Panther and DST

Honestly, I have not looked for a Daylight Savings Time patch for OS X 10.3.x Panther (I do not have the time or need personally), but is there a document saying that Apple no longer supports 10.3? iTunes still requires OS X 10.3.9 or higher, an even better example is the latest Security Update 2007-001 for Panther. Maybe it is just me, but I would consider it big deal when corporate America Mac users aren’t able to authenticate against their company’s Windows file server due to Kerberos authentication failing.

Luckily Ian Ward Comfort has come up with a patch for users who have not upgraded to Tiger yet or those who are patiently waiting for Leopard to drop and you can download the patch from AFP548 (another blog added to my reading list). Also if you were curious, OS X 10.4.6 is the oldest version of Tiger that does include the DST update.

UPDATE: John Poole of Geek Patrol has a post on how to update DST in Jaguar as well. Another good resource for this issue can be found at DSTPatch.com.

Tips for WSUS

This is mostly for my own personal notes, but Security Focus has an older article that explains all the registry hacks you could want when configuring WSUS.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiii!

I’ve only mentioned the Wii on my about page just recently. I had to let it soak in as this is the first console I’ve owned in about 2 years. (The last was an original XBox.) And I must say the potential the Wii has is amazing. This conosle has the highest wife acceptance factor of any electronic gadget in the world. I’d be willing to say it is more loved than the treasured *GASP* iPod. It even has mother-in-law love. Now I dare you try to show me another gaming console that your mother-in-law will love. You can’t. I don’t know how it is possible either, but I do know that Wii Sports has to be the best party game in the world. (This may be knocked out of contention as soon as I play Wario Ware Smooth Moves or Mario Party 8 though.) The sports are incredibly fun and there is definitely alot of skill involved. Twilight Princess is gorgeous on my lame 27” CRT. I haven’t even tried any of the Virtual Console games yet, but I will definitely be downloading some when I bring myself to spend another 20 dollars on a Classic controller. In fact, the controllers (the price, not the function) are really my only complaint with the whole system. Granted, it is a one time purchase, but 60 dollars for a complete Wiimote/Nunchuck setup? That seems a bit steep to me. (Yes, I already bit the bullet and bought it.) Now when Wii Play comes out, it will come with an extra remote and that is very admirable. I could only wish that Super Smash Bros. Brawl will come out packaged with a Classic controller. I’ve also been playing with Wii Transfer lately and that is rocking my world. I do have a few complaints though that I will write about later.

Getting ready for War

I think Boot Camp is a bigger deal for Apple than they lead us to believe. By the time Leopard is released (3/24/07 maybe?) Vista will be out in the hands of the general public. Vista has been available to enterprise customers since late November, this has given Apple plenty of time to perfect drivers for Vista. I can see Apple counting on big hit with Boot Camp for Vista before Dell or HP can even get drivers out the door for older “capable” hardware. This is a perfect time to really kick the Get a Mac campaign into high gear. You want to sell me a computer that already runs XP better than than the competitors (mostly), have working Vista drivers AND the most advanced OS in the world? Count me in!

This just in: Apple is a Hardware company!

I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but believe it! Apple sells hardware! OS X is not the bread and butter of the company, OS X makes their hardware look good. CNN doesn’t seem to get it. Granted, it will be hard for OS X not to run virtually anytime soon (it’s already been done anyway) but I can assure you this will be without Apple’s blessing no matter how “strategic” you may think it is. And I would be willing to bet that VMWare will have OS X running in a VM before Parallels. People also seem to forget that VMWare has been doing this alot longer than Parallels - VMWare’s first beta had USB 2.0, iSight and Bluetooth support while Parallels is falling behind. If it were up to me, save your money kids and wait for VMWare to finish their product. You will not regret it.

VirtualBox goes Open Source

A new virtualization kid on the block has just gone open source, VirtualBox also provides enterprise editions for enterprise (surprise) virtualization and it appears that they are also developing an OS X version. I might have to buy another Mac yet…

Naming the iPhone

I don’t think Apple had decided on a name for the phone and finally settled on iPhone. John Gruber tells us that iphone.com points to a “junky” internet phone service website, there is no printed name on the back of the phone much like all the iPods say “iPod” on the back, and probably the best reason of all: everyone is already calling it that. No matter what blog/news site you read, iPhone is instantly connected to Apple’s then-non-existent mobile phone. Why fight your target market on what you want to call the phone? They know its the iPhone and regardless of whether you call it Apple Phone/iChat Mobile, it is still going to be called iPhone. I think this will also be the case of the Apple TV iTV.

Dual Personality

Why can’t we all just get along? On one hand, I want a Mac to be my main computer, but on the other, I want my Thinkpad T60 running Windows XP to be my main machine. Boot Camp sucks (which is why I sold my MacBook), the power management is horrendous, the trackpad is flaky as hell and the wireless card did not support LEAP authentication. All three of these issues are deal breakers for me. The T60 is otherwise a perfect Windows machine, it is screaming fast and the battery seems to live forever. My only complaint is that the resolution only goes to 1024×768 and that hurts. Maybe Leopard will fix everything I need fixed and I can buy another MacBook, otherwise I’ll be keeping the T60.