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

Continue reading "How to make your Dell m1210 into a Mac (dual boot with Vista)" »

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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

Continue reading "BakeOff - The Blackjack 2 vs Moto Q Global" »

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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

Continue reading "Mythtv and Centos Gnome Autologin" »

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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How I see me:

How others see me:

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I saw this guy saturday, Check out a sampling of his show that night....

Continue reading "Mike Relm" »

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Continue reading "My HTPC (Part 1 of an N part series)" »

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My friend Scott Ritchie and I were at Swig and ended up in a photo :

Media Bistro Event page

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One of many of Elly's comercials that have aired in the US

View/Download

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I got my photo in the SkateMag, years of skating never paid off, but a few beers with a friend did

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Martel Toler, Jean Wang and I having a few drinks at Donovans Supper Club party.

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I was sitting in my office in Rio De Janeiro and over looking the office building next to me one day and I saw the building start to smoke, the heat was so intense that the building actually cracked and they had concerns that it may fall. Electrobras was the power company in Rio that just happened to be in the middle of an investigation concerning fraud, the fire started in their records room.

Continue reading "Electrobras Fire" »

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