- MSFT IE8 supposedly great.
- Cisco to buy vid cam company.
- New iPhone models coming? Someone thinks so.
- Google backs Sony reader.
- AT&T to sell iPhones without contracts.
- Birds dying off, they say.
- New Mozilla mobile browser.
- Dell Adamo made in China by Quanta.
- Apple sells HD now.
- Safari hacked.
- IBM-Sun merger called anti-competitive. By who?
- Sony freezes salaries.
- Google apps to be shut down by government? Why?
- Cadillac has Internet in the car itself.
- Visit: www.Squarespace.com use the code “Tech.”
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#20 Safari is safer
#20,
I included the ~25meg download, at about 1Mb a second download speed, and the restart. This computer is a beast though. Eight gig of ddr2 ram and some 4 core intel thing for the cpu. When I posted the second message, my computer was still in that odd place Vista is at when it first boots up, where they have presented you with a desktop but it is obviously not done booting yet.
But thats just me… You know with my distaste of laptops… I just get a desktop for every location I might want to work, and I still wind up paying less than the crazy dollars people spend on laptops. (Average laptop price is $1500 ?!?!?!?, I just bought two vista business edition desktops for $1100! 2 core 3 gig thingies) But then I am not jet set, I am sure I would feel differently if I were.
But also, and this is one of the valid criticisms of of ie… I have a bunch of software that just ~needs~ it. The timecard web interface for all my employees only works properly with IE. The security cam systems for all the various locations count on activex controls. The register management interface needs ie… and on and on. All of it seems to work good with ie8 so far. I am sure something will turn up that doesnt work properly with ie8.
Oh, look at that, Morfik need quirks mode to show its webapps properly in ie. Oh well, I am sure it will be patched eventually…
[You can get a decent 2-core laptop from Dell for $599. - ed.]
QB,
Also, I am hooked! Outlook 2007 is awsome! What was I thinking messing around with the gmail web interface. LOL. Here i was thinking outlook was like it was in 2000 and 2003 editions when it was hobbled if you didnt have an exchange server.
#21,
Did you see the interview with the guy who won pwn2own yesterday?
#24 My point exactly. Guess the sarcasm of telling QB that the smaller safari was safer was lost somewhere.
BTW, I do like outlook 2007 too, although the duplicated items with pocket outlook have me on the verge of assaulting Redmond
I guess I’ll have to download and install IE8 to get a time on it. I seldom use IE but I like to have the latest upgrade.
ed,
Ive had $599 laptops before. Do not want.
A few thoughts. IE8 is way better but they are only catching up. The IE team is stuck in the middle between customer needs and all the product teams at Microsoft demanding compatibility (e.g. SharePoint or Office Portal). I wouldn’t want to be them.
I had never used Safari much until the newest version 4 beta. I’ve got to admit I really like it. I started using WebKit because they work hard and need the feedback – and they’re pretty nice guys.
The Safari hack ($5,000 prize) was not unexpected (because of the publicity) but it does make MS fanbois wag their tails. The big prize ($15,000) went a student who exploited Safari, Firefox, and IE with the same approach. It’s a sign of the times when Safari hacks get more news than IE hacks.
#28,
I thought the big news was that the guys said that OSX was easier to hack than Vista;)
#29 Truth.
The ONLY reason why Macs haven’t been under attack is that malware is about profit & ROI. The current ecosystem dictates that MS machines be the target, not Macs… Apple fan boi’s have never understood this fact.
OK… Microsoft sucks as usual. It took 30 seconds to download, 2:46 for the malicious software check and 8:54 to install plus the time for a reboot.
What pisses me off is that it changed the programs that load at startup, rearranged my icons and said I need to update some of my software because IE8 isn’t compatible with it.
Screw MS!
Oh Im thick. My computer never ran Windows Defender. Thats why my install time was so much slower than everyone else;)
GregA, said “I thought the big news was that the guys said that OSX was easier to hack than Vista;)”
Typical Windows user, can’t tell the difference between an operating system and a browser. Nah, the big news was that people care when Safari gets hacked, no one cares about Microsoft hacks since it’s so easy. BTW, if you want to protect yourself how do you sandbox IE? It’s pretty darn easy to sandbox Firefox on Linux or Safari on OSX.
#33,
From the interview with the winner…
“It’s really simple. Safari on the Mac is easier to exploit. The things that Windows do to make it harder (for an exploit to work), Macs don’t do. Hacking into Macs is so much easier. You don’t have to jump through hoops and deal with all the anti-exploit mitigations you’d find in Windows.”
Oh I get it. I’ll use Linux now because of the monster IE8 vulnerabilities that were hacked. Thanks GregA for pointing me in the right direction.
Oh I would absolutly encourage you to try out linux;)
Have Fun!
#33 Before, it was that mac was the safest thing since sex abstinence. Then, when it was discovered that it was safe because hacking it was like having sex with a big ugly woman, it is “important” when mac is hacked and that’s why it is in the news.
Typical macfan attitude. The most important thing from this post is that there was no explicit order from god Steve about what to say. Which means you come from the advanced mac personality programing; those that can act under Steve’s telepathic orders. A+ to you.
Let us now when you’re happy that mac has more malware than windows.
That’s a joke I can burn through that much data in a day on the internet.