Let me make that clear: making a negative "prophecy" about a competitor (of you or one your associates), "self-fulfilling" or not, is the same as spreading FUD.
It's not only the power, it's also the heat. The heat that is generated in a tiny area in a device that doesn't like to be hot. Even the low-power Intel "Mobile" processors can get pretty hot compared to notebook harddrives.
Some troll on an other forum claimed there were reports from people who had it happen with (pirated) betas. Now if this is so, they obviously didn't report it to Apple (because their copy was pirated), else Apple would have just fixed it. So it's them who are moraly responsible.
Actually, it's a little more complicated. The offending line in the script looks (something) like this: rm -rf $2Applications/iTunes.app (...)
with $2 holding the name of the disk to install iTunes on, in the form of/Volumes/name-of-volume.
The only place where the spaces (and probably other nasty chars like '*') can appear in is name-of-volume, the name given to the drive by the user in the Finder, the way it appears on the desktop.
If the name begins with a space, the rm will delete everything in (and below)/Volumes/, IOW all drives mounted there. If there is one (or more) space(s) in the name (e.g. volume "disk 1" or "some name for a drive"), it will try to delete/Volumes/disk or/Volumes/some - so if you have a volume "disk"/"some", it's toast. It will alo try to delete "1/Applications/iTunes.app" / "name", "for", "a" and "drive/Applications/iTunes.app" in the working directory. I was actually wrong about it always deleting something if there is a space at the end.
Now what happens if there is an asterisk somewher in the name is probably clear - somebody want to try? >:-)
Which proves that the guy who made the error is a UNIXer, somebody having experience with the Mac would have known that Mac users do use spaces in their file-/volume- names.
How many of those hundreds of NDAd beta testers had a drive with a name that either started with a Space or ended with one (but not in the middle of the name). None. Yup, the error was stupid (like most shell script bugs), but not really easy to find.
The funny thing is, the buggy code was a shell script, dead easy to read. So it's either not Apples fault, or Open Source software isn't as safe as you say.
What has been "demonstrated as badly written , dangerous software" was the installer shell script. Apple doesn't let the skript kiddies do the real programs.
Gee, I keep telling people that 99.9% of all "just typed it in and it works" shell skripts fail for filenames with spaces (or othe "funky" characters) in it. This is a typical "UNIX is so damn powerfull" bug.
If the key would be really smart, it wouldn't get lost. It would tell you "Hey, are you gonna leave me here? Don't close that door, you'ld be locked out - and what's worse, I'ld be locked in. Yeah, I'm talking to you, dumbass."
It's from Apple. Read this Interview with Steve Jobs and the "attachment" (linked from the article) on Fortune.
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Oh yes, let us praise the free market, and dig up the cheapest prices on something via the powerfull web search - and then compare them to the Apple store price, ignoring that street prices are also lower for Apple products.
Well, I looked up your posting history, and you have none. You are just an anonymous coward. Good that I don't need your posting history to know you're a retard, one post suffices.
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Let me make that clear: making a negative "prophecy" about a competitor (of you or one your associates), "self-fulfilling" or not, is the same as spreading FUD.
It's not only the power, it's also the heat. The heat that is generated in a tiny area in a device that doesn't like to be hot. Even the low-power Intel "Mobile" processors can get pretty hot compared to notebook harddrives.
Some troll on an other forum claimed there were reports from people who had it happen with (pirated) betas. Now if this is so, they obviously didn't report it to Apple (because their copy was pirated), else Apple would have just fixed it. So it's them who are moraly responsible.
Stupid "preview". Stupid, stupid, stupid.
rm -rf $2Applications/iTunes.app (...)
with $2 holding the name of the disk to install iTunes on, in the form of
If the name begins with a space, the rm will delete everything in (and below) /Volumes/, IOW all drives mounted there. If there is one (or more) space(s) in the name (e.g. volume "disk 1" or "some name for a drive"), it will try to delete /Volumes/disk or /Volumes/some - so if you have a volume "disk"/"some", it's toast. It will alo try to delete "1/Applications/iTunes.app" / "name", "for", "a" and "drive/Applications/iTunes.app" in the working directory. I was actually wrong about it always deleting something if there is a space at the end.
Now what happens if there is an asterisk somewher in the name is probably clear - somebody want to try? >:-)
Which proves that the guy who made the error is a UNIXer, somebody having experience with the Mac would have known that Mac users do use spaces in their file-/volume- names.
How many of those hundreds of NDAd beta testers had a drive with a name that either started with a Space or ended with one (but not in the middle of the name). None. Yup, the error was stupid (like most shell script bugs), but not really easy to find.
"rm -rf" is a low-level harddisk call?
Your Linux distro doesn't have shell scripts? No "rm -rf"?
Erm, yes, that's why the OS X version was affected, not the OS 9 one.
The funny thing is, the buggy code was a shell script, dead easy to read. So it's either not Apples fault, or Open Source software isn't as safe as you say.
What has been "demonstrated as badly written , dangerous software" was the installer shell script. Apple doesn't let the skript kiddies do the real programs.
Gee, I keep telling people that 99.9% of all "just typed it in and it works" shell skripts fail for filenames with spaces (or othe "funky" characters) in it. This is a typical "UNIX is so damn powerfull" bug.
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German supposed to be like RPN is? This new to me is. And I German am.
If the key would be really smart, it wouldn't get lost. It would tell you "Hey, are you gonna leave me here? Don't close that door, you'ld be locked out - and what's worse, I'ld be locked in. Yeah, I'm talking to you, dumbass."
Odd, it was either in another interview, or they edited it. Anyway, Jobs talked about "Apple did what Apple does best, the user interface".
At last Windows 1.0 has been redeemed! If only we can get those great colors back.
It's from Apple. Read this Interview with Steve Jobs and the "attachment" (linked from the article) on Fortune.
Oh yes, let us praise the free market, and dig up the cheapest prices on something via the powerfull web search - and then compare them to the Apple store price, ignoring that street prices are also lower for Apple products.
Actually, they were one of the founders of ARM.
Well, I looked up your posting history, and you have none. You are just an anonymous coward. Good that I don't need your posting history to know you're a retard, one post suffices.
Steve was the founder of Next. Yeah, he's gonna be be so sad when he reads your drivel.
You want to talk war, and ignore the god of war, Mars? No wonder you're not getting anywhere.
I found this http://www.sony.co.jp/en/Products/BAT/ION/Catalog- e.pdf PDF at the Sony site. It's the catalog for their LiIon batteries. No price given.