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When Mac OS X Leopard was released in October 2007, there was significant outcry about a number of changes made to the built-in firewall. One security consultant even went so far as to call the firewall “a mess…so simple as to be nearly useless”. Apple soon released a few security updates that fixed a number of complaints about the firewall, but for me, a general sense of brokenness and distrust prevailed. Now we’ve upgraded some of our Macs in the office to Leopard, and recently my negative perception of the new firewall has changed.
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It’s been over a week since we returned from YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) in Chicago, and now is a good time to recap some of the interesting and noteworthy things we learned about and observed from our three days at the conference.
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At work I happily run Mac OS X 10.2.8 and my main browser of choice is still Safari (version 1.0.3); it doesn’t really bother me that these are both a couple of years out-of-date since they remain in fine working condition. Sometimes, though, my crusty software does make me feel a little bit like a stick in the mud, what with Tiger coming out and Firefox catching on. But just the other day I discovered that, apparently, Google likes my software configuration quite a bit.
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The Associated Press has reported recently on an interesting trend in browser usage that was originally revealed last week by WebSideStory, an independent Web analytics company. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which had enjoyed a market share upwards of 95 percent as recently as June of 2004, has now slipped below the 90 percent mark in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »