Chicken house update
Here’s a picture of me (with a stupid grin) putting up chicken wire.
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Chicken house started
I built the base for the chicken house/tractor tonight. It was a good feeling, to translate the image in my brain of what it *should* look like into a physical object. The next step will be to set up the hoops that will hold up the roof.
Finally fixed “about this mac”
My hackintosh’s one lasting failing was that it’s “about this mac” dialog has never worked. Worse, clicking the menu item to view the dialog would crash finder, dump me to a blue screen, then restart finder.
Finally, I ran across this forum thread where the poster Rushabh suggests disabling quick boot in bios.
I did this [...]
Storm watcher
The skies overhead tonight were clear. Mel and I sat on the back porch and watch a line of storms that filled the horizon to the northwest. We thought it was odd that we couldn’t hear any thunder, since the thunderheads were full of nearly constant lightening. We could feel the rumbling slightly in our [...]
OS X update 10.6.3
The hackintosh tells me that 10.6.3 is available for download. Going to let it install overnight. Hope I still have a working hack in the morning. (:
update 30Mar2010: The 10.6.3 update didn’t finish last night, but several other updates did. Also, found a kext that finally fixed my “About this Mac” problem. It works now!! [...]
Removing OS X mouse acceleration
At this forum page I learned to put these lines:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.trackpad.scaling -1
into the terminal on OS X to kill mouse acceleration. I wish it was an option to set this up graphically, but at least it’s an easy fix.
Hackintosh prime
Once in the past I built a so-called Hackintosh, OS X running on PC hardware. I’ve started doing that again, only this time using vanilla Snow Leopard. I had to get a new motherboard in order to pull this off. I’m using a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6). It’s a very well supported motherboard, mostly because [...]
BioHell
While Mel was shopping at Borders last night, I sat and read a book. I was moderately interested in it based on the back cover. It was a sci-fi with nano-tech enhanced humanity (for a price) and zombies, apparently.
Anyway, the author was _terrible_. He suffered from being unable to describe anything with few than three [...]
Blog’s back
My webhost had a raid array fail (long story: drive fails, they replace drive, try to rebuild array, array fails). It took out all my websites. They had the server back up after 4-5 days, but took almost two weeks to get the files restored from tape.
Now, I have to work get get things moved [...]
Thin soled shoes
Lately I’ve been wearing a pair of shoes with really thin soles. They’re probably somewhere between 1/4″ and 3/8″ thick. They’re fun to walk in because they’re so quiet, I don’t make any noise when I’m walking. Interestingly, I find myself standing up straighter when I had them on. Do the soles of one’s shoes [...]