Archive for March, 2008
Argh! You may have won this round Mr. Murphy, but I will triumph sooner or later! After several attempts, I still can't natively run Kalyway OSX Leopard on my PC, even without using FireWire kexts which make my motherboard reset itself, and with using only one CPU core (the "cpus=1" switch)! I managed to boot to the installation wizard, and after successfully installing everything on my SATA HDD drive (one PATA drive I have is not detected at all), the dreaded thing won't boot, dieing on me with a "Still waiting for root device error" (translation: "No, I can't access your HDD, now stop staring at me"). Wonderful... The obvious problem is that my motherboard doesn't support AHCI mode (the advanced SATA mode that OSX works with perfectly), as the MSI customer service has informed me: "P35 Neo doesn't support AHCI mode.". Yeah, my motherboard is an MSI P35Neo - the one of the few rare Intel P35 based motherboards that don't support RAID or AHCI. How lucky am I, right? Now, as a last resort, I will try to get my hands on a 4GB USB thumbdrive so that I can install a copy of MacOSX on that. However, I would suggest on NOT using the journalled HFS+ file system to format it because of the major number of writes that occur during normal operation in this mode, which wears down the flash memory inside the USB drive fairly quickly. It's wise just to stick to plain HFS+, without journalling enabled.
If this works, I'm gonna replace my Recycle Bin icon in Windows with a picture of Steve Jobs... If not, at least I'm gonna have a neat porn transfer device.
March 6th, 2008
For the past month, I can't make myself go to bed earlier than at least 2-3AM for some reason... This weird sleep regime is kind of harsh since I often find myself falling asleep during daytime, but I still persist on functioning like this. What I, personally, can conclude is that it's very relaxing and productive to work without all the noise that usually plagues my surroundings. Without cars, mentally ill people passing by on the street making all sorts of noises and producing weird howls, strain dogs and tuned up motorcycles (more like gearbox smashed, exhaust pipe pierced, engine boiling scooters that are only good for getting bugs in your teeth and blood in your kidneys), the only thing that I need to worry about is the noise that my CPU cooler makes. I often find myself listening to music on a really low volume level with an impression that it's pretty loud, which is very weird, but also strangely relaxing (even when listening to not so relaxed songs), seeing that I don't have to bring my ears close to destruction in order to get my daily dosage of tunes. Also, most would argue that "night birds" like me never hear the birds singing in the morning, but I beg to differ... I have no idea why, but birds around my place start singing as early as 2:30AM! The sun isn't even close to the horizon, and yet the night sky echoes with "cheeps"! How weird is that? Meh... I still have to close the window to avoid their decibel peak at 4:30AM, so I'm not planning on being a bird lover anytime soon (excluding owls, they keep their mouths shut - just the way I like 'em).
How long will I continue like this? Don't know, but it usually lasts a month or two until I get back to the real world sleeping/working hours norm. (I'm sure those nasty birds will get to me sooner or later) Until then - hoo, hoo!
March 5th, 2008
I'm back. Finally... and after a great while it seems... and during that time, I've had all sorts of domain troubles which kept burexblog.com from showing it's ugly face on the internet. Now, I'm available on burex.net as well as on burexblog.com. Sweet. The whole blog is reset (hosting trouble), so I'll be posting fresh new boring stuff for anybody that passes by via Google or any other methods (yeah right) from now on. In the end, it all comes down to this - Yay for me, I'm gonna have something real to write on! Paper and pen just don't cut it anymore, since there's nobody around to read it, eh?
March 4th, 2008
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Argh! You may have won this round Mr. Murphy, but I will triumph sooner or later! After several attempts, I still can't natively run Kalyway OSX Leopard on my PC, even without using FireWire kexts which make my motherboard reset itself, and with using only one CPU core (the "cpus=1" switch)! I managed to boot to the installation wizard, and after successfully installing everything on my SATA HDD drive (one PATA drive I have is not detected at all), the dreaded thing won't boot, dieing on me with a "Still waiting for root device error" (translation: "No, I can't access your HDD, now stop staring at me"). Wonderful... The obvious problem is that my motherboard doesn't support AHCI mode (the advanced SATA mode that OSX works with perfectly), as the MSI customer service has informed me: "P35 Neo doesn't support AHCI mode.". Yeah, my motherboard is an MSI P35Neo - the one of the few rare Intel P35 based motherboards that don't support RAID or AHCI. How lucky am I, right? Now, as a last resort, I will try to get my hands on a 4GB USB thumbdrive so that I can install a copy of MacOSX on that. However, I would suggest on NOT using the journalled HFS+ file system to format it because of the major number of writes that occur during normal operation in this mode, which wears down the flash memory inside the USB drive fairly quickly. It's wise just to stick to plain HFS+, without journalling enabled.