Archive for October, 2008

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

rEFItting the Mac

If you don’t know, Ubuntu 8.10 dropped today. As promised I will be attempting to install it this evening. I say “attempting” because you never know what might go wrong. Anyways, I came across an awesome program called rEFI that enables you to actually control and partition your mac hard drive without being forced into [...]

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Monday, October 27th, 2008

3 More Days

If you can’t tell… I’m really excited about throwing ubuntu on here, and my Mac must be too… since it keeps hinting that it wants to be fixed (image below). I even plan on ordering some [3D] stickers and a physical copy of the OS!

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

More Mac Woes

So this morning I woke up and decided to check my email. Oh look, there’s a few messages I would like to move to another folder! Apparently Mac Mail decided to make this difficult for me, oh well at least it just works. Note: Not only is the drop target range very slim, but the [...]

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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Taking the plunge

I know I’ve talked a lot of talk to those who are constantly around myself and my Mac, so I’m finally going to do something about it.  In 15 days I’m vowing to take the pluge and attempt to toss ubuntu on my bootcamp partition.  Lets hope it works

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

New Diggs and a New Phone!

So as some people may know, I used to own a Motorola e815 as my cell phone. Easily the best phone I’ve ever had – not because of the features, but because of how much of how hackable the phone was. Basically any services that Verizon disabled, you could re-enable by modifying the firmware. Awesome! [...]

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