Doug Dalton

First off you are going to need some things:

-Utorrent here
-IMG burn here
-The OSX86 driver disk for the m1210 (only if you plan to upgrade to 10.5.3) Download file
-Kalyway OSX ISO 10.5.2 Download file
-Kalyway Combo Update 10.5.3 (only if you plan to upgrade to 10.5.3) Download file
-Your Vista install dvd

Things you should know now before starting...
-Scary things will happen (drives will have problems, but hopefully this will walk you through that) but you should be fairly os savvy before using this, I dont go into a mass of detail but if you email me I will add more
-if you have the nvidia card, your computer or monitor cant go into sleep mode, it just wont work
Check this blog for update on Nvidia (Nvinstaller.com)
-if you have the 1394 wifi card you will have to follow the iwidarwin project (iwidarwin) which had stopped as of the time I wrote this , I recommend the Dell 1390, it works out of the box
- this process causes osx to load by default, if you dont want that, dont follow this ( I will work on a fix for this but I dont have one yet)>
- Audio does not work without a different how to

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often I have to rename a whole set of files that have not processed correctly, to do this I rename them with Bash, a simple script to do this is :

for f in *_3; do mv "$f" "${f/_3/_0}"; done

this renames all files ending in _3 to the same filename but now ending in _0

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I recently ended my contract with Verizon to get a new PDA phone from AT&T. I wanted wifi and a touchscreen, but unless I wanted to carry a brick, I mean the tilt, i was SOL. I decided I would look at the Moto Q9h or Global vs the Backjack 2. The blackjack 2 was the first I tried. I am going to keep this simple:
The are both 3g, no wifi, 2.0 megapixel cameras and bluetooh

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So I have noticed that from time to time the /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions versions get out of sync, to fix this its as simple as just removing the config (make rmconfig [only if you want to add more modules]) and rebuilding make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER

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After a bit of time playing with Media portal, which is GREAT, I have gone back to mythtv, which is not quite as intuitive, and setting up a recording is the worst ui experience, I only hope it gets better, but step one for me is to get the autologin working on Centos 5 the howto is below

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