in literally years - I know they're out there because people bitch about them sometimes, but I don't run into them.
The simple fact is that Linux is becoming easier and easier to use and has more and more features - while it IS hard to get there today, I will freely admit, there's pretty much nothing on OSX besides the iApps that you don't have on Linux any more - between beryl/aiglx which provides you the 3d-accelerated GUI support including fun toys like an Expose-alike, beagle which gives you the desktop search, and the many other fun doodads... All I need do is wait and all of this software will be excellent - superior, in fact, to the mac, which it already is in most ways, not least because nearly everything on my system (but flash player) is Free Software and I value freedom. Meanwhile, Apple users must both wait and pay a hundred bucks every so often. If you feel that you are getting the best part of this deal, who am I to dissuade you? Steve Jobs says "thanks, sucker."
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"