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I remember the doom mongering in the late 80s claiming that fuel will run out by 2000.

Do you have the latest version of Safari installed? There was a bug in Safari that caused it to flicker on some Flash/SWF heavy websites though that appears to have been largely fixed in Safari 3.

1) What does this have to do with dual processors? 2) What version of OS X are you using?

On windows, we have different trace logging levels. We usually have some fairly verbose logging on, since it means that if clients repeatedly run into trouble and crash we can look at their logs and understand what happened. While it sounds bad for performance, we did look at it and found that...

I think this whole incident does teach me to be really really careful with my code in the future. It tells me that as a software developer, I shouldn *not* liberally sprinkle trace statements in my code which will be captured by the debug console. Sure, those messages only have meaning to me but...

They could genuinely have a problem. A Mac one, that is... Personally, I've never seen anything remotely like an exploit on the Mac and nothing I've seen in this thread jumps out at me and strikes me as being a potential exploit.

Addendum: You might want to read http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/06/20/flaw-in-apple-remote-desktop-exploited-via-trojan and then take the steps listed there if you are really paranoid.

These are your internet connections to the outside world. Notice that they have an address associated with them. They appear to be connected to google, and you have your network time protocol daemon running. Nothing to worry about. And these are your local connections, connections that...

Sweaty hands when using a laptop? Hmm. Do you wanna tell us why? ;)

Delete it? The administrator will have all access to the computer. That's the very nature of being the administrator. Deleting the application is the only thing you can do to stop anyone else including the administrator from running it.

There is no reason why ActiveX will not work. ActiveX is a very different technology to DirectX, which has had problems working in an emulated environment. ActiveX is just a way of writing software components in a programming language neutral manner and it is an integral part of Windows. If you...

If its anything like GCC (which I think it is) you need to pass the flags -L/path/to/library and -llibrary name. So, if my library is installed in /opt/lib and the library is called foo.a, the following g77 command is what I need to type: g77 -L/opt/lib -lfoo I do not think it will work...

This might be a dumb question, but why won't the DVD player that comes with 10.3 work? If 10.3's DVD player is really broken on older machines, you could always download VLC and give that a spin. It plays practically anything and I use it happily on my Mac, Linux and Windows boxes.

The Windows firewall prevents malicious hackers from making connections to your computer. However, it doesn't prevent malicious programs you've accidentally installed (i.e. spyware) from phoning home. The Windows firewall blocks unauthorized incoming connections, but it does nothing to the...

You've got to be joking. You might as well not have an anti-virus if it doesn't do on access scanning.

How did you install it? Did you compile it from source? Download it from some place?

You need to install X11 from your installation CDs. The one available online is for Panther, IIRC.

How did you install your copy of Fortran?

If you type "Console" without the quotes into Spotlight, you'll launch the console application and then you'll get to see your logs.

Oh cool, that's probably it. I should have redirected output to a file somewhere. I never thought of that!