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Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS+ Windows Drivers
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I assume that the new version of Boot Camp would allow installations of Windows 7 or Vista?
For me personally, I would only need to see the Mac HD and be able to copy data files from it only. No programs. That sounds really good to me.
Rich
I just thought of something. It would be a bit cumbersome, but if they gave windows Read Only access to HFS+, and with OS X already having Read-Only Access to NTFS you could essentially work on both sides just fine without anything spilling into either partition from the other O.S.
You'd end up with copies of files you use on both getting duplicated since you'd be saving each to it's own partition but it would still 'work'
As a side note, I must be outta the loop, I walked past a 32GB flash drive last night (at Costco) for about $25.00 I really think that is a fantastic option for keeping files accessible in both systems. Also, if you have an Airport Extreme/Time Capsule at home you can access files from both systems on there.
I am pumped that I will be able to access my iTunes files while on windows. Hell yes 
, hell yes.
, hell yes.
Now how about fixing the multi touch trackpad drivers so that it doesn't keep blue screening and crashing out web browsers on a site using Flash.
Tap-to-click PLEASE as well.
Until they add that I'm using Parallels.
[How hard can this be!!!!!
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On the subject of Snow Leopard...
Got some new temporary licences today for certain bits of Mac software.
The Licence key says "Expires August 2009" when you run the application, the licence key is valid until September 2nd 2009...
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but Tuesday September 1st for Snow Leopard anyone?!
Got some new temporary licences today for certain bits of Mac software.
The Licence key says "Expires August 2009" when you run the application, the licence key is valid until September 2nd 2009...
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but Tuesday September 1st for Snow Leopard anyone?!
Does anyone have any experience using this? If it works, this would be incredibly helpful. (Trying it now...)
If you're worried then give this one a shot NTFS for Mac OS X - fair enough it's $40.00 (£26.00) but it works with no problems... Well for me at least!
And they (Paragon) now include a separate installer for Windows machines to read/write Mac drives... Which is nice!
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You mean in the case that a Mac user emails the virus to one of their Windows using friends?
A virus can't spread itself to other systems if it can't run. A virus in a .exe file on a Mac is just a file. It won't spread.
Unless there is some weird way virus' do spread in systems they can't operate in. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You know how macs can now run windows, what would happen if microsoft went out if their way to create an os that ran apple OS X.
Just saying. What allows Apple to do this but not the other way around?
The OS X license agreement. Only 'Macs' may run OS X client, so it's not allowed to virtualise it. OS X Server doesn't have the restriction, but why would MS offer it when their product is dominant?
They probably can only read/write to folders that have "everyone" group permissions with read/write enabled.
You can't really just go into your home folder from windows, it's locked to the specific OS X users, and that is usually where most people put their personal files in. So my guess is that you can only read/write to is the public folders and shared folders that you set up yourself. I am sure the System folders will be locked and hidden as well.
You can't really just go into your home folder from windows, it's locked to the specific OS X users, and that is usually where most people put their personal files in. So my guess is that you can only read/write to is the public folders and shared folders that you set up yourself. I am sure the System folders will be locked and hidden as well.
All I'm saying is that in years of running these supposedly "unsafe" environments, I have never had an issue. And obviously I have gotten patches and updates, arguing over a static machine is not what we are doing here
Patches or no, I am saying that Windows is, in my experience, not the plague that many holier-than-though fanboys on here make it out to be. Please, give me the option of full read/write. If you are scared of Windows getting it's "dirty hands" on you OSX drive, than turn it off.
Thank you for putting some sense in to this thread. Fanboys making stuff up only serves to put fear and panic into other people.
Perhaps Apple could implement read-only support for "holier-than-though" fanboys as well? Now that would be a good feature, wouldn't it?! Please make it internet-enabled as well.
Common sense FTW!
One question I have is how will it behave with permissions? Does this mean that a user can use Windows to access another users' files?
As long as it observes permissions, it's read-only and you can disable it, I don't see a problem with this.
As long as it observes permissions, it's read-only and you can disable it, I don't see a problem with this.
You could ask the question way they certify Linux , Solaris , and anyone else who wants to submit to the their certification program (http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx) . There is a whole new race as to whose hypervisor sits on the bottom ( VMWare , Xen (or derivation there of) , Hyper-V ). Whose ever hypervisor sits on the bottom gets to sell VM management software ( with deeper hooks.) The generic capabilitiy hypervisors are all going to be practically free.
As long as they are going to be in the business of providing a virtual machine. That machine should support a variety of OS ... otherwise it probably sucks in some way. ( things like supporting linux on Hyper-V and Bootcamp on Apple hardware open more doors than it closes. )
There is no disadvantage to Micosoft if they sell more stuff.
For Apple. If you have to buy $400+ version of the OS to run on a VM... just more money in their pockets. The catch is that none of the hypervisors run without kludges. VMWare Fusion works though (makes it transparent that it is running on apple labeled hardware since it is an OS X app.)
Just keep in mine that:
1) No antivirus is 100% effective.
4) A fully patched windows OS DOES NOT mean you are not vulnerable. Windows has many, many outstanding issues they have not patched. There are also numerous issues that have either not been released to m$ for patching or just undiscovered yet.
All those do offer some sense of protection. but nothing is 100% safe.
What is so important about having it in client version of SL? Majority of the users are not going to need it. Servers, I understand, not client right now.
Who knows, Apple could very well have a brand new ZFS or next gen HFS based file system that has been in development for the past several years that we know absolutely nothing about and it could be released within the next several years but not this year for sure.
After reading a few posts here it seems that nobody knows what ntfs-3g is.
You can read/write to ntfs drives from osx with this.
The hfs drivers on windows will be great though, especially if they are x64 compatible seeing as MacDrive has yet to work for x64.
You can read/write to ntfs drives from osx with this.
The hfs drivers on windows will be great though, especially if they are x64 compatible seeing as MacDrive has yet to work for x64.