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Next try to install OSX Leopard 10.5.7 on my Acer Aspire 3690. Wish me luck! Oh.. I'm using iATKOS v7
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Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks
Using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And don't change it.
I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one.
Seriously, stop it. I don't care if Mac stuff is better. I don't care if Mac stuff is cool. I don't care if every Mac product comes equipped with a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I'm not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you've got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There's a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute monster ... read the full story here
GUARDIAN
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Mac users - you will love this! It's the reason why I left Windows a long time ago!
Early Adopters and Late Adopters
Windows 7 is now with us. Too early to tell whether we have received this with a bang or a whimper, but if ever there was a time to watch with interest the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft it is now.
Now I speak from a somewhat unique position. As someone working in the creative industries you would think I was a die hard Apple devotee. And in many respects you would be right. But I also use a PS regularly, and appreciate that there are certain things that they do better than Macs. Notice that I referred to things 'they do' and not ' how they do it'. Because I think that this is the key distinction between the two OS's, but one that has become a little muddied lately.Apple, in part due to their consistently great design has all too often been seen as the only way to produce great creativity, with the ugly old beige towers of the PC's being far too monstrous to behold to produce anything of beauty. Which is nonsense. If you accept that these are just machines, the end product being constant (bear with me here!) then it is the processes that these machines make you use that really set them apart. The applications are almost all commonly available on both Windows and OS X, and so what really is left as the distinguishing differences?Well, let's for a start look at the two most commonly used operating systems for them both at the moment. For Apple, Leopard or OS X 10.5 to give it it's pedigree name, and Windows Vista.Both of these system were launched at approximately the same time and both were met with luke warm approval. Apple launched Leopard with a view to supporting both its native UNIX clients, but also vitally supporting those newer machines fitted with the Intel chip. A move which angered many of its followers as this has famously been the chip underpinning PC users since Windows began. Apple was seen as abandoning its roots and losing the one key differentiator between it and the beige boxes, the fact that Apple software ran on ONLY Apple parts. Vista launched with a number of key features new to this system, all of which seemed to be lifted directly from Leopard. The dashboard, widgets and the 'Aero' style of GUI all seemed remarkably similar to those of Leopard, and seemed to bring the two systems closer together in the minds of users than either party would have wished.The negative publicity surrounding Vista was there from the start and stemmed from a bloated OS, requiring far too much RAM to run even the simplest of native applications. Driver support was scant due to a lack of faith in manufacturers that this system was (a) suitable for their ancillary products and (b) that it would even be around long enough to warrant them releasing a Vista version of the driver / plugin. The message was clear - too much time spent on making the OS look good, and not enough time spent of making it quick, responsive, and easy to use.Leopard on the other hand ran well - the myth of the 'hackintosh' became a reality with users building 'PC's' from Intel components and installing their beloved OS X into bege towers. IT managers were startled to turn on their Dell and be met with the distinctive dock and dashbard of the enemy OS. So neither system necessarily met with a huge fanfare. Windows had released a damp squib of a system far too sluggish for purpose, and Apple an OS that hardly made a huge difference to the previous, and moved them ever closer to their arch rivals. The OS itself didn't deliver jurassic shifts in their offerings, and so what would be needed to deliver the killer OS? The one that makes headlines and gives share prices the spike the investors want.That would be answered by the next releases.Apple release Snow Leopard. Same cat you might say. Not a Cougar or a Lynx? No. Because as Apple said ' It's the all new, exaclty the same operating system' Mmmmm. Sounds even duller than Leopard. But no. And here's why. They realised that the prime reason people liked their OS had nothing to do with dashboards or docks, or programmes they were offering bundled in. It was that the system was quick to respond and didn't crash. This due to the UNIX language underpinning the entire system (Windows uses BIOS) and the Finder (their equivalent if you will, of the Windows File Explorer) Nothing at all to do with programmes available, widgets, sidebars, drop shadows on windows or transparent window address bars. It was the bare bones reliability and speed of the system to respond. Snow Leopard was exactly that. A massive system tune up to Leopard. No real additions that anyone but a developer would notice. Snow Leopard made things faster. Startup and shutdown, applications responded quicker, and gigabytes of unnecessary clutter were wiped off you hard disk on installation meaning that altogether this was a leaner, meaner system from the word go.Windows 7, unsuprisingly promises us the same. It is slimmed down and tuned up. No great offerings that weren't in countless