that geeky dude

Last week I decided that my Vista Ultimate install was getting a little…. crusty. I’d been downloading, testing and uninstalling so many apps that I was noticing that they left little crumbs behind after the uninstall, and it was causing some system slowdown. I’d recently…acquired…a copy of Kalyway 10.5.2 ( http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77069 ) and decided to attempt a dual boot of it.

After installing Vista and getting all of my drivers up to date and patching Windows via automatic updates, I used Vista’s native disk manager to free up about 30gb of space for OSX, put the DVD in and rebooted.

The installer came up without a hitch. I made sure to select the video drivers and such that I needed, and it installed without issue on my custom build desktop (which, as it happens, uses a lot of the same hardware Apple uses in their desktops)

About This Hackintosh

I ran into a few issues, initially, updating the system from the installed 10.5.2 Leopard to 10.5.5 — Kalyway has released an update pack to go to 10.5.3 without a problem, however thanks to the wonderful folks over at the Insanely Mac Forums, I was able to download the files I needed to get everything updated and working without a hassle.

I am writing this post from my new iPhone. I r huge nerd.

No time to write a real post (I’ve got two in my drafts, but haven’t had time to go over them), but I thought I’d toss a few things out here :

First, news about the Xbox 360 Fall 2007 Update has hit Joystiq, and all of you Tversity and Winamp Remote users rejoice, for Mpeg4 Part 2 (aka: DivX and Xvid) will be supported natively! Hurray for not having to sacrifice CPU cycles on the desktop for transcoding to WMV7/8/9 for video playback on the xbox 360.

Second, I purchased a new monitor. More specifically, I bought Samsung SyncMaster 245BW 24″ LCD Monitor. It’s a very, very nice monitor. Running at 1920×1200 gives me a decadent amount of screen real estate, and World of Warcraft looks absolutely stunning. It’s even let me clean up my interface a bit more. Granted, finding 1920×1200 wallpaper isn’t exactly the easiest of tasks, but after resubscribing to Digital Blasphemy for a year, that need is taken care of. However, I now remember one of the reasons I prefer D-Sub/VGA over DVI for most things, and that’s the complete lack of an “auto adjust” feature over DVI. I’m having to hand calibrate the brightness/contrast settings, and I haven’t quite gotten them down pat yet.

More to come later when the work day slows down a bit.

So, I decided to install a Jabber server on epiphany, and made it registerable.

Basically, you can install a jabber client of choice (I prefer Pidgin with the Off-The-Record plugin.

Just use jabber.atlgeek.com as your server and you can register accounts. Rad.