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• x86 Leopard on XPC Shuttle PC

  Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 3:29PM / Standard Entry

  I read an article about how to install x86 Leopard OSX 10.5  onto a set of cutting edge fast computer hardware recently (Chinese):
  http://powerapple.com/modules.php?name=forum&file=viewtopic&forum=62&topic=16354
  
  
  
  The system consists of a Core 2 Quad and 4G memory, and few other pieces like video card and so on. I thought I can do the same since I have a big screen LCD TV at home, after checking around with friends, I ended up a very good computer shop with reasonable price where  my friend also know the shopkeeper: http://www.coolpc.com.tw/
  With a piece of paper listing all the OSX compatible video card (important), motherboard (check out http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page), with a target on XPC Shuttle case, after 1 hour discussion and bargaining with the shopkeeper, I got all I need with something around 20,000NT. I grabbed a DVD image of iatkos.iso file from Emule, this is the hacked version of Mac OSX Leopard for X86 Intel CPU (someone has modified the kernel to fit AMD CPU already), and below is my step to get this system up and running on my computer. I installed Linux (OpenSuSE), and partitioned the 250G hardisk into 4 primary partition, 1st NTFS, 2nd OSX HFS+ (in my case, fdisk /dev/sda, then tag the 2nd partition id as 'af', important), then 3rd as Linux and 4th as Linux swap. The rest seemed to be easy, insert the iatkos DVD, and boot into installation, remember to go to Diskutilities, and install Darwin Bootloader, otherwise you can also do it when the installation completed  (there was no bootloader prompt to install during the entire Leopard installation) by booting from the iatkos DVD.
  Right now, I am pretty pleased by the new Leopard system on the XPC system, it is much faster than my Macbook, and looks cool. The only thing does not work is once it sleeps, no wake up, I have to reboot the start the system, and meanwhile I have to figure out how to boot the Linux and XP with Darwin bootloader.
   
  
  
  
  

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• 中孝介 - 各自遠颺

  Wednesday, Jan 16, 2008 12:03AM / Standard Entry

  
  
  
  

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• political animal

  Monday, Jan 14, 2008 3:38PM / Standard Entry

  my mentor in previous company was an extremely bright and experienced scientist, and skilled in management as well, but quiet and bit nerdy. he was supposed to be promoted to division VP, but someone from external was appointed to that role later. people in our group including me were all very disappointed. The new VP had a big mouth and talked a lot, he got quite popular very soon in the company, and even shows up in company website. the people knew him said he is a political animal. From then on I started to sense the importance of being politically correct, but if the company is to grow, then why do they always keep those yesmen in the company? or maybe my company was just not good enough to attract qualified people?
  
  

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• my 2008

  Monday, Jan 14, 2008 10:40AM / Standard Entry

  我打中文还算快的，只是有时候还是懒，倾向于觉得写英文快。
  2007年过去了，虽然乏善可陈，不过总算也又痴长了一岁，今年40了。
  年轻的时候（好吧，我还不老）， 真是不知道40岁的时候会怎样，但是现在回头看，时间其实每天都是一样的，只是在以前，不会想到最亲爱的父母有一天也会离开。。。所以，在很多‘年轻的时候多好啊’ 的感叹里面，增添了很多‘那时候爸爸妈妈都还在’ 的温暖回忆。而现在，是父亲离开后冰冷的孤寂。
  至于2008，希望我在想的近期的事情都能完成。
  
  
  
  

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• Family in town

  Wednesday, Jan 2, 2008 5:11PM / Standard Entry

  My wife came with our big daughter Dorothy to visit me and spent one week in Taipei. We had a tour in Taroko, HuaLien, and WuLai later for hot spring, despite some shopping activities in the city.  Dorothy was happy at the first few days, but later on saying miss grandma and baby sister back home. :-)
  
  
  
  

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