Archive for 'Mac OS X'
Why Mac OS isn’t the best OS Around
When I recently explained one of the many reasons why I prefer desktop Linux to Windows, even over my favorite desktop Windows, XP SP3, I got a lot of people telling me I was full of hooey because I barely even mentioned Mac OS X.
Good enough, here’s my take on Apple’s Mac OS X.
First, I [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2008 under Apple, Desktop, Linux, Mac OS X, Operating System, Unix, Windows.
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Road Warrior Security
I see that a group calling itself the Association of Corporate Travel Executives is warning its members to limit the amount of proprietary business information they carry on laptops and the like because they’re afraid that government agents can seize that data at border crossings.
Excuse me if I grin a little at this. There must [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Desktop, Mac OS X, Mobile, Security, Windows.
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You can build your own Mac, but do you really want to?
Psystar claims it can make Mac clones for cheap. There’s reason to doubt however that anyone will ever actually own a Psystar $399 Open Computer running Mac OS X. Funny, though, as Jason Perlow points out in his ZDNet blog, it’s really not that much trouble to build a Hackintosh.
Perlow explains that “Well, along with [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Apple, Desktop, Infrastructure, Mac OS X.
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Windows is on its Last Legs!?
Last week, while I was at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the University of Texas Super Computing Center in Austin Texas, I was surprised to find that if I had wanted to cover the week’s most surprising Linux-related news, I should at been at the Gartner Conference in Las Vegas where two Gartner analysts [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2008 under Business, Desktop, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft, Windows.
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Rotten Apple: Leopard
Apple’s latest operating system release may be the most troublesome since Apple switched from its System operating system to the BSD Unix and Mach-based Mac OS X.
I have never heard so many complaints about a Mac OS upgrade. Back in 2000/2001 when Apple users were switching from its older System operating system to [...]
Posted: November 6th, 2007 under Apple, Mac OS X, Operating System.
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