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Apple has released the Open Source part of Snow Leopard, with the kernel (xnu) noticeably missing. It’s not surprising that it’s missing, since it’s a new major release, and is not a slant at the Apple Engineering that is responsible for this. In fact, it’s pretty amazing to have it so soon.

Having said that, I look forward to the overwhelming press over Snow Leopard, and what a great leap in technology that it presents. Serious software on serious hardware. The bar has been raised once again on what a desktop (I reserve server for a later time) presents for a computer user.

Leaving behind the PowerPC Macintosh line wasn’t a difficult choice, but leaves Apple supporting Leopard for a while, at least for the G5s.

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As we get more and more overloaded with data, are we losing our humanity?

It’s so easy to get wrapped up in what believe people to be, that online, reality may not match what we envision. In some sorting, did we miss something vital to our understanding? Relationships built between people spanning years that they have never met, yet the entirety of it can be eliminated in minutes. The Internet is full of these voices of people building connections, some embelishing, some outright lying to get something they want or need. Not that it’s always bad, but the relevance is based on how much you are willing to put into it.

It’s not like penpals anymore. People are not just composing cute poems or vague loveletters, but are delving deep into their psyche trying to find someone who understands them.

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There is lots of bitching about the newest release of Mac OSX, 10.6 Snow Leopard. Not for features, but because the box and DVD graphic are bland. Now keep in mind that it’s $29 for the upgrade compared to $129 previously.

It’s generic white with a picture of an actual snow leopard. It’s not black with an X or picture of fur or grey with text saying the version. I don’t really care if it arrived in a plain brown wrapper with ACME stamped on it and a disc that had nothing on it but magic marker of the OS version. Really.

Of course having a nude model draped in a leopard skin would get PETA all pissy and feminazis nipples bent, not to mention the parents whining about how their child was irreparably harmed just from viewing the image.

So really there isn’t an easy way to appease people who think the artwork implies some greater value to a product. Haven’t you tards learned from sexy boxes with shitty games in them that this doesn’t work. Old habits die hard.

So don’t complain about the packaging. It’s a remarkable release that Apple engineers and management should be proud of. I lookforward to see what developers (and me) can come up with.

As for the Hackint0sh people running around complaining that things are different or harder, I simply say get a Mac. The questionable ethical issues don’t really apply globally and it’s getting growth and more testing. Plus it keeps driving the open source side of apple and has people dinking around in the source tweaking. It’s all good.

Meanwhile, I’ve been working more on TapNet.

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The last entry got eaten by cylons. Hungry cylons. Rollin’ round the hood in their Raiders with their spinning rims and hydrolics. Flashin’ their bling and seducing all the bitches with their red stare and syren voices callin’ out monotonicly… By your command. Such bottoms pimpin their warez.

I had a thought. It got scared and ran away.

It’s been almost 6 months and the wounds are healing but the scars remain. Still broken just not as bad as it was. It’s been far easier to be MIA taking solace in the quiet moments of my life as retribution for the chaos imposed on it.

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