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This has to go down in history as one of the dumbest excuses ever made by a company. Apple released some ipods with a windows virus recently. (Speaks a lot about their quality control) They released a public apology in which they partially blamed windows for being susceptible to viruses.

Its preposterous! Just accept the fact that you screwed up and get on with life. It seems the Apple management is run by 5 year olds who can’t take the heat.

Verbatim from the Apple website:

We recently discovered that a small number – less than 1% – of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known virus affects only Windows computers, and up to date anti-virus software which is included with most Windows computers should detect and remove it. So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.

Just saw this over on YouTube

This is a mind-numbing, stupefying, jaw-dropping, demo of XGL’s capabilities. The background music rocks too. Sticking to Linux never felt sweeter.

Now I dont care much about visual effects on my desktop. I turn them off actually. However, I would love to see the faces on my Windows and Mac using friends when I show this bad boy off. Go XGL !

And another thing, XGL’s hardware requirements are much lower than that of Vista. Mac OSX, hmm.. too expensive, I don’t like you.

Video 1

Video 2

For a high definition, non rocked out version, check this other video out.

Update

Video3 – Multimonitor setup

Oh yeah baby! XGL does multiple monitors too.