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Steve Woz Approves of Hackintoshing?

March 26th, 2009

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Mathew PB is one of the luckiest bastards on Earth; he has a hacked Dell Mini 9 with The Woz’s signature on it: He met Woz at Dancing With The Stars and showed him his hackintosh: He said, “Oh my god, that is so COOL!” And: “Is that really the color you wanted?” Then he […]

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An Accidental Stroke of Brilliance

March 19th, 2009

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Today, when I left my newly installed and configured HackBook (running XxX 10.5.6) downstairs for awhile, the display went to sleep. I thought nothing of it of course. I closed the lid and took it upstairs. When I opened the lid, it gave me the boot prompt. “Strange,” I thought, and when I pressed enter […]

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Improving HackBook Battery Life

March 18th, 2009

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After playing around tonight getting the battery meter and speed step working on XxX 10.5.6, I decided to unplug for the first time and see how long my battery life is. I’m not exactly sure how powerful the battery is in my Dell Inspiron 1525 HackBook. Honestly, when I bought the computer I was shopping […]

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released This Month?

March 16th, 2009

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Apple has been seeding Mac OS X 10.5.7 9J27 to developers now for about a week and this raises the all important question: When is it being released? 10.5.7 includes some seriously major fixes as it seems to be Apple’s trademark to release 200 new features and 150 new bug fixes (Verses Microsoft releasing 200 […]

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SD Card Reader Working On HackBooks

March 15th, 2009

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Thanks to Thomas Piccirello for pointing this out, and for Genaro Bonilla’s original article. Close, but no cigar. Until now. I’m sure you, like me, have been going around in circles replacing IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext with different versions in hopes of the card reader coming to life. It turns out you need two kexts: IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext and IOPCIFamily.kext. […]

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