Posted on 03/24/2006 4:53:26 PM PST by Vermonter
Hackers boot a Dell with Mac OS X (Intel). March 24, 2006 -- Unidentified programmers have hacked the Intel version of Mac OS X to enable it to boot a Dell PC. A file called the "JaS4.2b patch" can be used to create a customized installer DVD for installing on a Dell PC.
A website called MacaDell describes the patch. The MacDell site has also has a page that describes how to use the JaS4.2b patch to create a customized installer disc for Mac OS X.
Using the hack is illegal because it breaks Apple’s Mac OS X license agreement, which specifies that the operating system be run on an “Apple-labeled computer.”
According to MacaDell, work on the hack began when a Russian hacker known as Maxxuss cracked the encrypted security layer in Mac OS X that usually requires the software to be installed on a certain Mac model. Other hackers added to the work, and a programmer known as JaS put the work together in the JaS4.2b patch.
The hack emulates the EFI boot firmware found in Intel-based Macs. It also emulates an instruction set called SSE3 in order to support processors older than the Dual Core used in the Intel Macs. MacaDell reports that the hack doesn’t work on every computer, and doesn’t support some functions, such as wireless networking and certain audio and video cards.
At this point, the Intel version of Mac OS X is only available with the purchase of an Intel-based Mac.
Really? He's doing all that complaining but only uses OS9?
Excuse me. These are not personal attacks the one guy just HATEs anything to do with Apple and is totally out of control.
The other guy has no clue on business. I suggest he reads the Apple financial reports.
In fact the one guy posts articles that are over a year old and jiggers the DATE. Bust him!!!!
You're welcome to make your points to the other poster but leave out the personal insults
These people are not making points. This is a thread about Apple Mac's and we got two people that don't use them and have only nasty things to say.
Why can't we ask them to get a life? Or make a substantial contribution.
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Apple is behind the times, they are sell "old" antequated hardware as if it were new technology.
Every one is entitled to an opinion, even if it disagrees with your own.
Refute the other poster with facts, not insults
NOBODY CARES.
If you want to build your own computer FINE.
My Macs are solid and useful tools. You are turning people off. Start your own thread and ping list on HomeBrew computers and have fun. You are like PETA,if you don't want to eat meat fine. But leave us meat eaters a lone,
Mod, is the temporate enough for you.
There's are not opinions it is thread jacking.
You're that one that said Macs are great! tell me what kind of video card you have in your Mac! LOL
No, we have upgraded. About six months ago. On the new operating system now. Comments relevant.
You might try replying to them instead of trying to dismiss them. Generally considered much better debate form.
"You're that one that said Macs are great! tell me what kind of video card you have in your Mac!"
NOBODY CARES!!!! Get a life. People do not buy Macs for the this twitty stuff. NOBODY CARES!!!! Go do something else. Like wire something.
NOBODY CARES, that is the POINT. we use them like the great tools the are.
DONT Bother to repy I'm done with you.
Whatever.
You said -- "LOL! whats so great about them? Can they play Half-life 2, Doom III or any of the new games?"
Gradually the truth comes out. Some people just want to play games with their junk PC boxes (usually with wires and other components hanging on the outside) -- while others want to do some useful and nice things with their Macintosh computers.
At least Steve Jobs has figured out that music and taking pictures and video cams along with watching some television programs and some movies (coming up), along with other standard Internet apps are what families want to do. And Apple has *integrated* it all "seamlessly" to make it all come together for these people.
The "kiddies" -- well..., they can use their junk PC boxes and fritter away their time on games and do nothing of any consequence for anyone else.
At least Steve Jobs knows where the mass market is and where the families want to be with their computers and how it integrates with their lives.
The kiddies -- they might grow up one of these days. But with some, don't count on it..., they'll be stuck in la-la land for a long time, denying the reality of Mac -- while everyone else goes on with life and living.
Those PC dolts are stuck with bits and bytes and wires and cards and this benchmark and that benchmark -- while the others are telling their kids, "Now, listen to your mommy and don't grow up like that freak!"
Regards,
Star Traveler
I can do all that with my PC and play games as well.
You said -- "Get a life. People do not buy Macs for the this twitty stuff."
Yep..., some people (those PC dolts) just never get it. They're so stuck on these arcane details that it's pitiful. They don't know how to life a normal life -- only stuck on the color of this wire and where it goes and what happens to that "byte" and how long this "bit" takes to travel two microns, and this card and who makes it and that benchmark and how I'm 2 milliseconds faster down the "bit trail" -- and so on. You never heard a such a sorry group of human specimens in your life -- if they think that's what *normal people* want to do.
And then they complain when someone makes a Macintosh computer that the "rest of us" want. Nooooo..., that's not good enough for those PC dolts .... no way. They've got to turn you into a raving tech-lunatic trash-PC person -- just to make themselves feel better.
I can't help thinking how sorry a group they are, when Jobs is out there revolutionizing the whole media industry (and did so even so far back as 1984 with the Mac and the Laserwriter and Pagemaker -- revolutionary for the time, when no one else had it) -- they've got their microscope and magnifying glass, poring over the arcane bits and bytes of the innards of some electronic board. They probably even cuddle with some of those electronic pieces. Probably makes them feel good. "Oh, where's my mommy...."
Don't worry, the adults know where to get good equipment. You've picked the right kind with Macintosh. It's good, it works right, it's thoroghly integrated and it's all fine and elegant.
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "I can do all that with my PC and play games as well."
Not without inviting 60,000 viruses to join you, too -- unless you fight them off, all day long with a series of programs and security measures and a manual thicker than the doctor's drug book.
I haven't seen a single infection in the Macintosh since around 1991 or so. In fact, it's so rare that most Macintosh users don't even think viruses exist on computers. Boy, are they shocked to find out they're *all* over on the Windows machines...
Are you sure some of those viruses didn't transmutate and accidently infect you? Just wondering....
Regards,
Star Traveler
Run, an antivirus and firewall, if you get a virus. reinstall your cloned OS, it takes a whole 15minutes.
You said -- "Run, an antivirus and firewall, if you get a virus. reinstall your cloned OS, it takes a whole 15minutes."
I've read in some PC articles that the PC-dolts have a new strategy with their computers now. It's called "use it and throw it away."
The situation is so, so bad for so many PC users that they figure the only way they can survive is to used their computer for six months (about as long as they can take the attacks) and then throw away the PC and buy a new one.
That's the only way the mass of people with trash-PCs know how to cope. The others, just buy it, use it -- get so infected that they put it away and never use it again. There are a lot of trash-PCs being used as closet-space right now.
Now, on the other hand, many who have switched over to the Mac are pleasantly surprised to find out that they can actually use their computer for years and never have one occurence of the nasty critters that crawl all over trash-PCs.
I personally know families that just can't cope with the 60,000 viruses out there for the trash-PCs. They moan and groan about how this won't work and that happens and this crashes and what-have-you. I just look at them and say, "Well..., it's time to grow up and get a Mac."
Ain't that nice....
To those who still have some sanity left after using trash-PCs -- come on over to the Mac world and have some peace and quiet and get some adult things done and have fun. No more having to think like a computer-nerd in order to use your computer. It just works. That's the nice part about it.
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "Has Half-life 2 been ported to Mac yet?"
We're grown up over here on this side of the fence...
Regards,
Star Traveler
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