Apple Revolution 1976 – 2007

A friend of mine give me this picture showing the products by Apple since the early days…. I think its way cool. I hope everyone likes it the way I do.

My OSx86 installation is not helping at all (the DVD I got is version 10.4.5). I had make the box kernel panic at least twice – by tweaking the wireless for both build-in and pcmcia card (still not working though). I hope that i will be able to try it out again soon (when I got more information on the setup and tweaking). For now, I’m learning OpenBSD 4.1 stuff.. based on this book and the man pages, of course.

OpenBSD 4.1 DVD ISO for grabs!

OpenBSD is one cool BSD distribution which emphasizes on security and portability (yes it runs on various platforms). Currently OpenBSD is at version 4.1; released on May 1, 2007. I have known about the distro for couple of years, but so far, I haven’t get the chance to grab the official CD nor the official CD ISO image from the net. Why? Its their way of distributing the distro, so that users will need to buy the official CDs thus funding the ongoing OpenBSD development. Usually, what I do is grab the so-called ‘unofficial’ ISO images from various sites on the internet… (doing a bit of googling will help). So far, all the ISO i’ve downloaded is workable and I manage to built a working OpenBSD box.

For years, it has always been CD-based ISO images for me, until recently when I found this site – http://ftp.linuxcenter.ru/iso/OpenBSD-4.1/; which provide a DVD-based ISO image (around 4.7GB in size) of the ‘unofficial’ OpenBSD 4.1! So, now I don’t have to download the software/application CD ISO image coz I can just grab the software from the DVD! Way cool… .

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.