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New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2151
Daniel Johnson The ones provided by Addison-Wesly on Unix programming. The book is very comprehensive. They don't call it Next...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2152
Are you saying you transcribed the test programs from a book published by Addison-Wesly? snip Not from Unix. From the Mac. snip You...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2153
Daniel Johnson One can download them from their website. Yes, from Unix. Where else did Next Step evolve from? So? The fact that you...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2154
Perhaps the book is not so comprehensive after all, then. :D snip From *the Mac*. It was, of course...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2155
I told you once. :D But I'll be nice and tell you agian. The setuid bit is a bit in the inode for an executable file that indicates...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2156
Daniel Johnson Erm... root uid is always 1. And don't forget about the other process...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2157
0, actually. Well, all processes are descendants of init, but that's not terribly relevant here. I do not think init implements a check for the uid being valid; that...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2158
Daniel Johnson Sorry, got uid and process id crossed. 0 is procid for the swapper. And progid 1 is for the init...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2159
This is not clear, but I *think* you are trying to say "I can't prove my claims...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2160
I have made such a case as I can. That it does not persuade you means little; nothing...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2161
Daniel Johnson From what little you know, and have googled no doubt to find out what you could know, yes it was the best you could have done. Not from your position...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2162
Do you supose someone else's position of ignorance would be better? :D snip Not quite. The recent iChat virus also had a conventional "app-infection...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2163
Daniel Johnson Guffaw! And who might that be? It wasn't a virus. It was social engineering... or phishing. Again, you are spewing FUD here. Oh, care to provide proof? Profitable? How? Let's...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2164
Mere denial. It infected applicaitons, and would then spread when the infected apps were run. This is a clbuttical "virus" in the old sense. Of course these days the press calls everything you don't want...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2165
No. It asked for the pbuttword when it hit an application that it could not overwrite without it; but it would infect such...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2166
Daniel Johnson That is when you don't provide the pbuttword. The virus can no longer propagate and hence doesn't meet the criteria of easily...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2167
Daniel Johnson Nope. Just pointing out your cluelessness about viruses. Only after it asked the user for the admin pbuttword. That puts it in the clbutt of phishing. It...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2168
snip- explanation of fork()'s error reporting issue I do not know who you are quoting below. This seems to...
Article: No need for Congress, no need for courts 2169
Snit i did, and the valid criticism is about the point i had above about...
Article: No need for Congress, no need for courts 2170
On Fri, 12 May 2006 22:33:03 -0700, Snit You base that on the false buttumption that the UN Charter is a treaty, as it would...
Article: No need for Congress, no need for courts 2171
On Mon, 15 May 2006 18:40:52 -0700, Snit A) Don't rely on Wikipedia for your information. B) It's not the sort of treaty that applies to consbreastutional law...
French Senate Bows Down to the Mighty Apple
PARIS, May 12 (UPI) -- The French Senate has softened a lower house bill that Apple...
French Senate Bows Down to the Mighty Apple 2174
Apple and the content producers it does business with have business model: content producers provide songs; apple...
Sony Brings Remote TV to Macs
Sony brings remote TV to Macs By Martyn Williams Sony plans to unveil new client software next week that will extend its LocationFree TV platform to Macs and a wider range of mobile...
Feds to Extend Microsoft Anitrust Ruling
Mojo And now, for the less imflammatory version: US Department of Justice, Microsoft agree to extended oversight until...
Mac Community Flooded With Hillbilly Windows Users
MacNewsWorld reports today that investment banks are bullish on Apple in large part because of the iPod “halo effect”, where customer satisfaction with the iPod results in the...
dBug June Main Meeting Seattle, WA
dBug June Main Meeting When: 6:30pm - 9:00pm on Wednesday, June 14, 2005 Where: dBug Resource Center Are you happy with iTunes? Who isn't? Ready to get...
M$ charges for AV to protect their poorly designed os. &A#JD1Tg!d8
You have to scroll down the web page to find the brief article. I) Windows Live OneCare: Essentially this is an additional $50 cost, per year, for the privilege of running...
Grown up discussions about Mac vs. PC
Hey, I'm looking for somewhere that I might find some grown-up discussions on MAC vs. PC useage. I don't want flames and uninformed PC or Mac users spouting off about something when...
