macOS Archive

There's a new article on computer commentary site "The Idea Basket" detailing the features and importance of the Rendezvous networking protocol that will be shipping with next major release of Mac OS X. It should be a very interesting read for many computer users, as Rendezvous will profoundly affect the way people use their Macs as well as other computer systems in a networked setting.

Security Update July 2002 includes the updated components, Apache v1.3.26, mod_ssl v2.8.9 and OpenSSH v3.4p1, which provide increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the MacOSX operating system. Download it via Software Update on your Mac.

Get it while it's hot (translation: before the Apple laywers take the site down)! MacNytt has put online an exclusive video showing Quartz Extreme's capabilities, the new 3D graphics acceleration technology used for the 2D desktop of MacOSX 10.2. Our Take: Let's hope that the brand new iBooks that feature a 16 MB Radeon Mobility AGP graphics card will be able to run Quartz Extreme at 1024x768 at 60 Hz. Depending on the resolution you run your desktop, you will need either 16 MB or 32 MB and above of VRAM and AGP 2x (PCI won't cut it because its bus is times slower). For anything above 1024x768 though, you should be considering upgrading to an AGP card with lots of bandwidth and lots of memory.

In Part One, Simson Garfinkel and Michael Mahoney explain why Cocoa and Mac OS X aren't nearly as revolutionary as they are evolutionary, beginning with Apple's genesis in the 1970s. Now they pick up the story with the Star Trek project and bring you to the current iteration of Mac OS X.

This is the first installment in ThinkSecret's series of news coverage for the next major update to Mac OS X, code-named Jaguar. They take a look at tweaks to OS X's Finder and System Preferences, as seen in the first developer preview of Jaguar, build 6C35, and include lots of screenshots.

TheRegister's Andrew Orlowski has published a preview of the new MacOSX 10.2 version, codenamed Jaguar. Read the preview and see some exclusive screenshots.

MacOS was always the desktop environment, but Apple seems to try to make it more server-oriented soon, starting with the rack mounted servers that they will release soon, and also by introducing a number of networking software in the networking stack or the OS level. What also is worth mentioning, is that OSX is to sync with the FreeBSD 4.4 codebase for its underlying Darwin BSD subsystem (currently, MacOSX uses an older BSD 3.x version). More information and screenshots on the new OSX, codenamed Jaguar, can be found at Apple's site.

The update, MacOSX 10.1.4 (through "Software Update"), delivers improved networking, security, and additional disc recording device support. MacOSX Server 10.1.4 fixes some security and mail issues.

Apple posted a Security Update for April 2002 which weighs 4.7 MB. Security Update April 2002 includes the following updated components which provide increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system: OpenSSH v3.1p1, rsync v2.5.2, groff v1.17.2, PHP v4.1.2, sudo v1.6.5p2, mod_ssl v2.8.7, mail_cmds.

"When Steve Jobs introduced Apple's new iMac in January 2002, the spotlight was focused entirely on the physical architecture of the first mainstream computer that fully defied the term 'box'. The new iMac is a white dome with a flat screen that floats on the end of a chrome arm. It looks like a cross between a Luxo lamp and a makeup mirror. Jobs called it 'the best thing we've ever done'". Read the rest of the MacOSX review at LinuxJournal.

"Mac OS X gave us a host of interface enhancements, for better or for worse. Some are seemingly frivolous, such as the whiz-bang animations that dominate Aqua, and others haven proven truly useful, such as the Finder’s column view. Personally, I dig it all." The article at O'ReillyNet discusses the main Aqua enhancements, animated window resizing and the drawers.

O'Reilly Net features two interesting MacOSX Applescript articles: "Integrating AppleScript and Cocoa" & "Using AppleScript to Compile and Run Java Code".

Steve was drawing things out, as he is wont to do. We'd seen demonstrations by Adobe, we got to see the iBook's new larger look, he'd prattled on and on about the virtues of iPhoto, we were getting restless. We wanted to see IT. Whatever Steve Jobs had up the sleeve of that black mock-neck we wanted to see it. In all fairness those of us that are rabid weblog addicts had already seen it. Slashdot had broken the news the night before when 'Time Canada' plastered it all over their website. It was the new iMac, and inside the 'reality distortion field' that Steve Jobs projects at every MacWorld keynote, it was insanely great.

MacOSX 10.1.3 was released today and it is available via the Update Control Panel. Specific updates include: CD Disc Recording Peripherals: expanded support for QPS, EZQuest, LaCie, Yamaha, MCE Technologies and Sony devices. Image Capture and iPhoto: Improved support for several digital camera models from Canon, Kodak and Sony. Graphics and OpenGL Improvements: DVD Playback on external VGA displays on PowerBook G4 PowerBook video mirroring will be on by default when connecting to a new display. Improvements for iTunes when the full screen visualizer is used. Networking and Security Improvements: Login authentication support for LDAP and Active Directory services, OpenSSH version 3.0.2p1, WebDAV support for Digest authentication, Mail includes support for SSL encryption.