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Apple to Lock OSXi to Apple Hardware
spac writes "It seems that Apple has chosen to use the Trusted Platform Module chip to ensure that Mac OS X can only run on Apple Hardware. The report from vnunet states that the chips contain a unique identifier, which can be used to determine the manufacturer of a PC as well as facilities for data encryption. "
You know, review of all the available material and a careful consideration of it before publishing.
bun-fhuinneog agam!
Sure coz it's real easy to run Linux on the XBOX, right?
sry Dude. i own a G4 mac i am not interested in doing a a hack for OSXi.
Musikit
West Buttfuck, NJ (no really i am from NJ. although i aint a teenager)
Hell even the iPod... what truly separates it from other players? Yeah the hardware is good, and it looks slick, but it's the interface.
Damn, and I thought it was the white headphones with the white cord......
In both cases the person doing the fixes lost the opportunity to do other work.
;)
Yeah, but they also lost the opportunity to create new bugs, so it's break even
g,d&r!
#!/usr/bin/english
Tell me you didn't read this, and then the posted article. You did post both, Taco, cause you are the editor of both....
I hate to tell you this, but Taco died a few years ago. Shortly after he was married, he experienced what the ancients called "sex". This strange phenomenon caused his geekish brain to explode in confusion as reality as he knew it consumed itself.
What you call "Taco" is now actually a bot written in Visual Basic by Cowboy Neal, which explains the posting irregularities. If Neal would have used Perl or Python, none of this would have happened.
Cowboy Neal is aware of this problem and promises it will be fixed in Taco2.0.
That must be a great experience, it gets italics and quotes.
I buy Apple hardware to run linux, and have for the past few years, though after the Intel switch I'll have to buy hardware from Sony or somebody to get the superior PPC CPU.
Some people might happily pay 3x the price in order not to have to stare at the Dell logo for eight hours a day, especially considering that the rest of the monitor is almost as ugly as the logo.
The interface?
By that logic, the iPod shuffle, having NO interface, should have flopped.
There's obviously something else at play here, though the white color no doubt plays an important part.
It's a little known fact that every Stormtrooper uniform has an iPod mounted on the back armor plate that plays the Imperial March over and over.