Apple stops Boot Camp downloads
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Apple reminded users that the license to Boot Camp would expire when Leopard shipped. The application's beta has been available free of charge for Mac owners running Mac OS X 10.4, commonly known as Tiger.
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Blog: Apple's Web browser was downloaded a million times from the company's Web site in the 48 hours since Steve Jobs unveiled it at the Worldwide Developers Conference Monday.
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The latest public beta of Boot Camp contains support for MacBook Pro keyboard backlighting, Apple Remote pairing, updated graphics drivers, and other changes.
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Office for Mac 2008 incorrectly assigns ownership of some files, Microsoft has confirmed, creating a potential security problem for businesses installing the new application suite.Joel Bruner, a Chicago-based Mac consultant, was the first to notice the ownership snafu. "[Microsoft] moved to Apple's Package Maker (.pkg) installer files, good news for the enterprise, [but] unfortunately, they've created all the packages to install most all of the files with the owner set to 502."In a shop where employees run with limited privileges -- a practice very common in an enterprise -- and IT is the only user with full administrative rights, Office 2008's ownership assignment means that a user who wasn't supposed to have complete control over those files actually does. In other words, whomever is assigned user ID 502 has full read/write access to Office's files."So let's say, Mr. IT installs this on a user's machine where the first user is the admin[istrator] (501) and the standard user is Joe User (502)," said Bruner in a post to his blog on Monday. "Well, when after all's installed, it will give Joe User (502) ownership of these folders and their installed contents:/Library/Automator/ (if it doesn't exist already) /Library/Fonts/Microsoft /Library/Application Support/Microsoft /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008"The screw-up could present a corporate security problem, at least internally, said Bruner, if that Mac's second, standard user -- user 502 -- decides to make changes to the folders and files by, say, deleting some or moving others.A Microsoft developer left a comment at Bruner's blog confirming that the company knows about the problem. "The MacBU (Mac Business Unit) is aware of this issue," said Erik Schwiebert, a software design lead in the group.Microsoft, however, did not immediately respond to queries about how it intends to correct the problem and what users can do in the meantime.Other commenters at Bruner's blog hesitated to blame only Microsoft, however. "The truth is that this is a long-standing flaw in Apple's Installer," argued someone identified as Not Required. "Maybe Microsoft should have known better, but maybe Apple should also have improved their installer years ago. Apple clearly hasn't cared enough about smaller developers to make a fix, so hopefully Microsoft has a high enough profile that something finally gets done."In a follow-up post also on Monday, Bruner added that all the Office for Mac 2008 files owned by user 502 are also erroneously set as executable. "Now tell me does '/Microsoft Office 2008/Read Me.html' need to be executable for you to look at it?" asked Bruner. "Tick, tick, tick, *ding*! No. It does not."
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Apple has released an update to its public beta of Boot Camp, the software that allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Boot Camp 1.1.1 is available for download from Apple&#8217;s Web site.
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If you've been clicking "remind me later" for those update windows, Apple's closing its music store to you.
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SAN FRANCISCO _ Apple dropped "computer" from its name, but not from its identity.
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And recapture some valuable screen real estate and a portion of your sanity. defaults write com.apple.Dock no-glass -boolean YESkillall Dock Screen shot. Thanks to Mark Johnson for the tip.
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Apple updated iTunes to keep users from creating free iPhone ringtones--a workaround has already been posted.
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Heads off EC investigation The European Commission has ended its antitrust investigation into Apple after the computing giant agreed to cut the price UK consumers pay to download music for their iPods.â¦
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Maui-X-Stream has developed a low-cost emulator that they claim allows Apple's Mac OS X to run on x86 processors. The company announced the software, dubbed CherryOS, earlier this week and proclaimed it to be a breakthrough for home users, software developers and Web designers who operate Windows based PCs.
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InfoWorld - The European Commission ended itsÂ antitrust investigation into AppleÂ after the company agreed to reduce the price of music downloads from its iTunes Web site in the U.K., the European Union's antitrust regulator said Wednesday.
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Do not install a QuickBooks update seeded over the weekend if you're a Mac user, as multiple users are reporting that the update erases files from the Desktop folder.
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âWith the Intel Macs,â explains Brian Allen, director of technical support at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, âstudents now have the potential to have both systems on their machines, so they can run both Windows and Macintosh applications. They can easily switch between Appleâs iLife suite and AutoCad. Itâs the best of both worlds; theyâll really have two computers for the price of one.â In addition to offering students more flexibility, Allen and his team discovered that âWindows applications run faster on the Mac.â Best of all, dual-booting Mac computers offer BSU âthe potential to save $150,000 to $200,000 a year in lab hardware purchases.â Whatâs next for Boot Camp at BSU?
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IPOD MAKER Apple has come down hard on a man who made an add-in that allowed file-sharing on iPods. iPodDownload&#39;s creator has stopped distributing the iPodDownload software after a visit from Apple lawyers who applied pressure.
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If you've been clicking "remind me later" for those pesky update windows, Apple's closing its music store to you.
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Redmond cracks down on Windows Update alternative Microsoft has forced the effective shut down of the AutoPatcher download service.â¦