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Boot Camp users reporting serious crashes

“To be precise, the common crisis is that after partitioning their hard drives and installing Windows XP–which seems to work fine–these people find they can no longer boot back into OS X.”
You went to Boot Camp?
Better enjoy the Windows.
I miss you Steve Jobs.
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Mac OS X hacked in less than 30 minutes

“Gaining root access to a Mac is ‘easy pickings,’ according to an individual who in less than 30 minutes won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.”
I’m sure this is going to spread like wildfire across the Internets today, but let me take [...]

OSx86 10.4.4 Security Broken

Apple’s hardware based platform-protection for Mac OS X has been broken. What has it been, a month or less since the hardware was released? Artificially restricting people from something they want (enough to actually buy it, even!) combined with an interesting challenge for hackers by using new protection methods is a good way to get [...]