DISQUS

Ugh, come on now. I am definitely unsubscribing. Yahoo pipes for the win!

Automake? hahahaha, laughable to say the least. None of the versions are backwards compatible, automake/autoconf and others have given me and many other developers so many problems in the past that when it came to looking at qmail it was like a godsend.

The fact that it can conditionally compile certain things based on checking the output of the programs is awesome. Also, compile time is shorter and faster than using any configure programs. For example, on FreeBSD compiling the new modular Xorg 7.2, I bet more time is spent running configure scripts than is used to actually compile the individual modules.

DJB's homegrown install infrastructure is better than any other I have seen!

Do note, that the kernel in that case is still running, thus it is not a BSoD. It is not dead. That being said, the app in question is a 3rd party piece of software that users had installed, and the blame should be put on Logitech for installing it with their keyboard software, and shipping an old version. The amount of times on Windows 95/98/2000/XP i've had Windows BSoD on me was because of Microsoft supplied drivers or software. Even last night while I was developing a C# application on Windows XP using Visual Studio, it decided to BSoD, because of a network driver that Windows XP had installed for my network card.

I agree with not every OS being a 100% reliable, there is a reason there are warnings in Apple's OS that Mac OS X is not allowed to be used in nuclear power plants :P. Every OS has it's problems, but there is no denying that Microsoft has a track record that has been unsurpassed by other OS's.

Real Genuis is an awesome movie. I first got introduced to it by a friend of mine not too long ago, and it is one of my favourite movies. PCU, Lostboys and Tron rank up there as well :P

FireFox lets you know a new version is available, but won't download a new version if the OS it is running on is not one of the many pre-packaged software compiles they have available.

A repository of apps is great, problem is they get outdated too fast. That is why the ports tree is nice, now it is as simple as updating an Makefile, no need to have someone else pre-compile the software, who may want a different flag set than you.

What Geoff said is really something I hope Apple will implement within their OS, as that would be one of the coolest features ever, hell Steve Jobs could show it off on stage, and get all the Linux people mad since their package manager has been doing it all along :P (Ignoring the fact that this is from a third party developers site and that Apple is not hosting the software in a repo :P)

One thing I have always missed on Symbian, WinCE or Blackberry phones is proper support for Mac OS X. The iPhone has that going for it.

Safari and iTunes are meant to be run on Mac OS X. Simple. Sure it is nice Apple is willing to release versions for Windows, they will never fit in. The entire rip from Mac OS X and stick on Windows was done on purpose, they want to emulate Safari on the Mac as closely as possible.

I know I am kinda late to respond, but yes, there is no such thing as a too-fast internet connection. I have a 12 Mbps connection from Cox and even that can feel slow sometimes!

I would love to get a orange iPod Shuffle!

It won't leverage existing equipment that is currently in place. Docsis 3.0 would allow for up to 160 Mbps per node, this would be split between all the people connected to a node. So yes theoretically you yourself could get 160 Mbps, but then noone else in your neighborhood could be connected to that single node.

Docsis 3.0 will also require an upgrade of most end to end systems, but they are expecting the rollout to be fast since the upgrade is not expensive. Do note, in most new communities from the cable company to the nodes to which we are connected is fiber, which would allow for these high speeds. Docsis 3.0 won't help much there where there is still Coax between 10 different nodes before reaching the cable company.

wideload:~ xistence$ id
uid=1001(xistence) gid=1001(xistence) groups=1001(xistence)

(NFS on my FreeBSD has that uid for that account, so had to be the same on my Mac to be able to read/write, took me a while to figure out how to change it)

If you got my UID 501 account, i'd be up shit creek without a paddle since it has admin privs.

wideload:~ xistence$ id 501
uid=501(administrator) gid=501(administrator) groups=501(administrator), 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80(admin)

I almost never use that account. The only time I use it is when I get a stubborn installer that does some shell script ninjutzu, and needs to do it as root. I look at you KisMac.

Now as for my current user account, you'd get a whole lot of data about me. Keychain however is under a different password, and I am very suspicious when an app needs access to it. I keep my mail password in it for example, and if it is locked, it will ask me for access.

InputManager? The folder is set to chmod 000. No read or write access, also, just in case something is put in there, AppleScript will pop up letting me know something was dumped there (can only be done as root on a chmod 000).

Thing that would suck the most, is if my SSH keys were stolen. Access to too many machines, and no real fast way to remove them from each of the machines it has access to.

What I would worry about the most is just general information about me, stuff that could probably be found on the Internet, but would take a lot of time. I don't think that what I do have is interesting. A few PDF's, a shitload of TV Shows, Movies, projects for school, and just some open source projects I am working on.

Rosyna: Only way I have found that a keylogger would work under Mac OS X is if it was a kernel module. But that is a general problem with all operating systems, not just Mac OS X.

Thomas: The assumption that everyone that is reading your blog would run under UID 501 is a really bad one. The only reason someone would be reading your blog is if they were interested in security, and those people would be smarter than your average grandma or grandpa. That being said, my dad is a Mac OS X user and I set him up with split accounts, just so that he would do everything under his own UID and only when installing apps use Administrator.

Cheerio!