September 2010
11 posts
Installing Snow Leopard on Dell Inspiron 518
OK, this will just be simple memo for me. This machine is kind of quirky, and that means FUN! Why do something that’s not challenging? Easy Ace is boring!
Requirement:
Snow Leopard installation disk (or DMG images)
myHack Installer (Chameleon boot loader, etc)
VoodooHDA (Onboard sound card driver)
First restore the installation disk or DMG image to a 8GB usb disk. Install myHack into...
Wasted weekend
I’ve spend almost whole weekend on installing Snow Leopard on my Dell Inspiron 518.
Some may guess why I need to build hackintosh while I have a MacBook and an old Mac mini G4. The thing is I don’t want to programming on a laptop, the screen is just too small for me, while the Mac mini G4 can use the bigger LCD, its performance is merely bearable.
I’ve been keeping myself from...
Installing Rails 3 on Mac mini G4 is painful
First of all, my Mac mini has a 1.42GHz G4 with 512MB DDR ram, and I’m running the last version of Mac OS X that supports PowerPC architecture, Leopard 10.5.8, on it.
Leopard comes with ruby, which is good, but an old version, which is not good enough. I updated the ruby gem with little effort, the default procedure is quite simple:
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install rails
The first...
Multiple input, one display
Currently, I’m suing a ASUS VH226H LCD Monitor. It fits in desk which doesn’t have much room for a bigger display, and its latency is only 2ms(grey to grey). The only thing that keeps this display from being perfect is it only has 3 inputs, one for each HDMI/DVI-D/VGA. And now I have a problem, my desktop PC and PS3 both have HDMI outputs and I want to use them to minimize the clutter....
OK, starting on tumblr, all over again!
Hell, I don’t even want to explain no more.
This is it, my new base, oh no, my new weblog, and it’s on tumblr.
I’ll try to update here as frequently as I can, so stop blaming me for not update my weblog!
At here I’ll mainly write about my everyday life instead those so-called ”technological” stuff I used to write. The idea behind that is technology changes...