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Quote: Originally posted by frawgz I think you can also argue that was the result of shoddy reporting on CNET's part. Here's the Columbus story; I originally had no idea what you were talking about. Thanks, Google! http://news.com.com/210…
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Quote: Originally posted by inslider Wouldn't Tiger running on any PC hardware be worse for MS, not Apple? This thought should have MS scared sh1tless. Everyone I know personally - from friends to relatives would switch their PCs to Tiger. …
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I don't know, but when was the last time they sued a rumor site?
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Quote: Originally posted by MACchine YOU GUYS COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG. WHEN OS2 WAS A PRODUCT THE NUMBER OF WINDOWS VIRUSES COULD COUNTED ON YOUR HANDS. Who said anything about viruses? OS/2 was a much better product than Windows 3.1 or 95. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Aurora Wrong, all they need to do is market OSX for Pc's. No more hardware to worry about,no more warranties, no more Moto or IBM plus there are lots of window folks who are fed up. Apple could grab back a lot of that …
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Quote: Originally posted by Sybaritic Iswallow a large short-term decline in hardware sales. Why stick with the old horse when a new one is in the offing? Clued-in consumers may question the general stability of the platform itself, particularl…
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Quote: Originally posted by oh_the_humanity You do bring up a very good point about needing a ton of drivers out of the gate to keep a userbase. however whats the chances of being able to use FreeBSD driver base ? and or port over linux and other…
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Quote: Originally posted by Eric_Z Then there will most likely be a vast, vast upswing of Mac On Linux users. All you'd need to run OSX, at full speed, would be a cheap and nasty x86 Linux box running MOL and a pirated copy of OSX. But doom …
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What was really weird was how Powerbook7,1 and Powerbook7,2 appeared in the plist for the G5 platform driver in 10.3.5 (?) last summer and then disappeared in a later release. That suggests prototypes existed and possibly were seeded with very sele…
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Quote: Originally posted by WhiteRabbit Suppose there's truth to this? You answered your own question: "Paul Thurrott reported". Thurrott is the guy that said Apple copied Microsoft on search technology. Of course, never mind that Apple r…
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me It is inappropriate to get personal. XCode. It was a JOKE! Ever seen the movie Billy Madison? http://www.great-quotes.com/movie_quotes.htm Mr. Madison, what you have just said, is the most insanely …
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me You don't seem to understand that Apple is a business. Look around the software industry. You see no comparable commercial software project that is not substantially more expensive than MacOS X. Apple's business…
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Quote: Originally posted by mdriftmeyer Key change with the bison parser: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.1/changes.html With the heavy work done the optimization work on PPC can be focused more heavily and for folks who use GNUstep and ObjC who h…
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me Last time I heard, gcc was open source and XLC was not. Apple is committed to using open source tools to build MacOS X. You can rest assured that an XLC-compiled MacOS X would be a lot more expensive. Having sai…
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Quote: Originally posted by Invader Zim The PowerMac9,1 is for the single processor Power Mac. Are you sure about that? That would be quite odd, as they are in a major,minor format. Coming out with a machine with just one processor instead …
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Quote: Originally posted by webmail Somebody care to print back the contents of the file to the forum? I'll take a crack at it. It is a field called "data" in the plist file, which is XML (I think..) It's raw data of some sort. Looks really…
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Y'know, looking in the Resources folder of those same .kexts reveals encode-data.pl, encode-plist-data (shell script), and a .mot file that looks a lot like a hexdump of an EPROM snippet. Well if it's a per…
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Quote: Originally posted by jherrling Well we do have PowerMac7,2 PowerMac7_2_PlatformPlugin PowerMac7,3 PowerMa…
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So what was in that file in previous releases? I know about the AppleMacRISC4PE driver. And anybody have any idea what that non-readable data in there is?? I'm wondering if it's actually encrypted via some simple encryption scheme. Quote: Ori…