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One of the issues that plagued me during my “Mac OS X on a regular white box PC” experiment was how the computer refused to shut down, restart, or go into sleep mode. Recently, OS X 10.4.7 has become available (I had previously used 10.4.6), and I thought I’d give it a try again. The [...]

A small problem I had, with a quick fix. I would put the computer to sleep. It would write everything to the hard drive and get to the point where it was about to shut down, and the screen (along with everything else) would immediately come back up and ask me to log in. The [...]

By fun, I mean not so fun… Here’s the scoop. The ML-1210 was hooked up to a machine running XP. The printer was shared. Frustratingly enough, when trying to add it to a Vista machine via “Add a Network Printer”, it kept spitting out an “insufficient memory to complete this operation” message after trying to [...]

Edit: Hah! As it turns out, Vista ended up finding an update to the driver through Windows Update. It was considered an optional update, but installed the 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) which has been working fine as well. So if you want the 3Com driver, just install the Marvel one temporarily (so you can get [...]

So you’ve installed Mac OS X, the computer has restarted, and you’re left with the following when the computer tries to boot from the hard drive: b0 error What does this mean? Simply that the partition isn’t active. Why the MacOS installer doesn’t automatically set the partition as active (especially when it’s the only partition) [...]

I’ll admit it, I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure this out before finally searching the web enough to find an answer. I already knew where all the firefox information (bookmarks, stored passwords, etc) was stored on the Windows side, but I had a heck of a time figuring out where these were [...]