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Triple-Booting Macbook Pro
It’s been a week now and I still have had no success installing all 3 major OSes on my MBP. OSX+Windows works fine (via Bootcamp), OSX+Ubuntu 9.10 also (9.04 hangs on boot).
This, however looks promising:
http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-drive/
Fix ACL/permissions on Mac OS X 10.5+
After much hacking at the command line and Google, I found this handy little app that strips the ACLs from files or folders. Why would I want to do this? Well one example is when attempting to retake ownership of a home folder recovered from another Mac’s hard drive.
Setting default applications for file types in Mac OS X
I got tired of clicking Get Info and Change all… and found this handy prefpane
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/Bundles.html#RCDefaultApp
Computers
- MacBook Pro Unibody – Mac OS X 10.6/Windows 7/Ubuntu 9.10
- ASUS P5W DH Deluxe – Mac OS X 10.5/Ubuntu 9.04
- Dell Inspiron 640m – Ubuntu 9.04/Windows 7
- Dell Latitude D610 – Ubuntu 9.04
- ASUS P5N73-AM – Ubuntu 9.04 and Debian Lenny hybrid with OpenVZ/KVM
- ASUS ITX-220 – Ubuntu 9.04
- ASUS ITX-220 – Mac OS X 10.5
- Zotac ITX Wifi – Windows 7
- Toshiba Satellite A40 – Ubuntu 9.04
- Dell XPS M1330 – Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise/Ubuntu 9.04
- Dell PowerEdge 1400SC – Kubuntu 8.04
- Acer AspireOne – Linux Mint Gloria (Ubuntu 9.04)
- Acer Aspire 3623 – Mac OS X 10.5
- Acer Aspire 5570Z – Windows 7
- Nokia N810 – Maemo/Debian ARM
- 3* iMac G3 – Mac OS X 10.4/openSUSE
- IBM ThinkPad T21 – Windows XP
- IBM Ispirati A10i – Windows XP
- ECS P4VMM2 – Windows XP
- Apple TV – Apple TV OS (Mac OS X 10.4)
- Linksys NSLU2 – Debian armel
- Broadcom-based routers – DD-WRT/Tomato
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"Combo Fix" for Windows XP
My cousin was having some issues with missing desktop icons and taskbar on a Windows box. Some googling brought up ComboFix. Reading the description, it looks like it could be a handy tool, and from a trusted computer repair/diagnostics site.
Migration to iWeb and Ubuntu+Proxmox how-to
My faithful readers (all 0 of them) may notice that the site is considerably faster now. My blog is now hosted on a proper server over at iweb in Montréal instead of on my home server, leaving it free for other tasks.
As seen previously, I was attempting to set up a combination MythTV/OpenVZ server. Well, I finally got it working:
- Install Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04, 64-bit) and update until the update manager won’t update no more đŸ˜‰
- Install and configure MythTV backend. This step’s difficulty may vary depending on the tuner card. My Hauppage HVR-1600 was supported by Ubuntu out-of-the-box.
- Add the Debian Lenny stable and update repos to /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update.
- Download Linux driver for Intel Pro 1000 PCIe card.
- Install vzctl, linux-image-2.6-openvz-amd64, linux-headers-2.6-openvz-amd64, update-grub if necessary.
- Reboot, make sure openvz kernel is running.
- Make && make install Intel e1000e driver.
- (Optional) Install Proxmox VE by adding proxmox repo.
- (Optional) Install mercurial and hg clone v4l-dvb. The main branch was broken, so I used one of the dev’s personal repos. make && make install v4l-dvb; cx18 now works again.
U2 360 in Toronto
Went to the U2 concert in Toronto yesterday. Absolutely AWESOME show, definitely worth the crazy $265 tickets. They played a great mix of older songs and enough tracks from “No Line on the Horizon” to get me to really like the new album (a bit like when I went to Coldplay’s Viva la Vida show in Ottawa). Sadly though, I didn’t manage to get any pictures or videos, I brought my DSLR but alas, there was no SD card in it. A colleague managed to get some great shots though (to be posted soon).
Video by David Cote