Linked List: February 17, 2006

Friday, 17 February 2006

Hidden Anti-Bootlegging Poem in Mac OS X for Intel ★

Cute.

Gold-Medal Winner Dale Begg-Smith Made Big Bucks on Spyware ★

I’m not going to hold my breath, but it’d be great if this dirt bag had his medal stripped for violating the Olympic Code of Ethics:

The Olympic Code of Ethics says participants “must not act in a manner likely to bring the reputation of the Olympic Movement into disrepute.” How about blackmailing Internet users by displaying pop-ups advertising spyware removal software?

(Via Kottke.)

Intel-based Mac Boot Incompatibility ★

Scroll to the bottom for Rentzsch’s latest update:

The plot thickens — the installer DVD that ships with the iMac is bootable. It’s also APM. So, the EFI subsystem does know how to handle and boot from APM disks. Following tips from Robert Mohns and Jolin Warren (pointing to http://appleintelfaq.com/imac/diskutil.html), I successfully populated a single Firewire drive that can boot both types of Macs

Will Microsoft Adopt Darwin? ★

Nicely written “Fuck you, Dvorak” piece by Chris Holland.