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8 Steps to a 10.5.3 Leo Hackintosh (Bad Axe 2)

ryan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:41 -0600

A while back I posted the recipe for my Leopard Hackintosh. I've re-done it now to work with OSX v10.5.3.

Components
- Intel D975BX2X2 (Bad Axe2) motherboard
- Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E video card.
- 3GB RAM
- Intel Q6600 CPU
- WD Raptor 150GB 10K RPM HDD
- Pioneer IDE DVD/RW
- Apple Leopard (I purchased this so I wouldn't feel guilty and so I could put the Apple logo sticker on the chassis).

The Steps

So You Think You're Open Source?

ryan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:18:12 -0600

So you think you're open source? Are you this open source?

There's the technology, and then there's the under-lying ideology that inspires it.

Windows Terminal Server Thin Clients w/ LTSP v5 on Ubuntu Feisty

ryan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:37:09 -0600

Overview:
The clients PXE boot to the LTSP v5 server which auto-launches the Remote Desktop (rdesktop) client that auto-connects to a Windows 2003 terminal server. The result is you can take a bunch of end-of-life P2 or P3 computers, remove their hard-drives, boot them from the network and give them new life.

Leopard Hackintosh

ryan — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:21:56 -0700

Here's how I got OSX working with an Intel D975BX2X2 and Nvidia video card.

Can Cuil give Google a run for their money?

budque — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:59:18 -0600

Cuil: The Latest, Baddest AntiGoogle Looks Like A Magazine

SAN FRANCISCO — Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable _ only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers _ Russell Power and Louis Monier _ searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

iTerm delete key when SSH'ing into Linux

ryan — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:48:53 -0600

I like using iTerm on the Mac (http://iterm.sourceforge.net) for SSH because it offers a number of improvements over the builtin terminal app. But one hassle is that the delete key (it's Delete on MacBooks, Backspace on Apple keyboards), when SSH'd into a Linux box, doesn't delete the character to the left but instead the character to the right. Here's how to change that:

Surf the Web as Googlebot

ryan — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:05:59 -0600

Ever wonder why the results of a Google search lead you not to an article but a login page? How does the site get indexed by Google if it requires a login?

Goodbye Copper, HellooOOO LIGHT!

wax — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:25:44 -0700

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Google Flaw Exposes Password?

ryan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:43:39 -0600

This is no laughing matter, but I just had to crack up after reading the comments at the bottom. All your myspace are belong to us!: Google Video Security Flaw Exposing Private Username & Password Information?

Beryl/Compiz on Kubuntu Feisty

colin — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:41:23 -0600

As part of my fooling around with Linux, I recently upgraded my laptop to Kubuntu, the beta of 7.04 Feisty, with mixed experiences. I had problems even getting things to dist-upgrade, etc, which

Quicksilver

ryan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:04:25 -0600

Here's a great overview/article on a great app for Mac OSX: Quicksilver for beginners

Vista vs. Tiger & Inspiron vs. MacBook

ryan — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:28:50 -0600

I need a new laptop. Instead of buying one, I bought two and decided to live with each for a week or so and then decide which one would become *my* laptop. The two candidates are a Dell Inspiron XPS M1210 and an Apple MacBook. They both have the same core specs, same glossy monitor size, about the same weight. The Dell is running Vista and the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Tiger.

Web 2.1

colin — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:02:22 -0600

Things I like about the new community involvement of the web:

Good-bye, Google Bomb

budque — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:02:15 -0600

Washington Post, July 23, 2008

Bloggers, take note: the old-school Google bomb is no more.

That's right, the online behemoth best known for its search engine says that it has rejiggered its legendary and proprietary technology so that online efforts by bloggers to manipulate its top-secret search algorithm to create cheeky, offensive and decidedly off-message answers to searches will no longer work.

"It was fun" while it lasted, said Rick Klau, a member of the Google strategic partner development content acquisition team, at a search engine optimization training session for political bloggers in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. But, he said, "Google bombs don't work anymore."

Microsoft Claims Open Source is theirs???

Axman — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:25:43 -0600

Didn't Bill Gates steal the OS from Apple??? Now it seems it's NOT okay to take what isn't yours.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2189833/microsoft-claims-patents-linux

Meet me halfway

colin — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:25:34 -0600

Technology for organization is only as good as the user. If you don't
make adequate use of the tools available, it's not the tool's fault,

Google DNS Poisoned?

ryan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:55:32 -0600

Google sites aren't coming up for me. Here's what I get after doing a whois:

Technology comes to ANSWER Camp

colin — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:49:01 -0600

I'm experimenting with Drupal and ANSWER Camp - it will hopefully be a fruitful exercise in creating a shortterm social networking site! Check here for more details.

David Lynch on the iPhone

ryan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:00:12 -0700

We all know David Lynch for his ground-breaking film-making and otherwise brilliance.

Damn those animated Windows cursor

budque — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:45:00 -0600

http://news.com.com/Windows+cursor+patch+causing+trouble/2100-1002_3-617...