Zac Garrett

This video was just too good not to share.

David Pogue of the New York Times and blogging fame takes a look at the XO Laptop. For those who have not been following the news of the XO, it is a laptop designed by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. This computer has been designed from the ground up for children in poor countries.

In a true Apple move they decided to axe the use of Boot Camp on OS X Tiger after the release of Leopard. This means that anyone who depends on the application for their day to day operations will be forced to upgrade.

I do not know how many people actually use boot camp as it is painful rebooting to switch Oss. It is just the fact that they will no longer support the current version of the OS when the next one comes out that bothers me. How can they possibly think that ditching this product is any good for them? The people who use boot camp on a regular basis will be cut off without paying the money to switch to an unproven OS.

The longer I watch Apple as a company the worse of a feeling I get about them. They seem to lock people down to one specific setup and are forcing upgrades. The end user should be able to choose whether or not they want to upgrade or not. There might be some software that just does not work on this version of the OS. The issue is we know for a fact it works as many have been running it for months if not years.

The real solution to this problem would be to not use this piece of software. There are two very good virtual machine; Parallels and VMWare Fusion. Both work great on OS X as long as you have enough RAM. Boot Camp is faster, but these other products are great as they run the other OS on top of OS X.

While browsing Slashdot this afternoon I saw something that truly amazed me, IBM was able to get a patent on switching checkboxes. To basically sum up the patent, they patented the ability to change the content of a page of program based on what you checked. Continue Reading »

New site layout. Posts should now be easier to read and I think the design looks better.

I am still updating quite a few things, but it was good enough to go live tonight. The static pages still have some design issues. I should get most of the issues resolved within the next few days. If you see anything that looks bad contact me.