OSx86 Kernel Panic…

I’ve resetup Mac OS X 10.4.3 on my hackintosh box… but, seems like the disk is having problem (I notice alot of scratches) and when I leave it idle for sometime, it will show the message below:

At first, I didn’t know that the message was telling me that it has gone ‘panic’. Only later on when I tried playing an anime video using VLC player, it crashed. Then, I tried adding the fix to my Linksys wireless PCMCIA card (Broadcom chipset), but it didn’t work either (I’ve setup the card before and it suppose to be straight forward).

Later when I was checking some information on Linux, I was ‘taken’ to this Wiki page which confirms the problem with my OSx86 installation; which most probably the result from the bad DVD..

I guess I will need to get another OSx86 DVD from a friend and resetup the box again… this time most probably it will be Mac OS X 10.4.6 (or who knows, if I could get a 10.4.9 instead?). By the way, I have to push aside Leopard for the time being since I don’t seem to find an image available with patches for hackintosh boxes.

2x parcel from Sun in just a WEEK

Nuff said, the title speaks all. Actually i saw the announcement in Slashdot back in January about giving away Solaris 10 DVDs for free. So, w/o waiting any longer, I logon to the Ordering Site and make my order. There are 2 options; 1st option is Solaris 10 DVD Set and the 2nd option is Solaris Express Developer Edition DVD. I’m being totally NOT in development had choose the 1st Option.

Well, I honestly thought that SUN had decided that I’m not eligible to get the DVDs… but i was wrong. After couple of months waiting (January until end of April) I got the DVD set last Monday. Its a 3-disk DVD Set; 1x Solaris 10 OS for SPARC platform DVD, 1x Solaris 10 OS for x86/x64 platform DVD & 1x Developer Tool DVD (with SUN Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Creator 2 Update 1, Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 & NetBeans 5.0).

Getting the parcel from SUN made me smile that day. But, I never thought that I will get another set of DVDs from SUN couple of days after that. Checking my mailbox on Wednesday evening, just after returning from work made me shocked. Another parcel? yes indeed. Its a different packaging this time and comes from a different address. Since its written DVD on the parcel, I didn’t wait to return home to check the content of the parcel. Wow! Its OpenSolaris Starter Kit DVD Set.

The OpenSolaris Starter Kit contains 2 DVDs; 1st DVD contains various OpenSolaris Distribution: Belenix LiveCD Distribution, Schillix LiveCD Distribution and Nexenta LiveCD/Install Distribution. Besides that, OpenSolaris source as well as learning materials is also included in the DVD. 2nd DVD contains the Solaris Express Community Edition b57 – which is SUN’s binary release for OpenSolaris developers. It is built from the latest OpenSolaris source and additional technology that has not been published in the OpenSolaris source base.

So, I guess, I will need a working system to play around with the DVDs. Currently, I can play with the LiveCD using my Thinkpad and read the learning materials in one of the DVDs. For installation, I think I will have to setup a PC to try out. I’m not sure if my PC is able work, since It was having some memory problem (I might have to replace it)… oh well, we will see.

Awesome! Slackware 11 Installation DVD!

Back in early March ‘07, I just had to stop at the magazine shop at Tesco to buy a magazine for my wife… and to my amazement, there is the ‘Linux For You’ magazine March issue at one of the magazine rack. The magazine is from India, cost RM14.50 (now the price has increased to RM19.00) and highly informative on Linux, of course. The cool thing about the magazine is that it is usually bundled with 1x DVD of Linux distribution and 1x CD with Linux softwares.

I haven’t been following the magazine for at least 3-4 months and now, when I finally wanted to buy a copy for myself, it came bundled with a Slackware 11 Installation DVD! Isn’t that great?? I have always wanted to get the original printed-cover Slackware installation DVD/CD (since its my favorite Linux distro)…. This is very inspiring!

I guess I’m back on track. Its time to starting working on stuff that I love to do. I have to start planning! No lookin’ back!