Even though products based on FireWire S1600 standard were due to market soon, the 1394 Trade Association has announced that as of January its FireWire S3200 standard is awaiting ratification. This standard will allow up to 3.2Gb/s transfer speed
Using FireWire to hack your PC, Mac
March 10th, 2008A recent article on Slashdot about using FireWire’s direct memory access (DMA) capabilities to rewrite memory on a Windows box reminded me a lot of the 1st place winning 2002 MacHack hack “FireStarter” perpetrated by Quinn, which wrote a QuickTime movie of burning flames on the screen of any Mac you plug in via FireWire. As mentioned on TidBITS at the time.
Some of Quinn’s hacks are here.
10.5.2 Leopard Firewire bug
March 6th, 2008According to this Apple technote you may find the Finder continuously restarts if you’ve got an external Firewire drive connected under 10.5.2 and you have a blank computer name or one that contains non-alphanumeric characters.
My Random Macworld 2008 predictions
January 14th, 2008- Faster (Wireless?) Firewire
- Blu Ray drives
- Direct iPod to iPod song transfer
