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OS X Snow Leopard Retail Disc Contains Build 10A432
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Ok, I just saw something with this "final build" 10A432
Apple as usual just put away some features announced after the WWDC.
I have the Web Archives of http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html just after the WWDC, and there is a option in Dock Icons to assign them to a Spaces via the Dock, and the text Substitution is directly presented as a Mail and TextEdit feature
Since Monday's update, these two things disappeared. (But the translated pages, like the French one, still have these functions written black on white).
It's sad for those two, it was good options I hope to see it in future release, but then I can't understand why they accelerated the process to sell it now after announced it for September
(and yeah, as I am typing, the automatic language correction is still buggy with something else than English. (it's a new option, you can choose a specific language dictionary or Automatic one)).
I have the Web Archives of http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html just after the WWDC, and there is a option in Dock Icons to assign them to a Spaces via the Dock, and the text Substitution is directly presented as a Mail and TextEdit feature
Since Monday's update, these two things disappeared. (But the translated pages, like the French one, still have these functions written black on white).
It's sad for those two, it was good options I hope to see it in future release, but then I can't understand why they accelerated the process to sell it now after announced it for September
(and yeah, as I am typing, the automatic language correction is still buggy with something else than English. (it's a new option, you can choose a specific language dictionary or Automatic one)).
If this is the GM.Which I'm still not convinced it is BEWARE if you install bootcamp..
Lets say you install bootcamp with Windows 7 so your kid can play some games ok?
Here is what he's going to see while he's playing around in windows7.
Note.There has been no alterations. Typical settings on both sides..
Your kid. Or anybody that boots into windows will be able to see EVERYTHING on your OSX drive.EVERYTHING. No matter what.
Look at the grabs closely..Then tell me this isn't stupid of Apple to leave the whole file structure completely open to reading. Now it is read only. But anything can be read.
Lets say you install bootcamp with Windows 7 so your kid can play some games ok?
Here is what he's going to see while he's playing around in windows7.
Note.There has been no alterations. Typical settings on both sides..
Your kid. Or anybody that boots into windows will be able to see EVERYTHING on your OSX drive.EVERYTHING. No matter what.
Look at the grabs closely..Then tell me this isn't stupid of Apple to leave the whole file structure completely open to reading. Now it is read only. But anything can be read.
Sorry, but even with "obvious" bugs, a GM is the version which is on the retail disc.
So if 10A432 is the build which is on the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 Retail disc, then 10A432 is the GM.
Indeed, GM means "Golden Master", it's a synonym of the acronym used by Microsoft and some others "RTM" (Ready To Manufacture). It means it's the version that is going to be put on the retail disc.
So if 10A432 is the version on the Snow Leopard retail disc, than 10A432 is the GM by definition.
It's been the same since Boot Camp was created in the opposite direction.
You can access all of your Windows partition from within Mac OS X.
There's very little observation of permissions across Operating Systems - especially where neither OS has full, native support for the opposite file system.
It's just a HFS+ read only file system support driver. That's what's advertised by Apple. So I'm not surprised at all. Adding support for the Unix permissions on a Windows filesystem driver is not easy.
For example, you get the exact same behavior if you install a Ext2/3 FS driver on Windows to read a Linux formatted partition.
Can't you disable the feature in the Bootcamp preferences in Windows control panel?
Also a Parental Control software for Windows may work to avoid your kids to access to all your files.
This is BS. Like you think e.g. Microsoft could put a line in their EULA which makes it illegal to install Windows 7 on Apple Computers.
http://www.applematters.com/article/are-hackintoshes-illegal/
No Apple just chose to call it Golden Master. Doesn't mean it is. The only definition I care about is QUALITY.
Get your mind out of the gutter and realize that a lot of people might have corporate info on their "secure" OSX platform they might not want their kids to see. Like passwords or spreadsheets or other documents.
And this is new in 10.6. you couldn't do this from within Windows under 10.5
The naming of builds isn't a tactic, it's an internal procedure.
I think you're confusing reality with conspiracy theories.
nope, you could do it pretty easily actually (see: MacFUSE)
and if you're dual-booting yet don't have security enabled to get into the computer on BOTH Mac OS & Windows, then it's your own fault for it being "insecure". By the same token, since Boot Camp was developed, Windows partitions have always been fully readable (including hidden files/folders) on the Mac side, is that Microsoft's problem?
Lighten up Francis. It's much better this way as now you can see data that you may need from your Mac partition from your Windows partition.
If you're worried about little Johnny snooping around, set him up with a parental controlled account on the Windows side. Now you can limit what games he plays, if he has internet access and even how long he can play.
And if for some reason you have house guests who require the use of Windows on bootcamp, set up the guest account for them.
The advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Sorry, but "Golden Master" HAS a definition, it's the Master for the retail disc. It's not because you disagree with the chose of Apple that it's not the GM. The quality has NOTHING to do with the fact that a version is GM or not, the only thing that make a version "GM" is when Apple decide that the version is GM.
The version designated by Apple as GM IS THE GM.
This is of course valid for any other software maker for their GM/RTM designated versions of their software.
It's "new" in the sense that the basic feature didn't come with any previous version of Boot Camp.
In Mac OS X Leopard, you can view all of the contents of a Windows partition, so any user could see the private documents of another.
As Apple has added basic HFS+ support to Boot Camp, the same will now be possible in 10.6.
Realistically though, it's quite easy to access files you don't have permission to access on any OS and file system combination.
While the best protection you can implement is to secure all of the operating systems you have installed, that doesn't really help you when you have more than one user.
How? Microsoft could put a line in their EULA that makes it illegal to install Windows on a non-Microsoft computer. But Microsoft doesn't make computers. And their monopoly position would make that untenable, where a smaller outfit with single digit marketshare could easily pull it off.
Note that Microsoft doesn't allow Apple to distribute Apple computers with Windows (though resellers like MacConnection, MacMall, etc. will fill that gap for people who are unable or unwilling to tackle that themselves).
You store your passwords in plaintext? Because I'm sure OS X doesn't do that itself under any circumstances. It's always stored in an encrypted fashion and is protected by a "master" password (in the case of the keychain), or as a hash which is compared to the hash of the entered password. Sometimes with salt, but I don't want to blow your mind. InfoSec 101.
Maybe your sensitive documents should be encrypted.
No platform is "secure" from someone who has physical access. NOT ONE. If you wanted to be sneaky you could configure Win7 not to mount that partition at boot.
Peace, for being a "Demi-God" you sure spread a lot of FUD around here...
While I completely agree with you, your post nearly made my head explode.
Sorry for that, but it's hard to explain something obvious to someone who doesn't want to accept it
Well you could if you owned Mac Drive. If you encrypt your user folder using FileVault can you still see it from the Windows side?