Posts by Mark

Win 7 RC fails to thwart well-known hacker risk

What about the Mac?

Mac OS X application bundles hide their contents away from the user to the extent that an entire folder full of who-knows-what is hidden behind an innocuous looking icon.

No complete suprise that El Reg isn't up in arms about this, though, is it?

Windows 7’s XP Mode — Virtually worth the effort

Missing the point

What people seem to be missing is the fairly obvious point that this isn't a feature designed for running XP apps - after all, XP apps will work just fine on Windows 7.

This is a feature for running all the legacy crud that _just about_ ran OK on XP, but won't work on Windows 7. For example: 16 bit apps.

While it's nice to have a good old laugh at MS every chance we get, there's no need to throw all reason out the window. A "WINE" Mode? That's called the WIN32 API, which Windows 7 already has, NATIVE, without the need for the "E" (as in Emulator).

Burned by Chrome - Fire put out

Shall we all calm down, just a little bit?

Personally, I think a journo should get at least a smidgen of legal advice before publishing this sort of scare story. Taking a single clause out of context and waving it about like a red flag in front of a bull herd of Firefox fans may get pulses racing but doesn't smack of much integrity.

Pretty obviously this clause is there to stop a content poster from coming back to Google and saying "You're showing my video through your Service across the entire globe, to millions and millions of people. I demand one million dollars in licensing revenue and a trillion more in punitive damages."