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18 feb. 2006

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So there’s an OS X worm/trojan/whatever traveling the internet – a bit. Which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone with a bit of common sense, but is somehow news because even Mac users can lack common sense.

Until Tiger, you could configure OS X to display all file extensions except .app; maybe this will finally make Apple realize how security really works when you’ve sold more than a dozen thousand machines, and display .app even when file extensions are off.

 

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I’m not going to link Dvorak’s absurd, clueless, idiotic announcement that Apple is about to ditch OS X for Windows, because you can already tell this will be the most absurd, clueless, idiotic troll we’ll see in 2006. I know Steve Jobs is irrational, I know he loves building machines more than anything, but he’s not that delusional.

 

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Although I don’t find OS X drawers as horrendous as many Mac geeks do, I never liked how you have to use one to edit appointment information in iCal — drawers make more sense to me for either displaying information or selecting sources/mailbox/etc., but not for editing data. So I’m quite pleased to find out that the “Window” menu offers to move the inspector panel to a… panel.

As for the rest of the article, I agree on all points: iCal’s editing interface is amazingly awkward, inconsistent and buggy.

 

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The OSx86 Project has been DMCAed; who’s surprised? (I am: that Apple didn’t get the whole site closed, but only the messageboard.) Why would Apple bother engineering the most secure hardware/software protections release after release, to the risk of making the system more complex and unstable, when throwing lawyers around can be just as effective? (Not 100% effective, of course, but technical restrictions weren’t gonna be, either.)

 

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I wish I knew whether it got fixed by OS X 10.4.5 or I just uninstalled some bit of software that was causing the problem, but my Finder woes seem to be solved (knock on wood): my Mac’s been set to sleep for a few nights in a row and drag-and-drop still works just fine. That does feel better, even though its malfunctioning got me used to relying on Quicksilver triggers when I needed to move files off my desktop.

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