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I’ve been searching around for some good guides to try installing osx86 onto my lenovo t61p. just trying it out to mess around. has anyone tried it out? any tips?None whatsoever.
I’d be surprised if you’d ever get it working, considering Apple tightly restricts driver development so that only Apple hardware can work [...]

November 7th, 2008 | Tags: driver, gigabit, gigabit ethernet, OSX, Prime Minister | Category: general | Leave a comment

Got around $1500 to spend towards a new laptop. Can you all recommend something for me? I’m thinking about an xps What do you want to use it for? Desktop replacement/gaming, sager laptops from a vendor like pctorque will be your best bet.
I think the XPS line is overpriced for what you get. [...]

October 19th, 2008 | Tags: Aero, Al Gore, Best buy, BTW, Compaq, decent hardware, Dell, Dells, Florida, good processor, IBM, Inspiron, iPod, IT group, lenovo site, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, Manitoba, Microsoft Windows, operating systems, OSX, ram, Sony, USD, web browsing, word processing, work/internet browsing/media, World Health Organization | Category: general | Leave a comment

So I here about this developer connection through apple where a student pays $99.99 and he/she gets a hardware discount. I was going to purchase this happy shit if it were worth it…Does anyone know what the cost of a MacBook Pro would be?!?
You get a $100 discount just for being a student, and [...]

September 28th, 2008 | Tags: iPhone, iPod, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OSX, sql server, Steve Jobs, USD, VMs | Category: general | Leave a comment

dammit, hour and a half worth of work down the drain
didn’t install antivirus first…then got hit with xp antivirus – which is not an antivirus program, it just looks like one
i learned my lesson
1) antivirus + newest updates (turn on firewall first also)
2) windows updates
3) then install your software etcFunny that, I always install the [...]

September 26th, 2008 | Tags: av, BSD, cough, cracked software, downloaded software, firewall, huge software library, Linux, massive software library, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, open source applications, operating system, OSX, software etc, VMWare, web browsers, word processors, XP | Category: general | Leave a comment

I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]

September 25th, 2008 | Tags: 64bit processor, Adobe, Aero, AIX, AMD, apache, ASP, bare bones services, diarrhea, domain controller, file/print services, GPU, horseshit software, Intel, large network, legacy systems, Linux, low-end hardware, Mac, Mac OS X, managed mail server, manager, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, Navy, Nvidia, online computer literacy test, operating system, Oracle, OSX, party applications, ram, SAP consultant, security software, shared memory, shitty software, shitty software development practices, software, software providers, software vendors, software works, Solaris, stupid software, Toshiba, UAC, ubid.com, Ubuntu, UNIX, USD, vista media, vista media center, web servers, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, winxp media, winxp media center, writer, XP, XP pro | Category: general | Leave a comment

God, it pisses me off that Apple installed this shitty MobileMe software with their iTunes 7.7 update. If you have installed that, but haven’t noticed, it is sneakily installed with the latest version of iTunes. To uninstall it, go to Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features in Vista, then remove the Apple Mobile [...]

September 7th, 2008 | Tags: Apple iPod Nano Portable Audio Device, Apple iPod Touch Portable Audio Device, apple products, competiters software, crappy software, Dell, electronics vendors, EMC, HDS, HP, HPUX, India, installed windows media player, Internet Explorer, iPhone, iPod, iPod Service, king, legitimate technology, Linux, media player markets, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Device, MobileMe, MP3, OSX, Safari, Solaris, Sony, Sun Solaris, technology, then click tools, tight-knit software installation annoyances, UNIX, web browser, Xerox, Zune | Category: general | Comments (1)

Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.
For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort [...]

September 6th, 2008 | Tags: Amazon, Anyone building, Arbor Networks, Cisco, Dan Kaminsky, distinct products, DNS, file sharing, firewall, Haha, head, history search, iChat, Internet Explorer, Internet Systems Consortium, iPhone, iPhone software, Limewire, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X, Mac OS X server, Mac store, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, niche product, on-the-up software, OSX, party software, poisoning, security researcher, software developers, software engineer, software engineering, software packages, Solaris, system logger, Ubuntu, win-based dns server, X server | Category: general | Leave a comment

Sup guys thought I’d ask if you guys knew what was going on with my laptop. Since yesterday my computer has been unable to boot completely. It’ll go to a blue screen that says STOP 0.0000007 (0XC0000087 etc…). Well I went into safe mode and pulled up my event viewer and [...]

August 24th, 2008 | Tags: Dell, driver, Microsoft, Norton, OSX, Windows XP | Category: general | Leave a comment