Comments on: This week’s rotten Apple rumor mill http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070323/4353/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: darkmoon http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070323/4353/#comment-480338 darkmoon Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:30:32 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070323/4353/#comment-480338 Hmm. Engadget has shown a way to hack it. But I'm not shelling out $300 to hack the device. heh Hmm. Engadget has shown a way to hack it. But I’m not shelling out $300 to hack the device. heh

]]> By: darkmoon http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070323/4353/#comment-479437 darkmoon Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:51:23 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070323/4353/#comment-479437 I don't buy the the Symantec report. Based purely on IE vs Firefox alone for access failures, it's an 8:2 scenario. That was exploiting PC failures. Then you account for Darwin being built on BSD architecture, and you find that the entry points into the kernel are a lot less likely than any Windows system since the design for Windows systems allow the applications to interact with the kernel. On top of that, Symantec builds their whole business around the PC market. I've been tracking the break-in attempts to my current OS on my MBP versus my XP virtual machine, and it's pretty obvious which one gets more attempts. From the AppleTV standpoint? You're right on the mark. I made that comment when they released it. 40G? I mean give me a break. That's like saying... hey... you paid for a Ferrari, but we decided to give you the Yugo engine. But that's okay! It still looks like a Ferrari. If the AppleTV could do my PVR needs, I'd get one. But so far, it really just doesn't excite me. I don’t buy the the Symantec report. Based purely on IE vs Firefox alone for access failures, it’s an 8:2 scenario. That was exploiting PC failures. Then you account for Darwin being built on BSD architecture, and you find that the entry points into the kernel are a lot less likely than any Windows system since the design for Windows systems allow the applications to interact with the kernel.

On top of that, Symantec builds their whole business around the PC market. I’ve been tracking the break-in attempts to my current OS on my MBP versus my XP virtual machine, and it’s pretty obvious which one gets more attempts.

From the AppleTV standpoint? You’re right on the mark. I made that comment when they released it. 40G? I mean give me a break. That’s like saying… hey… you paid for a Ferrari, but we decided to give you the Yugo engine. But that’s okay! It still looks like a Ferrari. If the AppleTV could do my PVR needs, I’d get one. But so far, it really just doesn’t excite me.

]]> By: mikull http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070323/4353/#comment-478389 mikull Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:26:30 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070323/4353/#comment-478389 I never considered the hard drive space issue until you put it that way- and you're right on the mark. I think it's a good idea in theory, but the windows media center get-up seems more versatile to me. I don't have a video generation ipod, and I don't see myself buying videos from the itunes store- I certainly don't see myself needing this over my RCA cable and existing stereo for tunes either. I've been a PC guy for a long time, but recently got a Intel MacBook Pro- I have a foot in each world now. My job provided the mac, as well as an IBM T60. At home I sport a self-built system. I talked a little bit about that on my blog: http://www.mikull.com/my-new-17-macbook-pro-or/ - the biggest selling point to come back to Mac was the ability to stay in step with my windows world via Parallels. The more I use it though, the less I discover I switch to my virtual machine. WindowsXP is still a security blanket. I never considered the hard drive space issue until you put it that way- and you’re right on the mark. I think it’s a good idea in theory, but the windows media center get-up seems more versatile to me. I don’t have a video generation ipod, and I don’t see myself buying videos from the itunes store- I certainly don’t see myself needing this over my RCA cable and existing stereo for tunes either.

I’ve been a PC guy for a long time, but recently got a Intel MacBook Pro- I have a foot in each world now. My job provided the mac, as well as an IBM T60. At home I sport a self-built system. I talked a little bit about that on my blog: http://www.mikull.com/my-new-17-macbook-pro-or/ - the biggest selling point to come back to Mac was the ability to stay in step with my windows world via Parallels. The more I use it though, the less I discover I switch to my virtual machine. WindowsXP is still a security blanket.

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