* Posts by Eric Murphy

3 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jun 2008

Microsoft bares Steve Jobs' Flash rant claptrap

Eric Murphy

Except...

" Steve Jobs saying that the release of its Cocoa-centric Creative Suite 5 made Adobe the last major third-party developer to port its apps to Cocoa is simply wrong," except that he didn't say that. He said Adobe was the last major third-party developer to port its apps to OS X, not to Cocoa.

Although I suppose one could argue that Adobe beat Quark—if you still consider Quark to be a "major developer."

Apple DNS patch doesn't patch Mac clients

Eric Murphy

How serious for OS X clients?

What percentage of OS X clients run with BIND enabled, I wonder...

Microsoft urges Windows users to shun 'carpet bombing' Safari

Eric Murphy

Threat to OS X? Doubtful.

First: in OS X 10.5, the default downloads location is ~/Downloads, NOT the desktop. Second, OS X will not launch a downloaded executable without user interaction. Third, if a user does launch an application downloaded from the Internet, a prompt will display asking the user for permission to launch. Fourth, the system keeps track of the URL from which the file was downloaded. Fifth, the number of malicious executables which can run on OS X is low to nonexistent.

1 through 5 make this a pretty toothless threat on OS X. On Windows, well, that's a different matter.