Re: OS X Installed numbers (Was Re: mac-toolbox)

2002-11-15 Thread gregor420
Well, I for one, use Maya from SGI|Alias|Waefront - and it doesn;t 
support 10.2 - there are a number of dialog boxen which get very screwed 
up by it.

Are there any other packages which work under 10.1-  not in 10.2+ ?

Certainly some of the shareware stuff like fruitmenu  windowshade have 
different versions...

From a developer's view are there any commonly known gotchas to look for?

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:




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On 14/11/02 1:05, David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 04:27  PM, Ken Williams wrote:


 2) High-end users who are dying to switch, but need to wait until
their software is properly supported, or until they can properly do a
massive switchover of technologies in their business


You can probably blame Quark for about 90% of this. They're *really*
far behind updating QuarkXPress to Mac OS X, and they still pretty well
own the professional design layout market.


This is especially true here in the U.K. The overwhelming majority of 
Mac
users here are in the design/bureaux/newspaper business and won't touch 
OS X
with a bargepole exclusively because of Quark.

There are hopes that OS X may eat into the Oracle/Unix/db market but 
it's a
*very* long shot. Local Perl Monger groups are reporting lay offs and 
the
vast majority of _them_ are Windoze users.

Switch, whether from Mac OS 9 or Win32, definitely ain't happening 
here :-(

Regards,

Phil.





Re: setuid root hole... oops!

2001-10-17 Thread gregor420

  First off, you shouldn't have ANYTHING out there that's SUID root except
carefully placed apps.
Secondly, in order to run the NetInfo manager, you usually have to 
authenticate by clicking on that lock icon.
Once you do that, I guess your permissions stick for an unspecified 
amount of time...

Terminal.app should definately NOT be SUID or SGID.
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at 10:03 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

 Try these steps on an OS X machine (not logged in as root)


 Open up the Terminal.app
 Quit it.
 Open up NetInfo Manager (leave it in the foreground)
 Open up Terminal.app from the *RECENT ITEMS* list in the Apple Menu.

 Voila! a terminal logged in as root.


 This apparently is the case with all setuid root applications... Not
 good




RE: slightly off topic - looking for a backup solution

2001-10-10 Thread gregor420

Follow up on my last post from Dantz's site:

Status of Retrospect for Mac OS X v10.1

Dantz continues to work very closely with Apple to make Retrospect 
available for Mac OS X. Mac OS X v10.1 has important issues that need to 
be resolved. For example, it is not possible to back up and restore hard 
links. This functionality is required to restore a complete, functioning 
Mac OS X system.