March 10th, 2008
A 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.
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February 6th, 2008
TidBITs announced that there will be no more Crazy Apple Rumors. A site that will be sorely missed by the insane Apple fan demographic I’m sure 
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