QuickTime update fixes code-execution holes
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| Once again, there's a new version of QuickTime media player, and if you know
| what's good for you, you'll install it soon, whether you use Windows or OS X.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/new_quicktime_update/
See the remarks below. Vista, by the way, has finally found a PC it's
compatible with...
Certified for MS Vista
http://jarnos.travellerspoint.com/302/
Related:
Woz (Apple co-founder):
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| "It's very much like that, but sometimes the engineers are - yeah, no,
| I think it's very similar, very similar. Sometimes the engineers are
| true artists and really care what they're doing, doing a really great
| job. Although, I don't know how much I can even say that because the
| big companies, Microsoft, Apple and AOL, they tend to turn out the
| crappiest products, you know, software-wise. The ones that have the
| most bugs, the most items that are supposedly in there but don't work.
| The most things that are left out because they aren't finished. The most
| things that are inconsistent with the way they did their last program. I
| get the worst, worst software almost always from Apple."
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http://inquirer.stanford.edu/2005/jstaffor/woz.html
Leopard early adopters suffer for the rest of us
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| Mac OS X 10.5.1 will likely arrive around Thanksgiving with fixes for most of
| the problems encountered by the brave early adopters.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9809571-37.html
Some Leopard upgraders see 'blue screen of death'
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| A significant number of Mac owners upgrading to Leopard on Friday reported
| that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up,
| showing only an interminable -- and very Windows-like -- "blue screen of
| death."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9044378
New iMacs plagued by interface freezing issues
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| A growing number of users have reported that Apple's aluminum all-in-one
| computers suffer from a flaw that locks up the interface, rendering the
| system all but inert until a reboot.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/03/new_imacs_plagued_by_interface_freezing_issues.html
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