links for 2006-01-15

No Windows on Intel Macs

With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple’s use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) rather than BIOS, current Windows releases will not run on the systems.

BetaNews | XP Won’t Run on Intel MacBook, iMac

Bigger question:  Will OS X from the Intel boxes run on non-Apple hardware? 

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Get your ESBN

The ESBN (Electronic Standard Book Number) is the unique identifier of electronic media. ESBNs are recognized worldwide and available 24×7 online.

ESBN – Electronic Standard Book Number

Seems like you get a unique id number for each downloaded file and use some set of tools to track that number in the file as it moves about the countryside.  via eHub.

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