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OS X 10.4.1 slow with IPv6?

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this suggests that turning off IPv6 might increase performance.

So I tried it. And in a gigE configuration I could not find a difference.

with IPv6:

PowerBook G4 A15 SGI Tezro
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 863 MBytes 724 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 760 MBytes 638 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 708 MBytes 594 Mbits/sec

PowerBook G4 A15 Linux x86
[ 3] 0.0-10.2 sec 484 MBytes 397 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 584 MBytes 490 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.2 sec 568 MBytes 467 Mbits/sec

without IPv6:

PowerBook G4 A15 SGI Tezro
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 788 MBytes 661 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 744 MBytes 624 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10 0 sec 872 MBytes 731 Mbits/sec

PowerBook G4 A15 Linux x86
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 581 MBytes 487 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.2 sec 608 MBytes 500 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 598 MBytes 502 Mbits/sec

Your Mileage May Vary

intel mac

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Finally the stack overflow exploits handcrafted for intel CPU might start work on Macs!

not the last time we will hear this

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What would happen if the masses of recruited Windows PCs are able to impact bigger part
of the internets, so that outages will be noticebale for more people?

Think “Dr. Evil”. :

You want the internet back? That would be “one million dollars”.

Thanks Microsoft. I hope Bill is paying the ransom he and his OS have caused.

It’s not the internet that is vunerable, it is not the computers. It is the operating system called Windows made by Microsoft.
Technically all systems can have viruses. In reality only Microsoft Windows systems are part of these malware empires.

Since people tend to say different: This has nothing to do with market share. 10% Apple Systems is by far enough to be
attractive. In the webserver market Mirocroft products are the minority but still manage to host all the interesting exploits.

It’s a design problem, and a historical one. For Windows security the geenie is out of the bottle. Apple can afford to fix every problem that becomes known: Their virus count is zero. It is so much easier to go back to zero from one than from multiple thousand.

OS X 10.4 – the first five minutes

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Just installed OS X 10.4 on my PowerBook G4 A15.
You need to be patient and confident: Took an hour, and three times I was looked up from my book during the process and thought ‘oh oh’ since it just seemed to get stuck. It never was and all worked.

My first impression is that it looks great. Fonts are crisper. It overall is easier on the eyes. With every upgrade the look got cleaner. OS X 10.0 was very ugly. Since there has to be something to go away in 10.5 they left one horizontal line in the middle of the menu bar. Dashboard (F12) is one of these first time usage toys, that probably will be left alone once the
novelty wears off. Which is right about now. Same happened with video chats in 10.3. Was it 10.3 ?

Downloading the 37MB 10.4.1 update right now.

OneCare

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From a Microsoft press release:

The dynamic nature of the Internet and technology can make the protection, maintenance and optimal performance of PCs a challenge for consumers. Keeping a PC "healthy" today can be daunting and time-consuming for the average user.

They forgot to add “if you run Windows”.

OS X has no need for ‘OneCare’, since the problem does not exist.