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Java 6 on Leopard Meme

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Actually, I’m not that bothered about a lack of Java 6 on the current build of Leopard, but will probably start to lose faith if it’s still not there by Christmas…
Anyway, I’m not going to write loads, suffice it to say that the Apple java-dev mailing list folk suggesting using 0xCAFEBABE in decimal + a [...]

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Leopard secure?

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Turns out the Leopard firewall is off by default.
Even after upgrading from Tiger where I had it switched on, it is now off.
On the face of it, this would seem bad, especially for wifi users who might be exposed to dodgy Windows laptops in the same hotspot. Ironically, a Leopard sporting MacBook is probably safer [...]

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Leopard

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” this weekend, and the interweb is no doubt awash with its praise… or otherwise.
Anyways, one thing that I found, and it amused me mightily, is the icon it uses to represent a ‘generic PC’ on a network (eg in my case, my wife’s Dell laptop).
Here it is:

You’ll probably [...]

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