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Archive for August, 2008
Psystar brings Macs to the masses, and litigation!
Aug 27th
For a few months now Psystar has been selling Mac clones, flying in the face of Apple’s End User License Agreement, which forbids people running Mac OS X on non-Apple branded hardware. Not everyone knows, since moving OS X to run on Intel processors, OS X will run “pretty much fine” on regular PC hardware. I’ve done it before myself.
Apple have naturally sued Psystar for doing this, and Psystar have now replied with a counter suit of their own, claiming unfair competition! Lots of places are reporting this. I’m excited to see where this goes. If Psystar have some decent lawyers, and anti-competitive More >
Apple: Stop being stupid
Aug 21st
I’m no Apple lover, let’s be honest. It’s not because I don’t like their products, or because I like Windows or any other superficial reason. It’s because I wholeheartedly believe that in a different world they would be the Microsoft. The things that are fundamentally wrong about Microsoft are fundamentally wrong about Apple as well. But I digress.
Apple’s being stupid (read: being normal) about recent 3G iPhone problems. There’s been lots of talk about dropped calls and other connection issues with the 3G, and Apple have been typically silent about it. They’ve just released an update for the phone which may be More >
All systems are go
Aug 19th
Work has been pretty wild lately. I was talking to my boss today and I said that IT at TACF is probably about as full-on as it has been in about 5 years.
- I’m managing the relaunches of 5+ websites, which as anyone familiar with that process knows, can be a crapload of work. We’re going to rebuild our DotNetNuke infrastructure from a clean slate, as we’ve been upgrading this thing since version 2, and have fundamentally different requirements since the customizations made at that time. - We’re ramping up our CRM/ERP application, Everest, customizing it more than we’ve More >
Developing games with pirates
Aug 16th
There are a serious lack of pirate themed video games. There really is. If Bungie ever follow through on their famous joke to produce a call called “Pimps at Sea,” I will be in rapture. Dirty dirty rapture.
But that’s not what this is about. Cliff ‘Cliffski’ Harris, owner of Positech Games (a small indie games developer), formerly of Lionhead Studios (much respect), has caused a bit of a stir recently by publicly asking game piraters why they pirate his games. He’s just published a letter summarizing the responses, and how he plans to adjust his methods and games based on the More >