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Update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 on Dell 1525

July 13, 2011

I have been away from the Hackintosh community (and the 1525 community) for some time now, as updates have been easy and I haven’t had to do any DSDT modding or replacing of a larger number of kexts on an update to update basis, but I knew 10.6.8 in preparation for Lion was not going [...]

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Popular Science Goes (Went) iPad

May 18, 2011

… but sadly doesn’t care about your “paper” subscription or your years of loyalty. Or, do they? Could it be that Apple’s Magazine Subscription Model is strangling publishers into having to set prices so that Apple can get their 30% (if readers purchase the subscription via the device itself, from the magazine’s app), thereby eliminating [...]

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Windows 7 (x64) Updates Failure – April 2011

May 2, 2011

During the last week of April, Microsoft released four updates for Windows 7 x64. They rolled in like normal. I selected all of them and let them do their thing when I was planning a reboot, assuming they would want one. They did. They performed some “configuration” prior to shutdown displaying some text prompting me [...]

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AppleTV and XBMC – Dream to Stream

March 22, 2011

So… I was getting sick and tired of having to convert my videos (and RAW photos when I had to pull an impromptu slideshow for the family) on the PC/Mac and copy them to a USB stick, just so I could shove the drive into my 47″ LED Vizio to play them back. Now while [...]

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Remove Chameleon Debug Message

May 20, 2010

Remove or hide ‘efi_inject_get_devprop_string NULL trying stringdata’ on boot when using Chameleon 2 RC3 or RC4 — if you aren’t doing any device-properties injection.

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74.55.39.45 & Firefox – Connection of Death

May 6, 2010

Last week at some point, when using Firefox, a XP machine I’ve got developed an issue when hitting slashdot.org,  theregister.co.uk, and other sites I commonly check out and read on a day to day basis.  When hitting  the sites, the browser would load the header and then attempt to hit 74.55.39.45, and then just sit [...]

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Fixing PartMgr.sys – PartMgr Failing to Start

February 17, 2010
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After initially installing XP and transitioning it across multiple platforms over the years (not to mention all the SP updates on top of that), I found the other day a few low level, boot time devices that were failing to load or ‘Start’ correctly (i.e. Code 24 marked with an exclamation point when viewing Hidden [...]

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Flying the Friendly Low Country

June 13, 2008

Enjoying Savannah’s Coastal islands one October evening…

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