sprocket i/o

Steps to enjoying your first weekend with your new Hackintosh: Spend Friday & Saturday trying to get Kalyway 10.5.1 to install, only to be left with a blinking cursor in the place of a boot loader Give up, install Windows XP and Ubuntu Hardy Find Directions on installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Gigabyte [...]

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This is what all went into my new machine.

All of the parts for my new machine arrived from newegg today, with an amazing amount of packing materials, manuals, and other such garbage. I stacked all of the product boxes up for the photo you see to the right. Here is what’s included: Antec Solo Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 [...]

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Me in my Netscape t-shirt

Ten years ago, they conceded defeat in the browser wars, and announced that they would make the Netscape Communicator source code available for free. From this decision, the Mozilla Foundation was made. More importantly, a few important software projects were born: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Bugzilla. Today I am wearing my Netscape t-shirt, as I am [...]

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My new workstation? (Antec Sonata)

After cooking the processors in my PowerMac G5 processors in November, I’ve been holding out to buy a replacement desktop machine. I decided to wait until today, the day of the MacWorld keynote, just in case Steve Jobs would release a machine that would fit the bill. I’m a pretty active multi-processor, and will be [...]

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