If you had an ounce of knowledge about operating systems you would realise that Windows is not secure by design.
Christ, you are allowed to modify the memory of another running process under Windows. Hardly secure is it?
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Snow Leopard to Get Cocoa Finder and ImageBoot
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If you had an ounce of knowledge about operating systems you would realise that Windows is not secure by design.
Christ, you are allowed to modify the memory of another running process under Windows. Hardly secure is it?
i think all of us should at least remember that it was microsoft that have brought us here today as far as computer technology is concern? it was not apple and their os, but microsoft that opens the door of possibilities..
Note: i am not a microsoft fanboy, i am getting a mac soon.. but i think we should all be aware how much microsoft have contributed to the computer scene.. i still appreciate my PC very much, instead of condemning their os like some other people in this forum does..
In what way? I can't think of a single real innovation that was not done previously in Unix or Mac OS that Microsoft made.
MS-DOS was bought from another company. The only thing that they did that had a huge impact on the computing world was to get the original OS deal with IBM.
Sure, I quite like Windows and some of the things it does. But I would never claim it was a revolutionary OS. That title goes to Unix.
are you sure???just think a little harder..
Why don't you tell me rather than trying to be clever?
Edit : I guess it is just bluster then and you don't have any examples.
That article is from 2001 - quite a bit outdated by now. In terms of features, Cocoa has much more to offer than Carbon.
Out of the box, Vista is pretty secure by design. Windows 95 wasn't.
Like OSX, there are some security holes being found and fixed, but it's hardly "insecure by design".
Please explain how to modify the memory space of another process on any NT-based system. NT has had protected memory since long before OSX was dropped on y'all.
And, please, don't call me Christ.
Ok, I see what you're saying. The release of '08 certainly killed the plug-in market you talked about, however, my point is that there is not as much room to complain about "those who invested in these plug-ins and were screwed by '08" kind of thing, when your plug-ins are still completely functional on '06.
Also, your point about iMovie '06 being like downloading OS9... come on dude. Please tell me you aren't that fixated with being the newest and coolest that you knock '06 down that many pegs. A more accurate analogy would be like downloading Tiger when you have Leopard.
Oh yes it sure is insecure by design.
The entire NT kernel is merely Open VMS cannibalized (or stolen, depending on your viewpoint) by Microsoft and stripped of all it's security layers. They have been slowly adding security features back in with 2000, XP, and Vista, but they still are yet to get it fully right...
Mass Udpate
SL seems to be integrating many new OpenSolaris tech into leopard. The image packaging capability seems to be like opensolaris, and a Finder Cocoa rewrite would allow for end user modification, and ZFS! From what I have heard from friends who have messed with the binaries, ZFS is virtually done being ported with 119. They just have to integrate it with the system, and cannot do that in any further in 10.5! ZFS will be the ****! hopefully, the new finder will be similar to Google Chrome, with the tabs. Same with iTunes. Simplicity and security... those are key and why I switched in 2000. Apple has gone as far as they can with Carbon APIs and their OS general look and feel. A new one is needed.
SL seems to be integrating many new OpenSolaris tech into leopard. The image packaging capability seems to be like opensolaris, and a Finder Cocoa rewrite would allow for end user modification, and ZFS! From what I have heard from friends who have messed with the binaries, ZFS is virtually done being ported with 119. They just have to integrate it with the system, and cannot do that in any further in 10.5! ZFS will be the ****! hopefully, the new finder will be similar to Google Chrome, with the tabs. Same with iTunes. Simplicity and security... those are key and why I switched in 2000. Apple has gone as far as they can with Carbon APIs and their OS general look and feel. A new one is needed.
haha not condemning PC's for their very existence? You're on the wrong forum man
You are right that MS has driven the computer world forward, however, that is mostly because of a few things (that don't talk too well about them)
1) DOS, which is one of those questionably acquired pieces of code.
2) NT, which is Open VMS - Security, again, very questionable...
3) Piss-poor management at
when SJ was kicked out, leading to Macs going by the wayside in the business world because they were simply god-awful (to the business consumer) back then.They are more or less the winners by default I think. So yes, I do not renounce and hate on my Pc's like other do, but then, I don't really give them as much credit as you do...
When will you guys get it out of your head that this will NOT be a free update? Anyone who thinks this will be free from the company that charges $19 for a cheap-ass remote is lying to themselves. It will most likely be $129. They are doing a massive re-write of many applications as well as implementing various other security/speed improvements. This is no different than if they were simply focusing on adding additional features.
