They frozen Safari for God's sake, a tabbed browser. I was suspicious about the alleged IRC attack to Freenode #macdev channel but I became sure about it after that day.
They released another exploit (a DOS actually,again!) for my favorite browser, Omniweb and Omni Group fixed it in 2 hours, Sunday, Macworld times. Those assholes still didn't update their lame , trying to be funny page suggesting people to use another browser.
We were talking about whining security researchers (!) who hated the response time of vendor yes? What about fixing your God damn page thanking Omnigroup and other 3rd party vendors for a quick fix?
Some of these "researchers" think Apple community consists of "maccies" who thinks their system is super secure by default.
Those people are minority.
There are very popular and sometimes expensive security products on Mac which consists of Application filtering firewalls, antiviruses (yes, check download numbers) and many more. Of course there are some snake oil sellers (Not Intego, I don't agree) who tries to exploit the user interest and ship zero function crap. Sadly, they are popular too.
There are some anti-rootkit packages recently which seems to be BSD/Linux focused. While they couldn't find anything, non techie users spared time and download them and sent their comments to sites like Versiontracker.
For OS X outsiders and people watching only "MOAB are nice guys trying to help" sites, MOAB actually tried and succeeded to DOS OS X default browser Safari on their day 29 error page.
It would be a bit understandable if they displayed that malformed jp2 to.apple.com IPs but they didn't. They attacked unsuspecting end user trying to inform himself/herself which is completely unacceptable. If you remember Safari is a tabbed browser, a huge chance of information loss was there too.
If this thing is completely related to 3rd party driver , it is a sign that Apple needs to adopt a WHQL like method to certificate third party drivers. I know it would sound bad but they could publicly call users not to use a certain, unmaintained driver which apparently got abandoned by hardware manufacturer.
I know MS one is not that serious but Apple could start from beginning learning from MS mistakes.
It could be more security and performance focused rather than vendor lock in.
BTW I bought a Windows only USB Wireless product by mistake (site error) and I have good clue what driver they may be talking about. If it is the case, it is completely unrelated to Apple really. Also I am not talking about Orangeware etccommercial drivers which are maintained very good.
For years people were pushing Apple to do "tabbed windows" in Finder interface and enable "Cut" feature. Apple was clever and ignored them for a long time. You could do a defaults write tweak to enable cut if you are an advanced user.
As they decided the common (majority) OS X user really wants it, they will feature tabs on Leopard possibly in Safari fashion that you have to enable them first.
Onboard will use CPU cycles whatever driver model is, whatever host OS is and even if they gave the entire driver in opensource. That is not a sound card even.
I don't have nice feelings about onboard since I enjoyed huge performance increase when I got rid of my CPU leeching onboard (5.1) and bought a real sound card from Creative , one of the most cheap models available, SB Live 5.1,
The embedded sound market exists because they are making cheap, "if it compiles, ship it" type driver based processors/sound card emulators. If creative did a embedded chip today, it would have similar price to the add-on card.
As HD-DVD and BluRAY coming, they both (not user about hd-dvd) feature uncompressed 24 bit/96khz Dolby Digital, Creative and other real sound card producers will stay.
You people are really confused. Solaris actual userbase are happy with their stable/established workstations and servers. An OS not installed at your geek neighbour doesn't mean it is "dead" or "eclipsed".
You speak like Solaris Desktop was considered an alternative home desktop OS and Linux took all userbase.
Solaris is alive and well doing number crunching/CAD/Medical/Military work around the World. It is just not too easy to see it running in neighbourhood.
He wants to make Solaris as useable as Linux? Um, what about shooting for the best usability in the industry, champ?
-jcr Does Solaris userbase (real ones, the ones paying millions to Sun hardware or running mission critical) want "Usability enhancements" or do they want to race with Ubuntu or OS X? I know a genetic engineer who spends her life on Solaris, I didn't see her complaining about usability at all. In fact she lives actual problems on Windows XP desktop since she is not used to it.
Same went for Debian, some actual admins spoke their mind saying they want peace of mind and a stable OS instead of Ubuntu racing, Digg headlining Desktop.
You're joking, right? Solaris is probably the worst "real" Unix out there. Compared to HPUX/AIX (or even Tru64) it's pretty lame. If Solaris tries to race with Ubuntu like end user oriented distros, say bye to Solaris. Remember this for future.
I don't think HP/UX or AIX comes with graphical installer which tries to mimic Windows or OS X, true? I also don't think they come with any unstable, untested in real world/load binaries.
Let me out of this Fido style internal politic fight. If Apple moved to unstable/up-to-date Apache, I would go and find a AIX or Debian based host to trust my data.
