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Wired News, in its Cult of Mac column, reports that the world may be noticing something most Mac users have realized for most of their Mac experience.. Wired has links to articles which show how sudden this change in opinion has been, under the following captions:

Macs will save you money
Macs are good for business
Less is more
Closed is good
Apple is the darling of Wall Street
Macs can run more applications
More …

I have sold 4 Macs over the last 15 years, always for more than it would cost for a new equivalent PC. All my Macs were “open”. MY first Mac, a IIsi, had a SE30 compatible bus slot in which I put a Applied Engineering FPU riser card that also had a right angle bus slot , to which was fitted a Micron 24 bit video card providing millions of colors long before that was popular (Sony 1304 25 dpi 24 inch monitor). I sold one of my children for scientific experiments. I was the first on my block to swap out the crystal to bump it to 25 MHz. Every Mac thereafter I modified. I could’ve run LinuxPPC, BeOS or Mac OS. Now you can run anything x86 on your Intel Mac, if not in a virtual environment. I have always bought 3rd-party hard drives, mice, and optical disc drives for a lot less. Now Intel Macs can swap almost anything.

Ars Technica is reporting that Musicload, one of Europe’s largest movie stores, has determined that 75% of its customer support problems are caused by DRM. Users have frequent problems using the music which led Musicload to try selling a DRMless independent label music. More …

What is new:

# Fixed: MFSA 2007-11 FTP PASV port-scanning security issue.

# Fixed various web compatibility regressions.Download

CrunchGear reports that inside of QuickTime 7.1.5 is an ability to Export to Apple TV. While iTunes is the expect source, it is QuickTime that provides the backbone. iTunes and QuickTime updates are released together, as it was this time with iTunes 7.1.1 and QuickTime 7.1.5. Patching the vulnerability in QuickTime was subordinate to adding Apple TV connectivity. More …

You should reconsider if your QuickTime is not version 7.1.5. Computerworld reports a QT trogan horse has again infected MySpace.. It is recommended you avoid MySpace unless you have updated. More …

Some may have noticed a delay in the ejection of media in your DVD drive after updating to 10.4.9. It is confirmed in this KB article and explains why it was implemented. More …

Unsantiy has discovered why certain Macs become unbootable after an install that also includes updating prebinding. While there is a nasty bug in Apple implitation of updating prebinding, there is known only one way the bug can be triggered:

When “Optimize System Performance” appears during the update process do not touch your computer and definitely do not launch any applications. Just back away from your computer box as if it were a swarm of bees. Yes, it does mean that if you install the Mac OS X 10.4.9 update, you may get hit by the bug. More …

Use iPod Reset Utility to restore the following iPod models back to their factory settings, when iTunes is unable to do so. More …

Tunes 7.1.1 addresses a stability issue and minor compatibility problems in iTunes 7.1.

Via Software Update or direct download.

David Smith has struck again:

Here’s the easy one for those of us not quite up to running the script in terminal. However, after applying the fix above, I did run this in terminal and validated the dates for 2007

zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007

Worked for me. Says it works for 10.0 10.1 10.2 to 10.2.8

just copy and paste into the terminal, and hit the return.

This niffty command tool will work for those that the packaged DST installers don’t

Update: There is an installer for 10.0 to 10.3 from here.