After hours of searching, compiling avahi-daemon myself, crying and sleepless nights it turns out if you are running Mac OS on non-apple hardware, and you have a mainboard with a Realtek r1000 series card (i.e. my ga-ep45-ds4) you should definitely use the RealtekR1000 driver if you want bonjour!
Although the hardware is detected by default, somehting isn’t supported [...]
Writing Archive
Hackintosh Bonjour woes (avahi-daemon)
10.5.3 9D11 Change Log found on PasteBin
Well there it is… take it or leave it I found it interesting. Keeping my fingers crossed for “unsupported” TimeMachine Backups.
http://pastebin.ca/966414
Restore from an unsupported Time Machine network volume from the Leopard DVD
So, I’ve been biting my nails the past week, that was ever since i decided that i want a bigger hard drive. And finally i can stop now, because i got my notebook back and i got time machine to do a “full” system restore, from an unsupported volume! I’m so relieved… and this means, [...]
NFS in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
Okay Okay, so I haven’t posted in while. Well, now Its decided. In this world, one which lacks Leopard howtos, I’ll do my best to write some posts that will in the end save you the time you would spend searching google.
NFS and OS X
Anyway, some of us have had Leopard for a [...]
PeerGuardian for Mac
Anyone worried about RIAA, anyone wanting to block spyware etc. should try out peerguardian. It’s a painless install on Mac and Windows. I just recently installed it on my mac. You’ll be surprised how much unwanted traffic you do get!
Here’s the link their website, PheonixLabs and a link to the mac download on SourceForge.
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Parallels + Slackware 11 on OSX
So how easy is Parallels?.. Rediculously easy! I can’t believe how little time it took It even mounts .isos so save that empty cd/dvd All I did was dl the latest Slackware installation (Slackware 11) and mounted it as the ide:0:1 (aka /dev/hdb). Afterwards I installed Slackware like normal. Lilo worked [...]
Bluetooth Mighty Mouse
So i got myself one of these… some ask how can i live with a one button mouse? How can i live without scroll. Well those people haven’t seen Apple’s Mighty Mouse because it has 3 buttons and a 360 scroll! But i didn’t get the wired one i got a bluetooth wireless one. And [...]
Tucano Second Skin Microfiber
So everyone should protect their notebook. Especially if you take it to class regularly as i do. Before the start of another semester of Uni i got me one of these. A Tucano Second Skin Microfiber I got it because of the color primarily and because it has an insert for your keyboard so it [...]
UTF-8 and windows.
I really, really, really hope vista will fix this! I am so annoyed! Every time i send a message to my family in Russian i get a reply back that I used the wrong encoding… THAT I USED THE WRONG ENCODING. What they should ask themselves or better yet Billy “Bad Boy” Gates is why [...]
Permanent Eraser
So cool lil app i found called Permanent Eraser that essentially destroys data and makes sure its irrecoverable. Nice if you use text documents to store things that you shouldn’t like credit card numbers, important passwords or other sensitive information. This program can even install in your Finder if you want to save the space [...]