Comments on: #124 Lingon, Mac Google Desktop, Bento, QT vulnerability, Auto Gain Control in Skype

By: Quentin

Quentin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:10:17 +0000

Thank you so much for the PubSubAgent hint. It was driving me nuts and I’d searched high and low for something that would stop my Mac from grinding to a halt every few hours when it ran out of memory.

I found a feed or two in my Safari RSS feeds which seemed to have lost their knowledge of the necessary password, and having fixed them, I think things are happy again!

Greatly appreciated.

By: podfeet

podfeet — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:39:30 +0000

Mike – I forgot to respond to you weeks ago and just remembered! thanks for the tip on Sofa Buddy, I just sent them an email asking them for a review copy of their software. Thanks for the tip and sorry for ignoring you for so long!

By: podfeet

podfeet — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:31:12 +0000

You know I’m not a nervous Nelly at all, but this one sounded a bit nasty and there was a trivially easy way to shut off access to my Mac, so it seemed a prudent thing to do. I also don’t run anti-virus – I keep wondering what would be in the definition files if there are no known viruses?

Honda Bob definitely works on S2000s! Here’s what you do – just drive out and visit me whenever you need some maintenance on your car, we’ll have Honda Bob meet us here, I’ll wax your car and you’ll sit in a lawn chair and entertain us! I KNOW how much a clean car means to you…

By: Anthony Hess

Anthony Hess — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:18:16 +0000

Yawn .. until there is actually some exploit that actually does something on a Mac I’m not going to pay attention to it. Mac user smug arrogance? Yea maybe …

The worst security issue I’ve seen since OS X came out … the nastiest system damage and all that … was when Sophos (I think Norton did it too) decided that half the files on a Mac were viruses and started wiping them out. Wrecked a lot of Adobe and Office installs, IIRC. I thumbed my nose at all the other admins who thought I was a nut for not installing and activating AV on the Mac machines I supported.

I refuse to give into theoretical security and paranoia. Thats not just for computers either! I know my risk evaluator is a little skewed toward “kinda likes risk” but still!

My name is connected to this so Im not making any comment about work and them making you get a winbox You should have gotten a thinkpad! (will they let you?)

Bento looks pretty interesting … I think I’ll get around to playing with it at some point.

BTW Im sold on Honda Bob … now if only Honda sold any cars I wanted! Wait .. they do .. does Honda Bob do Honda S2000s? I suppose it would cost me something to ship it to him to work on .. but hey a good mechanic is hard to find.