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*** BANNED *** Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 1123

Some interesting news for Mac users.....

http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-doing-12-million-apple-ids-anyway-202801610.html

I checked all my Mac OS devices. So far so good. Use iTunes, don't pirate.... they are watching. Laughing

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:34 am

Lads have iPhones, better warn them Twisted Evil

*** BANNED *** Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 1123

Absolutely. Don't forget to tell the scum that Steve Jobs provided these lists to the FBI on his death bed as a final act a karmic justice against the scammers who abuse his OS..... or whatever crap you want to come up with along that line.

For a lad the only cure for changing an iPhone's UDID is microwaving or drowning the Steve Jobs virus out of the phone's mechanical heartless soul. Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:05 pm

I keep getting emails, which get my name wrong, asking me to reset my iTunes password at https://iforgot.apple.com.

I'm guessing this is a phishing attempt, last month they sent me a list of tracks I'd supposedly 'bought', but never would be seen dead listening to, inviting me to log in. I worried for 5 seconds, until I checked my bank account to make sure there were no debits from itunes.

What confuses me is that iforgot.apple.com is legit - it can be reached by a link from apple.com. However I think the link in the email is going via ladland somehow. I'm confused, but as log as it doesn't cost me money, I don't care.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Note to all Linux users: Relax as usual.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:17 pm

Roycropper wrote:

, but never would be seen dead listening to,

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:54 pm

Pastor Frank wrote:

Note to all Linux users: Relax as usual.

Good luck at running 95% of all software...

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ In a pinch one can run window$ stuff in a vm. Linux is for dorks, I agree. But I am a proud dork.

Mod comment: Frank, Frank, Frank - why couldn't you have made this post when I was temp admin? Sad

- TS

Edit: ^ And change my tag to "proud dork"? I smell what you're walking in.

Further Mod comment - well...yeah. Laughing

TS

*** BANNED *** Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 1123

Roycropper: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1850251?start=0&tstart=0

Might be it.... might not be.

Pastor Frank: Go BSD or go home. Laughing

Joking. I have strayed away from windows in all but my work applications as soon as Vista hit the market. I started off with a Mac which I now use out of laziness and then moved over to Ubuntu which I loved. Mac to me screamed 'hi my name is Steve Jobs and I took some free open source OS's, customized them, locked some of the open source junk up, and sold it for way to much. I'm Steve Jobs and I'm a Mac.'

Since then I have delved into various Linux types and Android OS's and you are right: VM it or WINE if you need to run window apps. I just need to get another computer to install linux on other than my mini notebook. Fun to use but a complete pain in the arse to type with.

.... I do love Mac and Linux systems though. Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ BSD is a bit above my pay grade, but it is the bees knees as far as security.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:23 am

So I've got a Vista machine (quit snickering), a desktop 2000, a laptop 2000, a Samsung Galaxy Thingy, a Blackberry, an IPADII, an IPhone and probably some other crap hiding in the woodshed. What should I do other than light the burn barrel? Wait a minute I've got an idea quit work and they won't keep giving me this junk.

As I think everyone should know, I am a technophobe who has the great fortune to be able to work intimately with Avaya/Cisco/Etc./Etc. I could go on....Can we just go back to using smoke signals or something like that?

PS - My Wife tells me that I am too young to retire (Insert B word here) so I guess I'll hafta adapt to whatever the heck you folks is talkin' bout.