Archive for August, 2006

Dell Precision twice the price of Mac Pro (!)

Friday, August 11th, 2006

As reported on PC Advisoron August 10, 2006 by Simon Jary:

A fundamental reason behind the commercial success of Windows PCs over Apple’s Mac has been the wide price gap between the two platforms. Apple computers always cost more than PCs, so most people save money by buying into Windows.

Right? Wrong. Today’s Macs are often [...]

Yahoo! Messenger for Mac OS X vulnerable to remote buddy-add exploit

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Posted on macfixit:

Although mac os X has proven invulnerable (so far) to genuine, in-the-wild exploits that allow remote execution of arbitrary code, individual third-party applications can still suffer remote attacks that—while unable to take control of the system, nor gain user or root access—can cause said individual applications to crash.

Take, for instance, a flaw in [...]

WWDC 2006 preview?

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Since Apple’s World Wide Devloper Conference 2006 is about to start this week, rumors on the web are starting to fly like crazy.

Leisuremonkey managed to snap some picture at San Francisco’s Moscone Center where the even will be held, including some of the banners hanging on the wall.

I’ve played around with one of them to [...]

Apple caught up in a stock options scandal?

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

As reported on Reuters.com by Sue Zeidler

LOS ANGELES, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) said on Thursday it would likely need to restate earnings and will delay filing its quarterly report because of additional irregularities it found in its accounting of stock options and its shares fell 6.6 percent. Apple first announced [...]

OpenDarwin Shutting Down

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

From the OpenDarwin web site:

OpenDarwin Shutting Down

OpenDarwin was originally created with the goal of providing a
development environment for building and developing mac os X
sources as well as developing a standalone Darwin OS derivative.
OpenDarwin was meant to be a development community and a proving
ground for fixes and features for mac os X and Darwin, which [...]


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