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Linked List: May 3, 2006

Wednesday, 3 May 2006

Neutrality of the Net 

Tim Berners-Lee:

When, seventeen years ago, I designed the Web, I did not have to ask anyone’s permission.

The Art of No 

Derek Powazek:

If I could give one piece of advice to the designer just getting into client work, or even some who’s been doing this for a while, it’s this: The next time you want to say “no” to a client, boss, or colleague, say this instead: “Why?”

Brian Krebs on Apple and Mac OS X Security 

Krebs shows that Apple’s average time between receiving notice of a security bug and releasing a software update to fix it is about 90 days — quite a bit longer than the response time for most Linux distributions. He interviews Apple’s Bud Tribble about this, and Tribble reasonably argues that it takes Apple longer to release updates than most Linux distributors because Apple’s standards for updates that “just work” require more QA testing.

Krebs also (rightly) takes Apple to task for the way they under-document security fixes. A genuinely fair and balanced look at the state of Mac OS X security, overall.

Mac OS X Gets Wrong Kind of Attention 

Scott Bradner, with a completely reasonable essay on the state of Mac OS X security in Network World:

Recently there has been a growth industry in pundits whining about the security of the Apple Mac OS X operating system. To read some of the coverage, you would think someone deciding to use OS X instead of Windows would have to be dumber than a fence post. Methinks the security worries are rather misplaced and may be the result of hyperventilating, nontechnical reporters and some gloating on the part of Windows users.

System-Wide iPhoto Browser 

Great tip from MacOSXHints.com — a simple Automator action lets you access a browser for your iPhoto photos, without having to launch iPhoto itself. I’ve added this to my Scripts menu. (Via Michael Tsai.)