Interesting Mac factoids....

[bofh]

I'm willing to bet that OS/400 was NOT included. I do not know of ANY successful attacks against that operating system. IBM hosted the AS/400 web site for many years WITHOUT a firewall and there were no successful attacks. Not for lack of trying...

A whole lot of OS/400 laptops out there, eh?

[Gunga]

Yeah...but can you play Doom III on it? NO!

[SCpoloRicker]

damnit Kev

The apple cinema widescreen monitors are amazing!

One of the graphic artists I work with has a dual G5 with that 22" monster.

Me want.

Next, whip out your Newtons!

[Jack_Dubious]

Next, whip out your Newtons!

my newton got stolen

only cool thing Apple produced....eh, maybe the iPod too


JDub

[Kevmaster]

The apple cinema widescreen monitors are amazing!

One of the graphic artists I work with has a dual G5 with that 22" monster.

Me want.

Next, whip out your Newtons!

sorry....we converted to an apple fleet after those days...we carry 10 laptops and 6 dual g5s to do our video work...they're all really cool to play on....oh...and a 25TB Apple RAID to store some video...yes...TB

[SCpoloRicker]

Holy Crap!

[Smoke]

Yeah...but can you play Doom III on it? NO!

You will be able to soon, it's being ported.

More and more game companies are porting games to OSX, because despite all the prejudice about Macs they are very stable gaming machines. And with the new monitors and graphics capabilities, Macs can now rival any PC gaming machine.

*waits for Mac haters to start screaming 'NUH UH!'*

[cphilip]

cphilip coming to you via

Machine Model: Power Mac G5
CPU Type: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.0.7f0
Serial Number: XB33928WNVB

seeing you through his 17" Cinema display...

[phantomhitman]

Or is it just that hackers ignore Mac OS because it represents such a small percentage of the available targets?

took the words right off of my keyboard. also, gates is perceived as evil-money hungry-world dominant nerd. that does not make all of the hackers very happy either......

[cphilip]

took the words right off of my keyboard. also, gates is perceived as evil-money hungry-world dominant nerd. that does not make all of the hackers very happy either......

Actually you must not have read the article. Thats what I thought too until now. That hacker/Virus writers just ignored Mac. But even if they do... Thats not what this test was doing at all... this was designed to see if it COULD be hacked. And yet even when NOT IGNORING it and deliberately trying to..... they did not. And declared it a safe OS. So it seems even if one of them decides to do so... he is going to have a lot more trouble.

Thats the reason I posted that result. Because its not just because people don't try... it's because its a very safe platform. Get it?

[SCpoloRicker]

wired article

(or maybe /.)

I recently recall reading an article about a virus being created to attack Macs. Not the one cphil is refering to, I think.

It basically stated that the attack was good for two reasons;

1) The installed base of Mac users has gotten large enough to make an attack worthwhile.

2) The Mac community, with *NIX assistance, quickly shut down any vulnerabilities.

At my office, we have just put in 2 G5 workstationswith 19" flatscreens for our artists. Plus, someone else's iMac just came in... Grrrrr... I want mine now!

[edit: Doom 3 on OSX ]

[phantomhitman]

i tell you what. when, and if, the mac gets attacked as much as a windows pc by various coders out there, not just a company trying the best THEY can do or even one select test, i will be fine. i did not read the article, i did not want to. i completely believe that osx is safer, i never said it was not.
the best analogy i can think of is this. Comparing the theft rate of a honda accord to that of a mercedes. Many more hondas than mercedes=hondas being stolen a lot more. Since this car has been ripped off so much a lot of thieves know more about how to steal them and it becomes common knowledge on how to steal them. Honda, try as they might, cannot implement a good alarm or deterant system. It would cost too much, where as mercedes are harder to break into, but also have less attempts on them. But you also pay a mercedes price........

The main things that turned me against macs is the pricing system. Apple controls the prices directly more or less. And, until recently, Macs have been 100% macs, not way to upgrade unless you sold the old and bought the new. I will give it to them that there computers are nice, but they "packaging" that comes with them is just not for me. Too much of a "fashion statement" for me, and also a price that is not in my range for what I get.
/apple rant

[cphilip]

i i did not read the article, i did not want to....

...not way to upgrade unless you sold the old and bought the new...

Well at that point if you want to remain ignorant then I would suggest you not comment on something your not willing to read first...

Secondly, thats wrong. I can put anything I want into this Desktop as long as its Mac compatable. Cards, Drives, etc.... you don't know your Macs.... but you comment anyway.

[FooTemps]

lol, phil... you suck at coming up with titles...

change it to "interesting MACtoids" ahahahaha,

[phantomhitman]

i did not read the article, and did NOT comment on the ARTICLE. i commented on everyone loving to hate microsoft and its weaknesses. i also AGREED with you that osx is safer. i have met alot of people that have NEVER used a windows pc because they HEARD it wasnt safe, that is stupid.
you also forgot to include my whole setence about the upgrades, UNTIL RECENTLY. Wow, you can take a hard drive out, or floppy drive. But there were no new video cards for them, no new motherboards or processors, because NO ONE except apple made them!!! Therefore that means no upgrades besides storage or memory. I am glad apple started letting outside companies in our there machines, in the last year alone nvidia has made me notice apples even more. With more and more games going there way I might look into an apple.

so calm down, i am on your side. but every story has 2 sides, and i will use my $2000 windows game machine for now. i look forward to apple getting into gaming machines, i would def pick one up.