STANDING OVATION

[kickaha]

Yes, I am an unabashed Apple whore. Have been for years.

But this column is Dead Fricking On. No other company in any other industry would ever get away with it. Annoying.

Comments

[keridwen.livejournal.com]

<lmao>

Yeah, it sure is.

<sigh> I love my Mac...

[lirrin.livejournal.com]

First of all, I read that as "Standing ovulation". That took a second.

And, I just "upgraded" (hahahahahahha) to XP SP2 last night, which toasted my IE, hosed my firewall, and appears to have zorched a bunch of other stuff.

So. I'm seriously contemplating buying a Mac when we go to replace Todd's computer. Can a many-years Windows user learn to use one of them things? (I'm sure I can.) More to the point, can I train my not-computer-savvy hubby in one?

[kaneda-khan.livejournal.com]

AFAIK MacOS and all the apps are still written in C++ or ObjC (or C or Pascal), which don't prevent stupid mistakes like buffer overflows. Until the world moves to verifiable safety and sandboxing (Java/.NET/Eiffel) is there any reason we can expect MacOS to remain secure once it draws substantial attention from malware authors? I don't think I'd run even OpenBSD without a firewall...