Clearly the article is crap, the guy doesn't have a clue. Yesterday's comment post was well enough for this article, having it posted on the main page reflects poorly on the slashdot poster.
There is nothing wrong, and I haven't deactivated anything. It is a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.5 on a MacBook Pro.
Firewall is open, as per the default, and I have enough programs installed to do my everyday job. Do you have Mac OS X installed? What does netstat show for you? Can you identify what programs are listening to incoming connections?
Yes, many people actually do run Sun Solaris 10 on non-Sun hardware in production. What would you rather be running for your production on your brand new HP Opteron or IBM Opteron server: Redhat Linux or Sun Solaris 10?
Please note that you can actually buy Sun support for non-Sun hardware and that vendors are certifying their hardware for Sun Solaris 10.
I don't understand either. I know Linux well, I have been using Debian for the past 5 years ; but now I just love Mac OS X. It never crashed on me (I have switched to OS X 6 months ago), fink is beautiful and apt-get is there when I am too impatient to just wait for the damn package to build.
I never use X11, it's there, but what for. What exactly are you doing with your powerbook that makes you prefer YellowDog?
Last, OS X is not slow. Yes, Apple Mail is slower to launch than mutt ever has been. But Safari is way faster to startup than Mozilla was on Linux... Globally things are differents, but not slower.
Agreed, but I'd love to see that as a plugin! My safari has the one plugin that I couldn't live without: PithHelmet. This alone reduces greatly my interest in Omniweb for instance, which is good but doesn't block ads as good as PithHelmet default rules (and best of all, PithHelmet hides the ads).
Safari is clean, and it feels great like that. But plugins are a must: look at FireFox - good because there's a lot of available plugins.
Actually, on my powerbook, I like the single button concept. You can still access right click using Ctrl-click which is as natural as a second button (at least on a laptop): the left hand stays next to the Ctrl-Option-Command keys while the right hand goes to the touchpad.
As for the middle scroll button, I use Fn-slide: I press the key, and move up or down on the touchpad. This is much better than my old Microsoft Intellimouse where the scroll can't roll up anymore.
I don't know how difficult that feels on a desktop computer, but one button with Mac OS X feels good on my laptop: try it!
And as a side note, I love to have a Compose key (-e e produces e). There is no way to access international characters on a standard qwerty keyboard with Windows: that's a shame!
There is a GREAT client which makes encryption/signing very easy: Apple Mail! I am using a personnal certificate from Thawte (which is free, multiplatforms, easy to create if you find a good step-by-step guide with Google).
Once you get your certificate, you insert it in Apple Keychain (which is the system wide program to manage your passwords and supports locking). You can then sign emails and encrypt for those people whom you have the public key.
Try it;).
I agree: changing the code, even through an automated process, implies testing! So it seems for me that obfuscating the source will double the amount of testing required...
"Is this a bug in the code morphing program or in the original application?" - wow, testing will get even funnier:).
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There is nothing wrong, and I haven't deactivated anything. It is a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.5 on a MacBook Pro.
Firewall is open, as per the default, and I have enough programs installed to do my everyday job. Do you have Mac OS X installed? What does netstat show for you? Can you identify what programs are listening to incoming connections?
Yes, many people actually do run Sun Solaris 10 on non-Sun hardware in production. What would you rather be running for your production on your brand new HP Opteron or IBM Opteron server: Redhat Linux or Sun Solaris 10?
Please note that you can actually buy Sun support for non-Sun hardware and that vendors are certifying their hardware for Sun Solaris 10.
I don't understand either. I know Linux well, I have been using Debian for the past 5 years ; but now I just love Mac OS X. It never crashed on me (I have switched to OS X 6 months ago), fink is beautiful and apt-get is there when I am too impatient to just wait for the damn package to build.
I never use X11, it's there, but what for. What exactly are you doing with your powerbook that makes you prefer YellowDog?
Last, OS X is not slow. Yes, Apple Mail is slower to launch than mutt ever has been. But Safari is way faster to startup than Mozilla was on Linux... Globally things are differents, but not slower.
Agreed, but I'd love to see that as a plugin! My safari has the one plugin that I couldn't live without: PithHelmet. This alone reduces greatly my interest in Omniweb for instance, which is good but doesn't block ads as good as PithHelmet default rules (and best of all, PithHelmet hides the ads).
Safari is clean, and it feels great like that. But plugins are a must: look at FireFox - good because there's a lot of available plugins.
Actually, on my powerbook, I like the single button concept. You can still access right click using Ctrl-click which is as natural as a second button (at least on a laptop): the left hand stays next to the Ctrl-Option-Command keys while the right hand goes to the touchpad.
As for the middle scroll button, I use Fn-slide: I press the key, and move up or down on the touchpad. This is much better than my old Microsoft Intellimouse where the scroll can't roll up anymore.
I don't know how difficult that feels on a desktop computer, but one button with Mac OS X feels good on my laptop: try it!
And as a side note, I love to have a Compose key (-e e produces e). There is no way to access international characters on a standard qwerty keyboard with Windows: that's a shame!
There is a GREAT client which makes encryption/signing very easy: Apple Mail! I am using a personnal certificate from Thawte (which is free, multiplatforms, easy to create if you find a good step-by-step guide with Google). Once you get your certificate, you insert it in Apple Keychain (which is the system wide program to manage your passwords and supports locking). You can then sign emails and encrypt for those people whom you have the public key. Try it ;).
I agree: changing the code, even through an automated process, implies testing! So it seems for me that obfuscating the source will double the amount of testing required...
:).
"Is this a bug in the code morphing program or in the original application?" - wow, testing will get even funnier