New and Noteworthy: Apple sues ADC members who illegally posted Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger); IBM to offer "partitioning" o

Apple sues ADC members who illegally posted Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Apple has decided to take legal action against three individuals (former members of the Apple Developer Connection) who posted developer preview versions of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to file sharing networks in October and December. The BBC reports "Apple is no stranger to taking legal action against those who leak product information. In December 2002, it sued a former contractor who allegedly put drawings, images and engineering details of its PowerMac G4 computer online." More.

IBM to offer "partitioning" on next-gen PowerPC CNET reports that in 2005, IBM plans to bring a significant feature from higher-end servers to the next generation of its PowerPC 970 processor line used in Apple Computer machines and Big Blue's own blade servers. "The next-generation chip will have technology that lets it run multiple operating systems simultaneously, said Karl Freund, vice president of IBM eServer pSeries. Doing so allows a computer to handle more jobs at the same time and to be used more efficiently. The technology, called partitioning, relies on a concept called virtualization that breaks the hard link between an operating system and the underlying hardware. Partitioning is available today only on servers using IBM's higher-end Power4 and Power5 processors and in competing server designs from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Intel." More.

Previously on MacFixIt

• Mac OS X 10.3.7 (#5): Network slowness, fixes; More on deleting network links for startup problems; more
• Mini-Tutorial: Minimizing FireWire (iPod, iSight) interference
• PowerBook keyboards: At-home fixes
• Odds and Ends: Security Update 2004-12-02 for Mac OS X 10.3.6 Client missing

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