Generally speaking Mac OS X has very good security background and that is commonly used as a sales pitch, rightfully so, or to simply rub it into your Windows using friends face. Because of that, every single time there is a minor Mac OS X security advisory every Windows users comes out of the woodwork [...]

UPDATE
If you’ve arrived here looking to use iSCSI with Time Machine, I’ve switched to another more robust method. I’ve run into some of the same problems as commenters below, and I’ve become convinced the iSCSI angle is too risky for now.

Open a terminal and run:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Then you can use a Samba [...]

One of my Macs is a 2001 vintage G4 733 with a dual 1.8GHz G4 upgrade. This should fit well within Leopard’s minimum system requirements, but the CPU upgrade I’m using presented a complication.
Without a kernel extension from Gigadesigns called ‘Giga-Meter’, MacOS recognizes the upgraded CPU’s as ‘PowerPC 60? 467MHz’ and therefore won’t update due [...]

Evidently the intention has been to allow third party apps on the iPhone all along. This is good news - while the current selection of web apps are higher in quality and usefulness than the unofficial native apps, official support will result in some vendors stepping up and creating some good stuff (and as mentioned, [...]

There’s been a lot of overreaction in the press regarding the latest iPhone firmware. Thankfully it’s beginning to die down as reporters are realizing they’re standing up for hackers and unlockers, and people who generally aren’t interested in supporting the corporate interests of their sponsors, but I digress.
Lots of articles were published slamming Apple for [...]