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Yesterday was a dark day for the mac apple 1238
Guessing-relating what I've heard. 1) I don't have an Intel Mac and likely won't for 2-4 more years. 2) I used...
Yesterday was a dark day for the mac apple 1239
Old doesn't *necessarily* mean bad, but a lot of the stuff from the dawn of the PC era is...
Wierd Safari bug
Don't know if anyone else has ever seen this, but I thought it might be interesting enough to mention. I was just browsing a...
The whole world has gone Apple crazy: poll
I think this is why the WinTroll Brigade; Stew, Snit, Zara, Homely, Josh, Little Tommy Troll etc are so overactive of late: The whole world has gone Apple crazy: poll By...
The whole world has gone Apple crazy: poll
Except that Apple's revenues from computers is constantly going down. Denying this does not make it not true. Jesus man, do a search on...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... &A#JD1Tg!d8
No, but obviously you are a chimp. Folks, if you want to know ALL the Mac OS X vulnerabilities reported, at the time they are reported, as well as the fixes...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1244
They keep issuing patches. That was one of the main arguments you guys had for Windows remember? No...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1245
John Slade Not the same thing. Sun also issues patches. But it doesn't make their code sphagetti code. When it only takes them less than a week to...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1246
Let's take them one by one: "Apple OS X 10.4.5 .tiff "LZWDecodeVector ()" Heap Overflow" His own links says...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1247
No. I mean just look at the Windows situation. There was an exploit or virus in...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1248
What are you talking about, Apple had a fix and didn't want to make it public. It's far more prudent to let eveyone...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1249
You twit. I'll say this once more. Than man said about all of the problems he supposedly found...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1250
John Slade Yes it does, but not all updates require a reboot. System files on Solaris can be upgraded while the o-s is running, BTW. That's what Sun is trying to do...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1251
Oh then I'm sure you never said anything about a Windows virus or exploit that had a fix. It's not about you alone, it's about everyone with OS X. Some folk don't...
OS X security holes so numerous Apple can't keep up... 1252
John Slade Then why did it take M$ over two years to start fixing IE problems? Is it sphagettie code that made it too confusing for them to follow their own tracks? Which is always...
Windows XP runs faster than OSX on boot camp
People worry about all that dynamic method dispatch voodoo, but it turns out to be pretty quick. Reposting from 2003: "Messaging...
M$ discovers tabbed browsing
Seattle - Hoping to beat back rising compebreastion from the Firefox and Opera browsers, Microsoft Corp on Tuesday released a new test version of Internet Explorer...
MacFixit on the Mac virus scare &A#JD1Tg!d8!' 1255
Here, for anyone interested, is my previously posted review of anti-virus apps available for Mac OS X: ======================= 1) Virex: $40.21 per...
MacFixit on the Mac virus scare
Don't even need to read past the headline. Anyone who is intelligent knows that viruses and other malware will show up on the Mac. Most will do nothing to the Mac. But a...
MacFixit on the Mac virus scare &A#JD1Tg!d8!' 1257
Ahead is the reply by John Slade and my suitable slamming of his first paragraph. The second paragraph, however, is a textbook quotation regarding the #1 rule of computing. Slade...
What is Apple's aversion to scroll wheels!! 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
Brian Pratt wrote Is that a serial number instead of a model number? According to the Targus website, no such beast...
What is Apple's aversion to scroll wheels
I have a wireless Logitech on my G5 Mac Tower. It works perfectly, scroll-wheel and all SEVEN buttons. The 5 buttons above and beyond right and left click required a...
Explorer Destroyer
is for real, it appears, Get this tool for switching people from IE to Firefox. For each person you switch, Google gives...
Explorer Destroyer
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:41:13 -0500, Jim Polaski Snip The sad thing is that some people actually see this as a mature response to people...
Explorer Destroyer
No, that's a choice for "not B or C", not a choice "for A". For instance, if you are given a Mac, and you choose not to replace it - then...
Can I tell iPod Shuffle not to loop
Excuse the cross-posts, but: 1. My ISP only carries comp.sys.mac.systems of these groups 2. There doesn't appear to be a newsgroup specific to iPod questions, so I am shotgun-approaching this I have...
