Nice comparison about vulnerability on Mac VS Windows in 2007 ….there

The article comes with a nice chart….and it really looks horrible for all those Mac’tards….

Quote:

The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems, I’ve compiled all the security flaws in Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista and placed them side by side. This is significant because it shows a trend that can give us a good estimate for how many flaws we can expect to find in the coming months. The more monthly flaws there are in the historical trend, the more likely it is that someone will find a hole to exploit in the future. For example back in April of this year, hackers took over a fully patched Macbook and won $10,000 plus the Macbook they hacked.

Edit: as WES correctly mentioned in his comment you really should read the full article and ask yourself how serious it is

About Darwine project:

The Darwine project intends to port and develop Wine as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications. There are two major phases to this project.

The first phase is the port of Wine to Darwin/PowerPC with X11 (XFree86).

While the basic compatibility is there as Darwin is largely FreeBSD, there is the hurdle of its Mach kernel which uses the Mach-O format rather than ELF. This part has been achived with success. It means that WineLib is now working on Mac OS X, and that developers should be able to recompile their Win32 Apps using WineLib and make them work in Mac OS X.
The second phase is to then integrate in WINE the QEMU binary translator.

Additional supporting tools for launching Windows applications from the desktop and an integrated installer are desireable items for the package (like OpenOffice is doing).

This is distinguished from simply using QEMU to run Windows because there is no Windows here. Just WINE and QEMU to run Windows applications directly under X. That will enable vastly better performance, better integration, and easier administration.

Maybe i am not the usual Mac-User….i guess i am really not. With my switch from 10.4 to 10.5  i tried Mail.app once again.

Impressions after some weeks:

• Strange folder visualization (contra Mail.app)
• Editing my sub-folders-structur was a mess with Mail.app (contra Mail.app)
• No real calendar solution inside the Mail-Client (contra Mail.app)

So finally back to Thunderbird as it offers:

• hundreds of plugins & extensions
• works on all platforms

If you want to try localizations for your favorite app give iLingual a try.

iLingual helps you localize other applications. There are other localizing tools like AppleGlot but, for many, they are too complicated and too difficult to use. I wanted an easier, more “Mac”-feeling tool, so I created iLingual.

There are no complicated settings; just drag and drop files, and you are ready. It has a dictionary, of course, and so you don’t need to repeat work you have already done. You can just focus on a small number of keywords.

If you want to use iLingual for commercial use (to localize shareware, package-ware or to localize for payment) then iLingual is shareware and costs $30. Please check the documentation about licensing.

However, if you want to use iLingual for non-commercial use (to localize freeware or to localize as volunteer) then it is freeware. Feel free to use it.

Available for 10.3.9, 10.4 and 10.5

2 nice apps regarding FSEvents on OSX

• FSeventer for 10.4

  • Observes filesystem changes using the same underlying API as Spotlight

  • Provides a graphical representation of the file activity

  • Example use could be to determine what files are changed via software installation, preferences, etc

  • Requires admin access & will only work on Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”

• Leopard FSEvents
  • in development, so its basicly a demo right now

Edit:

Links:

• Apple Developer Documentation - File System Events Programming Guide

I have written about MarcoPolo there

After switching from 10.4 to 10.5 on my macbookpro i have installed MarcoPolo

Basicly cause i have 2 locations configured on that installation

• home (wlan & dhcp usage on the ethernet device)
• work (manual ip settings)

After defining some basic rules MarcoPolo worked out of the box.

The advantage in my case:

• no need to manually switch locations
• scriptable actions based on the automatic change
  • Mute / unmute audio settings
  • Enable / disable password for my screensaver
  • etc…

I have to admit…a really nice app for all mobile users with more then 1 location. Get it

Some additional informations / comment about MarcoPolo can be found there

XMenu can be found here

Product description by versiontracker:

This program brings back the Apple Menu to Mac OS X and includes also a complete application launcher. By adding one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar you can easily access your preferred applications, folders (and subfolders), documents and files. Furthermore there’s no explicit need for a configuration (e.g. creating lots of folders and aliases or adding items to user-defined setups) - just activate the menus you like. All menus and submenus update themselves automatically just like the good old Apple Menu so it’s not necessary to refresh them manually. In addition, XMenu optionally displays small or large icons and follows aliases and symbolic links. Finally, please note that contrary to most other solutions, this is neither a hack (”haxie”) nor an unofficial menu extra.

I have tested it but it looks like useless for me.

Namley is still the way to launch apps for me.