News in brief [11-06-02]

Posted on 11 Jun 2002 at 17:38

FT talks to Jobs and Ive; safety lies in going backwards; icons aplenty; Stupid AppleScript Games...

The Financial Times has an interview with Apple's CEO Steve Jobs and chief designer Jonathan Ive. Interesting reading, as Jobs gives short shrift to the FT's somewhat irrelevant questioning. For instance: question - 'Why wasn't the Newton hand-held a success?'; answer - 'That's ancient history - who cares?'

If you want a secure server then run an old version of the Mac OS, according to an article on NewsForge. 'Some of the most secure Department of Defense Web sites - ones that don't make headlines by getting cracked all the time - run old versions of Mac OS and the venerable WebSTAR server suite.' Hackers, it seems, are not so au fait with older systems: 'The next generation of bad-kid hackers probably won't mess much with NT - or pre-X Mac OS or Linux pre-2.5 kernels or Apache pre-2.x or any of the other operating systems and server applications their fathers or older siblings ran "back in the day," while those same fathers and older siblings will have piled up endless experience securing those old, now-obscure programs, making them harder targets than the latest stuff.'

Widghet has some of the best OS X icons around, including sets to match most Macs and a Palm set.

Haven't downloaded this yet, but with a name like Stupid AppleScript Games it must have something going for it.

Author: Simon Aughton

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