August 2009 Archives

ATTENTION CUPERTINITES:  Those rumors you've heard about Apple dropping the Mac OSX Snow Leopard update early are true.  The $30 ($10 for machines purchased after June 7) service pack upgrade to "the world's most advanced Operating System" will be released this Friday, a move forward from its original September release.

Snow Leopard offers approximately 32 million refinements both large and small to the Leopard OS, including various uptweaks to the system's response times, a few changes to the user interface, and integrated Exchange support (for those of you whose system admins can be bothered to help you set it up).

Bad news for the three users left still running a G3 system: Snow Leopard is also notable as the first new consumer-level Apple OS release to not feature IBM PowerPC processor support since the processor family's inception in 1992.  Snow Leopard will only function out of the box on Apple machines built around Intel processors.  Back to the Apple Store with you, gramps!

Windows users are still stuck waiting apprehensively for Windows 7's October 22 release, with an indeterminate amount of time immediately following that for the inevitable service pack releases.  With Microsoft no longer offering the Win7 Release Candidate beta for download, I wouldn't be surprised if MS moves its own release date forward as well.

In a humorously appropriate turn of events, EA Denmark has leaked (WARNING:  Google Translated from the original Sverjen) the upcoming Brütal Legend's complete track list.

The list, as confirmed here by friend of the show Tim Schafer, is impressive at a level beyond even the most fanboyish of Brütal Böösters' expectations.  I count 108 songs by nearly as many bands, more by at least half than whichever version of Guitar Hero Activision's shoving out the door this week.  That's something to be proud of, especially considering developer Double Fine Productions' allegations that Activision dumped publishing rights to Brütal Legend after efforts to mutate it into just another Guitar Hero failed.

After reportedly finding the courtroom environment hostile to its intentions to delay Brütal Legend's release with legal red tape , Activision settled with Double Fine last week, effectively clearing the path for its October release.

Hola amigos. How's it shaking out? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but misery's been flying at me from all directions, and it's been a damn full-time job to just duck out of the way of all of it.

Anchowerisms aside, here's a quick one-link wonder* which I'm sure will only serve to drive the O RLYs of the world deeper into public humiliation and further convince certain offended parties (covering your tracks successfully be damned!) that MP is nothing more than a bastion of left-wing ideologues.

Fool your grandparents!  Blackmail your co-workers!  Defraud your local government!  The possibilities are endless.

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* One-link wonder may or may not have been stolen from knoxblab.