Thread: Microsoft to start locking up illegal OS

The "Welcome back to the Family" letter from Steve was the last straw for me.

After that I built my first PC and the rest is history. During all that time (especially when the PIII Coppermine core and later came out) I lamented how nice it would be to have the MacOS run on x86. Nobody fucking believed it would ever happen, but, I knew long ago that when Apple killed the clones that the PPC was done. By doing such Apple killed the IBM-MOT-AAPL alliance because suddenly there were no other customers for PPC processors. So yeah, MOT gave Steve the finger and forgot about the G3/G4 and let it languish for a year or so with no speed increases. The G5 was a disaster...even needing liquid cooling.

Copland, remember that one ? the MacOS for Intel that never made it. If I was still an Apple fan, I would be utterly pissed now with the big switch. What a waste of time and money. I switched to Linux as soon as they started pitching about BSD MicroKernel in their next OS version. I mean why not go to Linux directly ?

Imagine having bought into the G5s only to find out that another transition was coming along.

I think in the end it became impossible to put the G5 in a laptop and this is what drove the switch to x86 more than anything. With laptops being the only growth market Apple had no choice.

How about another blast from the past?

Ok I have VMWARE 3.1 but you have to teach me how to run MacOS

Upgrade to VMWare 5.5 and then find a 10.4.6 torrent. When you have completed those tasks then we'll continue.

Oh, and if you don't have a Pentium 4 "Northwood," a Celeron "D," or an Athlon 64 "Venice" core or better don't bother.

I have P3 700Mhz

actually I have a P4 somewhere, but I never use it. I like my old P3 better.

Nahhhhgannnahaaaaapppppen then unless you dig out the P4.

will 256Mb RAM be enough for the P4 with VMWARE ? MacOSX must be an hungry bitch.

Good grief, no. I'd rather put a garlic peeler up my butt and pull it out through my nose than try that.

If you can tell me that your P4 uses DDR I might be able to help.

I bet it won' t take long before there is a work around or Vista patch.

Some people out there can be quite resilient when it comes to screwing microsoft...

There's already a workaround for people who have the older release candidates (like I do). It essentially involves installing the RTM version of Vista then extracting and copying some files from the older versions. This increases the 30 day time bomb to 180 days.

As an aside I don't know how any of you tolerate these 'XP Vista' or 'XP Max' or any other releases that are non-official. I downloaded a few to see what the fuss was about and they are horribly slow, loaded with crap applications, and several I found were infected with viruses and root kits. These are probably similar to what you might find locally around Bangkok.

you will have to be crazy to download those distrib

for sure full of rootkits

hell, Windows is one giant rootkit by itself, who needs more