How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopar. DIY Hackintosh Tutorial: Build a Mac Pro for Cheap. I was a bit hesitant about writing this article but the information (and results) are just too juicy not to give away. Half way through penning this I also noticed that Adam Pash at lifehacker did a similar story so I guess it’s acceptable to write about this sort of thing – and it should be. In case you haven’t guessed yet I’m going to detail for you my adventure building a Hackintosh box running Leopard that rivals the speed of a similarly configured Mac Pro.
Using the Acer Aspire One as a web server - Steve Hanov's P. My web site has been going up and down over the night more often than a [offensive metaphor removed].
I've intentionally been trying to elicit reddit traffic so I can test different parameters for apache server optimization, to handle high traffic over slow connections. A netbook can be ideal for a home web server. They are cheap, and use less power than a CFL light bulb. The only trade-off is that it won't reboot on a power failure. Fortunately, the built in UPS will sustain it through all but the longest power outages. My Via Artigo died several weeks ago while I was using it. Specs 1.6 GHz Atom processor (with hyperthreading) 512 MB memory 8 GB SSD Wifi, ethernet, VGA ports 3 USB ports and 2 SD card slots (?!) I turned it on briefly and it had a linux based OS on it that boots up in a less than 5 seconds and looks confusingly like Windows XP.
Because I only install Ubuntu on USB keys, I was able to plug it in, boot up, and my web site was up and running in only minutes. PCWiz Computer - Home. How do you mean customizable? You can replace all the images, the icons, the funny chameleon artwork, the fonts. Also you can set the background color, the transparency levels, the dimensons, positions of certain user interface elements. The image resource files can be either embedded into the booter or can be loaded at runtime by using a special .plist style configuration file.
Doesn’t embedding the images makes the boot loader too large? With the current set of icons, images, fonts embedded, the booter size is about 300k. What image formats are supported? The booter has built-in support for true color 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit transparency layer. What if I still prefer the text mode interface? We can’t switch between text mode and graphical mode at the moment after the booter has been started, but you still have a Boot.plist option to disable the GUI . Ok, this is all fine. Sure! Can I have it now? No. What’s next? Image gallery: Countdown timer using a progress bar.