This is from Mix ‘08. Guy Kawasaki asked “What’s the status of Vista, what’s happening?”

Ballmer’s reply, 

… I’m not saying that there aren’t things that customers choose to comment on. (Laughter.) Come on, the number one issue we’ve had customers have issues on were application compatibility and driver compatibility. …

So to paraphrase, the only problem with Vista, is that it doesn’t work with software and it doesn’t work with hardware.

Great! He does go on to explain, but you can look that up for yourself.

I’ll answer the latter part first. Because it sucks.

Right, now to the FireWire Networking.

FireWire can be used to network two computers together. But what many people don’t know is the advantages of ZeroConf. Basically, this gives a sort of local domain name. For example, x5315-laptop.local.

But it gets even better than that. You can daisy chain the FireWire nodes together. This is shown in my setup. 

My large PowerBook is the Root Node. From this i have a FireWire cable going to my PowerMac. Then one leaving the PowerMac to the Hackintosh. Then one leaving the Hackintosh to the little PowerBook. What’s even better, is that all of these are transitive. So my little PowerBook can access the services on my large PowerBook. In fact, all Nodes see all the other Nodes.

Transferring files from the little PowerBook to the big PowerBook and from the PowerMac to the big PowerBook get pretty much the same bandwidth.

Of course, all TCP/IP and UDP services work across the network. For example AFP, SSH and VNC. 

Although the bandwidth isn’t as fast as Gigabit ethernet. It’s still fast enough to play a DVD over the network or to move the iPhone SDK around.

Overall, everyone should know about FireWire networking. It’s cheaper than buying switches, and you can use any Mac, some Linux Machines and Windows XP machines.

One of my best finds in a long time.

Woz no longer needs to worry about someone stealing his money. Turns out the Psystar isn’t a scam.

 The thing boots up and runs pretty damn fast, says Patrick, but Software Update won’t recognize it so you won’t be able to patch.

My hackintosh doesn’t seem to have this problem. It can update every time. Even when the update would actually brick it.

Article Here.

I’ve just watched a Youtube video from 1992. It’s the NeXTStep Release Demo presented by Steve Jobs.

I’ve actually just been amazed at how much you could do in 1992 as opposed to now. If you look at the demo, it’s very similar to what Mac OS X can do now.

Video Here.

The video is 35 minutes long. But is very interesting. To give this an opposition, this is what Windows was like at the time:

Video Here.

Just been listening to Windows Weekly. It’s describing Microsoft Mesh. It’s sounding a lot like .Mac once again. However one thing they comment about is the idea that the terminal and mainframe are back. But we’re now calling it Cloud Computing. 

Podcast Here.

It might be illegal, it might not. It might be a scam, it might not. Either way, here’s a video.

Article Here.