The last time I checked, my last post was about mid-May. So what happened?
A lot, actually.
Over the course of the next few days after my last post, I got busy with things at work. Since the distribution of mid-year bonuses to company employees is approaching soon, as a Supervisor I had to complete some performance appraisal documents for my team members. Of course I had to discuss details of the appraisal to each one of them. We also had to prepare for crucial work items that I had barely time to create new posts by the time I get home.
Then came the unexpected. On the last week of May my wife had difficulty breathing, and she was at work during that time. Luckily the place where she works is just a few buildings away from mine so I was there in less than 15 minutes. I had to rush her to a nearby hospital and we found out that she had Potassium deficiency that caused her breathing muscles to not function properly. I took the next day off just to take care of her. She got better by afternoon, and I told myself everything’s okay now. I can go back to work tomorrow. Or so I thought.
(Part 1 of my Ubuntu installation series)
Almost three weeks ago the latest release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, Hardy Heron, was made available for download from numerous servers across the internet. I went and downloaded the i386 ISO image directly from the servers overnight, only to find out that it timed out somewhere on the 500Mb mark. Luckily I was able to find a torrent link from Distrowatch, and by then my download went fast and problem-free. By friday night I had the ISO images for Ubuntu and its siblings Kubuntu and Xubuntu.
What is new in this distro? Read the release notes here.
The following days happen to be weekends, so I have all the time in the world on Saturday and Sunday to do a little experiment: to finally convert my MacBook into one that dual-boots Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. So, here’s how it all went out.
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Mac clones aren’t really a new thing, but one has been making the rounds across all news sites on the internet for the past few weeks. CNet ran a review on the PsyStar OpenComputer, pictured below:
I don’t know how long Mac clones like this would last, but an article on OSNews may be correct in saying that machines like this that run Mac OS X could be rendered useless through Software update, just like what they do during an iPhone firmware update.
So, how do we call them, by then? Hackintosh, Frankenmac, or Jailbroken Macs?
Every morning for the next few days I’d be spending about an hour here.
