MacHELP

Apple has released Security Update 2005-003.

Security Update 2005-003 delivers a number of security
enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This
update includes the following components:

AFP Server
Bluetooth Setup Assistant
CoreFoundation
Cyrus SASL
Folder permissions
Safari
Samba

Ranchero is the company responsible for two of my favorite Mac software applications, NetNewsWire and its companion weblog editing software, MarsEdit.

DrunkenBlog has a great interview with Brent and Sheila Simmons, the husband-and-wife team who (along with their Mr. Coffee machine) are the people behind Ranchero.

DrunkenBlog has a good article on the recently-released CherryOS Mac emulator for PCs being nothing more than stolen code from PearPC and other open source projects.

I recently tried out both PearPC and CherryOS on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 machine running Windows XP, and while neat, I certainly wouldn’t recommend either for production OS X development in terms of speed or full compatibility features.

I’ve taken some photos during the process of swapping out my faulty iMac G5 midplane (aka “motherboard” or “system board”).