Happy Birthday to Me.

April 28th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Another year with­out being insti­tu­tion­al­ized. Yay me.

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Oh for the Love of God!

April 18th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

In response to the whiny fuck­nuts who pissed an moaned over Apple serv­ing up a side of Safari along with the lat­est iTunes update on Windows (see my rant here), Apple updated their Software Update client for Windows to dis­tin­guish between “new” and “updated” soft­ware. So, there you go, Apple bows to the com­mu­nity and every­body wins.

Apparently, not if your Asa Dotzler. If you’re Asa, then Apple doing the very gods damned thing that you asked for is not good enough. Apparently Apple needs to also not check the box to install Safari by default. Again, the take home mes­sage here is that Windows users are so fuck­ing con­fused by a check­box that they can’t be trusted with the hor­ri­ble respon­si­bil­ity of installing a browser. What’s next Asa, do I need a note from my mommy to assure that I weally weally wanted to install Safari. You know, for a bunch of peo­ple who expound on the virtues of “choice,” free­tards sure do seem to have an issue with users mak­ing the choice to use some­thing that isn’t theirs.

Here’s a sug­ges­tion for you Asa. When a some­one with a vested inter­est in

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Freetard Follies

April 16th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

This tick­les me. The maroons at Linux​.com felt com­pelled to write an in-depth arti­cle about how the iPhone devel­oper pro­gram is not com­pat­i­ble with “Free Software.” Ignoring the biggest flaw in their arti­cle, which is assum­ing that the NDA restric­tions cur­rently being imposed on the devel­op­ers in the beta pro­gram will also apply to devel­op­ers once the pro­gram is out of beta, is any­one actu­ally sur­prised that the iPhone Developer pro­gram doesn’t play well with the GPL? And more impor­tantly, does any­one other than free­tards give a rat’s ass. You want to develop “free” soft­ware for a phone, go develop for OpenMoko. I’m sure the neck-beards will sing your praises.

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Additional Thoughts on the OpenMac Announcement.

April 15th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Update to yesterday’s big Mac story. So, appar­ently the Psystards (come on, they handed me that one) have vowed to fight Apple in court for their “right” to sell generic PC’s with OS X installed. Amazingly, the blo­gok­lein­bot­tle response has actu­ally been some­what intel­li­gent, but that’s a rant for another day. What I want to focus on here is a few rea­sons why Psystar win­ning a judge­ment against the clause in the OS X license agree­ment bar­ring the instal­la­tion of the OS on non-Apple hard­ware is a very bad thing.

  1. Should Apple’s restric­tions on hard­ware instal­la­tion be struck down, I guar­an­tee there would be imme­di­ate chal­lenges to the GPL; espe­cially GPLv3, with it’s anti hard­ware DRM provisions.
  2. Currently Apple doesn’t force any sort of acti­va­tion scheme ala Windows. Instead they trust their users to abide by the terms that they agreed to in the license agree­ment. In fact, Apple pretty much turns a blind eye to all man­ner of per­sonal vio­la­tions of the agree­ment as long as they don’t affect the bot­tom line. Once a third party starts mak­ing money off of sell­ing OS X “com­pat­i­ble” boxes, I expect prod­uct acti­va­tion to appear

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Today’s Winner For “Retarded Business Model” Goes To…

April 14th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

…The chuckle-heads at Psystar, whose web­site seems to be down, so here’s a link to the Ars story. It seems these frig­tards are sell­ing a Leopard com­pat­i­ble Mac “clone” for four hun­dred clams. Here’s a quick drama­ti­za­tion of the strat­egy meet­ing in Psytar cen­tral that resulted in this brave exper­i­ment in get­ting your asses sued off by el jeffe Jobs:

GUY 1: gur­gle gur­gle gur­gle inhale.…cough, cough. Hey man, you know what would be really cool? If we slap some com­mod­ity PC parts together with an EFI emu­la­tor and sell it to run Mac OS X on.

GUY 2: Dude, don’t bog­art the bong man. Yeah, that would rock, and we could sell it for, like four hun­dred bucks.

GUY 1: Oh yeah man. The pro­po­nents of free soft­ware will buy these like hot­cakes. We’ll be strik­ing a blow for freedom.

I don’t know who to pity more. These morons, or any fool who actu­ally orders one of these things.

peace out.

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