Doug Dalton

How to make your Dell m1210 into a Mac (dual boot with Vista)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:18:07 -0800

First off, I take no responsibility for any damage done to your computer, I am just explaining a possible way to get mac osx running on a dell m1210, if you break your computer, dont cry to me. Also buy osx, if you are from apple, make osx for regular pc's so I dont have to do this.

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

Simple Bulk rename : A Bash file rename script

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:04:52 -0800

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

BakeOff - The Blackjack 2 vs Moto Q Global

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:16:03 -0800

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

Freebsd PHP ports tree

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:59:34 -0800

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

Mythtv and Centos Gnome Autologin

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:51:37 -0800

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

X11 Display on Vista with ssh

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:10:34 -0800

Need an X11 interface that works quickly and for free... install Cygwin with X11 and openssh.... then make sure your ssh on your remote host has X11forwarding=yes.

from your bash shell in cygwin type startx a x11 xterm will come up and type:

DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -Y remotehost

you set... then any remote x app will appear on your desktop

Verizon LG Vx8600 Set your Search menu item to Google Mobile

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:53:42 -0800

Verizon usually cripples all the great functions on a phone and rarely lets you customize any options, especially the search page on the Mobile Web Browser, but here is how you do it if you have a Bluetooth link or USB cable to your LG Vx8600

Download and Install bitpim

Once setup, Run Bitpim, under view, check view filesystem.

On the left filesystem will appear. Click Filesystem and expand "/"

Download paramtable1.fil

(Do this at your own risk, I am not responsible for any damage to your phone)

Browse the filesystem, under OWS (click OWS) right click paramtable1.fil, click overwrite and select the version of paramtable1.fil that you just saved.

Then start the browser and select search from the menu (#3) and it should be google moble replacing the lame VZW search.

Verizon LG Vx8600 Change your WAP server

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:33:24 -0800

There a hidden menu in your Vx8600, type ##PROGRAM8600 SEND (##77647268600 SEND) You can change your WAP server here as well as the get it now server.

A confirmed open wap server is :

Wap gateway

An unconfirmed Open Wap server is:

Link1-IP1: 194.204.012.042
Link1-Port1: 9201

This will save you the $5 a month charge to verzion but still cost you airtime

Verizon LG Vx8600

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:00:37 -0800

How do you get you save your phone book with LG verizon vx8600?

one way is to spend a bunch of more money with verizon and buy their sync kit, but I suggest another option using BitPIM. This is a great opensource package that works with most verizon phones. For the Vx8600 you will need to get the development version if you get the "provider blocked: unable to access filesystem " message, here is the version as of this article Development Windows install

WAMP the solution for Vista

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:03:09 -0800

I needed to install PHP, PhpMyAdmin and MySql on Vista. This was taking forever, Apache 2.2 kept crashing, Pear wouldnt install ... so I looked up apache, mysql, php and windows and came across WAMP (Website). This is a GREAT package that save a ton of time. If you need to install Apache, Mysql, and PHP on a windows server, this is a must have package.

Teddy Bears at Popscene

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:06:09 -0800

Stderr .... output to grep

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:05:55 -0800

When you use some program like spamassassin, you will notice that the debug information :

spamassassin -D --lint

goes to stderr ... so you cant use grep as straight forward as you want. Here is how to pipe it to grep in bash:

spamassassin --lint -D 2>&1 | grep ....

or spamassassin --lint -D > output.txt 2>&1

to pipe it to a file first.

Disk Hog on Unix

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:17:05 -0800

So it often comes to the time to find what is taking all the space on your hard drive and like many things in unix, this isnt so straight forward, du (disk usage) will tell you how to do this, here will show you your top ten offending directories:

du -ha / | sort -n -r | head -n 10

du -ha = disk usage in human readable format ( lowest to highest )
sort -n -r = reverse the order
head -n 10 = top ten

| = pipe the output to the next command

Parking Stub

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:47:40 -0800

I met with Steve Hearst of the Hearst family and to validate my parking ticket, he signed it.... just thought it was interesting ... a bit of California history.. a bit blurry though

How to save a mapped drive password in XP

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:06:21 -0800

The manage network passwords utility in XP doesnt have an add password function so you have to go to the command prompt and use the following :

NET USE U: \\NETHOME\USERID /PERSISTENT:YES /SAVECRED

This will prompt you for the Username and password and store them.