Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from MacDailyNews!

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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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  8. “Merry OSXmas!” LOL! Good One, NickBob!

    Thanks MDN for everything you do. Reading your site 50 million times a day is what makes my little world spin around.

    I have not had the best of health for the last 4 months or so, but I am, apparently, going to be OK. So, I wish everyone here the best this Christmas and in the new year. I hope it’s a healthy and happy one for us all. Trust me, good health is the greatest thing out there ( along with Macs, chicks, and friends and family and….)

    Ah…life’s simple pleasures. Checking MDN and getting wrapped up in the news, rumors and anticipation, as well as following the comeback of what is probably the greatest company in the world – these are just some of the many little things that make life great.

    Merry Christmas everybody!
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  12. The Other Steve,

    Thanks, bud! It’s good to be here. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

    BTW, who’s getting a new Mac either for Christmas or after MacWorld?

    I’m hoping for a new MacBook this Christmas, but I’m not at home right now and can’t shake any gifts until I get there. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”raspberry” style=”border:0;” />

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  18. Happy Holidays to all…yes, even “Mac Realist”, “Zune Tang” and the other Mac-bashers out there (in the spirit of Peace On Earth yadda yadda yadda…).

    Stay safe and (relatively sane) this weekend, and if any of your friends or loved ones receive either a Zune or a Windows computer, please resist the temptation to laugh in their faces…

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  20. Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter 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. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset 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 this country great. Not to imply that this country is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only country in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

    By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned terms as stated. This greeting is not 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/himself/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 wish.

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  23. Merry Xmas to everybody even Mike Dell. I hope everybody get what they wanted and let’s not forget the ones who is dying over sea for everybody freedom. And last of all let try to help the homeless they are the one who really need the blessing

    Nobody in this great country of ours should not be lonely and homeless.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS

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  25. A very Merry Christmas to you all as well.

    Ever since my 69 year old father switched to the Mac he and my stepmom couldn’t be happier. No more sudden odd disconnection’s from the Internet as Windows XP Pro kept ‘forgetting’ its network setting. As for crashes, they’re history along with the now extinct problem of viruses.

    The Macbook is an excellent and down right best notebook in this range, plus it can run 3 OS’s if needed. Of course Macbook Pro’s go a lot better such as dedicated graphics verses the shared with system memory in the Macbook.

    This reminds me I was in a computer hardware store recently and boy did I give the sales clerk a hard time! I asked him if the used laptop, an HP, was wireless and he reached up to a shelf and said he’d throw in the PCMCIA card and in a mocked surprised way I asked why isn’t wifi capability built in – he couldn’t answer!

    MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS

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  26. ::
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    :: MDN wrote: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from MacDailyNews!
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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. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”tongue laugh” style=”border:0;” />

    Thanks for 2006! Hope you all have an awesome 2007!
    Merry Christmas fellas!!!

    MPC Guy/Mac & PC Guy

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  33. 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.

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  34. 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…

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  37. 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!

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  44. 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!

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  46. 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.

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  48. 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.

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  50. 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

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  56. Typhoon: “Thanks MDN for everything you do. Reading your site 50 million times a day is what makes my little world spin around.

    I have not had the best of health for the last 4 months or so, but I am, apparently, going to be OK. So, I wish everyone here the best this Christmas and in the new year. I hope it’s a healthy and happy one for us all. Trust me, good health is the greatest thing out there ( along with Macs, chicks, and friends and family and….)

    Ah…life’s simple pleasures. Checking MDN and getting wrapped up in the news, rumors and anticipation, as well as following the comeback of what is probably the greatest company in the world – these are just some of the many little things that make life great.”

    I know exactly what you mean, Typhoon. I’m recovering from successful surgery for a life-threatening condition. Good health is a treasure. MDN is one of the things that keeps life interesting. I bought AAPL at $7.50 a few years back, and I watch it closely every day. MDN is a large part of that. Thanks, MDN. Thanks to all you readers. And thanks to Steve Jobs for providing a beautiful alternative to the abuses heaped upon consumers by Microsoft.

    Merry Christmas to all. Pray for peace, so that the suffering around the world can cease, and children everywhere can have enough to eat. Do something nice for your neighbor this holiday season. It’ll feel good.

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  58. MDN, Thanks for keeping us intouch with everything Mac.
    Sooner or later we’ll get to that tipping point and eveything you guys do from then on will just be gravy, keep working at it. The rest of us will be here to chip in pipe up and BS.

    Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and every other holiday out there.

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  62. Top Ten 2007 predictions?

    10. MS stock remains flatlined as the company continues to stagnate.

    9. Increasingly bitter Mac vs PC turf wars as Apple nears the tipping point.

    8. MS announces the next Windows’ full feature set and slip date.

    7. Zune is discontinued by late summer.

    6. Mac reaches 10% market share by winter.

    5. Some sort of new consumer device from Apple. Possible iPhone?

    4. Vista launches to an orgasmic PC world, which is quickly disappointed as the reality unfolds. Expect a Zune-like sales curve. Customers begin requesting new PC’s with XP.

    3. Mac OS X Leopard launches to a very pleased Mac world. Much more of a “must have” upgrade than we’ve been seeing.

    2. The Beatles on iTMS.

    1. One hell of a MWSF 2007 keynote!

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  74. @ Wish it were so: “Let’s hope that ’07 is the year when it all actually ‘just works’ so I can change my name.”

