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According to Heise Security, Leopard(OS X 10.5) seems to have some critical faults in its built-in firewall. After a fresh installation, the user should activate the firewall him/herself. If you configure your fw correctly in Tiger and upgrading to Leopard, you have to activate it allover again. The weirdest thing is even after disallowing all incoming connections using the regular user interface, it is still possible to access some services such as NetBIOS Naming Service.
If you recently installed Leopard on your Mac, make sure to activate the firewall. If you don’t feel safe enough, consider installing a third party firewall application.
Although it is just hours from official release of Leopard (OS X 10.5), users are already writing their first reaction on Forums and blog sites. So far, majority of the users are happy about their purchase and pleased to see improvements made to the new version. However, there are also couple of others complaining about errors popped up, mostly when upgrading from Tiger. It is very tempting to give it a try but I might as well wait a few months before purchasing my own copy.
I have been struggling to find a solution to random system freezes of my Ubuntu box (Dapper). It all started since I installed nVidia drivers (I have a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 card) from Ubuntu repositories. Though I have followed all the steps specified in Ubuntu help forums, I couldn’t avoid annoying freezes until last night. The secret is the following addition under section “Devices” in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Option “NvAGP” “0″
Well, the big moment is just hours away. Apple Inc. will be releasing it’s newest operating system tomorrow. You can already get the feeling of Leopard on Apple website. It has more than 300 new features, most notably, Time Machine, Quick Look and Spaces. Leopard integrates the Cover Flow technology to ease the navigation. It also makes sharing quite easy with the new sidebar.
I have added couple of my favourite links in this page. The page needs a significant face lift. However I need to wait until the next weekend to find some time.
This is my first post on this blog. Although it is not completely done yet, I am pretty glad about the progress so far. The blog is based on WordPress Default theme. I have added my own CSS to make it look similar to the rest of the site. It still need some improvements but there is no need for waiting.
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. "What we think we become."-Buddha
