This is a follow up to my previous Hackintosh post chronicling the build and setup of my ‘Hack Pro’. My original goal was to build a Mac Pro clone using off the shelf parts, with the ability to do Apple Software Updates on a retail, unmodified OS X installation as you would with a real Mac. So far, using the steps described here, I’ve been successful.
There are several methods that have worked for many people, but had little success on my system. The myHack installer allows you to highly customize your install, and honestly learn a lot more about what you’re doing in the process since its more of a manual operation than others.
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Over the past couple months, the lack of desktop here at home has driven me up the wall. Turning to my laptop time and time again, hooking it up to an external monitor while consulting helped, but no laptop can truly replace the performance of a decent desktop. So after after drooling over the current Mac Pro systems, and then realizing I could buy 2 new laptops for the same price… I decided to look into the hackintosh world. While I’ve installed OS X on non-Apple hardware before, I’ve never done it on a system that I am planning to depend on. To me, that means I need a system that is not only rock solid, but is easily update-able.
After doing some digging through the OS X 86 Project wiki and the Insanely Mac forums I was able to determine that there are several platforms that provide excellent support, and stability. I finally settled on the following hardware.
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This is one of those tricks you wish you learned about 10 years ago, but never did. You know how easy it is to mess up a nice looking access list. You get one setup on the router, and then you end up tinkering with it over the next month and the next thing you know you have the ACL that fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. I have the same issue, actually the other day I was working on some ACLs for a clients VPN configuration when I realized I had forgot to include some entries. So after adding what I needed, I ended up with something like this… ( IP address have been obviously changed to protect the innocent. Ok, honestly, the whole example is just hog wash. I’m way too lazy to actually go lookup the ACL I was working on. )
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A while back I asked everyone to vote on what topic they wanted to see next, and by no surprise almost every voted for MPLS VRFs. When I started working on this, I decided to take a new approach to these posts, in my previous posts about JunOS Olives I provided ample screen shots and a video demonstrating fully functioning multicast. Today I am going to supply you with a Dynamips configuration file that you can run and follow along as we work within the topology. Here is a link to the file which includes 7 routers and a Frame Relay Switch (for simplicity I connected them all via Frame Relay). Basic MPLS is running over IS-IS on routers 3,4, and 5. All of the interfaces have been configured according to the following diagram. You will need a copy of IOS c3640-jk9o3s-mz.123-14.T7.bin or something for the 3640 that runs MPLS and VRF, check the Cisco Feature Navigator. You will also need to know a little something about Dynamips / Dynagen.
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By now, you’ve heard about the tragic shootings at Fort Hood. Obviously such things are not my normal topic for discussion here, but after hearing that the shooter may have had tried to contact someone within Al Qaeda, it certainly got my interest.
As posted on NY Daily News, it appears that Nidal Hasan, may of attempted to contact this Anwar al Awlaki, how he attempted to contact him is unreported, also I would like to point out that the intentions of this attempted contact are also unknown.
It is not known whether the agencies informed the Army that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had attempted
to connect with Anwar al Awlaki, a radical mosque leader who runs an English language anti-American
web site that promotes jihad, U.S. officials briefed on classified material told ABC.
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