March 14, 2006
Build Yourself a Universal Mac OS X 10.4
I recently managed to get a G5 tower booting from the version of Mac OS X 10.4 that ships with the Intel iMac. Though Apple's kept it relatively quiet, the Intel version of Tiger is very nearly Universal as is: it's only missing the PPC platform drivers. Using Radmind, I was able to create a Universal 10.4 System loadset that boots and runs on all supported PPC and Intel Macs. Another Radmind user, Sam Agnew, applied this technique to the creation of a NetBoot image, and came up with a Universal 10.4 NetBoot image.
Posted by admorten at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)
January 16, 2006
Washingtonpost.com exploring Apple patching speed?
Brian Krebs, a reporter for Washingtonpost.com, sent out a request to the kerberos@mit.edu mailing list asking for "the exact dates" that some security issues were reported to Apple.
Brian authored a "longitudinal study of of Redmond's patch process to see whether the company was indeed getting more nimble at fixing security problems" and my guess he's about to do the same thing with Apple.
It will be interesting to see if he's touches on the issues of distributing open-source software as a commercial release.
Posted by mcneal at 01:47 PM | Comments (1)
January 13, 2006
Microsoft halts development of Windows Media Player for the Mac
CNET News is reporting that Microsoft is no longer developing Windows Media Player for OS X. As an alternative, they are directing users to Flip4Mac, a free plug-in for QuickTime Player.
The current version of Media Player will remain available for download.
Posted by mcneal at 09:02 AM | Comments (1)