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The Holy Hackintosh Build

February 22, 2010

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 [...]

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The Road to Hack…intosh

February 9, 2010

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 [...]

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Snow Leopard was released on August 28th, and at 1:37pm I received my copy and proceeded to install it like a well trained puppy. After installing, I think I was more obsessed with playing with / finding new features than even testing out any of my software. Here is a list of things that no [...]

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Got a Mac ? Got a Linux box that you use as a file server on your home network? Sick of problems with samba? So was I, until today when I decided to figure out how to setup Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) and Bonjour under Linux, debian in my case. In the following tutorial, we’re [...]

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Snow Leopard Approaches

August 26, 2009

As anyone that uses OS X probably knows, this Friday, August 28th marks the release of OS X 10.6 dubbed Snow Leopard. The upgrade has been priced at only $29, or for a 5 license version for $59. Some of the new features include a totally rewritten finder, expose integration into the dock, a new [...]

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