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RIP Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

RIP Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

I’m going to keep this short, it took me until now to gather and compose myself enough get my thoughts down. I never considered myself an Apple Fanboy, I still don’t. I own an iPad, and several iPhones. My wife and kids use the iPhones for everything. I don’t own a Mac, though I play with a Hackintosh … Read entire article »

My 9/11 thoughts

My 9/11 thoughts

On 9/11/2001, the world changed. I remember it, but only parts, some things I’ll never forget, others I cannot recall. I remember exactly where I was, what was happening, what I was supposed to be doing that day, and the fact that I was scheduled to be there, not far away from the world trade center at my … Read entire article »

Updating Lenovo S10 Hackintosh to 10.6.8

THIS PROCESS WORKED ON 2 SIMILARLY CONFIGURED FIRST GENERATION S10′s It should work on anything that has the Vanii S10 Snow Leopard Enabler installed! Essential Links to the current bits you’ll need. vanii’s Snow Leopard Enabler Download and thread on s10Lenovo.com Current SleepEnabler.kext as of this writing  FOLLOW THESE STEPS CAREFULLY BACKUP FULL DISK IMAGE, use CCC instead of disk utility, 10.6.8 Combo update (DOWNLOAD IT and launch it, Don’t use the update program) DO NOT REBOOT BACK UP YOUR /extra/com.apple.Boot.plist file somewhere, you’ll want to put it back if you edited it for any reason RE-Apply Snow Leopard Enabler 1.1.18 (or 1.1.17 and replace s/l/e/_sleepenabler.kext with most current sleepenabler.kext) DO NOT REBOOT copy your backed up com.apple.Boot.plist file back to /extra/ if you have changes you want to … Read entire article »

We have moved!

Over that last several months, Tactrix has moved its operations from Seattle to San Francisco. Our new phone number and address is Tactrix Inc.126 Russ St.San Francisco, CA 94103-4010 415.946.4096 We are excited about our move to San Francisco and the improvements in out products and service that our new employees will bring! Our new building is solar powered and generates more power than we use, so we can save our CO2 production for going fast! … Read entire article »

Open Letter to Asus

  BUYER BEWARE! DO NOT PURCHASE ASUS LAPTOPS,  SUPPORT IS HORRIBLE!   To Whom it may concern at Asus: I sent an Asus G51JX-X2 “ROG” Gaming Laptop to be serviced after an “Asus Liveupdate” recommended a bios update and proceeded to automatically update the bios in windows, blue-screening the machine and rendering the machine non-functional.   I should have known better, but later found out that its common for the winflash to fatally damage an Asus system board.  Unfortunately I went with the recommendations for the BIOS and Driver updates that Asus recommended. When I called, asking for the simple recovery method used to allow a base flash to be reloaded after it failed (I do know this is possible, yet nobody would/could tell … Read entire article »

App store iPhone/iPad app, Best of FTA is a fully functional Apple 2gs emulator

This won’t be very useful for most people,  However it turns out that the “Best of FTA” app store application is actually a functional Apple IIgs emulator based on ActiveGS. I used a Jailbroken IPAD to perform this,  but I quickly looked at the file contents of the application and discovered all of the embedded games in the menu were disk image files 2MG,  I also noticed another hidden file,  a system 6 image,  which booted when I renamed it to XMASDEMO.2MG Now, understand that this is of little use on a non-jailbroken IOS Device,  however I’ve been waiting a long time and done some fun attempts at getting an apple II emulator to work on the IPAD  I’m … Read entire article »

Evos and that WTF moment

Not too long after I posted about my health problems I decided to do the clutch in my car. I have to thank the guys at Greenville Mitsubishi of Greenville, TX. after this was done, because the car was sitting for such a long time, my custom electronics and blowthrough setup started flaking out and I have to figure out how to fix it. I put the stock MAF back on and retuned the ECU for it. I definitely took for granted how well that setup worked. It’s been a long time since I have really tried to tune an ECU but that stock MAF is horrible for drivability. … Read entire article »

Emulating an Apple //e on an Apple iPhone 4

Okay,  since iDOS has been release and pulled,  I was recently playing with DOSBOX,  I’m a huge vintage computing fan, and I have all of my old PC and Apple hardware,  plus I’ve taken the time to emulate these older systems to show off my older efforts (I was a huge BBS enthusiast when I was younger, since roughly 1982) I was inspired by someones comments to make a Apple ][ emulator for iOS (which I'd love to see KEGS or something else ported) What better way to show off a little than to install DosPAD (aka iDOS, based on the DOSBox emulator) on my iPhone. One really cool thing about DosBOX is the several interesting ways that … Read entire article »

Have Windows notify you if your Home IP Address changes

One of the biggest peeves I have about my internet connection is they never follow up on their support tickets. I’ve been charged for 2 static IP addresses for a year, and they never have been able to get me the proper settings so I can finish configuring a Linux router I had built awhile back (more on that in another post) My ISP uses PPPoE for configuration, and I’m convinced they just don’t know what their doing, so they can’t get me the info.  I own my own domains, and they are hosted by a company where I have nearly unlimited access to a dedicated server,  which is basically LAMP server.  I don’t use any sort … Read entire article »

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