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Archive for April, 2006

OSX Virtual Machines

Posted by Administrator on April 18th, 2006

In my opinion… OSX Bootcamp just doesnt work for my needs. Dont like having to reboot to switch between operating systems.

And after evaluating Parallels Virtual Machines, I have come to the conclusion that it does work, but…

Beware of the Blue Hippo

Posted by Administrator on April 16th, 2006

Wow, what a deal. (NOT!).

A laptop $129 down and the only $50 a week for 12 months!

It adds up to over $2500 for the laptop. Not a good price in my opinion….

http://www.bluehippo.com

Make an ISO using OSX?

Posted by Administrator on April 8th, 2006

1. insert disk – findout which UNIX device is used using mount command – e.g. /dev/disk2s0
2. umount the disk using “sudo umount /Volumes/”
3. copy disk using dd “sudo dd if=/dev/disk2s0 of=myiso.img bs=1024″
4. eject the…

At home lasik?

Posted by Administrator on April 5th, 2006

Come on, this has to be a joke. A website that offers a do-it-yourself at home lasik kit.

http://www.lasikathome.com/

I mean, the laser alone would be expensive. Interesting site though…. :)

 

Software RAID on an OSX system…

Posted by Administrator on April 2nd, 2006

Picked up four 250Gb USB drives today… Figured I would set them up as two RAID one drives for my mac.

As it turns out the RAID one config native to OSX is rather “sucky”. It continued to fail and…