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  • Quote: Originally posted by Project2501 By all means, keep on preaching the glory of *nix, but don't let it get into your head. What are you talking about? Everything I said so far is true and fact. We are not talking about acts of faith here.…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Project2501 For example Secunia lists past threats for FreeBSD and Solaris most are already patched, but they still existed. Secunia also lists threats for Mac OS X. 21% of threats lead to system access and 14% to priv…
  • Quote: Originally posted by MSteward I have been able to install the printer onto the mac but it still does not work wirelessly. Cups - I have an Intel based mac, is this still an option? Yep
  • Quote: Originally posted by Project2501 And yet still, severe data crimes are not unheard of in unix world, but that wasn't not my point, no matter how secure OS is, it's never 100% secure, and letting your self lull into the false sense of secur…
  • First make sure you are on the network that has your printer. My neighbor has a wireless network an I pick up hers sometimes. Also, try to install the printer on the machine as if it was local and then installing it manually on the network. Yo…
  • Quote: Originally posted by WhiteRabbit I am positive that no one here changed it. Firstly, there is only one, passworded, account that has access to these computer settings, and secondly, nobody around here would set the computer name to somethi…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Project2501 No, there is nothing wrong with certainty, but as causation tells you, past doesn't prove anything about the future, macs first bad virus can be right behind the corner. All it takes is one bad virus. Also…
  • OSX is essentially Unix/Linux. I mean, they work pretty much the same under the hood. There are differences as far as file system and where system files are, but that is true across most Unix and Linux distributions. In your utilities folder in t…
  • I would think that any interest Apple is showing in Sun or XFS would be for future products.
  • I receive 100's of emails per day, and have used norton. It never found a single virus until I plugged in an external drive from a PC I knew had some viruses on it. Waisted money IMO.
  • I ditto the sentiments here, each OS upgrade had run faster on any machine I've upgraded. Looks like time for a clean install.