thomas fitzgerald.net

Finally someone succumbs to rationality in the ridiculous story that has been doing the rounds the last few days. I was trying to work up the energy to respond to the nonsense myself |(but I’ve been sick with a bad bacterial flu and bronchitis) but thankfully Ars Technica has seen calm amid the phoney outrage. In case you missed it, some hacker on his or her blog noted that the code pertaining to the CPUs in an unreleased 10.6.2 has been changed significantly and that the side effect of this is that the Intel Atom CPU is no longer supported. This in turn means that popular hackintosh netbooks would no longer work with 10.6.2. This caused the collective mental implosion of nerds all over the internet with cries of outrage at this heinous crime. So from one hackers blog post about code changes in an unreleased version of OS X within a few hours it had become Apple declaring war on the hackintosh community. From a report that Apple my be removing support for Atom CPUs the leap was made to “Apple is disabling Atom processors” Considering Apple has never made a system with an Atom CPU, the fact that some people felt entitled to continued Atom support is hilarious. But it is the adamance by many, that this is some sort of malicious move on Apple’s, with no evidence whatsoever other than a blog post on some random hacker’s blog, that is just shocking.

Of all the features of Leopard, Spaces is the one that I have used the least. I have made a few attempts to use it in the past but often found it too frustrating and switched it back off again. However, lately I find myself using my laptop more and more and I have found that my screen was getting too cluttered and my normal trick of using expose just wasn’t cutting it anymore, so I decided to give spaces another try. So far I’m liking it. I think the trick to getting the most from spaces is to plan how you want to set up your workspaces in advance and give it some kind of structure. I have also found it works best when you assign applications in the system preferences spaces setup rather than just dragging things around.