Comment Re:Unbalanced article. (Score 2, Funny) 669

by John Muir on Thursday December 13, 2007 @11:13PM (#21692980) Attached to: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard

Bingo.

It'll be sweet when it comes. I'll be reading all about it from my Mac!

Bookmark Operation FlashBook: Running Tiger from Flash on a PowerBook G4 (lowendmac.com)

by John Muir on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @03:06PM

MacBook Hacked In Contest Via Zero-Day Hole in Safari 156

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 21, 2007 @01:22AM from the and-the-winner-is dept.

EMB Numbers writes "Shane Macaulay just won a MacBook as a prize for successfully hacking OS X at CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, BC. The hack was based on a Safari vulnerability found by Dai Zovi and written in about 9 hours. CanSecWest organizers actually had to relax the contest rules to make the hack possible, because initially nobody at the event could breach the computers under the original restrictions. 'Dai Zovi plans to apply for a $10,000 bug bounty TippingPoint announced on Thursday if a previously unknown Apple bug was used. "Shane can have the laptop, I want the money," Dai Zovi said in a telephone interview from New York. TippingPoint runs the Zero Day Initiative bug bounty program.'"

Month of Apple Bugs Debuts in January 171

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @01:14PM from the sure-to-raise-some-eyebrows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the Month of Apple Bugs, a project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it. According to a post over at The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the project is being put together by researchers Kevin Finisterre and the guy who ran November's Month of Kernel Bugs project." From the post: "It should be interesting to see whether Apple does anything to try and scuttle this pending project. In November, a researcher who focuses most of his attention on bugs in database giant Oracle's software announced his intention to launch a "Week of Oracle Database Bugs" project during the first week of December. The researcher abruptly canceled the project shortly after the initial announcement, without offering any explanation."

iTunes Sales 'Collapsing' 651

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @03:29AM from the nothing-definitive dept.

Alien54 writes to tell us The Register is reporting that based on reported revenues this year iTunes sales are plummetting. From the article: "Secretive Apple doesn't break out revenues from iTunes, but Forrester conducted an analysis of credit card transactions over a 27-month period. And this year's numbers aren't good. While the iTunes service saw healthy growth for much of the period, since January the monthly revenue has fallen by 65 per cent, with the average transaction size falling 17 per cent. The previous spring's rebound wasn't repeated this year."

Steve Wozniak Honors Innovative Inventors 82

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 25, 2006 @07:05PM from the nice-thinking dept.

DigitalDame2 writes "Steve Wozniak, co-inventor of the Apple personal computer (along with Steve Jobs), hosted the first annual Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge. Wozniak's favorite invention is one that shows where to clip your dog's claws without injuring the dog. The Strawjet, a creation that weaves straw left over from a harvest into building materials, won the grand prize."