Somewhere out there, a guy modded his G4 (maybe a G3) to include a beer tap. I've yet to see a PC modded to include a beer tap. Why are PCs so limited?
Without knowing what the "latest magazines" are it'd be a little difficult to speculate why you haven't seen any "mac" mods other than to suggest that the "latest magazines" you're reading are PC centric and ignore the Mac platform (kind of like Tom's Hardware). There are Mac Modders out there, but be warned--they're a lot like Mad Hatters.
Cheers-
...this bug fix will be targeted for 10.3.4?!
From posts here and abroad, sounds like this is a 10.3 only issue. Remember Apple is doing no further development of Safari for the 10.2 platform. (Still miffed about this...)
Another strong reason to create a staff user account to use as your primary account rather than the admin account.
It's funny that "this" "trojan horse" is getting so much attention, it's not like the rm command is new or anything and this type of trojan horse has been obvious from the beginnings of MOSX.
It's funnier that this 'guy' who got the trojan didn't bother to check out how large the file was (I mean he was downloading it from limewire). We all know that any demo of MS Word 2004 is going to be 108k.
You can actually do more with the keyboard+mouse combo keys than you can with a standard three button mouse on it's own.
Working in the X11 environment will cause you problems, but if it's such an issue, Apple DOES include USB ports on all their laptops. (maybe on a plane, train or bus this wouldn't work, but everywhere else...)
I'm so used to control clicking on Apple's laptops that it severly hinders me when I jump on a Wintel laptop. The point is, once you get used to the cntl-click, option-click, cmd-click it's a none issue.
Admittedly, I get overworked on the mouse issue. I find most PC users use it as a cop out on their inability to give alternate OSs a fair shake. I work in an enviroment with multiple platforms and like lemmings, the PC users can't not use a PC. (I see the Mac users on everrything). The argument was always the mouse... It drives me nuts because I've swapped out all the single button mice with multi-button mice and the tunnel vision pervades.
To summerize: Apple's suck because they have a single button mouse.
Dude... Get over it. In the 10 minutes it took you to waste time and energy writing your little diatribe you could have gone online and ordered at $20 or less multibutton mouse and been on your sweet way.
The mouse argument is the lamest, most time wasted piece of crap anti-apple pundents cling to. Step away and take a breath.
That would mean Mac OS X is configurable. Everybody likes to complain about how Apple sets everything up for you. Now the geek *nix guys can say "Damn you apple for making bash my default shell!" You've saved me a step in my configuration!!!
On Board Diagnostics in the long hand. This is something that is required in every single new car sold in California. This mandate was set by CARB (California Air Resource Board) who are non-elected officials. They're the same ones who jack up our gas prices by requiring funny gas that "suppossedly" burns cleaner. Currently OBD is at level II. It monitors certain pieces of equipment on your car and when they go out of range you get a little flashing orange light on your dash that says "Check Engine." In essense, every piece of equipment that it checks is considered part of your smog system on the car (even things like axels) and if you are a car-modder it becomes increasingly difficult to bring aftermarket parts into the mix as the smallest detail can put the whole OBD II system out of whack.
CARB has been trying to push OBD III through the system for years. OBD III like OBD II will monitor your car's smog systems, but it will also monitor speed and location. It will include a transmitter that sends this data to a central processing center. If anything goes out of whack you not only get the flashing light, you get a letter in the mail (probably from the DMV). I'm sure speeding will garner you a ticket, not to mention that every time you're in your car the government will be tracking you (an end to privacy).
It's time to wake up. Plans are being developed to begin taxing our car mileage and our vehicle emissions. There have even been ideas bantered around that would restrict how far you can live from your place of work.
If this article was on the front page there would be thousands of trolls flaming the OS because there aren't enough vira on it. Apparently to be considered a real OS you need at minimum 500 new vira a month.
I was just razzing yah... But come, on... I'm pretty sure Open Transport made its debut in Mac OS 7.5 and could be installed on hosts with 7.1. That would be right around 94/95. 8-9 years ago... Man that's an eternity in computer speak.
You can't compare your pre open transport experience 8-10 years ago with Macs today. They're a dream on the network. The only problems I've had with Macs on our network occurred when our DHCP server was futzed up. So really, it was a network issue and not a client issue.
Interesting... I've never run into this issue (I'm on a very large network). Are there any tech briefs you can point to?
The only issue I've seen with TCP/IP networking is that sometimes if the machine crashed (and yes Macs do occasionally crash) the TCP/IP preferences become corrupt.
The only Macs I've seen that experience repetitive issues are the ones set up by PC admins who know very little about the platform. They try to set it up like a PC, but duh... It's a Mac.
