You can find lists of flaws in every released OS out there by year or
quarter. Mac OS X is not immune to flaws including security ones. I find
it very interesting that when all three OS's are put on equal footing inside
an enclosed space
If we let you define the marketspace you will certainly
Recently been playing with Ubuntu. One thing that really surprised me
(which shows how wide eyed naive I am) is how with the Ubuntu boot disk
my supposedly secured files in XP are wide open. I can take an external
hard drive and copy them over - no problem!
And from there you can even poke
Well at least as far as patching goes, quite a lot more fixes for os x then
any other...course I'm sure most windows users would trade the low patch
rate for less scanning...
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer to look at the user experience. How
Well at least as far as patching goes, quite a lot more fixes for os x then
any other...
You should stop getting your information about Apple from MS.
I'm patching my XP far more than my OS X.
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Suppose you could be right..it may just be security patches that apple has
far more of.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well at least as far as patching goes, quite a lot more fixes for os x
then
any other...
You
I want software from the company that patches things rapidly and doesn't
worry about how lots of patches going out will look. MS is pretty slow
sometimes. Sitting on things that should go out quickly.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:56 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose you could be right..it may just be security patches that apple has
far more of.
Five this year. So fewer than one a month.
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No argument here.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:13 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
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I want software from the company that patches things rapidly and doesn't
worry about how lots of patches going out will look. MS is pretty slow
sometimes. Sitting on things that should go out
Really? Only five security holes patched? Well that is a good number..
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose you could be right..it may just be security patches that apple has
far more of.
Five this year. So fewer than one a month.
Recently been playing with Ubuntu. One thing that really surprised me
(which shows how wide eyed naive I am) is how with the Ubuntu boot disk
my supposedly secured files in XP are wide open. I can take an external
hard drive and copy them over - no problem!
I was both pleased and displeased
You can find lists of flaws in every released OS out there by year or
quarter. Mac OS X is not immune to flaws including security ones. I find
it very interesting that when all three OS's are put on equal footing inside
an enclosed space, and security experts are told they can win gobs of cash
Linux and OSX are daughters of Unix. Unix was not designed with security as
a priority... it was designed for speed and efficiency to run on a Digital
Equipment Corporation PDP computer that happened to be sitting around
without any operating system on it. In graduate school, our instructor
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Linux and OSX are daughters of Unix. Unix was not designed with security
as a priority...
Well,
Very true about Linux.
OTOH, OS X is built on Berkeley Unix, which was designed with security in
mind. For years and years,
Openbsd is considered the real security branch, freebsd which is what darwin
is, is more open and has more support.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:11 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Linux and OSX are daughters of
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