Archive for June, 2005

In response to Applelust’s You’ve been punk’d!

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

My pal Dave Shultz at Applelust.com posted a strong reation to the Apple announcing that it had moved to Intel. You can read the whole thing, but here’s the first few sentences:

“Yes, I’ve been punk’d. Remember all the Expos with the demos of Photoshop up against a Wintel? Recall how they rendered everything faster? How [...]

IBM pissed at Apple? No way, says one analyst - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

One more from Engadget – www.engadget.com

Posted Jun 10, 2005, 3:30 PM ET by Peter Rojas

You know how when you get dumped and you go around telling everyone how you were sick of the other person were going to break up with them anyway? Yeah, well after officially getting ditched by Apple for Intel earlier [...]

Réactions sur la bombe Apple/Intel…(1)

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

En gros j’ai tendence à suivre la ligne de pensé de MacBidouille:

“Apple ne passe pas au PC. Seul le processeur et une partie de l’architecture de la carte mère va ressembler à celle d’un PC. Mais ne vous attendez pas à voir l’Open Firmware être remplacé par un BIOS ! A moins de démonter la [...]

Belkin DVI/USB KVM Switch Issues

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

Original post and following discussion can be read at Nonliteral and is called “DVI/USB KVM Switch Issues”

Our story thus far… About a year ago, I purchased a Belkin DVI/USB KVM switch.  It worked alright, and a few months later I posted a brief review of it..

(A brief aside—what’s a DVI-USB KVM switch? [...]

zaptastic: blueprint for a widget of mass destruction

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

From zaptastic’s web site and article “Blueprint for a widget of mass destruction.”

Apple has significantly lowered the bar for malicious entities to install and execute damaging code in OSX. Honestly, I don’t think this is that big of a deal – causing real damage is likely a bit harder than I make [...]

Bringing New Meaning To The Phrase

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

From As the Apple Turns: Bringing New Meaning To The Phrase “Psychotic Episodes.”

Oh, the times in which we live: Microsoft dumping Intel for PowerPC; Apple dumping PowerPC for Intel; Rob Enderle being (mostly) right; Steve Ballmer accidentally being the Voice of Reason. With so much craziness in the world, how can we not embrace [...]