Maintain plenty of Macs and I have very little issues. Compared to the PCs in our group that are downloaded weekly.
1 terminal window at a time?
What crack have you been smoking? Please learn about something before commenting on it.
Love all the comments from non-mac users, especially those who have never used one.
A person would have to choose to make that bomb and then use it to hurt others. Let me highlight that special word: choose. Having knowledge or sharing it is not the same as hurting someone directly.
Interesting... Last time I checked, someone has to CHOOSE to shoot somebody with a gun, but that doesn't stop the Left's continual assault on second amendment rights.
I could never understand why Conflict Catcher was so popular. In fact, the first thing I'd do when troubleshooting the Classic Mac OS was remove CC if it was installed. IMHO, it caused more problems than it solved and many times left your system crippled. Apple's extension manager made troubleshooting extension and control panel conflicts a breeze...
How can you be familiar with a PC and not use a Mac? This always blows me away. Maybe Macs set their users up to be more experimentive, because I don't know many Mac users that can't use a PC. But Windows users see an unfamiliar GUI and they freeze like a deer in headlights.
Unleashed isn't meant for novice computer users. It would be cruel and they wouldn't be able to comprehend it, sorta like handing a Harry Potter Fanatic the Lord of the Rings.
Let's get this straight... The only thing holding you back from converting to MOSX is the lack of a 'good' version of Opera? Have you even used any of the MOSX browsers?
Safari (which btw is still BETA) is probably one of the best browsers I've ever used Mac or PC.
Camino is a close second.
OmniWeb is a joy to use.
IE may jump back into the game with v6, but who knows...
And Opera? Opera just plain sucks!
For want of a 'Opera' the kingdom was lost -- or -- Sounds like trolling to me.
There are plenty of people that mod their Mac cases... One of the major trends is to take them apart and paint them new colors, etc... I've seen one with a lcd built into the front of the case, neon lit interiors, etc... No, I don't collect the URLs to these things so rather than "guessing" that Mac users don't mod their cases, why don't you rather look and find out?
Perhaps the most bizarre mac case I've seen was one that was modified to double as beer tap.
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Personally I'm happy running my Linux on my frankenstein's monsters
Hey! You know the difference between Frankenstein and his creature. Most people confuse them as the same thing! Give this man some karma!
I thought Apple Developers were supposed to hate Apple...
Somewhere out there, a guy modded his G4 (maybe a G3) to include a beer tap. I've yet to see a PC modded to include a beer tap. Why are PCs so limited? Without knowing what the "latest magazines" are it'd be a little difficult to speculate why you haven't seen any "mac" mods other than to suggest that the "latest magazines" you're reading are PC centric and ignore the Mac platform (kind of like Tom's Hardware). There are Mac Modders out there, but be warned--they're a lot like Mad Hatters. Cheers-
...this bug fix will be targeted for 10.3.4?! From posts here and abroad, sounds like this is a 10.3 only issue. Remember Apple is doing no further development of Safari for the 10.2 platform. (Still miffed about this...)
of course, /bin/rm -Rf /
is pretty useless if you don't input the admin password. Granted, you'll lose your home directory, but that is significant in itself.
Another strong reason to create a staff user account to use as your primary account rather than the admin account.
It's funny that "this" "trojan horse" is getting so much attention, it's not like the rm command is new or anything and this type of trojan horse has been obvious from the beginnings of MOSX.
It's funnier that this 'guy' who got the trojan didn't bother to check out how large the file was (I mean he was downloading it from limewire). We all know that any demo of MS Word 2004 is going to be 108k.
You can actually do more with the keyboard+mouse combo keys than you can with a standard three button mouse on it's own. Working in the X11 environment will cause you problems, but if it's such an issue, Apple DOES include USB ports on all their laptops. (maybe on a plane, train or bus this wouldn't work, but everywhere else...) I'm so used to control clicking on Apple's laptops that it severly hinders me when I jump on a Wintel laptop. The point is, once you get used to the cntl-click, option-click, cmd-click it's a none issue. Admittedly, I get overworked on the mouse issue. I find most PC users use it as a cop out on their inability to give alternate OSs a fair shake. I work in an enviroment with multiple platforms and like lemmings, the PC users can't not use a PC. (I see the Mac users on everrything). The argument was always the mouse... It drives me nuts because I've swapped out all the single button mice with multi-button mice and the tunnel vision pervades.
To summerize: Apple's suck because they have a single button mouse.
