My colleague and I successfully built a Hackintosh Core i7. It took quite a while to get everything right. It also costs more than we originally expected. For now we are sticking with Snow Leopard.
Battle of the Fans: Patent Wars
The short story:
There’s Google with Android OS and there’s everybody else with everything else. Google’s Legal Counsel said that companies like Microsoft, Oracle and Apple are trying strangle Android over bogus patents. Microsoft’s Legal Counsel said that they asked Google to jointly bid for Novell patents, and Google said no. Google responded that it’s a trap.
The most interesting part of this Tech Soap Opera are the fans (for lack of better terms). For example, a post by John Gruber (a perceived Apple fanboy and an accused Google hater) was submitted to Hacker News. The post draws anti-Gruber comments regardless of the content. It shouldn’t be about Gruber; it should have been about Google, its competitors and patents.
There is an immediate need of Patent Law Reform.
In the meantime, fans of each faction are reposting the articles and tweets.
Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook, Disco App discontinued. Coincidence? No.
Apparently it is news that Facebook acquired Push Pop Press. Prior to the acquisition, a little known disc burning app for Mac OS X named Disco was discontinued sometimes in July 2011. Coincidence? I think not.
Austin Sarner, one of the creator of Disco app is also working for Push Pop Press.
By the way, Disco app is now available with free license.
Subaru 360
I spotted a Subaru 360 earlier today. Now if only I could transfer the picture earlier.
Bad Capacitors on Motherboard.
I was working on a computer earlier today and found some bad capacitors on the motherboard. Bulging capacitors indicate problems. This motherboard is a goner.
Will add the picture later.
Sunday Night at The Office.
I was at the office Sunday Night and found out my colleague had the Darth Mauls on top of the office partition.
Picture is coming up.
Shopping List for Upgrading to OS X Lion.
I’m compiling a shopping list for upgrading to OS X Lion. I prefer doing a clean install in lieu of upgrade.
The following are the items I’m getting for installing OS X Lion on a 2010 Unibody MacBook Pro:
- An 8 GB USB drive.
- A new hard drive or SSD.
- External FireWire 800 case for SATA Drive.
- 8GB of RAM.
Well, this list is generally would be similar with most OS X Lion compatible Macs.