Well I haven’t reall posted much for a while, so there’s a few things to check out…

1stly, the 17″ MacBook Pro is here which is very nice, if not a little pricy and slightly big for my liking (still waiting for a 12″ model you see).

I’ve been having some wierd ass problemos with the server that I’m using that has caused Starfishextravaganza.com to be down for a while. The problem has been sorted out and the site should be working fine and dandy now… If you’re a Safari user, then you should notice slight changes to the site in the form of Safari like search fields, but these aren’t wholly complete yet as they have no livesearch functionality built into them (so I’m sorry if you get weird Javascript errors when searching in Safari).

Can’t think of much else at the moment, so that’ll be it.

Having a @!?% of a lot of spam currently, so finally got round to getting this Askimet or Akismet or whatever the hell its called spam thingy installed and working, and believe me, this API thing you need is not the most obvious thing to find, you need to open a wordpress.com account just to get one. The directions don’t even make this very clear!

Also sorted out some nice new email… mo (at) mohoyt (dot) com

Finally reading a bit more about the old Boot Camp release, and I realise that as usual, Apple is nicely taking the piss out of Microsoft as they go about explaining the features… try these on:-

EFI and BIOS
Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.

Word to the Wise
Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.

Microsoft security fixes… damn they’ll make a difference, not!

I returned from a short holiday to find an unexpected release from Apple - Boot Camp. Following on with the ‘making Windows run on an Intel Mac’ thing, Apple decided to join in and make its own program to do this. Having probably been in the works since Apple decided to use Intel, which is since the birth of OS X, Boot Camp is a way for ‘normal people’ (I say normal I mean people who have at least used a computer once or twice in their lives) to boot XP on an Intel Mac. Why people would want to do this is quite beyond me as thinking about it, there aren’t really any reasons for anyone to use Windows when they have Mac, except possibly the games, but most civilised people have gone beyond that stage. If there are any reasons why someone should use Windows when they have a Mac then let me know as I will be interested…

The results of this could be variable. What Apple (or at least Steve) wants is for Windows people to realise that they can now run any of their old software if they really want to on a Mac using Boot Camp (which by the way will be built into 10.5 Leopard) so these people will buy a new Mac, use Windows on it to do their old boring things, and finally, somewhere along the way see the light and begin to use OS X more and more until they see how great it is… Thus causing Apple to get more money thru new people buying their hardware, then getting even more support for their OS thru converts and getting a larger customer base. The release of Boot Camp could also result in many other things, some not so probable as others, such as hardware manufacturers, e.g. Dell, HP, Sony that make PCs for use with Windows losing market share to Apple as people realise how ugly, old, crappy looking and derivative their hardware is, and thus dont buy it anymore in favour of using Apple computers.

But all in all, committed Mac users would never really have use for such a program, possibly just to know that such a feature exists and to boast about it to the non Apple community… I probably won’t even install it, not even to try it out, possibly only if I have some very obscure desire to play GTA or some other game available on Windows…