For the first time I’m genuinely worried about Apple’s switch to Intel. In an article on Ars Technica Hannibal writes about Apple’s potential use of LeGrande (LeGrande is Intel’s hardware based DRM). Now, it’s quite obvious that Apple will do everything in it’s power to prevent OS X from running on non-Apple branded hardware. iDVD won’t install unless you have a DVD burner attached. Apple has a long history of doing things like that, and it in and of itself isn’t bad.

Originaly the moniker “Power” added to the front of “Mac” was used to denote the switch to PowerPC processors rather than 68k processors. Now that Apple is moving from PowerPC to x86, I can’t help but wonder what will happen to the PowerMac and PowerBook lines, since in a sense they are clearly no longer “Power” computers. Interestingly enough, at the same time Apple already has a nice line of “X” products, e.

The spacers were over hyped. They’re kind of annoying, but it doesn’t really hurt that bad. It just feels like I’ve got food stuck in my teeth, and it’s a sustained dull ache. Naproxin sodium will take care of that. On a much more fun note, VRRP is pretty kick ass. I set up our new redundant firewalls today. The hardest part was installing FreeBSD and a few packages (read, it wasn’t hard).

I’ve never fully appreciated the NeXT heritage of Mac OS X until today. Now, I know that when NeXT came out it blew the doors off of every competitor. I know about it’s UNIX base, the Framework environment, that it was used to create DOOM, Seti@home, Toy Story and the WWW. What I have never done before is the math. The chronological math that is. NeXT was introduced in 1988. The same year OS/2 1.

If you’re a bit like me, a deep down UNIX guy, and an OS X guy you’ve probably monkeyed with ipfw. I have several times played around with the firewall rules, testing different things, experimenting and whatnot. Unfortunately in doing so, the Firewall pane of the System Preferences refuses to work anymore saying that there is some other firewall software running. Flushing ipfw doesn’t help matters either. Several times in the past I resorted to rebooting to restore my ipfw rules.