Apple doesn't ignore security. They implemented almost a third of an ASLR solution, and it's obviously a waste of time since it wouldn't help with this vulnerability. They dragged their feet patching the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability since DNS is obsolete and everyone should be using Bonjour by now. They didn't bother with DEP/NX, because Macs are about usability, they don't want to prevent you from executing data.
Get off my lawn. Back in the days of the 386sx, the only reason for more video RAM was so you could get more color depth at a certain resolution (which is X * Y * D bits). There was no 3D, there were no textures.
The probability of a cosmic ray at precisely the right angle and speed to cause a single bit error and cause an app to crash is somewhere on the same order as your chances of getting hit by a car, getting struck by lightning, getting torn apart by rabid wolves, and having sex in the back of a red 1948 Buick convertible at a drive-in movie theater on Tuesday night, Feb. 29th under a blue moon... all at the same time....
little blips on-screen and other strange characters appear in the output of programs and the shell itself, and in addition to this it would randomly lock up occasionally displaying a stack error.
Probably video memory. Either that, or my sarcasm detector is broken.
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I find it astounding that we are still managing to get useful data from these vehicles which were launched back in the 70's.
Why? I still drive a vehicle that was manufactured in the '60s.
Agreed, his post made me sic.
Apple doesn't ignore security. They implemented almost a third of an ASLR solution, and it's obviously a waste of time since it wouldn't help with this vulnerability. They dragged their feet patching the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability since DNS is obsolete and everyone should be using Bonjour by now. They didn't bother with DEP/NX, because Macs are about usability, they don't want to prevent you from executing data.
Good luck finding OTA TV channels for them, soon.
Get off my lawn. Back in the days of the 386sx, the only reason for more video RAM was so you could get more color depth at a certain resolution (which is X * Y * D bits). There was no 3D, there were no textures.
I can has Neanderthal?
Times being raped... that was one hell of a summer.
Yeah, but can I buy it from iTunes or Amazon Downloads?
when they're first turned on, they just boot Windows.
So, you're saying they shipped it to you broken?
Okay, as long as I don't have to use emacs.
Perhaps a breath mint company?
Just who the fuck can we trust these days?
Why, you can trust Slashdot, of course!
It's the same site where you can download an OS that doesn't predate the Pentium III.
Pentium III release date: May 1999.
Windows 2000 release date: February 2000.
Fail.
Media sharing is against the law!
Ok , one of them might be the next Alan Turing and surprise us all but I won't hold my breath.
At best, they'd be the next Andrew Tanenbaum.
What... does your mother make you pick up your dirty socks?
Is "pick up your dirty socks" anything like a "dirty Sanchez"?
Sounds like somebody is pushing for an upgrade to Vista!
You don't even know what this guy did/didn't do, or why they took his shit, and you assume he was innocent and didn't deserve it?
Isn't that how it's supposed to work, at least in theory?
The probability of a cosmic ray at precisely the right angle and speed to cause a single bit error and cause an app to crash is somewhere on the same order as your chances of getting hit by a car, getting struck by lightning, getting torn apart by rabid wolves, and having sex in the back of a red 1948 Buick convertible at a drive-in movie theater on Tuesday night, Feb. 29th under a blue moon... all at the same time....
That was one hell of a night, wasn't it?
Apple was the first to go to 8-bit memory bytes long ago
Actually, I think Apple just never implemented parity, they were always 8-bit. At least, that was the case on the Apple II and 68k Macs I've used.
little blips on-screen and other strange characters appear in the output of programs and the shell itself, and in addition to this it would randomly lock up occasionally displaying a stack error.
Probably video memory. Either that, or my sarcasm detector is broken.
That's impressive. Most memory tester software so I've tried requires a working power supply and motherboard.
They also ate a log
I think I saw that video, something about a cup.
SMS updates + on-access virus scanning make the whole OS very nearly unusable.
Your disk is too slow. Try a defrag and some more memory.
GeoWorks used cooperative multitasking, which was fine if all you wanted to run were GeoWorks programs.