previous iterations of Windows, but this time the key focus is on performance, responsiveness, and just plain geting things done (something so painfully lacking in Vista, a hugely sluggish and frustrating system)Therefore it would seem as if the main players have learnt a few lessons in the development of their respective OS's. Software nowadays is so often free and therefore licensing revenues are gone. Cloud computing has meant that so much software now isn't ever hosted on desktops, and so their futures won't lie there. Runtimes such as Adobe AIR have meant that software will run on either system. So could it be that OS's, as before need to ally with industry for their market share to soar. It's an interesting point because it seems that this, once the most powerful alliance for Apple, has now fallen by the wayside.Take for example the sad tale of Internet Explorer. The world's most popular browser and installed as standard on all new PC's. Oh, and the bain of every web developers life. As browser numbers soar, and as Safari, Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Camino all co-exist happily, using a common rendering engine and working on creating more friendly, usable, functional interfaces, Internet Explorer has refused to benefit from this synergy, has used it's own rendering engine and kept it's code a secret. Not for them the benefits of Open Source code, with thousands of people across the web improving, bug testing and compiling 'nightly builds' of improvements. No. Developers are still building websites and HTML web applications, and then having to put in place hacks to ensure the pages work in IE. They are creating work arounds, something typically associated with redundant technologies being phased out, for the most widely used and longest standing browser technology in the world.Compare also with the adoption of Microsoft browser, and to that extent OS technology. Dell are still shipping with XP Pro, and OS now 13 years old. An OS superceded twice now. This as a direct response from customers, many of whom will be some of the most powerful IT consumers in huge global companies, all of whom have no faith in their technology until it has been tested to breaking point in the market for, well 13 years probably. These are the same companies who refuse to upgrade the browsers on their client machines from IE6 to the current standard IE8, as they still fear the security implications this might bring. So again, there is a lag of two revisions.And thus to our title. Apple seem to have the early adopters in the palm of their hands. Snow Leopard sales on the day of release were the highest ever. Apple users don't fear change, as they know they are using a stable, secure system and vitally one that is built on a technology that is human shaped in it's approach to user-interface. It recognises that software and hardware are interchangeable, but focusses on productivity and making actions as simple and quick as possible. So what if they never install a programme onto the machine as long as they have it, they will make it as easy to perform task as possible.Windows on the other hand have a lot of ground to make up as successive systems remain as crash-happy as they ever were, and with the expense of the OS's and software so often incompatible with new releases, it is very expensive to be an early adopter of Microsoft software. With Dell and big business still two iterations behind, all the signs from industry are to hold off. Don't buy yet. Don't even think about buying until we do. And with Google launching their OS based on the popular Chrome browser, it would appear that before too long, even we won't ever need to pay for an OS ever again.
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Psystar’s Rebel EFI allows you to install Mac OS X on any PC, no crazy Hackintoshing required
You can almost hear Steve Jobs flipping out right now. Psystar, notable for its efforts to sell generic PCs with Mac OS X pre-loaded, has just released something called Rebel EFI. It’s software that allows you to install Mac OS X on generic PCs without having to Hackintosh said PC. (Hackintoshing isn’t for the weak of heart!)
How does it work? I have no idea, but Matt (or someone, it’s chaos here today) is buying it right now and should have something up in a bit. (I don’t have any PCs here, I’m afraid.)
Nearest I can tell, you download and burn the ISO, it performs some sort of voodoo, then you insert the Mac OS X DVD and install like normal.
So if you’re even remotely interested in this I’d say to download it right now because Apple’s lawyers will be all over this within a matter of seconds. You can count on that.
Update: Psystar’s site is down but here are the installation instructions if you managed to grab the trial version in time. Anyone get it to work yet?
1. Download the Rebel EFI file, available here.
2. Burn the file to a CD.
3. Insert the Rebel EFI disc into your CD drive.
4. Start or restart your computer.
5. As computer boots up select, Boot Options or Boot Menu Key
**Boot Options or Boot Menu Key differ by motherboard manufacturer.
6. Select CD ROM
7. After CD loads press enter to run the CD
8. When prompted, Eject the CD and it will ask for the Snow Leopard DVD
9. Insert the Snow Leopard DVD
10. Select Main Language
11. Click Continue, if you want to continue with the installation of Snow Leopard.
12. Click Agree, if you agree.
13. Select the disk that you want to install Snow Leopard on.
a. If no disk shows, Click on Utilities on the tool bar, then select Disk Utilities.
b. On the left you should see your hard drive.
c. If not, a disk is not connected or cannot be read by your computer.
d. After selecting your hard drive click on Partition.
e. Under Volume Scheme, click current and select 1 partition.
f. Under Volume Information, name your hard drive.
g. Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
h. At the bottom of the window Click on the Options Button.
