Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!
As we enter the holiday weekend news slowdown, we can all look forward with anticipation to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ opening keynote address for Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 9am PST. The news (rumor-laden most probably) will undoubtedly build next week as we count down the days to the event. We can hardly wait!
We’ll continue to post as time, disparate Internet connections, and the news permits this holiday weekend.
Thank you for visiting MacDailyNews throughout the year and making MDN a part of your day. We really appreciate it.
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Although I’ve been highly critical of MDN editors and many MDN posters, I wanted to chime in and wish you all a safe and joyous Christmas… regardless of race, creed, religion, sex, social status, or even your choice of computer platform.
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Thanks for 2006! Hope you all have an awesome 2007!
Merry Christmas fellas!!!
MPC Guy/Mac & PC Guy
Typhoon…
Merry Christmas. Don’t know you, but it’s good to hear you’re making a recovery.
From a guy living along “Typhoon Alley”…
— MPC Guy
Merry Christmas Happy Holidays to all of you and especially to “A message from a PC person” for the hilarious PC EULA.
Happy Winter Solistice to all. As for X’mas, my X’mas, New Year’s and Birthday will all coincide on the 9th of January.
Zune Tang, if you can make it to my place, I’ll treat you to Turkey. Yeah, the whole country!
Many happy returns to all.
If MDN is out doing some last minute shopping for a present for its readers, i would like to once again ask for user logins and the ability to post images.
Have a happy, healthy and holy Christ Mass everyone. Peace on earth to men of good will.
And don’t forget, everyone, to go out and get yourself a new iPod or a new Mac for Christmas. That’s what I’m doing!
p.s. Can’t wait for Steve’s keynote!
I have to agree with mike k., MDN please get some kind of membership system that allows posters to amend/delete/respond with a level of maturity.
I’m not afraid to put my name to the things I write.
While all you Mac fags are busy scratching your iPod’s I’ll be in digital nirvana setting up my brand new Dell Dimension, getting it all ready for the big Vista launch on January 30th.
It’s gonna be big, watch this space…
Sputnk–It’ll cost you a lot more than the best Mac, but you can afford it anyway. Bull-sh-t costs nothing, only the integrity of the bull-sh-tter.
MW- fact
For Apple users Christmas comes at least twice a year.
Cheers!
Let’s all be honest and revel in it (which everyone clearly is): It sure is nice to see the words “Merry Christmas” in a news headline. Those grinch days from the politically correct (and we all know exactly who I’m talking about) are over for good – thank goodness!
So with that being said, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone! Ho, Ho, Ho!
Despite Belief System, Happiness to all…even those now wrestling with Vista.
Thanks MDN
Merry Christmas to you and all who come here. Peace.
(oh, and, uh-death to Microsoft)
Bah Humbug
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
This year, my present will come a little late, after Apple announces the iPhone (or whatever it’s called).
Cheers.
Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year, and a festive happy whatever you celebrate to everyone else in the world.
What would be worse–Coal in your stocking or a Zune? Hmmm, tough choice.
Yo quiero comer Mary and Chrssy mas.
For My Democrat Friends:
“Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best
wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible,
low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter
solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the
religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your
choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or
traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or
secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful,
personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the
generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for
the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society
have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily
greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western
Hemisphere, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical
ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By
accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting
is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable
with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by
the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or
himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable
at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform
as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of
one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting,
whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this
wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.”
For My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Happy Holidays and GO BEARS!
2007 predictions:
1. the Pocket-Cube by next Christmas, hangs from rear-view mirror
2. a large version of the touchscreen iPod will replace the iMac
3. the iTV will add its own screen and become my next television
4. hell thaws then freezes again then thaws again and then freezes again
5. secret work begins on a visionary OS XI applied directly to the forehead
6. the new X-Zune gets a parallel connector
7. the pointed tongue will become Redmonds new salute after Jim Allchin
begins working in Cupertino
8. OSX gui changes so radically that mac users experience an evolutionary psychic breakthrough and are catapulted to a level of awareness no longer able to relate to the ‘others’. It is agreed by a special OS XI council that Vista users with no real vision shall be allowed to live out the rest of their lives in peace.
Feliz Natal
Typhoon: “BTW, who’s getting a new Mac either for Christmas or after MacWorld?”
A new, all-Mac store called the “iStore” just opened in this tiny island of Bermuda. In their very first week of business the place was packed with customers and they sold everything in the shop except the display models. They had to fly staff to New York to get restocked in a hurry. I bought a MacBook Pro for Christmas. Fantastic machine!!!
Happy holidays to everyone! … especially MDN readers and staff.
Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!
Have a Nice Christmas and new years and with brand new Exploit in Windows World. Please Read what i will be saying now.
First Exploit Of Windows Vista Spotted
It is the first Windows Vista exploit made public since the operating system was released to volume license customers Nov. 30.
By Gregg Keizer
InformationWeek
Dec 22, 2006 02:34 PM
Proof-of-concept code for an unpatched vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows, including Vista, has gone public, prompting alerts from security vendors and a warning from its Russian discoverer that the flaw may be dangerous.
It is the first Windows Vista exploit made public since the operating system was released to volume license customers Nov. 30.
According Symantec and eEye Digital Security, the bug is a memory corruption vulnerability that pops up when the MessageBox function is called; eEye pegged the threat as “medium,” while Symantec labeled it as a “privilege escalation,” a type of threat generally considered low on the security scale. An attacker would need authorized access to a PC to exploit the bug.
The code first showed up on a Russian hacker site, and was subsequently posted to milw0rm.com.
Mike Reavy, program manager with the Microsoft Security Response Center, acknowledged that the team was “closely monitoring” the situation even as the holidays approached.
“Initial indications are that in order for the attack to be successful, the attacker must already have authenticated access to the target system. Of course these are preliminary findings,” Reavy wrote on the center’s blog early Friday.
Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista are at risk, Reavy added.
The Russian researcher who first reported the bug to Microsoft on Dec. 16, however, observed that the vulnerability may be more dangerous than the “Less critical” rating that Danish bug tracker Secunia assigned. “There is potential remote exploitation vector if some service uses user-supplied input for MessageBox() function,” wrote “ZARAZA U 3APA3A” on the Full Disclosure security mailing list.
Reavy downplayed the Vista-is-vulnerable angle. “While I know this is a vulnerability that impacts Windows Vista, I still have every confidence that Windows Vista is our most secure platform to date,” he said. Microsoft has touted Vista, which released to corporations late last month and will debut Jan. 30 in consumer PCs, as significantly more secure than earlier versions of Windows.
Reavy also recommended users turn on a firewall, apply all Microsoft security updates, and install and/or update antivirus and anti-spyware software to protect their PCs.
Additional information on the threat will be posted to the center’s blog, or if necessary, in the form of a security advisory, the mechanism Microsoft uses to inform users of possible defensive workarounds in lieu of, or prior to, a security update.
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196701757