Todd Bishop: More Windows than some Mac users wanted

This is either Steve Jobs' worst nightmare or Bill Gates' greatest dream: PC World reports that some Mac users who install Windows XP with Apple's Boot Camp partitioning program have encountered a flaw that renders their machines unable to reboot in Mac OS X, leaving them stuck with Windows.

Aye ( Read more... )

Via Digg, some awesome Photos of the 1993 $499 PowerCD. Seems odd that Apple Corps didn't try to sue them then - surely this was a music device too?

Pete Wright raves about Parallels Workstation, the product that lets you run a full virtual Windows install on your Mac desktop:

My first impressions: WOW!

This thing is fast. It's faster in a virtual machine than my aging Dell laptop at the office, and it feels faster than my Motion LE 1600 tablet… If you have an Intel based Mac, forget Apples ( Read more... )

Cringely:

Just realize with me that the only company that truly benefits from Boot Camp is Microsoft, because they'll get to sell a retail copy of Windows XP for every copy of Boot Camp and retail XP makes Microsoft about three times as much money as the OEM version.

Microsoft LOVES Boot Camp and I am sure they'll say that shortly. After all, Boot ( Read more... )

Bynkii:

Even worse, Shel talks about "The Wisdom of Crowds". Shel, I'll tell you now, the only consistent characteristic of a large group of humans is stupidity, perhaps followed closely by being easy to manipulate. Pet Rocks anyone?

I’ve been following the threads on how Robert Scoble and Shel Israel got a bit of a kicking from Werner Vogels when ( Read more... )

Nicholas Carr: The new narcissism

As I myself have thought about the watery philosophy and the powerful technology that dovetail so neatly in Web 2.0, I've become convinced that we're building a machine that will, to great and general applause, destroy culture. Keen gets close to the heart of the matter: "If you democratise media, then you end up ( Read more... )

Paul Thurrott:

While I would never question the success of Steam, which is a wonderful tool through which I've made several PC game purchases, this is a terribly uninsightful article. Facts are facts: The PC game market is slowing, and the consoles are kicking ass. Game over, sorry.

Well, Paul, what are those five million subscribers to World of ( Read more... )

Sunbelt Software blog has details of a rather horrible security exploit that’s already out in the wild. As Ed Bott puts it:

This is a zero-day exploit, the kind that give security researchers cold chills. It works by exploiting a weakness in the Windows engine that views graphics in the Windows Metafile (WMF) format. You can get infected by simply ( Read more... )

The plan for this Christmas was simple. After heading to Kim’s parents for the day itself, we’d be embarking on a plane to visit my wonderful sister and her family in France for a week in a house in the middle of the country, as much cheap wine as you can drink, and tormenting my small nephew (last year, I “taught” him how to do a Chinese burn - by ( Read more... )

Perhaps because I grew up in the era when the sight of a camera on the corner of the street was reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984 rather than safety, I’ve often found the number of cameras scattered around the streets a little disturbing. Yet, there’s no doubt that the evidence of cameras has been useful in clearing up a proportion of crime, and so ( Read more... )