via ARSTechnica
This is some sort of insane Joke, right? Selling to the general public a computer with a copy of OS X with a pre-violated User License? That’s not good guys…
I especially like the part about ‘non-safe’ Software updates. Really nice. The average user is REALLY gonna understand that one 
Hmmm… we’ve seen this attempt to create non-Apple Macs before from people selling Apple hardware in their own cases:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031120002821/http://2khappyware.com/
Anyone remember that?
They got their asses sued so damn hard they almost spontaneously caught fire in the process.
I don’t expect this Psystar bunch to last long before Apple Legal catches up.
Hark! Is that the sound of the world’s largest proverbial ton of bricks I hear hurtling towards them?
UPDATE: Yes, it appears it’s now called the ‘Open Computer‘ instead… Interesting.
While looking for something totally different (Applescript Tutorials for idiots), I stumbled over this brilliant article. It’s basically a rant about how old skool OS 7-9 Mac users are ruining OS X’s stability and security by using bad hacks to do stuff instead of programming it properly, or accepting it cannot be done securely.
What the hell am I rambling about? Well lets put it simply. OS X is written on top of UNIX. UNIX has things in place that have been crafted carefully over decades to ensure stability and security. When Apple wrote OS X they carried these right on up to the user level, making the whole OS stable and secure. Yet still these morons insist on hacking it about, like they did OS 9 and earlier, to make stuff work the easy way. This compromises the integrity of what is otherwise a great OS.
Take ‘Unsanity’ (singled out right at the beginning of said article). They are the Kings of Beige Box Idoits™ in my opinion. Their most popular product, APE, is an open framework for bad and dirty hacks for OS X, basically. The fact it exists at all is a travesty. The fact it caused Apple huge headaches and bad press during the launch of OS X 10.5 Leopard is an apt and vivid illustration of just how bad it really is.
The article goes on to describe also a paper from a dev conference specifically detailing how and why overriding application behaviour is good. I’ll give you a clue IT ISN’T GOOD!
It’s clear this breed of Beige Box Idoits™ has no clue how a real Operating System is supposed to work. They probably belong to the same camp of half-assed developers that keep complaining that Windows Vista’s User Access Control has stopped their application from working.
via Daring Fireball
I have to extend congratulations to John Gruber again, for another damningly accurate critique of a typical tech-fluff article. Leander Kahney wrote an article about how Apple is evil and secretive and horrid and a proper meanie.
The original article was lame. Gruber’s critique is sublime.
