Recent content by Mephisto

Not really true. Windows includes drivers for the more common chipsets in the default install and has had Firewire networking for a long time. If MS were shunning Firewire I hardly think they would go to the effort of implementing FW networking. It is not something most Windows users would...

USB2 Has a higher theoretical transfer rate, but this does not play out as you would expect for hard drives. First USB2 drives are not as good for sustained transfer. Secondly the USB disk driver for Mac leaves a bit to be desired. http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html With a little...

More likely the rumored iPod update.

I realize this is somewhat old news but since it just resurfaced I am curious as to what the astute readers here make of this lawsuit. I must confess I am of mixed feelings on it. On the one hand Apple needs to protect their interests and make a point that things like torrenting the private...

It is likely an infected PC scanning for other boxes to infect. Port 1025 is a well known vector for a Windows based worm whose name is escaping me at the moment. If you have a firewall external to your Mac try blocking ports 1025-1031 for everything outside the local subnet. The problem...

Not that it matters but changing your MAC in and of itself is not particularly useful when hacking. It is only useful in conjunction with other techniques that anyone who needs to ask about how to change the MAC would not know or if they did it is likely they would botch the hacking attempt...

I might also point out that he seems to be a Mac OS 9 user not just a Windows user. So it is not just a case of expecting XP and not getting it.

While he may be nitpicking he does have some valid points. There are certain things in Mac OS X that could be improved. #3 does not bother me but I can see why it would bother some. #6 is true. I have it set to autoadjust but I remember the pain of trying to set the time by hand. Why...

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I read it yesterday when you first posted it, then did further research to corroborate the statements. I saw the comments to the effect that HFS suffered from the same problems but saw little backing that up elsewhere. Given the average Apple user's use of voodoo mechanics to diagnose errors I...

RacerX is it a problem on HFS as well or just HFS+? Does Apple admit to this problem? Is the root cause known? i.e. is it the autodefragging as an example. It baffles the imagination that a problem of this nature has existed for years without correction or at least a safety net to prevent...

So would it reflect badly on the OS or on the Administrator? Futhermore if you are doing, conservatively, ten million dollars a year through your website don't you think you would have clustering or at the very least failover? I agree that it could be worded better but it would take a truly...

Technically unless you do a "shutdown -r now" it is undoable. Shutdown on Mac OS x has a 120 second delay. Even then depending on how you look at it the process of rebooting is "undoing" the action. The state of the computer, assuming the reboot is successful, is brought back to the...

As a counterpoint I do not care if it is French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Fharsi, or Pig-Latin. Calling it "Hello" regardless of language does not seem like a meaningful moniker for an adhoc networking protocol. It is designed as a localized peer networking solution so how does "Bonjour"...

Personally I will call it OpenTalk or ZeroConf. There were even a few articles out on ADC where they called it OpenTalk, I do not get why they changed it. Bonjour just does not cut it for me. I can't even see the benefit from a marketing perspective to a normal user, but then again I am not in...