I was in a bit of a bind last week trying to rehabilitate an old Mac iBook into something useful-ish.

I discovered that Disk Utility has what appear to be multiple restrictions on creating bootable disk images.  What you can do is burn an .iso image that is already configured to boot.  What you cannot do:

• Create/modify an iso/.cdr image that can boot on a PC.
• Make a disk image that will boot on a Mac.

As a system administrator, this is more Rights management shenanigans on the part of entertainment media distribution’s best customers Apple and Microsoft that prevent me from doing my job.

The competition for worst consumer computer operating system is now a two-horse race.  Let’s dispense with the drama and call it a tie.