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DIY Bottle Cap Tripod

March 21st, 2006

It seems the do-it-yourself bottle cap tripod is the talk of the internet today. Jake Ludington of Jake Ludington’s MediaBlab, has created a step-by-step instruction set for creating a digital camera tripod from a Pepsi bottle. He got the idea from the Japanese retail version of the same product.
There is an article on Make that [...]

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Win XP On Mac :: How To & Files Needed

March 16th, 2006

Come and get it, the following ZIP file contains the full how-to and necessary files needed to successfully complete your Windows XP on Mac (Intel) installation.
Good luck and have fun!
Winxponmac_0.1.zip
For more information and questions regarding the install use the OnMac forums.
UPDATE: March 17, 2006
It seems that after the installation there are some needed drivers missing. [...]

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XP on Intel iMac contest officially won.

March 16th, 2006

It is final, the judges have confirmed the winning submitter has a working solution and has XP runnong on his iMac 17″. The winner has won the final cash prize of $13,854 (before taxes?). Further updates are to be posted with further information regarding the final solution and implementation details.
This is [...]

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Video :: Windows XP Installation On An Intel iMac

March 15th, 2006

Video by Narf2006 of the installation for Windows XP on a Intel based Mac!

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iMac Successfully Booting Windows XP

March 13th, 2006

Supposedly this guy has figured out a way to boot Microsoft Window XP on his iMac, though it isn’t fully functional from what I can see.
Pictures here…
UPDATE:
It seems that he has actually gotten this to work. Read all of the comments to get an idea of what is next to come. If Narf2006 is to [...]

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Mac OS X Hack Challenge Suspended

March 7th, 2006

Dave Schroeder, a senior systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin, launched his contest on Monday. The objective is to hack into his Mac Mini and alter the website hosted on it. The Mac Mini is running Mac OS X 10.4.5 fully patched with SSH and HTTP open to the public.
Unfortunately ZDNet had posted an [...]

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Linbox Converter

February 22nd, 2006

Linbox Converter is a client/server application written in Python language. The client transfers to the server the MS-Office documents to convert. The server does the convertion into the requested file type (PDF, PostScript, HTML, text, RTF, or TIFF) and send back the result to the client.
Linbox Converter makes a company conversion project, from MS-Office to [...]

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Apple Hackers Served A Poetic Warning

February 22nd, 2006

The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.’s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software—in the form of a poem.
Indeed, a hacker encountered the poem recently, and [...]

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OSx86 :: 10.4.4 First Impressions

February 20th, 2006

Good article that gives the thumbs up to Mac OS X hackers who want to get Mac OS X 10.4.4 (second most recent release) to run on x86 hardware.
It runs like a dream. As soon as I took control of the mouse, I knew it was significantly faster than the previous hacked version of 10.4.3. [...]

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Brrreeeport Search SPAMming

February 14th, 2006

Robert Scoble of Scobleizer.com (aka the Microsoft Blogger) is testing out the Blog search engines (Technorati, Google Blogsearch, Icerocket, etc…) responsiveness by posting a word that no search engine returned results for, brrreeeport.
The time stamped results from Feb. 13th can be found on his blog post, the brrreeeport report and the 14th results can be [...]

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