Yes, I am not a Debian user, I am just an ex Slackware user who hated the "No 24 bit/1024x768 displaying windows wannabe installer" whining of weekly distro switcher people while I enjoyed my stable, real Linux OS. Thanks to Slackware I figured the logic of Unix and the purpose of/etc init system which really helps me on OS X.
After years giving up Linux for desktop, if I moved to Linux based hosting provider today, I would seek for Slackware or Debian based ones. Wonder why?
Netcraft confirms it, Debian is dying, the grave is dug, and it's bastard offspring, Ubuntu is lowering the casket.
The King is dead, long live FreeBSD Funny , this guys joke gets -1 point but the FA is actually speaking about same pointless Ubuntu desktop % racing giving up stable image Debian gained/earned for all these years.
Debian users can start their desktop oriented, apt-get based, bells/whistles distro and leave Debian to people who actually enjoys truely free/truely configurable Linux distro.
What stops them? Apt-get became like standard on OS X thanks to Fink project for example.
What about the current Debian lovers who does love the true open source/free/stable OS? Give them up for digg.com friendly ubuntu wannabe distro? What happened to philosophy? What are the chances if there are Intel running Macs all over the place running a true easy BSD/NeXT based OS which you can fire gcc whenever you want?
What version of Apache Debian comes with? Apple still ships 1.33 Apache with Xserve and nobody calls it "dead" or "outdated". If you really need Apache 2.x, you compile and run your own.
Why is Debian "racing" or has to race with Ubuntu like distros anyway? There are still many things to learn from Slackware. If Slackware tried to race with Ubuntu, it would be considered as joke and would lose the existing credibility.
There are people who missed your point, yes Slackware can be installed in 40 mins and can be used as end user friendly Linux too but it would be missing a lot. If I installed Slackware today, I would let it boot and start configuring my own kernel based on my own needs searching the web for -m flags for my CPU.
If you want a practically installed, end user friendly, easy Linux, your choice was Redhat and now it is Ubuntu. No need to "panic":) There won't be digg.com "popular" entries concerning Debian or Slackware but they will keep working and serving to millions as they do for years.
Those poor users and company will be likely victim of a custom coded trojan, impossible to detect without advanced heuristics which claims it can pass the evil webmail filters.
Depends on size/secrets/wealth of company of course. Too much hassle you say? Well, if you make living from stealing company secrets, it isn't.
You were looking at wrong keywords. Instead of "Security", type "Privacy" and "Gmail".
You would be happy if all your corparate users used Gmail to exchange companies private documents with their some gig size "never really deleted" (yes, a fact) mail?
Google fans really started to irritate me. Jump up and down shouting spyware/submit a story to Slashdot.org when your paid software innocently tries to check for updates but abandon your own paid ISP/Network mail for a service with horrible privacy policy like that.
Now, outlaw everything except your favorite webmail/company.
An organisation should already have their own proactive security measures (those dedicated boxes). If that guy can't get his "precious" VBS script, he will also doubleclick it when he receives it from a friend (!).
I can provide one example since it is the only one I heard/know:
Also an organisation should also run a Jabber server internally and limit the capabilities of proxies for other services (if they exist) on purpose, e.g. nobody should send/receive a file from outside World.
don't know of any security related bad press for Yahoo or Google.
Google is suspected of saving and data mining users gmail. It may sound paranoid, but if you are worried about corporate info/secrets being leaked, it might be wise to avoid.
Google maintains and processes your Gmail account and its contents to provide the Gmail service to you and to improve our services. The Gmail service includes relevant advertising and related links based on the IP address, content of messages and other information related to your use of Gmail
You may organize or delete your messages through your Gmail account or terminate your account through the Google Account section of Gmail settings. Such deletions or terminations will take immediate effect in your account view. Residual copies of deleted messages and accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from our active servers and may remain in our offline backup systems.
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too bad that it looks like just another PC clone. Well, a very good clone, it seems, however... I was using Atari 800XL back in the day and we hated Commodore 64 but it really hurts to see poor thing became a brand for "Gaming PC".
The next part is to admit that when they cannot buy a product, they steal the idea instead. Who doesn't steal ideas? Don't make me talk about a certain company which does provide better software/support or their fans will kill me.:) I am used to getting banned from IRC rooms using top of the line hardware from them anyway.
Japanese (or any international including latin based) will KEEP their current english hostnames, they will (likely) buy an additional international name and simply put their IP addresses to DNS.
Domain sales will explode. Well at least for a real and justified reason now...
Slashdot Mirror
http://groups.google.com/group/moabfixes/browse_f
They frozen Safari for God's sake, a tabbed browser. I was suspicious about the alleged IRC attack to Freenode #macdev channel but I became sure about it after that day.
They released another exploit (a DOS actually,again!) for my favorite browser, Omniweb and Omni Group fixed it in 2 hours, Sunday, Macworld times. Those assholes still didn't update their lame , trying to be funny page suggesting people to use another browser.
