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 magic word to link all the pages up.

13949712720901ForOSX

So please Apple, sort it out. I’m really happy that you’ve finally got an OS X L&F looking good on Java 5 and pleased that it’s 64-bit, but lets get Java 6, and reasonably soon.

Oh, and whilst we’re at it, please Sun, make Instruments nee X-Ray available on Solaris.

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 when bootcamping into Vista.

Anyway, it’s now back on for my Macs and I’m curious to see what sort of fallout Apple will have to deal with over this.

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 have to squint to read the text, but I do like the little jibe Apple is having at Microsoft