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 [...]
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 [...]
My mini has been poorly of late.
I planned to get a new external firewire disk for it and thought my trip to the US would be an ideal time as the USD is worth so little these days.
I bought a G-TECH G-DRIVE external FW drive. Looks good, runs silent, sleeps when Mini sleeps.
So Mini is [...]
Recently, Apple introduced iWork ‘08, an upgrade to the ‘office productivity’ suite they provide. The big news here is that they finally introduced a modern spreadsheet product, Numbers to replace the aging AppleWorks.
Now the first thing I did with Numbers is see if it bests Excel on one of its stupidest ‘features,’ namely, Excel can [...]
As many of you know, I have achieved a higher plane of being by primarily using a Mac for my computing needs
Like all enlightened people, however, one sometimes needs to see how the less fortunate live, so I run my Windows environments virtually, and for the last year or so I’ve been using Parallels [...]
My Mac Mini has died
It failed to boot one day.
Booting from setup disc, then running Disk Utility showed loads of disk errors, and it couldn’t fix them.
Hardware diagnostics said all was OK.
Re-installing didn’t help as disk was still very corrupt.
Single-user mode and several iterations of fsck didn’t fix it.
Ended up repartitioning disk, reinstalling the [...]
Can you tell which laptop I like the best?
Originally uploaded by fotoFluke.
I’m a bit of a fan of multiplicity photos; this one made me smile
(it’s not me, by the way)
It’s quite well known now that if you’re a PC user and run Vista, you are going to have trouble with iTunes and your iPod. Now it looks like there are lots of Apple products that don’t work well with Microsoft’s new offering.
I wonder why this is? Did Apple do nothing until the release? Microsoft [...]
Maybe the RDF is wearing off.
The iPhone needs to do a bit more basic stuff before it comes to the UK, in my opinion.
It needs to support MMS. OK, I very rarely use MMS, but just about every phone here has it so should be supported.
The camera only takes stills. Again, just about every camera [...]
The iPhone seems to have raised the bar on handheld (or even desktop) user interfaces very high; everything else looks very tired and dated by comparison, even the iPod and especially the Zune.
Even without the phone bit, it’s a top media player and mobile surfer.
Apparently not out in the UK until the autumn, but this [...]