We were talking about whining security researchers (!) who hated the response time of vendor yes? What about fixing your God damn page thanking Omnigroup and other 3rd party vendors for a quick fix?
Some of these "researchers" think Apple community consists of "maccies" who thinks their system is super secure by default.
Those people are minority.
There are very popular and sometimes expensive security products on Mac which consists of Application filtering firewalls, antiviruses (yes, check download numbers) and many more. Of course there are some snake oil sellers (Not Intego, I don't agree) who tries to exploit the user interest and ship zero function crap. Sadly, they are popular too.
There are some anti-rootkit packages recently which seems to be BSD/Linux focused. While they couldn't find anything, non techie users spared time and download them and sent their comments to sites like Versiontracker.
For OS X outsiders and people watching only "MOAB are nice guys trying to help" sites, MOAB actually tried and succeeded to DOS OS X default browser Safari on their day 29 error page.
.apple.com IPs but they didn't. They attacked unsuspecting end user trying to inform himself/herself which is completely unacceptable. If you remember Safari is a tabbed browser, a huge chance of information loss was there too.
It would be a bit understandable if they displayed that malformed jp2 to
If this thing is completely related to 3rd party driver , it is a sign that Apple needs to adopt a WHQL like method to certificate third party drivers. I know it would sound bad but they could publicly call users not to use a certain, unmaintained driver which apparently got abandoned by hardware manufacturer.
I know MS one is not that serious but Apple could start from beginning learning from MS mistakes.
It could be more security and performance focused rather than vendor lock in.
BTW I bought a Windows only USB Wireless product by mistake (site error) and I have good clue what driver they may be talking about. If it is the case, it is completely unrelated to Apple really. Also I am not talking about Orangeware etccommercial drivers which are maintained very good.
For years people were pushing Apple to do "tabbed windows" in Finder interface and enable "Cut" feature. Apple was clever and ignored them for a long time. You could do a defaults write tweak to enable cut if you are an advanced user.
As they decided the common (majority) OS X user really wants it, they will feature tabs on Leopard possibly in Safari fashion that you have to enable them first.
Some of us like 24 bit/96 Khz, hardware accelerated sound output for our computers especially while gaming and the bluray media is coming.
:)
I heard ATI and Nvidia is going out of business too since Vista sports great onboard video card (!) support!
Onboard will use CPU cycles whatever driver model is, whatever host OS is and even if they gave the entire driver in opensource. That is not a sound card even.
I don't have nice feelings about onboard since I enjoyed huge performance increase when I got rid of my CPU leeching onboard (5.1) and bought a real sound card from Creative , one of the most cheap models available, SB Live 5.1,
The embedded sound market exists because they are making cheap, "if it compiles, ship it" type driver based processors/sound card emulators. If creative did a embedded chip today, it would have similar price to the add-on card.
As HD-DVD and BluRAY coming, they both (not user about hd-dvd) feature uncompressed 24 bit/96khz Dolby Digital, Creative and other real sound card producers will stay.
The "EAX" and most of 3d sound support is Aureal and 48 Khz is a S/PDIF spec required value.
f ications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spdif#Protocol_speci
No need to sit and pray for bankruptcy, just use another brand if you don't like them.
You people are really confused. Solaris actual userbase are happy with their stable/established workstations and servers. An OS not installed at your geek neighbour doesn't mean it is "dead" or "eclipsed".
You speak like Solaris Desktop was considered an alternative home desktop OS and Linux took all userbase.
Solaris is alive and well doing number crunching/CAD/Medical/Military work around the World. It is just not too easy to see it running in neighbourhood.
-jcr Does Solaris userbase (real ones, the ones paying millions to Sun hardware or running mission critical) want "Usability enhancements" or do they want to race with Ubuntu or OS X? I know a genetic engineer who spends her life on Solaris, I didn't see her complaining about usability at all. In fact she lives actual problems on Windows XP desktop since she is not used to it.
Same went for Debian, some actual admins spoke their mind saying they want peace of mind and a stable OS instead of Ubuntu racing, Digg headlining Desktop.
You're joking, right? Solaris is probably the worst "real" Unix out there. Compared to HPUX/AIX (or even Tru64) it's pretty lame. If Solaris tries to race with Ubuntu like end user oriented distros, say bye to Solaris. Remember this for future.
I don't think HP/UX or AIX comes with graphical installer which tries to mimic Windows or OS X, true? I also don't think they come with any unstable, untested in real world/load binaries.
apache2: 2.0.54-5sarge1 So you got Apache 2 option at least. Apple.com runs/serves perfect with Apache 1.3.33 anyway
Let me out of this Fido style internal politic fight. If Apple moved to unstable/up-to-date Apache, I would go and find a AIX or Debian based host to trust my data.
