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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (51131)	2/14/2006 3:45:17 PM
From: KCMuu	Respond to of 213177

From macrumors forum: Why isn't OS X tied to EFI? Doesn't this mean that OS X is booting on machines with plain old ordinary BIOS? The Macintels are using EFI; I'll admit that I'm kind of stupid when it comes to this stuff, but how is it that OSX86 doesn't require EFI to boot? Sure seems odd that no one has got windows to boot on Mac because of EFI. Wouldn't OSX require EFI to boot. I await confirmation. Maybe this guy is just stirring things up. -KCMuu

To: Stock Puppy who wrote (51131)	2/14/2006 3:53:53 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 213177

The site is getting hammered. This is great news for users - booting into OSX is worthwhile if for nothing else than native iLife. And it shouldn't be long at all now before someone cooks up a LiveCD version... UMacintu. :)

To: Stock Puppy who wrote (51131)	2/14/2006 7:03:51 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

The commentary is fun - already a post from someone claiming beige boxes in his neck of the woods are being preloaded with the cracked OSX. This could get interesting...

To: Stock Puppy who wrote (51131)	2/14/2006 9:10:40 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213177

>> OSx86 10.4.4 Security Broken<< SP - Oh, those pesky Russians. - Allen

To: Stock Puppy who wrote (51131)	2/18/2006 11:53:53 AM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 213177

Mac-User Sites Shut for Possible Violation Friday February 17, 8:08 pm ET By May Wong, AP Technology Writer Two Mac-User Web Sites Shut Down for Possible Copyright Violation SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Two busy Web sites that focus on Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system went silent Friday just days after they featured links to information on how to hack the software and run it on non-Apple PCs. ADVERTISEMENT The OSx86 Project Web site stated Apple had served it with a notice on Thursday citing violations of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the site was reviewing all of its discussion forum postings as a result. The site has always aimed to adhere to copyright laws and is working with Apple to ensure no violations exist, according to a statement by the site administrator. The other Web site, Win2OSX.net, was completely shut down. Administrators there could not be immediately reached for comment. An Apple spokesman declined to comment Friday on the DMCA-based notices. The federal law prohibits anyone from distributing software or hardware that can circumvent copy protection mechanisms. The law has been criticized at times as being unconstitutional and too broad. Apple does not authorize the use of its Mac OS on machines other than its own, and earlier this week, the sites posted links to the Web site of a hacker who claimed his software patches could be used to run a version of the Mac OS on a non-Apple machine. The hacking endeavors are, for now, relegated to a small, technically savvy set, but it underscores a risk Apple faces if a pirated, functional version eventually becomes as accessible and straightforward as installing other software on a computer. It's a risk that became more apparent after Apple decided to make a historic transition from Power PC chips to Intel Corp.-based chips, the same type that its rivals use in predominant Windows-based PCs. Apple so far has two Intel-based computers on the market and plans to migrate the rest of its Macs to the Intel platform by the end of the year. The Mac maker had anticipated some people would try to crack its new Intel-compatible OS X operating system and deeply embedded some warnings to would-be hackers in the software, including one written in the form of a poem. The OSx86 Project Web site, which was formed after Apple announced its switch to Intel in June 2005, was among the many Mac-user sites that posted a copy of the poetic warning earlier this week. biz.yahoo.com