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Sehr lesenswerter Artikel bei den MacGuardians über Microsofts komische Vorstellungen von Systemsicherheit, 'security through obscurity' und den angeblichen Nutzen von Viren (u.ä.):

"Aber all die Admins, die gerade unter der MyDoom/Novarg-Attacke stöhnen können aufatmen, denn (so Bill): "hackers are good for maturation" of the platform. Das freut die Hacker sicher und gibt ihnen neuen Antreib, wenn sie von Bill persönlich für ihre Arbeit gelobt werden. Und es ist sicher ein Trost für die zig Millionen geschädigten User und Firemn, dass sie Teil des grössten Honeypot-Experiments bzw. Beta-Tests des Planeten sind!"
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Bilder von Apples Präsenz auf der Midem (mehr davon hier) in Cannes liefert MacBidouille.
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François Joseph de Kermadec hält bei O'Reilly XGrid für äußerst zukunftsträchtig:

"Of course, XGrid is a technology preview for now and is aimed at scientists or experienced administrators who know what it can do. In its current iteration, it won't speed iMovie up for you or turn the coffee maker on. However, Apple has made it so easy to set up that I would bet that we will soon see XGrid enter our homes, built right into Mac OS X or consumer applications... After all, we all have small LANs at home now and the idea of tapping into shared resources to speed everyone's computing experience up is really promising..."
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Zwei iDVD/DVD Burning FAQs, Nummer eins bei MacMerc und Nummer zwei bei kentidwell.com.
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Nicht gerade brandaktuell und dennoch besuchenswert: Atomic Learning hat etliche Tutorials zu 10.3 Panther kostenlos verfügbar, richtet sich allerdings eher an Einsteiger.
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David Bradley, Vater der berühmt berüchtigten Ctrl-Alt-Del (Strg+Alt+Entf) Tastenkombination trat heute in den Ruhestand und liefert dabei ein schönes Zitat:

"I may have invented control-alt-delete, but Bill Gates made it really famous," he told a gathering at the twentieth anniversary of the PC.
This comment brought boundless laughter from the PC loving crowd. Bill Gates did not even crack a smile."
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Hassan Aref (Dean of the college of engineering, and a professor of engineering science and mechanics, at Virginia Tech) schreibt bei CNET über den Big Mac:

"No. 3 on the list is Virginia Tech X, the name of my institution with the Roman numeral for 10 appended. X, as we call it, consists of a cluster of Apple Computer's G5 desktop computers, with certain technological innovations.
These include the infiniband communications fabric produced by Mellanox, a new cooling system and customized racks for the computers produced by Liebert, the latest release of the Apple OS X operating system, and a proprietary software package known as Deja Vu that compensates for the inevitable glitches that occur on individual machines within the cluster when running a calculation involving many machines.
X got its name by being the first academic machine to exceed the 10-teraflop barrier. The name is also a play on OS X, the current version of Apple's Unix-based operating system. Clocked at 10.28 teraflops for the Top500 list, X may reach even higher speeds. And we at Virginia Tech hope to follow with L and, in due course, C, capable of 50 and 100 teraflops, respectively."
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Außerdem Wissenswertes aus dem Terminal - heute:
01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
(Anleitung).