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OSx86 Shutdown Rumors Explained
n.e.watson writes "The AP has run an article that addresses recent rumors on the internet about Apple Legal shutting down the OSx86 Project, with a statement from an OSx86 administrator. From the article: 'The OSx86 Project Web site stated Apple had served it with a notice on Thursday citing violations of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the site was reviewing all of its discussion forum postings as a result. The site has always aimed to adhere to copyright laws and is working with Apple to ensure no violations exist, according to a statement by the site administrator.'"
Nothing better than to see a historical troll on a quiet sunday afternoon. ;)
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
I'm sitting here in front of a PDP-11/73 running RSX and trying to copy a 250 block file from this CDC-80 dishwasher 80MB hard drive to an RX08 8" floppy disk. It's taking freak''n forever! DEC addicts, go ahead and flame me, but why do you insist on using this ancient junk? Try something a little more modern. Like an Osborne. Or even a TRS-80. Sheesh!
There once was a dude with a Mac
Who's code he tried to attack
His grin was short-lived
When Jobs did not forgive
And gave him a boot in the sack.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Making it Easy to Be "Guilty until Proven Innocent" for Over 8 Years.
You know, I was trying to copy a 10k file from one tape to another on my ZX spectrum 16k and it took like half an hour...
Now, a little more seriously, my main machine was a Powerbook 2400 for a few years and copying a few hundred MB of a CD image never seemed to take more than a couple of minutes...
I'm wondering what else you're running to cause this slowdown (603e with 80MB on a Powerbook 2400).
Which apps are causing you problems? (Which versions are you running)?
[All Your Fish Are Belong To Us]
a Sun Enterprise 450, with four processors, 4 GBytes of memory and 10 SCSI drives... This is my HOME computer and I don't see that kind of poor performance. Maybe it is time for you to try Ultrix instead of RSX-11, at least you won't have the real-time interrupts bothering you... However, I do like my TRS-80 running NEWDOS-80!
I like my instruction/data fetch cycle on 16 bit word boundaries, thank you! So you think you're fancy 64 bit address range is all that. With your Sun Enterprise this, and your CG3 megapixel sbus card that. Well, when I need to access memory out of its 32KW boundary I have to set an offset vector. And I like it that way! So my RK05 only stores 2.5MB per removable pack. And it consumes more than 1 KW. And my house lights dim every time it spins up. Well, I like it that way!
What, I'm supposed to run some pansy Macintosh 8600 with all its fancy pictures of a dekstop with flippy disks and overlapping windows, and dialog boxes, and a mouse with only one button? BAH!
Ah, its ok, they're Apple - EVERYBODY loves Apple :)
Not nearly as much as everybody hates AOL :)
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
If you hack my code,
I'm going to kill you!
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est - Sir Francis Bacon
Maybe a compilation could be assembled:
Poems from My Childhood
1.To Heathkit
2.The fall of Dr. Norton
3.Shadows of UUNET
4.Borland, stop hurting youself
5.Have you seen my Atari today?
6.An Amiga I can't afford
7.Memories of a text adventure game
8.My talk with Hays (compatible)
9.He's not just my penguin anymore
8600? Are you insane? Maybe you should drive nails in to your forehead, it would be less painful then either your ancient Mac or your ancient PC. Try a dual core G5 or a P4 3Ghz or something from the later half of the 20th century.
Other companies don't rabid fanatical followers, or a CEO that has his own personal reality distortion field.
Mod me down Apple fanboys, but somewhere in that warped brain of yours you know it's true.
AccountKiller
"After OSX86 Project recieved it's DMCA shut down notice, people are moving discussion to the OSX86 China Forums"
Ahhh...the irony! Moving out of the oppressive USA to China, where speech is free!
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry
I did read what he posted, moron, and he tried to equate Compaq's two-team, clean-room reverse-engineering technique to one guy patching Apple's own code and posting his patches-- the lamest argument I've ever seen made in support of the OS X hackers.
Also, it's "you're" not "your". I suggest you look into some remedial English classes. Concentrate on homonyms and reading comprehension.
~Philly
We here on Slashdot know what "no support" means.
No wait-on-hold-time for an answer that's utterly useless?
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.