So yes, you should probably wait if you don't want to pay for Snow Leopard separately.
It has to be in order to maintain backwards compatibility. For instance the win32 function WriteProcessMemory() is still available under Vista.
I don't see the problem. DVD Player has to support CSS encryption (even if it is incredibly weak, Apple still can't lose their CSS license), which means crippling the app when you want to do something like take a screen shot of a video, easier to keep that separate from Quicktime Player.
Quicktime Player is just a wrapper around the Quicktime APIs.
iTunes is a media player and database that uses the Quicktime APIs for A/V playback, and it's a rather bloated one at that.
Front Row is just a shell, it uses DVD Player for DVDs, iTunes for anything in your iTunes database, Quicktime for individual videos in your file system, and iPhoto for photo viewing. Building it into iTunes would just make it more bloated and wouldn't make an ounce of sense.
iMovie, dunno why you even thought to put that on the list, is just a video editor.
Quick Look or rather the plug-in that enables Quicktime videos to be played in Quick Look is also just a wrapper around the Quicktime APIs when it comes to video playback, and when in "Quick Look" you're still in the Finder so hitting the arrow keys goes to the next file, it would be a waste of resources to cripple it, especially since someone isn't likely to watch a full video in it unless it's really short since any keyboard shortcuts you might try will just affect the Finder.
Leopard's final name does not include Leopard Home Basic, Leopard Home Premium, Leopard Business, Leopard Enterprise, Leopard Ultimate, or their 64-bit editions. It's just "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard" instead, Mac OS X being the brand, 10.5 the version number, and Leopard being the codename due to the fact that people usually just refer to it's codename for shorthand anyway, also becoming part of the brand.
Also it was only delayed once, any other "delays" you may be talking about were rumors and nothing more. Also keep in mind Apple didn't stop halfway in the development cycle to drop everything and rewrite it again (though if they had the end result probably would be Snow Leopard minus Grand Central and OpenCL, the 2 most important "features" of Snow Leopard) and branded as Leopard. They also didn't drop their most important features and APIs to get a release out sooner (they did drop a couple of trivial features though).
Sebastian
"Print Selection" PLEASE!
Is there a place you can post feature requests to the devs? For the love of God, please give me "print selection". Windows has had this feature forever and I would love to see this finally come to OSX via Snow Leopard. I know I can't be alone on this.
Is there a place you can post feature requests to the devs? For the love of God, please give me "print selection". Windows has had this feature forever and I would love to see this finally come to OSX via Snow Leopard. I know I can't be alone on this.
Never even heard of this feature until you mentioned it, and when I looked I found this. Just installed it, will probably test it later.
Sebastian
I believe I looked at this before but it didn't support Leopard. Looks like they may have fixed that. Thanks for the link!!
EDIT: Install failed
EDIT: Install failed
I believe I looked at this before but it didn't support Leopard. Looks like they may have fixed that. Thanks for the link!!
EDIT: Install failed
The install didn't fail, but it doesn't show up my Services menu like I thought it would, nothing in the print dialog either, and it's no longer even listed on the developer website so I guess it's no longer supported.
Sebastian
Mine failed with the error "Can't write to /Library/Services". If you had a successful install you should see it in services after a reboot. It was funny because the installer did not prompt me for an admin password which I guess is why it couldn't install to the directory.
Mine failed with the error "Can't write to /Library/Services". If you had a successful install you should see it in services after a reboot. It was funny because the installer did not prompt me for an admin password which I guess is why it couldn't install to the directory.
Ah, I didn't see the part about needing a reboot, but I did several reboots tonight and it's there now. Trying to print some selected text in NetNewsWire didn't work though, the app wouldn't respond.
Sebastian
Yeah that's how I feel too. I hope that SL is more slicker and tidier without all the bells and whistles. Sure Leopard has its benefits, but they are not a huge benefit from Tiger (imo). Get back to basics and make things better without all the eye candy gadgets.
I just highlight the portion I want to print and then print. Only the highlighted portion prints then. Have you tried this?
Really excited about 10.6!
Someone wanted to call it more a 10.5.x update than a real new 10.6...
Snow Leopard seems a HUGE new OS. Open CL, Grand Central, Cocoa Finder, "Real" Exchange support, QuickTime X....
The Exchange licensing costs will probably require this to be a paid update. I'd also like to see Apple build Cisco VPN right in to the OS.