i. Select the GUID Partition Table
j. Click OK
k. Click Apply
l. Click Partition
m. Quit Disk Utilities
14. Select the disk that you want to install Snow Leopard on.
15. Click Install.
16. When Installation completes. restart the computer
17. As the computer starts up, insert the Rebel EFI CD
18. As computer boots up select Boot Options or Boot Menu Key
**Boot Options or Boot Menu Key differ by motherboard manufacturer.
19. Select CD ROM
20. Once CD loads you will see both the Hard Disk and the Rebel EFI CD
21. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Hard Drive
22. Press Enter to boot Hard drive.
23. Launch the Rebel EFI application from the CD.
24. Follow the on-screen authentication procedure.
25. Click Continue
26. Select your Keyboard
27. Click Continue
28. Select, Do not transfer my information now.
29. Click Continue
30. If, you have and Apple ID enter it now
31. If not, Click Continue
32. Enter your Registration Information
33. Click Continue
34. Create your Account Information
35. Click Continue
36. Select Time Zone
37. Click Continue
38. Click Done
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Mac vs. PC: "Windows 7"
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"Windows 7 is not gonna have any of the problems Windows Vista had...! Trust me!"
I guess we will find out if he's right at one of those not at all weird "Windows 7 Launch Parties" that everone is having. Right? RIGHT...?!?! ;-)
How to open a locked Time Machine drive
The other day I had the opportunity to troubleshoot two issues on an iMac using iChat's Screen Sharing feature. While the screen sharing itself isn't new, it's been around for ages via various VNC software and was made easier in Mac OS X when Leopard came out in 2007, the actual use of it makes you feel like you're working in the future.
iMac can't boot properly
The first problem was that the iMac wouldn't boot into the system. It would display the Apple logo and just stays there for hours. This is unsolvable using screen sharing since the iMac wouldn't boot so we went via text chat.
Get the original Install DVD from the box the iMac came in. If you don't have this DVD or something similar, you're basically screwed until you can get yourself one or you go to an Apple Service Provider to fix your problem.. Don't lose this DVD. If you do, you need to have a Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard DVD that you can buy from any Apple Reseller.
Insert the DVD, follow along as if you were to install the OS but once you see the menu bar on top, select Utilities from the menu bar and choose Disk Utility. Select the hard drive of the Mac and choose Repair Permissions. Once it's done, it doesn't hurt to click on Repair Disk.
Once you do that, restart the computer.
If the hard drive is not detected by Disk Utility then your problem is more serious than that. You need to take it to an Apple Service Provider.
Locked Time Machine drive
The second problem I faced while troubleshooting that iMac was that it had a Time machine backup drive, presumably a Time Capsule, which was inaccessible.
Once the iMac restarted successfully, the backup drive appeared with a padlock image on its icon indicating that the user account is unable to access it. It turns out none of the administrator account could access that drive.
Until I found this solution on Apple's discussion board.
1. Open Terminal
2. Enter the following lines:
sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"TM drive name"
followed by
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/"TM drive name"
This command needs a password.
Note that you have to have a password set for an administrator account. When you enter the first command, you'll be prompted for a password. This is the password for the administrator account. If you set up your account without a password, go to System Preferences > Accounts > and change the password. You can replace the password with a blank one after this is done if you don't want to use one.
How do you know you use or have an administrator account? Go to the Accounts pane in System Preferences and see the label underneath your account name.
Rebuilding Launch Services on Mac OS X 10.5+
Here's the command, works on both Leopard and Snow Leopard:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user /(It's one long command, not multiple separate lines)
Solving the Mystery of Disk Utility's Failure to Erase USB Drives
The excerpt below is from www.tidbits.com
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Solving the Mystery of Disk Utility's Failure to Erase USB Drives
…After 45 minutes of Googling and cursing, I finally realized that the Iomega enclosure had both FireWire 400 and USB 2 interfaces. I dug out a FireWire cable, plugged it in, and all was golden. I was able to erase and partition at will. (An unrelated issue also widely discussed was that you might need to change the partition type from Apple Partition Map in the Partition section's Options dialog; GUID Partition Table is generally the right choice since Tiger.)
I later found some additional background advice on this topic from other users: there's clearly some incompatibility introduced in Leopard that prevents Mac OS X from talking over certain USB drive interfaces.
Based on comments and discussions all over Mac sites dating back to the release of 10.5 Leopard, you have three choices:
- Switch to FireWire. That only works, of course, if there's a FireWire interface.
- Boot off a 10.4 Tiger installation disk, and use Disk Utility while booted. That's a slightly tedious but nifty option, although it won't work for machines too new to allow a Tiger book.
- Remove the drive and put it into another enclosure, preferably one with a FireWire interface.
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