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It finally happened, someone got around to write an trojan horse for OSX, we have been lucky so far, and as it is, this trojan horse is not really that clever. Or as one could say the people who actually get infected are not that clever, as it requires them to do two manual things;
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I’ve not been using X11 on Leopard that much but there are something I really dislike; like it absolutely have to open xterm when I launch X11, and it’s close to impossible to stop it doing so.
There is more talk about the issues on the X11 discussion list.
And some one (that is [...]
Hey, it’s new it’s bright, and it works – kind of.
I do some web development on my Macbook Pro, and one thing I’ve found is that even though Apple decided to ship PHP5 with Leopard, they did not compile it with (as I have found until now) the following modules:
- mysqli
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Well kind of, but still. I’ve had my MacBook Pro for 19months and is still quite happy about it, I’ve applied all the patches for OSX they’ve asked me to apply, and it still works (there was an issue with wireless and battery, but there was a workaround for that).
As for the hardware, I [...]
There have been reports that AirPort in Apple MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s stops working after applying OSX Security Update 2007-007 (10.4.10 Universal).
I did not have it initially, and only saw it when I was using my MBP on battery, and it’s even worse some people as they get kernel panics.
Mine even got [...]
I wrote “The end of the Mac roadâ€???, as a response to Ian Betteridge, now it seams that things have happened in “choose your OS” world….
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet have written a comment to “why does people still use Windows” discussion.
First installment: Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t [...]
I was reading this entry on Ian Betteridge blog, where he talks about his switch from OSX to Gnu/Linux (Ubunto), not that I have any specfic issues with that.
But one thing which stands out was this sentence: “First up, let’s look at what this move is not: It’s not a [...]
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