http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:51:45 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21771/Why_Do_We_Claim_Mac_OS_X_Is_Subsidised_at_Retail_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21771/Why_Do_We_Claim_Mac_OS_X_Is_Subsidised_at_Retail_/ Whenever we talk about Mac clone makers such as Psystar, we all more or less accept as a fact that Apple is selling copies of its Mac OS X operating system at a price lower than it would have been if Apple did not have a hardware business. Even though we treat this statement as fact - recently, I've been wondering: where is the proof? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:27:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 86 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 Editorial http://www.osnews.com/story/21674/Apple_Finally_Fixes_Critical_Java_Vulnerability/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21674/Apple_Finally_Fixes_Critical_Java_Vulnerability/ The critical Java vulnerability in Mac OS X which we reported on earlier has finally been fixed by Apple. "Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 and later." The fix for this vulnerability is in there. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:13:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21658/From_NeXTSTEP_to_Cocoa/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21658/From_NeXTSTEP_to_Cocoa/ "Although OS X is relatively new, it is built on top of technology that has been under development since Steve Jobs founded NeXT in the mid '80s. Erik Buck, author of Cocoa Design Patterns, has been working with this platform for over two decades. His perspective on the development of Cocoa, from its beginnings in NeXTSTEP and its evolution through the OpenStep specification, provide some interesting insights." Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:14:56 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News johan http://www.osnews.com/story/21640/Snow_Leopard_Server_Details/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21640/Snow_Leopard_Server_Details/ Between all the updated MacBooks and Snow Leopard news items across the web, you'd almost forget that Apple also has its own server operating system which will also got updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard yesterday. It benefits from the same improvements as the client version, but of course also has a set of its own, server-specific improvements. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:44:03 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21635/What_Business_Can_Expect_from_Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21635/What_Business_Can_Expect_from_Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard/ "Despite its public diffidence about enterprise adoption, Apple has made Snow Leopard an easier fit for the enterprise. ActiveSync support, the death of AppleTalk, and various security enhancements are of little use to the consumer audience that Apple formally targets," InfoWorld reports. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:08:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Mac OS X 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News snydeq http://www.osnews.com/story/21564/Building_a_Hackintosh_Apple_Can_t_Sue_You_For/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21564/Building_a_Hackintosh_Apple_Can_t_Sue_You_For/ Getting Mac OS X up and running on a computer without an Apple label has always been a bit of a hassle. You needed customised Mac OS X disks, updates would ruin all your hard work, and there was lots of fiddling with EFI and the likes. Ever since the release of boot-132, this is no longer the case. Read on for how setting up a "Hack"intosh really is as easy as 1, 3, 2. Tue, 26 May 2009 20:56:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 99 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/21540/Snow_Leopard_Seed_10A355_Sneak_Peak/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21540/Snow_Leopard_Seed_10A355_Sneak_Peak/ OSNews regular Kaiwai, who we all love and hate at the same time, has written a fairly detailed article about the latest Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build, seed 10A355. He covers the changes made, the status of the transition to 64bit, and more. Thu, 21 May 2009 22:42:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News kaiwai http://www.osnews.com/story/21522/9_Month_Old_Critical_Java_Vuln_Still_Not_Patched_in_Mac_OS_X/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21522/9_Month_Old_Critical_Java_Vuln_Still_Not_Patched_in_Mac_OS_X/ Six months ago, a certain security flaw in Java was fixed by Sun. This flaw was present in OpenJDK, GIJ, icedtea and Sun's JRE, but it got fixed in those. There's one important shipping Java implementation that still has not been fixed to remove this security flaw: Apple's Java. Tue, 19 May 2009 22:20:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 33 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21478/Mac_OS_X_10_5_7_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21478/Mac_OS_X_10_5_7_Released/ After a long gestation period, Apple has updated its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system to version 10.5.7. This latest update comes packed with lots of bug fixes for several components of the Mac OS X operating system. Update: Various security updates for Tiger and Safari:Win were also released. Tue, 12 May 2009 20:51:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 37 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News REM2000 http://www.osnews.com/story/21331/First_Mac_Botnet_Activated_Engages_in_DDoS_Attacks/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21331/First_Mac_Botnet_Activated_Engages_in_DDoS_Attacks/ Remember the Mac trojan that we reported about earlier this year? A trojan was found piggybacking on the back of copies of iWork and Photoshop CS4 found on warez sites and networks, and it would install itself after the user had entered his or her administrator password during the software's installation. This trojan didn't seem like much of a threat back then, but as it turns out, it's now in use in the first Macintosh botnet. Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:27:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 113 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21277/Getting_Leopard_on_an_Unsupported_G4_in_a_Few_Clicks/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21277/Getting_Leopard_on_an_Unsupported_G4_in_a_Few_Clicks/ Back when Apple introduced Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, there was a bit of a minor controversy around the artificially implemented cut-off point; you could only install Leopard on machines with G4 processors of 867Mhz or more, leaving out capable machines like the dual 733Mhz or dual 800Mhz. The community soon found ways around this limitation, and recently, I found myself in a situation where I had to do the same. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:29:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/21233/Rumours_Snow_Leopard_To_See_August_Release/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21233/Rumours_Snow_Leopard_To_See_August_Release/ More and more rumours and bits of news are making their to the web about Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard operating system. With the date set for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in early June (as usual), rumours have shifted focus away from features, but towards Snow Leopard's release date. AppleInsider now claims to have the answer. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:07:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21202/Is_Aqua_on_Its_Way_Out_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21202/Is_Aqua_on_Its_Way_Out_/ The omnipresent "people familiar with the matter" have told AppleInsider that Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard operating system will have more to show for itself than "just" under-the-hood changes and improvements. Apparently, Apple is preparing an updated theme for Snow Leopard, to replace the Aqua one. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21184/Apple_Says_Sorry_for_Mac_Perl_Breakage_Promises_Fix/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21184/Apple_Says_Sorry_for_Mac_Perl_Breakage_Promises_Fix/ Apple has apologized for breaking Perl with its latest Mac OS X security update, saying it will distribute a solution to the problem with a future update. In a note to The Reg and a post to the Apple support forums, Senior Apple programmer Edward Moy apologized for "the unforeseen problems that the 2009-001 security update has caused" with Perl. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:33:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21150/Reverse_Engineering_Apple_s_OS_X/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21150/Reverse_Engineering_Apple_s_OS_X/ "A number of folks have asked me what tools and techniques I use to reverse engineer Cocoa executables. I thought it would be worth taking some time out from documenting undocumented APIs to show you how easy it is to do the same thing for yourself. [...] With all these tools in your arsenal, reverse engineering Cocoa executables is actually very simple. In fact, it's a good deal more straightforward than most Windows executables, with the exception of Delphi and .NET where - like Cocoa - a good deal of runtime type information is contained within the executable." Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:53:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News