Another funny, yet egotistical aspect of Apple

I just noticed today that Snow Leopard’s default icon for PC’s on an SMB network is that of an older looking white CRT monitor with a blue screen of death on it.  It was rather subtle so it took me a minute to actually notice.  It’s funny how Apple and Microsoft just can’t get along. [...]

System Profiler and LSHW Output: Mac Pro

I promised a few people I’d put some hardware info about a real Mac on this thread, so I booted up Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty on a relatively new Mac Pro and ran “lshw -html > ~/file.html” and emailed it to myself. Then I piped the output of the system profiler utility to a text file. [...]

How to dual boot Windows (Vista, or 7) and Mac OS X on a PC

Actually, I’ll show you how to triple boot with Ubuntu or any Linux distribution of your choosing. You can leave out the Linux part if you want, but it’s not a bad idea to have a Linux OS on a system with Windows and OSX: You’ll be able to read/write non-journaled HFS+ (OSX) drives, NTFS [...]

Kicking off the new category

Overview

For the past week or so I’ve been working on installing Mac OSX on my PC, and I thought it would be a good idea to get a category going about it.  Installing OSX on a pc can be a walk in the park, a nightmare, or anywhere in between.  It really just depends on [...]