Posted on 07/21/2015 9:25:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Don’t bother feeding Swordmaker ,, if AAPL makes it he loves it ,, if anyone else makes something it’s trash or stolen from AAPL ,, If AAPL later copies something created by another company then it becomes MARVELOUSLY INNOVATIVE.
Apple fan boys are oblivious to any other device makers features..
I get a hoot out of the backslapping celebration of some new application on the I-phone that I have been using for a couple years on a Samsung.
Sure we have. Microsoft says, "We are going to make Windows secure. This time we'll get it right. Really. We got it right, this time. Trust us. Cross our hearts and hope to die."
I had more updates today as well!
For now. Don't expect 32-bit support to last forever.
Chrome OS and Mac OS X are based on Unix. That makes them superior from the get-go.
The original sin was using backslash as the directory separator. The backslash already had a perfectly valid use: to escape special characters. To appropriate it for use as the directory separator was unacceptable.
I remember when you Apple sycophants touted Apple's security and invulnerability to malware, spyware and hacking.....I don't hear that anymore.....I wonder why?
Could it be that due to iOSs success, that it became a target of hackers? But that excuse was "lame" when employed by Windows fans.
You got your success and you got the burrs that come with it.....something Windows has been dealing with for decades.
Eat your crow and shut up. ;)
I don't remember anyone at Microsoft ever saying that. What's your source for that quote?
I remember them promising to address particular vulnerabilities but I don't ever remember them promising to create an absolutely secure OS, nor do I recall them or anyone else ever making one.
It could just as easily be argued that the forward slash already had a perfectly valid use as a division operator and appropriating it for use as a directory separator was unacceptable.
Did you miss the admission last week from The Hacker Company that they did NOT have any products that could hack into unjailbroken iOS devices? I guess you did. There are still no malware in the wild for unjailbroken iOS devices. . .
There were several zero-day exploits for the Oh-So-Secure fully patched Windows 8.1 just last week that required emergency patches. There are still no remote exploits in the wild for OS X other than about 60 Trojans that the operating system will warn the user about if he or she attempts to download, install, or run them. Could there be tomorrow? Perhaps. We are now 17 years since the release of OS X server into the wild and we are still waiting for the first one. By the way, we never said that Apple was individually secure against "hacking", especially if you could get the user's cooperation. . . which is what it required, plus months of preparation, in every one of those contests where the Mac was the first system breeched.
We stated truthfully that the Mac it was the safest platform for users to use. . . It is still the safest and the iOS is still the safest mobile platform to use.
The iOS certificate flaw was nothing, right?
iOS is popular and is the target of successful hacks. Apple has issues patches numerous times, just like Microsoft has been doing for its popular operating system....Windows.
Apple has no greater security than any other device. Hacking is human versus human more than anything.
But, you want to live in denial.
In practice, using the escape operator as the separator causes a lot more problems. That's because you use the escape operator when specifying literal strings, whereas the forward slash as the division operator never conflicts with the forward slash as the path separator.
It's interesting that in its internal APIs, Windows is perfectly happy to accept either slash as the separator. It's only at the command line level that you have to use back-slash. That's because they chose the division operator as the command line option delimiter, instead of the subtract operator, which is what Unix uses.
Used to be. Powershell has pretty well supplanted cmd for command line operations, and it's agnostic as far as which way the slashes go for path specifications.
[[Try Mepis Linux. Stable and reliable]]
The distors I’m trying are supposed to be very stable too- Linux Mint, Ubuntu- Manjaro Fedora etc-
I’ll look into mepis though- but I’ve just about had it with Linux- it’s like going back to pre windows 98- only worse- I just wanted to get Linux on, get a few Linux games on (like Nexius, Openarena etc- can’t get them working on any of the distros I’m trying using VMware Player- Other people can=- but they may not have Logitech mouse- who knows- very frustrating trying to find the answers)
It was a vulnerability. No exploits were in the wild. All it did was to cause the device to reboot. It put no data at risk and allowed no escalation of privileges. At worst, it created a denial of service for a short period. . . and the avoidance was easy. Sorry, a vulnerability without an exploit that was rapidly fixed does not equate to a lack of safety. Every OS has vulnerabilities. . . the question is are these vulnerabilities exploitable to the point a hacker can make use of them? If that answer is no, then it's a moot point.
I don’t play games on any OS, but I do have a few suggestions for you.
Years ago, I tried various lightweight Linux distros such as Mepis, Puppy, Knoppix and others. Then I discovered Ubuntu and Mint. Vastly superior. I alternate between those last two and forgot about the former. In my experience, Mint has been more fussy about booting systems with certain video cards than Ubuntu.
1) Try the “Mate” desktop on both Ubuntu and Mint if you haven’t already.
2) Install the distro you want to evaluate directly to the hard drive and forget about running under VM. I have read a number of reviews where the OS’s did not function well on a virtual machine, but did on a physical machine.
3) Are you married to that mouse? Try a different one. Ditto for the keyboard other other problematic hardware.
4) I prefer running Linux on Dell PC’s over other brands.
thanks for the reply- have tried all of those- mint- mate and cinnamon- Ubuntu mandrake, manjaro etc-
I’m just not liking the idea of having to go back and relearn everything as well as running into problems constantly- Windows just works—
I began with windows 95, and remember having to always fiddle with it to get it working, to get things installed, to get drivers working etc- I wasted more dang time doing that when all I wanted was just to start the machine and have it work- insert a disk and install something without having to spend hours online looking for the right drivers etc-
Linux is making progress- but they are ,in my opinion, about as advqanced as say windows 95- perhaps windows 98- but it can’t use nearly the programs and games that windows can
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