From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Troubleshooting Buffalo WLI-UC-GN on OSX

January 31, 2010

These are some notes from trouble-shooting the Buffalo Wifi  WLI-UC-GN USB dongle on OS X.
I’m using an older Linksys BEFW1154 802.11 B wireless router as my test access point. I wasted a day trouble-shooting my airport because I plugged the cable modem into a LAN port rather than the WAN port. When I scanned for [...]

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Buffalo USB Wireless N adapter WLI-UC-GN OSX 10.5.8

January 29, 2010

Insanely Mac Forum Thread
Here’s what I did to get the Buffalo WLI-UC-GN Wireless N USB dongle working with OSX 10.5.8, Darwin kernel 9.8.0.
I got the idea for the fix from ayenon . The site is in Japanese, but you can get the main idea by looking at the screen print.
I chose the Buffalo Wireless [...]

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Troubleshooting OS X 10.5.8 upgrade

January 22, 2010

When upgrading always try to upgrade to a new volume ideally on a separate partition. That way if anything goes wrong you still can boot into the old working volume.
I upgraded a client’s laptop from OS X 10.5.2 tp 10.5.8 in order to run the iPhone Software Development Kit. Unfortunately after the upgrade there [...]

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Fixing the Master Boot Record (MBR)

January 21, 2010

1. Put Disc in drive
2. Startup PC
3. Let the PC run into the CD
4. Choose the Recovery Console
5. Type you admin username
6. Type your admin password
7. Type fixmbr
8. Type exit
9. Eject Disc
10. Load windows !
11. Enjoy !

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Wireless N USB Airport adapter for Mac’s or Hackintosh’s

January 19, 2010

All of Apple’s laptops come with a built-in wireless adapter.Why would you need a wireless N USB adapter?
There are a lot of reasons…. Perhaps the wireless asapter on your laptop is broken. Often when you buy an old used laptop the previous owner has scrounged and sold the wireless adapter. And if you [...]

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Brief notes on building Hackintosh OS X systems

January 19, 2010

These are some brief notes about things I’ve learned building Hackintosh computers.
OS X 10.5 Leopard distributions I’ve worked with
OS X Kalyway 10.5.2
iDeneb Version 1.4 10.5.6
iDeneb Version 1.6 10.5.8 Light
I recommend iDeneb 1.6 because you’ll end up with the most up-to-date version of OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (released in August of 2009). You’ll also be [...]

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Software Set-up for a new Windows System

January 17, 2010

These are the additional applications I recommend installing after a fresh Windows install. All the software below is available free at Filehippo except Tunelier available in Downloads.
AVG anti-virus (always install first)
Firefox web browser (a much better browser than Internet Explorer)
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner)
Winzip (for handling zip files)
Flashplayer (for Youtube and Hulu videos)
VLC media-player [...]

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Installing OSX iDeneb 10.5.6 onToshiba Satellite P200-BW1 Hackintosh

January 13, 2010

Important the install only works with MBR partition scheme with OS X loaded in the primary partition rdisk0s1!!
need to boot with -x -f after the initial install.
Getting the Intel High Definition Sound working:
verify Darwin kernel 9.6.0
download Voodoohda.kext from sourceforge.net
kextload -t VoodooHDA.kext
Apple=>System Preferences=>Sound to control preferences
use the directory utility to enable root user
Finder => Go => [...]

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USB printer trouble-shooting – Impossible to delete document in print queue

January 12, 2010

Sometimes clients unplug or power down a printer in the middle of printing a document. This can leave a document in the print queue that is impossible to delete or finish printing. Often the printer icon will have a yellow exclamation mark indicating an error on the device. Trying to delete or cancel the [...]

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Automatically updating webcam image for Shaw free hosting space

January 11, 2010

Would you like to be able to monitor your home, pet or child from anywhere on the internet. Or maybe you’d like to monitor the weather or watch a birdhouse online. This project provides an automatically updating image on the free webspace that comes with Shaw Broadband internet access.
Project Hardware:
A USB webcam – almost [...]

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Vancouver Voice Over IP (VoIP) Background Information

January 11, 2010

A business phone line from TELUS will set you back about $60 a month. There is a much cheaper alternative that uses the internet to transport your calls rather than the familiar wired phone network.
Most business people have heard of Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP. It’s an alternative to using the regular phone network [...]

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