Grown up discussions about Mac vs. PC 2181
To OP: As you can see by George Graves post. The Mac Jihad do indeed exist. Any thing seen as not pro Apple is seen as an attack on them...
Grown up discussions about Mac vs. PC 2182
Total bullpoo. I said nothing in favor of the Mac, I merely stated that YOU are full of poo. You say you can use both platforms...
Grown up discussions about Mac vs. PC 2183
MuahMan No, we just don't appreciate lies. Which seems to be all you are capable of telling. Funny, I do all my online banking on my Mac at home. And, I am using...
I'm Macless and all is right in the world... &A#JD1Tg!d8
Folks, if you keep track of the posts some of these winDopes write, you can't...
I'm Macless and all is right in the world
I think anyone who trolls in a newsgroup about a product that that they don't use, say that they don't like...
The Tim Crowley story
LAST CHILD SUPPORT CHECK!!! Today my baby girl's 18th birthday... I be so glad that this be my last child support payment! Month after month, year...
20 Things You Won't Like About Vista
Article: rticleId=9000829 Interesting Graph: l Slashdot discussion: 20. Minimum video system requirements are more like maximum. 19. Aero stratification...
20 Things You Won't Like About Vista 2188
Doesn't sound like the Tiger list I know... Things I'm Happy about in Tiger which Suck In Vista : 20. Works on my old G3 with ATI Rage 128. 19. Two versions...
20 Things You Won't Like About Vista 2189
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:31:12 -0700, Timberwoof wrote (in article If this article in any way references the so-called "interesting graph", see my next comment...
20 Things You Won't Like About Vista 2190
Timberwoof Typical drivel you see written about any major (or semi-major) OS update. We saw the same crap written regarding OSX 10.0. Many of the complaints will be addressed...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060601 &A#JD1Tg!d8
It's a yawner week for security on Mac OS X. There is nothing new. So, let's check out this week's vulnerability scores: - Windows related vulnerabilities: 14 - Mac OS X...
Got my MacBook today
Noisy little f***er ... It's pretty quiet until it gets heated up, then the fan(s) come on. But value-wise, $1000 for...
Vista a hit on laptop battery use time
ws "Doing all of those wonderful things that (the Aero Glbutt effect) allows, you are going to end...
Friendly request for Sandman
In what way? How is that apparent? You've received plenty - take your pick. Apart from the...
OSX Leopard when 2195
I wouldn't be surprised if some of those 'rumors' turned out to be true, but they look more like educated guessing than actual information to me. A major Finder overhaul seems inevitable. We've...
OSX Leopard when 2196
I suspect Apple will be extremely tempted to ship Leopard slightly before Vista. Preferably a week or two before, just to upstage Microsoft a bit...
Apple Store Pays
it's retail, so don't expect a lot... 6-10 per hour (with better than average benefits) depending on position is my guess... ---- Apple store employees receive...
Invoicing on the mac... 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
There was a thread here a while back about an invoicing application for the mac. I can't find my bookmark on it right now though. I...
Invoicing on the mac
Try MYOB, my accountant has no problems with it. FirstEdge Overview Designed for the Mac-based small business with straightforward management...
iPod "halo effect" a myth Mac marketshare drops
Tim Smith I've seen figures for 3.8 dropping to 3.7 during the Intel transition. Logcially and...
Climate Change Is Going TO Kill Us All... 2201
chose to bless us with the following wisdom: Fritzinger claims psychic powers. You misspelled 'babbled more nonsense than I could take and still keep my lunch'. Hardly...
OT Climate Change Is Going TO Kill Us All... 2202
The dramatic, draconian changes advocated by the environmental extremists (like Al Gore) would disrupt the world's economies, cause many...
OT Climate Change Is Going TO Kill Us All... 2203
There's a number of possible reasons for this apparant contradiction. An 8-12 inch increase over 100 years is less than one inch every 10 years. In those 100 years rebuilding and redevelopment at...
OT Climate Change Is Going TO Kill Us All... 2204
Peter Hayes It would make a bit of sense, but the shipyard has always kept the measurements of low tide and high tide for decades. They data is reduced and averaged and...
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