Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57317458-37/apple-sandbox-those-mac-apps/ that might make gamemodding wee bit hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Originally Posted By: Earth Empires http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57317458-37/apple-sandbox-those-mac-apps/ that might make gamemodding wee bit hard. Yep, it sure would. In fact, the security systems present in Snow Leopard (which I'm still using) are already enough to cause annoyance in some cases. For instance, Apple made iTunes really ugly (uglier, anyway). I can fix it by replacing the icon and various graphics resources, but if I do, its checksum no longer matches, and every time I run it I get pestered about whether I really want to trust it with access to the network. As a person who writes his own programs every day (many are trivial, one-shot test programs, but some are for other people to use too) I'm deeply suspicious of all of this App[lication] Store, code signing, and sandboxing stuff. I do appreciate that the security benefits are important, but this is my computer and it will run the software I say it should run. If Apple really does someday lock down Mac OS as much as, say, present-day iOS, I'll switch to something else, even though it will likely be at the cost of having what I consider a usable GUI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 It's slightly ironic that Apple is getting to be more well-known for being evil/whatever to its userbase than Microsoft...at least from my viewpoint anyways. But hey, there's always an alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Thin Liliyoba Thief But hey, there's always an alternative. Pity there's no legitimate ones, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Trolololo lolo lololo lolo, trololololooooo..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 What ever happened to Chrome OS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I think it's a thing on netbooks, but I'm yet to see it on a real computer. (p.s. I mean thing as in Thing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 chrome os is just chrome browser, all apps are in internet not on computer or something like that. some chromebooks were released but no idea if those can be found somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Earth Empires chrome os is just chrome browser, all apps are in internet not on computer or something like that. some chromebooks were released but no idea if those can be found somewhere. Let me google th... oh, never mind: http://www.google.com/chromebook/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Originally Posted By: Niemand In fact, the security systems present in Snow Leopard (which I'm still using) are already enough to cause annoyance in some cases. For instance, Apple made iTunes really ugly (uglier, anyway). I can fix it by replacing the icon and various graphics resources, but if I do, its checksum no longer matches, and every time I run it I get pestered about whether I really want to trust it with access to the network. For what it's worth, that will only happen if the Apple firewall is turned on, and it is turned off by default. As to how this affects game modding, I don't see how it does. Modding a game involves editing the game's files themselves, which means the sandboxing wouldn't matter in the slightest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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