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Mar 18, 08 - 03:53 pm Comment from: Tommyr

Finally I get to contribute!

And what did you contribute, absotively nothing!

Is it snappy?

Mar 18, 08 - 03:59 pm Comment from: Tommyr

It's snap happy!

I contributed an update alert speedy, get over it.

Mar 18, 08 - 04:00 pm Comment from: DLMeyer

I caught this when I went to updates Safari. I hope it works better than Safari does! The second e-mail in my .Mac account opened up as HTML ... badly. The text was everywhere - where it was supposed to be as well as over-laying the header information. Is Safari broken? Or was it the e-mail that was mal-formed? Don't know. It was doomed to be deleted regardless. Which didn't make the display any less daunting.
Dave

Mar 18, 08 - 04:01 pm Comment from: DLMeyer

speedyg, stop being a twerp.

Coolness. I love updates.

Ummm! I love the updatey goodness!!

Mar 18, 08 - 04:35 pm Comment from: Hentercenter

is there a reason i found a "Microsoft Windows Live OneCare" ad at the bottom of MDN?? Has anyone else seen this? It is/was below the comment box

Mar 18, 08 - 04:36 pm Comment from: JAYGEE

I will download them another day. Can't be bothered to download them now.

Safe and secure on Tiger here.

My Tiger eats your Leopard, and I have full control over my Firewall.

Not Leopards half-ass Firewall, where you set it to "no access" and it still has access.

Thank God for Little Snitch...but EFI...

Fsck the Trusted Computing DRM schemes, the TPM chip might not be there, but it's not needed, EFI is the REAL EVIL.

Who the heck makes a firmware level with it's own partition on the hard drive, that can contact the internet by itself, read and write to hard drives, block the OS and software calls to the hardware, and can even downgrade the audio channels?

Someone who doesn't trust you.

Intel, Microsoft and the rest of the Trusted Computing Group, which Apple isn't a part, but has implemented EFI (part of Trusted Computing) before anyone else.

What's up Steveo? Sliding the DRM right up our behinds?

Sure there is a lot of lube, but it's going in regardless because Apple sells content to sell computers.

Your Intel based computer is not your own.

Mar 18, 08 - 04:52 pm Comment from: Spark

@DLMyer
"I hope it works better than Safari does!"

My Safari upload is workin' bitchen. Fast and sassy. No email weirdness.

Mar 18, 08 - 05:04 pm Comment from: Hentercenter

@Mad Mac Maniac

Sounds like something was slid up your behind and it wasn't DRM...

My bruise seems snappier.

Mar 18, 08 - 05:38 pm Comment from: Jamie

Mad Mac Maniac, you truly live up to your moniker.

Mar 18, 08 - 05:42 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

"Thank God for Little Snitch...but EFI...

Fsck the Trusted Computing DRM schemes, the TPM chip might not be there, but it's not needed, EFI is the REAL EVIL."

It's macdude, peterson, yadayadayada...

Mar 18, 08 - 05:55 pm Comment from: jjjj

>is there a reason i found a "Microsoft Windows Live OneCare" ad at the bottom of MDN?? Has anyone else seen this? It is/was below the comment box<

Probably contextural ads picking up on ZuneTang's posts. heh

Mar 18, 08 - 06:02 pm Comment from: Gandalf

Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday focused entirely on Office, and most notably Excel, with four critical patches, including one that could allow a hacker to hijack a user's e-mail.

Of the 11 vulnerabilities contained in the four patches, nine of them addressed Excel, including a zero-day exploit that has been around since January.

The problem could get worse as the SANS Institute listed “office productivity suites” as one of its Top 20 security risks in 2007. Microsoft Office dominates that category of software and critical vulnerabilities on the platform have risen from fewer than three in 2003 to nearly 24 in 2007, according to SANS.

Users only need to open an Excel document to get hacked. The vulnerability allows the hacker to take over the user’s machine.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/031108-microsoft-security-updates-focus-on.html?page=1


Lets not forget:

Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes

Microsoft Corp. yesterday told Excel users that one of the 12 patches issued Tuesday causes the spreadsheet to make mistakes in some calculations.

One of the patches deployed Tuesday fixed an Excel flaw that had been exploited for at least two months in targeted attacks.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9068599

I got a Mac virus once, I still have the CD, it's about ten years old, it didn't hijack anything. Maybe I should put it on eBay, VERY RARE, GENUINE MAC VIRUS, low start no reserve.



Which world do you live in?

Mar 18, 08 - 06:11 pm Comment from: Gandalf

Mad Mac maniac is right, well more so than he is given credit for.

OS 9.1 on a G4, maybe safe.

But Mad Mac Maniac, Stevo is working on it. Different approach.

Take the RED pill folks, really.

Mar 18, 08 - 06:15 pm Comment from: Roberto

Gabby Johnson is right!

So I have a PPC running Leopard. Which security update do I use?
Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 (PPC) or
Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 (Leopard)
??????

Mar 18, 08 - 08:30 pm Comment from: ibookfast

Camino still has less ram leakage, what gives?

Mar 19, 08 - 06:27 am Comment from: Hm...

"Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes"

I was on Excel beta teams a few versions ago. There are math bugs all over Excel (especially in the stat routines) that have been there since Excel was called "Multiplan." The bugs are now 'features.' (Want a simple trivial example? Enter =-1^2 and get the wrong answer.) "Why aren't these bugs fixed?" you ask. Easy. Everyone knows and codes around them, so it would break old spreadsheets. "Backwards compatibility" once again bites MS in the gluteus.

This morning I was using my MacBook Pro. Software Update popped up and said to install updates. So I did it.

When it got done it said the "Security Update" completed OK, but the Safari update did not. Nothing would run on the computer - every application I tried to start would crash. Couldn't even get a Finder window to open. Then the computer froze up and quit responding. So I power cycled it. When it rebooted and the login prompt came up, it won't accept my password to log in on it.

I tried booting from the install DVD to restore my system and it won't boot from the DVD either. Anybody know how to fix it? AppleCare is expired on it.