So Apple is pulling the MS trick...
...of so tightly integrating it's own web browser into the OS that it can not readily be disabled?
Seems like it is Lynx inside a sandboxed command line FTW.....
Apple's Safari web browser for both the Mac and Windows suffers from a serious vulnerability that can expose emails, passwords and other sensitive contents of a user's hard drive, a researcher has warned. Those using Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, are susceptible to the data-snooping bug even if they use Firefox or another …
Man I am laughing my arse off at all those complacent and smug mac retards thinking themselves safe from this kinda blight which is more commonly associated with windows.
So I say again.....Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....
ps: I do own a Mac, I'm just not smug about it.
How dare you point out errors in The One True Way!
you will be burned at the stake, bound with iPod earphones and have an iphone shoved into every orifice.
May the Blessings of the White One of the Sacred Black Polarneck be with you my son (as we burn your arse) - it is, after all, for your own good.
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"Oh, and that's without mentioning that Apple Update is a program that installed itself without my knowledge to start with. "
Are you sure about that?
I've just had to install Quicktime onto a couple of PCs in order to use a HD Video Camera.
In the Install window there is a checkbox to install (or not) the auto-update facility.
**Nobody appears to have heard of asking the USER like "preferred day to annoy the crap out of you with updates"**
Umm they have. Try AptGet. It informs me when updates are available by changing a number from zero to a number saying how many updates are available. This does not annoy the crap out of me. It is then my choice as to when I download the updates, if at all.
I've also never had to restart my computer after updating, although some updates to running processes do ask for them to be restarted.
What, AptGet not available for Windows/Mac? Try a user friendly operating system, like, err, Linux.
"Umm they have. Try AptGet. It informs me when updates are available by changing a number from zero to a number saying how many updates are available. This does not annoy the crap out of me. It is then my choice as to when I download the updates, if at all.
I've also never had to restart my computer after updating, although some updates to running processes do ask for them to be restarted."
To be fair, a couple of times per year, the kernel updates do indeed require a reboot. Mind you, like you said, you can choose not to take them, if you really want. One of the factors that drove me to Linux, we the endless updates from MS, that always required a reboot (not very handy on a media server! ;) ). I liked it so much, I moved wholesale and didn't look back :)
Now, I can't really remember what the boot process, or logon screen looks like...
Obviously, there are pros and cons to the Windows vs Linux-repo update model, but on balance, I far prefer the Linux one. I guess, the model would matter less if you didn't have to reboot for every update in Windowsland, but I still can't bear the Windows model, where you have umpteen process running, all trying to keep "their" app, up to date.