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This information comes straight from the Intel migration guide from Apple. The rules to have working emulation are: - It currently runs on a G3 - It has its own process (i.e. no kernel drivers or pref panes) - The entire process must be emulated, or native (so no mix-match of x86/PPC...

Well, Apple was bleeding red ink, yes... but still had right around 4 billion in liquid assets. This particular deal was 150 million dollars of non-voter stock being purchased by MS, which Apple could have survived without. I much rather think that Steve Jobs (this arrangement was after Amelio...

A power supply doesn't have many ways of turning bad. In its basic form, it consists of two parts: a transformer and a rectifier. Transformers do wear out over time, but the build can be quite good. Hand-made transformers still last something like 5 years before you have major issues, and this...

So far a lot will compile on PPC Linux, but you look at anything where assembly gets used, it breaks down. This includes multimedia, games, and low-level code. While in Linux, the low-level stuff is understandable, multimedia is one of the Mac's strengths, and would not fare well at first.

The unwritten one. The problem of supporting multiple archs is that performance and applications suddenly don't always work on all versions of the OS. Look at Linux: there is actually a lot of software that doesn't work, or doesn't work very well, if you aren't on x86 or x86-64. Linux is...

Well, let me interject with a bit of logic, even if it is slightly flawed: Budget tends to be based on the marketshare of the platform being targetted in software firms. So, security analysis targets the larger platforms (since they are getting more business from companies on that platform)...

It is official, viruses on Windows have gotten more malicious than normal and we are starting to see some really nasty stuff come out. Even more reason to do regular backups from now on, and feel lucky that we haven't dealt with something this nasty on OS X yet: Ransom-Ware : Now hackers can...

Well, the good news is that widgets are forced to sleep (their process is suspended) while Dashboard is not in the foreground. This decision was based on the idea that users should not have to put up with possibly misbehaving widgets that need to constantly update the display when there is...

Some people consider this bad, some (such as Apple) consider this good. Apple apparently values keeping forks intact (even if they are empty) over being a good network citizen. So I wouldn't expect Apple to ever change this, unfortunately. They abstract network drives in the same way as local...

Well, OS X hasn't had it, but OS 9 did: GameSprockets. It was pretty spiffy with the exception that Apple didn't want to keep it around past OS 9.. so it died a horrible death, even though game developers on the Mac were using it. If Apple were to revive a similar project, you can bet that...

What this error message is saying is that your HD has certain errors which need to be addressed before the install can go forward. (It is running Disk Utility on your HD, making sure everything is repaired/etc) So you have two options: Run Disk Utility from the Tiger disc to see what exactly...

Well, the coding for the OS9 one was simple: find the location of the desktop item for the trash can, and then draw the animation OVER the icon rather than replace it. It wasn't very tricky and used some pretty standard calls. You will also notice it completely locked your machine while it ran...

I know this is a little late, but for those who might be interested in the answer to solving this problem (if it ever comes up again and they hit this thread)... The problem is that the 9500 and older machines like my own 8600 cannot use the Startup Disk panel to boot into X. It has to be...

The odd thing is that Tiger was a little unstable after installing it on my Pismo. However, with 10.4.1, it cleared up through sheer luck it seems (I never submitted reports for the issues other than app crashes). Spotlight hasn't been a problem for me since the major indexing work finished. I...

Correction, IBM can't provide the chips that meet Apple's strict requirements for the Powerbooks. IBM is having no problems with supply right now, they are having problems meeting Apple's desire for an ultra-low power/heat G5 for the Powerbook. It is possible to make one off the current crop...

As a Pismo user myself, yes I have. It is a definite improvement over Panther in many respects. While it might not seem faster across the board, and will seem pretty bad until the indexing is finished, the end result is worth it. CoreVideo is actually much better than the former Quicktime...

Well, I find it ironic that even though this may be able to install a widget forcefully, it can't seem to start it forcefully. You still have to trick the user into dragging it out onto the dashboard before it gets any CPU cycles. Although yeah, keeping the 'open safe files' item unchecked...

Here is something rather nice to see... my Pismo which is the new bottom-end supported by Tiger, boots from the initial blue screen to usable desktop (as in, one app I clicked on the dock when it appeared has launched and is usable) in 15 seconds. 15! It used to take at least a minute to get to...

Hmm, this is interesting... JPigford, what sort of install did you do? Archive/Install, Upgrade or Clean Install? While I don't have iLife, I have actually had only one problem with Safari wanting to slow to a crawl for no particular reason, so I am interested to see what is causing these issues. :)

Well, looking to the long term, this sort of thing should get to be a little more rare with future updates. Apple has apparently told developers that the API will not be going through rapid change in the future after Tiger, now that they feel the API has matured to the point where things won't...