I gotta hand it to Symantec. Despite their blunderous and fearmongering assessment of the pending onset of tragic and multiple Macintosh viruses (no doubt aimed at rescuing flagging sales of their Macintosh products), they seem to be keeping their word on leaving the SecurityFocus free to editorialize as they wish …

OK, this is really esoteric, so if you're not a Macintosh OS X Server administrator, just go ahead and skip it. I decided to get the 10.3.9 upgrade and Security Update 2005-003 out of the way today before leaving to go out of the country. Of course, I …

Somebody put together a nice summary for the Apple finance information from the last report.

Here's an entry from the blog of Paul Graham (author, language designer, and self- described hacker) about the move to Macs by hackers. And in this case, we're talking the old-school hackers, those of us who like to get inside, figure out how things work, and make something new out …

Now, I'd be just about the first person in line to claim that people don't take security seriously enough on computers. However, Symantec may well have reached new heights in the use of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) to promote the sale of product. A number of articles, such as …

This might have been better posted to the HAM forum, but it has some amusing cross-over appeal. A plea for help on MacFixIt about a Macintosh that turned off whenever an ICOM two-way radio was keyed elicited a knowledgeable response (same page) that indicated that the problem was actually the …

OK, I don't think that I'm going to offend any die-hard PC lovers with this pointer to the review from DivisionTwo, which has got to be the most clueless review of Apple's new Mac Mini. The review is written from the point of view of a PC user who is …

The University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign) has announced the Turing Cluster, a 640-node XServe cluster running OS X Server 10.3. Partially funded by a donation from Apple (although nobody is saying how partially), it's available for public access inside of the University's research community and student population.

An interesting take on the Macintosh Mini from ComputerWorld senior news columnist Frank Hayes today at MacCentral. Basically, he thinks it is going to have an effect on the IT marketplace, and probably for the better, but not because it will take off, mostly because it puts Apple aiming computers …

When Apple's Macintosh Mini was announced, people noticed that it was conveniently smaller than a standard DIN car stereo. However, CNet is reporting that Classic Restorations (a New York based auto restoration company) has already announced its intention to put Mac Minis inside of cars. No word yet on pricing …

Appearing on the Xbench comparison site yesterday, the Mac Mini (1.42GHz, the US$599 model) results. I did a quick comparison of that to the iMac G5 and found it to be about 2/3 of the speed (overall) (not surprising given that was a 1.8GHz G5). Comparing …

Wired has an article about Delicious Monster, an up-and-coming software company specializing in Mac software. Their first product Delicious Library, provides those of us who have a need to catalog our DVDs, books, CDs, etc with an easy way to do this. Unfortunately, I have barely used the software, but …

I realize that Keyspan released the Keyspan Express Remote in November, but I have to admit that I didn't pay much attention to it. After taking some time to read about it, this is a pretty cool device. Hook it in to the USB port on the Airport Express and …

Not to beat up on the French, but they're getting the Homer Simpson "Doh!" award this week for this article from the International Herald Tribune describing a counter- terrorism check gone bad. It appears that 4+ days ago, the airport police in Paris planted explosives in an unsuspecting passenger's bag …

In an interesting development and a boon to Apple's fledgling storage product line, Oracle is quoted by CNet in this article as using 50 to 100TB of XServe RAID storage in their own environment. Also of note is an announcement by Apple that they expect Oracle's 10g software to be …

A paper published by the NSA, describes security measures to be taken to keep Macintosh OS X Panther Client safe. The doc is up to date as of October 15th (10.3.5) and covers only the Client. Of particular interest, though is the paragraph about initial configuration. The NSA …

Are you a Mac user who uses Garmin or Magellan GPS devices? Sick of having to load maps with a PC or software emulator? Well, then get on the ball and sign the petition from GPS City to get them both to move their software to the Mac.

A detailed article from AFP548.com (Macintosh server administrator's website) gives a pretty disturbing description of a problem that has been around in OSX for a while. The good news: it was finally fixed in the September 30, 2004 security patch. Those of you doing insecure management of OSX Servers …

MacWorld has an excerpt of an article from MDJ about Adobe's attempt to take the confusion out of the raw formats from various digital cameras by creating a standard. The proposed standard, called DNG (for Digital Negative) is an add-on to the TIFF and TIFF-EP formats that Adobe owns (courtesy …

Useful, no. Cute, perhaps. Somebody out there in mod-land has decided to take emulation to the limit and has posted instructions for getting Apple's OS X to run on an X-Box. The process takes about 10 hours and results in a relatively useless installation of OSX, but it is definitely …