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Ooh, Thankskilling -- gotta catch it :) (DW and I both like good zombie and vampire movies, but I also go for B movies ) Sweet -- it's available on Netflix streaming. Noticed another potential brain cell killer -- "Mutant Vampire Zombies From the Hood". You can bet I added that gem to my Instant Queue :D
 
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Steve Jobs must've thought Mac OS X Lion was a good parting prank. It's my first experience developing directly on the platform and they sent me a nice full-loaded MacBook Pro for free. Nice, right? Except Lion's new auto-save and revisions API makes it bloody near impossible to secure document shares with the existing toolchain.

So now I've basically developed a sandboxed system to run inside of VMWare Fusion with a secured drop-box for interaction with the rest of the system. This is a huge pain to get around Nanny State APIs. *sigh*

And general operating system security under the Mac is bizarre and terrifying. Permissions set and reset in bizarre ways, even as part of the "repair permissions" tools. Strange use of the two firewalls (or blatant mis-use of ipfw). The total lack of a proper ASLR regardless of what Apple PR wants to say is pathetic. I find it remarkable nobody has just decided to own every bloody Mac on the planet. The plethora of "discovery" services running by default and their poor configurations is like applying duct tape to swiss cheese and then expecting it to live through a microwave.

Whacky you Mac people. Whacky. -Magnus
 

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Steve Jobs must've thought Mac OS X Lion was a good parting prank. It's my first experience developing directly on the platform and they sent me a nice full-loaded MacBook Pro for free. Nice, right? Except Lion's new auto-save and revisions API makes it bloody near impossible to secure document shares with the existing toolchain.

So now I've basically developed a sandboxed system to run inside of VMWare Fusion with a secured drop-box for interaction with the rest of the system. This is a huge pain to get around Nanny State APIs. *sigh*

And general operating system security under the Mac is bizarre and terrifying. Permissions set and reset in bizarre ways, even as part of the "repair permissions" tools. Strange use of the two firewalls (or blatant mis-use of ipfw). The total lack of a proper ASLR regardless of what Apple PR wants to say is pathetic. I find it remarkable nobody has just decided to own every bloody Mac on the planet. The plethora of "discovery" services running by default and their poor configurations is like applying duct tape to swiss cheese and then expecting it to live through a microwave.

Whacky you Mac people. Whacky. -Magnus


I'm sorry, but...........WHAT?
 

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Steve Jobs must've thought Mac OS X Lion was a good parting prank. It's my first experience developing directly on the platform and they sent me a nice full-loaded MacBook Pro for free. Nice, right? Except Lion's new auto-save and revisions API makes it bloody near impossible to secure document shares with the existing toolchain.

So now I've basically developed a sandboxed system to run inside of VMWare Fusion with a secured drop-box for interaction with the rest of the system. This is a huge pain to get around Nanny State APIs. *sigh*

And general operating system security under the Mac is bizarre and terrifying. Permissions set and reset in bizarre ways, even as part of the "repair permissions" tools. Strange use of the two firewalls (or blatant mis-use of ipfw). The total lack of a proper ASLR regardless of what Apple PR wants to say is pathetic. I find it remarkable nobody has just decided to own every bloody Mac on the planet. The plethora of "discovery" services running by default and their poor configurations is like applying duct tape to swiss cheese and then expecting it to live through a microwave.

Whacky you Mac people. Whacky. -Magnus

This is why I'm not upgrading. I wait for all the idoits who have to "have it first" to report all the issues, let someone "fix" it, then fix it again, before I do it. Glad you got yours for free. You know you can just download the last snow leopard and use that on the new book?
 

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I'm sorry, but...........WHAT?

Here, this may explain it better. -Magnus

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This is why I'm not upgrading. I wait for all the idoits who have to "have it first" to report all the issues, let someone "fix" it, then fix it again, before I do it. Glad you got yours for free. You know you can just download the last snow leopard and use that on the new book?

Wouldn't matter, only one additional "problem" was created by Lion versus prior releases. The solutions all end up pushing me into VMware. It's just painful and I'm not at my normal operating capacity but I need to get this edit workflow system back on track. *waves sonic cane* -Magnus
 

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Magnus good to see you I missed your witty posts :)
how have you been?

I have seen better days. Trying to recover slowly. I've been grounded and Ceridwen sits on my chest to make sure I obey.

*shrug* So for now I'm hacking at code and doing armchair analysis instead of real work. ;-) -Magnus
 
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