Apple's security update train rumbled into the station late May 11 with fixes for a whopping 43 Mac OS X and QuickTime vulnerabilities. The company's Security Update 2006-003 patches 31 flaws in the Mac OS X, most of them serious enough to cause 'arbitrary code execution attacks'. Apple also shipped QuickTime 7.1 as a major security overhaul to correct 12 code execution and denial-of-service flaws.
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Member since:2006-05-14
> Windows users? Linux users? Mac users?
Mac users.
> Frankly the zealots are just as bad in all camps, so I
> don't know which group you're talking about.
The last one.
A "Linux is not ready for the desktop." article doesn't generate hunderds of hundreds of replies. Anything negative about windows neither. But dare to mention a fixed security flaw in Mac OS X, or list some reasons why not to buy a mac, and the OSNEWS servers and databases go down under the load of the angry Mac user swarm.
The zealots exist in all camps, that is certailnly true, but as someone who uses all three platforms, and is not emotionally, religiously or sexually tied to any of the three, I must say that in my observation Mac users tend to be the most aggressive when it comes to the defending of anything related to their computing platform choice. Every time I see a article heading negative about Apple, I _know_ that it will generate hundreds of postings accusing the writer of lying, propaganda, and so on. Of all the three groups, they tend to make the least pleasent public apperance.
The apperance they make is probbably as fierce for a potential new user, who is considering "switching", as the pictures of fanatical islamists demonstrating against west countries and burning flags (because something as a caricature or a security flaw has been published) for someone considering moving to a islamic country.
Member since:2005-07-11
"The apperance they make is probbably as fierce for a potential new user, who is considering "switching", as the pictures of fanatical islamists demonstrating against west countries and burning flags (because something as a caricature or a security flaw has been published) for someone considering moving to a islamic country."
Oh please! Is this really how low the discussion must sink?
Member since:2005-11-23
>"Every time I see a article heading negative about Apple"
Such as every time you will see an article claiming that the X Unix system is better than Linux.
>"A "Linux is not ready for the desktop." article doesn't generate hunderds of hundreds of replies"
Aha, you are all wrong and I can proove it.
Just a search on OS news with your words, picking the first link gives the following
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11284
"Why Linux Isn't Ready for Desktops
214 comments"
Yes, their is hundreds of replies when someone dare to criticize Linux ... And I pass the threads like "Windows more secure than Linux", "Solaris 10 benchmark roxes" or "BSD is a good licence"
The fact is you don't like Apple, so your opinion is biased.
OT: It is funny to see that on OSNews, there is a news each time Microsoft and Apple fixed a flaws, never when Red Hat, Mandriva, SuSE, Ubuntu do so ... (And according to Secunia it happens often)
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2005-11-10
Windows users? Linux users? Mac users?
Frankly the zealots are just as bad in all camps, so I don't know which group you're talking about.