Dude... Get over it. In the 10 minutes it took you to waste time and energy writing your little diatribe you could have gone online and ordered at $20 or less multibutton mouse and been on your sweet way.
The mouse argument is the lamest, most time wasted piece of crap anti-apple pundents cling to. Step away and take a breath.
That would mean Mac OS X is configurable. Everybody likes to complain about how Apple sets everything up for you. Now the geek *nix guys can say "Damn you apple for making bash my default shell!" You've saved me a step in my configuration!!!
On Board Diagnostics in the long hand. This is something that is required in every single new car sold in California. This mandate was set by CARB (California Air Resource Board) who are non-elected officials. They're the same ones who jack up our gas prices by requiring funny gas that "suppossedly" burns cleaner. Currently OBD is at level II. It monitors certain pieces of equipment on your car and when they go out of range you get a little flashing orange light on your dash that says "Check Engine." In essense, every piece of equipment that it checks is considered part of your smog system on the car (even things like axels) and if you are a car-modder it becomes increasingly difficult to bring aftermarket parts into the mix as the smallest detail can put the whole OBD II system out of whack. CARB has been trying to push OBD III through the system for years. OBD III like OBD II will monitor your car's smog systems, but it will also monitor speed and location. It will include a transmitter that sends this data to a central processing center. If anything goes out of whack you not only get the flashing light, you get a letter in the mail (probably from the DMV). I'm sure speeding will garner you a ticket, not to mention that every time you're in your car the government will be tracking you (an end to privacy). It's time to wake up. Plans are being developed to begin taxing our car mileage and our vehicle emissions. There have even been ideas bantered around that would restrict how far you can live from your place of work.
If this article was on the front page there would be thousands of trolls flaming the OS because there aren't enough vira on it. Apparently to be considered a real OS you need at minimum 500 new vira a month.
Netinfo is going away. Everything points to OpenLDAP replacing it.
I was just razzing yah... But come, on... I'm pretty sure Open Transport made its debut in Mac OS 7.5 and could be installed on hosts with 7.1. That would be right around 94/95. 8-9 years ago... Man that's an eternity in computer speak. You can't compare your pre open transport experience 8-10 years ago with Macs today. They're a dream on the network. The only problems I've had with Macs on our network occurred when our DHCP server was futzed up. So really, it was a network issue and not a client issue.
"They are a lot easier to add to a large network now" is a gross understatement.
Interesting... I've never run into this issue (I'm on a very large network). Are there any tech briefs you can point to? The only issue I've seen with TCP/IP networking is that sometimes if the machine crashed (and yes Macs do occasionally crash) the TCP/IP preferences become corrupt.
The only Macs I've seen that experience repetitive issues are the ones set up by PC admins who know very little about the platform. They try to set it up like a PC, but duh... It's a Mac. Maintain plenty of Macs and I have very little issues. Compared to the PCs in our group that are downloaded weekly.
1 terminal window at a time? What crack have you been smoking? Please learn about something before commenting on it. Love all the comments from non-mac users, especially those who have never used one.
Interesting... What hacks are you talking about? TCP/IP has been a piece of cake since Open Transport, but that was decades ago. Are you that old?
A person would have to choose to make that bomb and then use it to hurt others. Let me highlight that special word: choose. Having knowledge or sharing it is not the same as hurting someone directly. Interesting... Last time I checked, someone has to CHOOSE to shoot somebody with a gun, but that doesn't stop the Left's continual assault on second amendment rights.
...if the police are shooting at you how do you make bombs?
I could never understand why Conflict Catcher was so popular. In fact, the first thing I'd do when troubleshooting the Classic Mac OS was remove CC if it was installed. IMHO, it caused more problems than it solved and many times left your system crippled. Apple's extension manager made troubleshooting extension and control panel conflicts a breeze...
SPEC doesn't test Altivec performance.
How can you be familiar with a PC and not use a Mac? This always blows me away. Maybe Macs set their users up to be more experimentive, because I don't know many Mac users that can't use a PC. But Windows users see an unfamiliar GUI and they freeze like a deer in headlights. Unleashed isn't meant for novice computer users. It would be cruel and they wouldn't be able to comprehend it, sorta like handing a Harry Potter Fanatic the Lord of the Rings.
Safari (which btw is still BETA) is probably one of the best browsers I've ever used Mac or PC.
Camino is a close second.
OmniWeb is a joy to use.
IE may jump back into the game with v6, but who knows...
And Opera? Opera just plain sucks!
For want of a 'Opera' the kingdom was lost -- or -- Sounds like trolling to me.
Perhaps the most bizarre mac case I've seen was one that was modified to double as beer tap.