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For years the harddrive vendors have had a small notice on their harddrive stating that they think 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes and not 1,073,741,824 bytes, it does not really look as much but it is approximately 7% in difference, and for a 100GB disk it’s 7GB. Now do the calculation on a 500GB disk, and [...]
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 [...]
As a follow up on my comments in “Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer userâ€, I saw a reference to this interview with Con Kolivas on /., who until recently was the maintainer of the -ck tree (linux kernel patch tree).
Even though people are already [...]
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