So I added a 40gb SATA drive to the machine and installed OSx86 to that. Once the install was complete the machine booted right up. The only issue is that the video driver was only allowing 800×600. Once I obtained the updated driver and did a reboot I was able to get 1280×1024. Everything was working great … So I decided to do an upgrade in hoped to not screw it up.
I updated to 10.5.6 with the Combo updater. After the install before I rebooted I reinstalled the Video Driver. When it rebooted the first time it got a kernel panic. I restarted again and passed -v -f to the boot options. It booted right up. After that I did one more reboot and it worked, and was very fast as well.
Once it was back up and running with 10.5.6 I did the software update and grabbed all of the avail updates. So far so good.
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OsX86 on MSI Wind Desktop : Part 2
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Block ads on OS X Leopard
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008I got on a fix today about ads on websites, I already use Adblock Plus as well as the Adblock Filterset.G Updater in Firefox. But I wanted to take it a step further. I adid so with the following steps.
Opened up terminal and added the following list to my /etc/hosts file.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
After this you need to flush the DNS cache
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
All set. You can of course use this on Windows/Linux and other versions of OS X. For older versions of OS X the dscacheutil command is not the same.
OSX + Twitter
Saturday, May 10th, 2008I came across this post, I gave it a try. Seems alright so far, though most of my friends dont update that often so its a little bare. Give it a try.
Safari goodness?
Thursday, November 29th, 2007I decided that when after getting my iPhone and making the upgrade to Leopard I would do away with Firefox. I had a couple of reasons for doing so.
1. Safari loads a lot faster than Firefox does
2. I can sync my Safari bookmarks with my iPhone
3. Less 3rd party apps to bog stuff down
So I took the jump and haven’t looked back, though I was missing the extensive plugins that Firefox had to offer, not to mention that I have a Linux machine at work that I am on way to much so its weird switching browsers. I have been able to over come the switching of browsers but have not been able to get back all the plugins I was using except for a few.
The main plugin that I was missing was AdBlock, I really don’t know how people can live with out it. After some Googling I came across Safari AdBlock which doesn’t work as well as the Firefox version but does a damn good job so I can deal with that. I also came across a really nice search addon which is much like Spotlight on OSX its called Inquisitor, so far that seems to be working really well right now. For the other Mac people out there what addons are you using in Safari if you are using it?
Leopard Part 1
Monday, November 5th, 2007So my upgrade was a success and didn’t encounter any issues. Â I have since taken it upon myself to do a fresh install. Â Mainly because if you know me I install a lot of crap all the time, and well I figured a new OS called for a clean slate. Â I spent the last couple of hours backing up and restoring everything. Â I even decided that maybe it was time I make a switch to Safari as Firefox is a tad slower on the mac. Â While I am sad to see firefox go at this time I think the switch is for the best. Â I also decided to steer away from Desktop Manager and make the switch to Spaces, only for the fact that spaces comes pre-installed, and I figure if it is already installed might as well use that as the overhead cant be much more than Desktop Manager. Â I am sure there is a follow up post to this in the very near future once I mess around with the OS more. Â I can say that the coverflow aspect in Finder is nice…. but in most cases just flashy and not as functional as you would think
