Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-10 Thread cubic-dog
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, petard wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:55:08AM -0800, Tim May wrote: It's astounding to me that that Apple failed to do basic QC on its major new release. The problem with the Firewire 800 drives using the Oxford 922 chips is inexcusable. Did Apple never bother

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-08 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:59:02PM +, petard wrote: If software companies were responsible for bugs in hardware that they do not manufacture, MS would be in much more trouble than it is already. Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've pretty much always

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:37 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's hardware worked with theirs and/or their OS. I thought that was half the point of Apple ---you play

Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
In case you've been using Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther)'s FileVault (Rijndael128 on ~/) there's a yet unfixed bug. Answer no if requested to regain lost disk space in encrypted directory[1] Notice that while the screen lock buffer overrun has been fixed, there are still unresolved issues with it[2]

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread Tim May
On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 07:52 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: In case you've been using Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther)'s FileVault (Rijndael128 on ~/) there's a yet unfixed bug. Answer no if requested to regain lost disk space in encrypted directory[1] Notice that while the screen lock buffer

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread petard
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:55:08AM -0800, Tim May wrote: It's astounding to me that that Apple failed to do basic QC on its major new release. The problem with the Firewire 800 drives using the Oxford 922 chips is inexcusable. Did Apple never bother to run the new version of OS X with

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:59:02PM +, petard wrote: If software companies were responsible for bugs in hardware that they do not manufacture, MS would be in much more trouble than it is already. Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've pretty much always

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:37 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's hardware worked with theirs and/or their OS. I thought that was half the point of Apple ---you play

Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
In case you've been using Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther)'s FileVault (Rijndael128 on ~/) there's a yet unfixed bug. Answer no if requested to regain lost disk space in encrypted directory[1] Notice that while the screen lock buffer overrun has been fixed, there are still unresolved issues with it[2]

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread petard
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:55:08AM -0800, Tim May wrote: It's astounding to me that that Apple failed to do basic QC on its major new release. The problem with the Firewire 800 drives using the Oxford 922 chips is inexcusable. Did Apple never bother to run the new version of OS X with

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-07 Thread Tim May
On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 07:52 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: In case you've been using Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther)'s FileVault (Rijndael128 on ~/) there's a yet unfixed bug. Answer no if requested to regain lost disk space in encrypted directory[1] Notice that while the screen lock buffer