    Won’t happen, it’s an imperfect universe, nothing “just works” 100% of the time. You just have to make a product that “just works” 90% more than the other guys stuff and you’re in!

    Merry OSXMas to everyone in the universe!

    Thank you MDN for keeping me addicted to my dashboard widgets (I think).

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  76. Merry christmas to all. And to all, have a good nights fellowship with all those that are close to you.

    And, Remember, its only a computer. Its not an evil spirit. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”grin” style=”border:0;” />

    Windows is the evil spirit. LOL OK, I got my holiday humor in early. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”grin” style=”border:0;” />

    Best wishes to all, Norm

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  79. Merry Christmas to all fellow Mac users, even Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Microsoft’s crappy programmers.

    MS is notorious for their death march projects and rejection of religious observance.

    I wonder what kind of exciting new innovations (heh) they’ll be working on right through Christmas Day.

    Sad, isn’t it? No wonder their stuff sucks.

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  80. Merry Christmas*

    * From me (“the wishor”) to you (“hereinafter called the wishee”) Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially-responsible, politically-correct 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 persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all… and a financially-successful, personally-fulfilling, and medically-uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally-accepted calendar year 2006, but with due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or dietary preference of the wishee.

    By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms that-

    * This greeting is subject to further clarification or withdrawal;

    * This greeting is freely transferable provided that no alteration shall be made to the original greeting and that the proprietary rights of the wishor are acknowledged;

    * This greeting implies no promise by the wishor to actually implement any of the wishes;

    * This greeting may not be enforceable in certain jurisdictions and/or the restrictions herein may not be binding upon certain wishees in certain jurisdictions and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wishor;

    * This greeting is warranted to perform as reasonably may be 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;

    * The wishor warrants this greeting only for the limited replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wishor;

    AND,

    * Any references in this greeting to “the Lord”, “Father Christmas”, “Our Saviour”, or any other festive figures, whether actual or fictitious, dead or alive, shall not imply any endorsement by or from them in respect of this greeting, and all proprietary rights in any referenced third party names and images are hereby acknowledged.

    ————-

    PEACE AND GOODWILL TO ALL

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  82. New Apple Input Device (obsoletes mouse):

    Built-in iSight camera monitors where on screen a user’s eyes are focused. User focuses on item and clicks. Apple kills mouse.

    Apple stockholder named Zeke becomes rich due to licensing of patent on mouse-killer input device.

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  88. To all the people posting the legal-speak holiday greetings:

    SHADDUP!!

    I like the line from Burning Monkey Solitaire, under Legal Stuff: “Send a self-addressed stamped box and we’ll send you our lawyers. Please feed them.”.

    Thank you and Merry Christmas. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

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  89. ☯ ✝ ✡ ☪ (Or none at all)

    I wish us all peace, joy, safety and happiness.
    I hope that this time next year finds all of our (or at least most of) our troops home and a peaceful Iraq and Afghanistan.
    That would be a great gift to all of us.

    To anybody looking at this that is serving in our Armed Forces overseas, I wish you all of the above and please come home safe. I thank you for your service.

    Later

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  91. Merry Christmas? No! You are all imposing your religious beliefs on me and I will file suite against each one of you even though this is a country in which we accept that others have the right to practice their respective religious beliefs and accompanying traditions.

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  92. Indeed, happy holidays to all. Let’s also remember all the Apple employees and Steve Jobs himself who I am certain are not going to be taking much time off as they finish up projects for Macworld introductions.

    Be safe everyone.

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  98. I hope that this time next year finds all of our (or at least most of) our troops home and a peaceful Iraq and Afghanistan.
    That would be a great gift to all of us.

    Pray that the troops come home because the war ended, not because the front shifted stateside.

    We need worldwide peace and an end to this madness.

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  99. Like so many others have already stated, Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays if someone prefers) and Happy New Year to MDN and fellow MDN readers. Thank you for all your hard work MDN. I look forward to the stories, your takes, and recommending your site to others in the upcoming year.

    Peace.

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  100. Sandy Claws: That video is sooo funny!

    MPC Guy & chanM – Thanks for the well wishes!

    MPC Guy: …From a guy living along “Typhoon Alley.” Are you in Guam? That sounds like a neat area of the world to live.

    chanM: The story about the “iStore” is cool. Bermuda and a Mac store. It must be rough! ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”raspberry” style=”border:0;” />

    Thanks for the well wishes!

    Zeke,
    MDN has been a huge part of keeping me going, also. I don’t know if there is another product or company that instills such loyalty and excitement. Every day, no matter how bad I felt, I would sit in front of the computer for at least a few minutes at a time and refresh MDN’s page. I’ve tried Google news alerts and it just doesn’t have the same zing as seeing something noteworthy on MDN. I wish you a full recovery and I’m saying a little prayer you, and for all the cool people here. I never really paid too much attention to who the posters were, but I will in the future. Good people all around!

    Cheers!

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  101. Gee a peaceful Iraq, well we would have that if it wasn’t for some cheap third rate bully terrorist state that decided to conduct an illegal. unethical, immoral and unjustified war there. Yeah, those armed forces should go back to where they come from, withdraw or in body bags.

    There is a reason for Afghanistan, to get the other terrorist organisation’s leader. Both those leaders need to take a trip to the hague.

    Especially since we remember.

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