/etc init system which really helps me on OS X.
Yes, I am not a Debian user, I am just an ex Slackware user who hated the "No 24 bit/1024x768 displaying windows wannabe installer" whining of weekly distro switcher people while I enjoyed my stable, real Linux OS. Thanks to Slackware I figured the logic of Unix and the purpose of
After years giving up Linux for desktop, if I moved to Linux based hosting provider today, I would seek for Slackware or Debian based ones. Wonder why?
The King is dead, long live FreeBSD Funny , this guys joke gets -1 point but the FA is actually speaking about same pointless Ubuntu desktop % racing giving up stable image Debian gained/earned for all these years.
If this is entirely about "new version" software, here is a paste from OS X 10.4.9 (current) which is considered to be World's number 1 Unix Desktop:
Ilgaz:~ ilgaz$ httpd -v
Server version: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin)
Server built: Aug 21 2005 15:35:42
Ilgaz:~ ilgaz$ php -v
PHP 4.4.4 (cli) (built: Jan 19 2007 19:18:59)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
Our OS is "dead" too, no new software.. Sigh!
Debian users can start their desktop oriented, apt-get based, bells/whistles distro and leave Debian to people who actually enjoys truely free/truely configurable Linux distro.
What stops them? Apt-get became like standard on OS X thanks to Fink project for example.
What about the current Debian lovers who does love the true open source/free/stable OS? Give them up for digg.com friendly ubuntu wannabe distro? What happened to philosophy? What are the chances if there are Intel running Macs all over the place running a true easy BSD/NeXT based OS which you can fire gcc whenever you want?
What version of Apache Debian comes with? Apple still ships 1.33 Apache with Xserve and nobody calls it "dead" or "outdated". If you really need Apache 2.x, you compile and run your own.
Isn't it the same deal with Debian stable?
Why is Debian "racing" or has to race with Ubuntu like distros anyway? There are still many things to learn from Slackware. If Slackware tried to race with Ubuntu, it would be considered as joke and would lose the existing credibility.
:) There won't be digg.com "popular" entries concerning Debian or Slackware but they will keep working and serving to millions as they do for years.
There are people who missed your point, yes Slackware can be installed in 40 mins and can be used as end user friendly Linux too but it would be missing a lot. If I installed Slackware today, I would let it boot and start configuring my own kernel based on my own needs searching the web for -m flags for my CPU.
If you want a practically installed, end user friendly, easy Linux, your choice was Redhat and now it is Ubuntu. No need to "panic"
Those poor users and company will be likely victim of a custom coded trojan, impossible to detect without advanced heuristics which claims it can pass the evil webmail filters.
Depends on size/secrets/wealth of company of course. Too much hassle you say? Well, if you make living from stealing company secrets, it isn't.
You were looking at wrong keywords. Instead of "Security", type "Privacy" and "Gmail".
You would be happy if all your corparate users used Gmail to exchange companies private documents with their some gig size "never really deleted" (yes, a fact) mail?
Google fans really started to irritate me. Jump up and down shouting spyware/submit a story to Slashdot.org when your paid software innocently tries to check for updates but abandon your own paid ISP/Network mail for a service with horrible privacy policy like that.
Now, outlaw everything except your favorite webmail/company.
An organisation should already have their own proactive security measures (those dedicated boxes). If that guy can't get his "precious" VBS script, he will also doubleclick it when he receives it from a friend (!).
I can provide one example since it is the only one I heard/know:
http://www.esafe.com/esafe/default.asp
Also an organisation should also run a Jabber server internally and limit the capabilities of proxies for other services (if they exist) on purpose, e.g. nobody should send/receive a file from outside World.
http://www.jabber.org/software/servers.shtml
Google is suspected of saving and data mining users gmail. It may sound paranoid, but if you are worried about corporate info/secrets being leaked, it might be wise to avoid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Criticisms http://www.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html
Google maintains and processes your Gmail account and its contents to provide the Gmail service to you and to improve our services. The Gmail service includes relevant advertising and related links based on the IP address, content of messages and other information related to your use of Gmail
You may organize or delete your messages through your Gmail account or terminate your account through the Google Account section of Gmail settings. Such deletions or terminations will take immediate effect in your account view. Residual copies of deleted messages and accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from our active servers and may remain in our offline backup systems.
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http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html
Well, a very good clone, it seems, however... I was using Atari 800XL back in the day and we hated Commodore 64 but it really hurts to see poor thing became a brand for "Gaming PC".
They steal down to $20 shareware.
Japanese (or any international including latin based) will KEEP their current english hostnames, they will (likely) buy an additional international name and simply put their IP addresses to DNS.
Domain sales will explode. Well at least for a real and justified reason now...