MacHack Theme Unveiled

Carlos Finque writes "After much consideration, this year's theme of the annual MacHack conference was unveiled today: 'MacHack 18: Unstoppable'. Read the press statement and don't forget to register while you can. Mindful of the inevitability of their own conference and the unstoppability of it all, the committee looked for a suitable symbol for things that keep moving no matter what. It turned out that the committee needed look no further than their own Mac screen. Apple's own busy cursor -- the SPoD or 'Spinning Pizza of Death' -- is the inspiration for this year's MacHack theme element."

Comments

when I hear unstoppable I think of OS 9

[Anonymous Coward]

Which I still have to use for a variety of legacy programs. It would be so nice if one of those clever hackers figured out how to put OS 9 back into it's box...(like virtual PC does with windows) so that we could keep 9 totally separate and save OS 9 states and not have to boot every time we want to start it again.

Re:Best Machack Ever

[Anonymous Coward]

No, I'd have to give it to the extension that rendered the entire screen in ASCII.

Made your computer only slightly less usable than MacJive ;)

Re:Spinning Beach Ball of Doom?

[Gropo]

Those kooky cats at Ambrosia Soft coined the acro-name "SPoD" back in the pre-10.0 era, which preceded the 'Beachball' copy-cat nickname. Now you know ;)