Comments on: Not Getting an iPhone http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2007/07/07/not-getting-an-iphone/ Where There's Snow, There's Firepower Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:12:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sebastian http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2007/07/07/not-getting-an-iphone/#comment-6663 Sebastian Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:50:25 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=986#comment-6663 They are still vulnerable, but the security and local user model is much better, and actually works. Users don't really have any practical need to use root/administrator regularly. MacOS uses sudo to accomplish that when it needs it. So certain types of attacks just wouldn't work on MacOS. They are still vulnerable, but the security and local user model is much better, and actually works. Users don’t really have any practical need to use root/administrator regularly. MacOS uses sudo to accomplish that when it needs it. So certain types of attacks just wouldn’t work on MacOS.

]]> By: Alcibiades http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2007/07/07/not-getting-an-iphone/#comment-6655 Alcibiades Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:08:00 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=986#comment-6655 My father caught the "Mac fever" and now recommends it to family and friends. Having been in the position of "home tech support", I do welcome it as those spyware and virus problems on Windows had me doing major fixes every 6 months. (I know Macs are still vulnerable, but it has stopped me from getting annoyed in a long while -- save a "PhotoShop for Mac crack" incident on a Windows PC.) I know some people were hacking Mac OS X to run on generic hardware, but I don't know if it has gone anywhere since. My father caught the “Mac fever” and now recommends it to family and friends. Having been in the position of “home tech support”, I do welcome it as those spyware and virus problems on Windows had me doing major fixes every 6 months. (I know Macs are still vulnerable, but it has stopped me from getting annoyed in a long while — save a “PhotoShop for Mac crack” incident on a Windows PC.)

I know some people were hacking Mac OS X to run on generic hardware, but I don’t know if it has gone anywhere since.

]]> By: Joseph http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2007/07/07/not-getting-an-iphone/#comment-6648 Joseph Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:42:25 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=986#comment-6648 I actually have four Macs at the moment; the first is a 600 MHz snow G3 iMac, which I got five or six months before Apple ceased production (the PMU fried a while back, though). My uncle gave me a 350-ish MHz PowerMac G3 Minitower for Christmas, and I also have two Performas I acquired within the last month. My next desktop is probably going to be an iMac, but I hear they're going to overhaul them soon - according to Slashdot, they'll be brushed-metal, and the 17-incher might be ditched. I hope they don't eliminate the cheap model. I actually have four Macs at the moment; the first is a 600 MHz snow G3 iMac, which I got five or six months before Apple ceased production (the PMU fried a while back, though). My uncle gave me a 350-ish MHz PowerMac G3 Minitower for Christmas, and I also have two Performas I acquired within the last month.

My next desktop is probably going to be an iMac, but I hear they’re going to overhaul them soon - according to Slashdot, they’ll be brushed-metal, and the 17-incher might be ditched. I hope they don’t eliminate the cheap model.

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