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- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discovered
- Yesterday, an anonymous reader released details on a local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS x 10.4 and 10.5, which works by running a local AppleScript that would set the user ID to root through ARDAgent's default setuid root state. Here's how it's done : "Half the Mac OS...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Apple Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Apple says to Archive and Install Leopard
- Apple says to Archive and Install LeopardIs it Application Enhancer, or Tiger's RAID, or DivX? ...I guess the iPhone DOES have full OSX!Right down to the inability to run third party applications![i]The company blamed "third-party ‘enhancement' software[/i]Hmm, I guess the Apple zealots were lying when they said that one of...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Unsanity, Apple Macintosh, APE 2.0.3, Mac OS X 10.5, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Developer's Release
- Editor's note: We have revised this First Take to better reflect information available from published reports and from Apple. (9/13/06)Based on the demos we've seen, we're reasonably sure none of the 10 top-secret things Apple CEO Steve Jobs said would be in the final release of Mac OS X 10.5...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Leopard, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.5, Apple Mac OS X, Finder, dashboard
- Product reviews 2006-08-31
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- Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions
- Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Browser Landscape Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before
- Google's new Imaging Satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II Rocket. Source: GeoEye I don't know what it is about rockets, but I don't know a single man, hetero or gay, who isn't extremely turned on or even intimidated by them. I've never seen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Imaging, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Video: Google turns 10
- Online search engine Google will celebrate its tenth birthday today. The mother of all .com success stories went from unknown to unavoidable in just a decade. CBS News' Daniel Sieberg reports. Watch CBS Videos Online by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Video, CBS Corp., Corporate Communications, Search, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- What's up, what's down on our warming planet?
- Glaciers are down, the ocean is up. Here are some details: Europe is losing its Alpine snowmass. Glaciers in Europe have lost 25% of their snowmass since 1980. It's more than agony for skiers. Huge sections of rock and rubble are leaving...
- Tags: Meter, Glacier, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good ideaLastpas password manager a new alternative to roboform et. alAs a user of the service, lastpass has been developed to conform to user behavior making web browsing easier, faster and safer. On the security side and control side, Lastpass does all the encryption...
- Tags: Enterprise Password Management, password, password management
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?Wow....What keen insight. What a great article.Oh. Not.Perdue, Ioccoca, Seinfeld 4?If Lee Iococca can do ads for Chrysler and have a positive effective on the brand, then maybe BG is launching a new career in advertising and media and selling the MS...
- Tags: MS Window, Seinfeld, advertisement, Seinfeld ad, real agenda, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the TiVo HD XL, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50, and the Dish Network's newest digital TV converter box. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-09-06
- Dell Inspiron Mini 9
- We've known for some time that Dell was working on a Netbook-style laptop--the same kind of small, low-power, inexpensive system made popular by Asus and the Eee PC line. And even though there are not many surprises in the new Inspiron Mini 9, it's still an excellent example of the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Netbooks, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., hard drive, Intel Corp., Mini 9
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
- The Linux laptop goes to school
- The Linux laptop goes to schoolOn the Mouse Buttons ...[i]Robin’s biggest complaint was the slow response of the mouse buttons. But it’s something you can get used to, she said.[/i]Don't use the mouse buttons they're too slow, instead use the tap, double tap and side scroll features on the touchpad....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mice, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, mouse, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Is Firefox faster than Chrome?
- Is Firefox faster than Chrome?Is Firefox faster than Chrome?When is Firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey expected to be released?yepper, 1.26x in my test RE: Is Firefox faster than Chrome?my test show tracemonkey being 1.27x faster than v8 on win xp sp3. here is the link with screenshothttp://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=6157396&postcount=433I noticed no speed difference.Chrome...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- LHC scientists get death threats
- LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...
- Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?That explains it....The client was invisible to the user as a cost-saver, rather the cost savings were apparent to the video distributor. So, how does the client app make itself valuable? Joost had several interesting features besides this P2P media capability, but it also...
- Tags: Joost, desktop client, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses
- EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businessesbesides just PC...besides just PC, Spore is coming for the Mac as well...
- Tags: Desktops, Spore, Electronic Arts Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Importance of Dissent
- The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...
- Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
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