Can I tell iPod Shuffle not to loop
By any chance, can anybody tell me how to post a new topic to the apple discussion boards the other person linked above? The instructions say "How do I create a topic or...
OSX is antiquated 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 1265
Homey wrote What is a "Bata"? For it to Outperform OS X, it has to actually do...
OSX is antiquated 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 1266
Snit wrote It's a safe bet. Cowards don't cause worry very often. Reminds me of a time was...
OSX is antiquated
Having some spare time on this lazy Saturday afternoon, I decided to research the problem...
OSX is antiquated 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
Timberwoof wrote (in article Must be a really old story, not that it changes much... It doesn't need to be contiguous. That's an important part of VM systems, you don't typicalyl care about physical addresses...
Inconsistencies in OS X 1269
No, the proper terminology is mounting the parbreastion, which is exactly what it does. Mounting a drive (or...
Inconsistencies in OS X 1270
Actually, I misspoke myself, its not lousy 'burst mode' I should have said lousy sustained throughput mode performance...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1271
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:50:23 -0800, Steve Hix Of course, the fact that OS-2 2.1 was already available, and even OS-2 WARP 3 came out slightly before...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1272
But more apps bring diminishing returns. You can probably serve the needs of 50% of the market with a half-dozen apps. I'll...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1273
Of course it is. How can you say it's not - hundreds of millions of people choose to use it every day. Or are you one of...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1274
No -- I am claiming that Windows is not good enough. It's an opinion point, but there are many...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1275
That is always the implication about the claims of 'so much more software,' but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Almost everyone uses the...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1276
On May 9, 2006, Mike You might find out that it's not that you can't VPN from Mac, but that it's just not officially supported and IT...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1277
You clipped the wrong part -- "only in businessES WHERE VERTICAL TOOLS ARE USED." I was acknowledging your point that there are such things. If you run a furniture...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1278
buttuming I can connect remotely. Again, I can't. Well, I suppose people could import and export data. But then what? How do you manipulate it on...
Delay of Vista to mean more Mac sales 1279
Do you mean proprietary formats? Then you have to check whether the program is available for your...
Symantec CEO advocates Macs &A#JD1Tg!d8
Hell must have frozen over. The CEO of Symantec, the historically anti-Mac, FUD mongering company that brought us the thankfully...
Top 10 Windows XP Tips Of All Time
HAHAHA, this makes me so glad I am a Macintosh user. Top 10 Windows XP Tips Of...
Dell Launches Gaming Laptop... 1282
GreyCloud Funny you should ask. Not too long ago, I built just such a system. 2GB RAM 250GB SATAII Drive 8x DL DVD+-- Opteron 165 Asus MOBO ATI 256MB PCI Express (X850XT). Cost was...
Dell Launches Gaming Laptop... 1283
STravis The way things are going for Sun and their red ink, I'll just forget about them. I think they're starting to sink. Just using...
Dell Launches Gaming Laptop... 1284
They do, effectively, hide the *best* price for any given configuration. On Dell's web site...
Dell Launches Gaming Laptop... 1285
Sorry, how does hiding the best price for a product in a little maze not consbreastute a form of hiding prices? Is this price ever higher than the...
Dell Launches Gaming Laptop... 1286
You have an exceedingly concrete mind. Apple doesn't run promos very often. But for Dell, promos are just another part of the stupid little game you...
Dell Launches Gaming Laptop... 1287
ZnU i just find it absolutely amazing you can continue to say with a straight...
Apple MacBookPro 17" vs Dell Insprion E1710 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
Mitch wrote Except they should have compared with the M90, aimed at a similar demographic. Inspiron (note the typo on the link...
Apple MacBookPro 17" vs Dell Insprion E1710
Well, it isn't a COMMON task, but when you need to do it, it's gonna make the job so much easier. I know much of the case engineering is just too technical...
Apples newest commercials
I just looked at Apples latest commercials at apple.com. I have been quite intriqued with Apple as of lately, I just bought a new 20" imac Core Duo, and I absolutely...
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