Installing Snow Leopard on the H55M-UD2H is relatively easy. I’m using an i3, but due to the lack of full support (no Apple Macs use it at present), I’d suggest going with the i5 which has recently gained some support. I have provided a DSDT which I finished most of – it has all the [...]
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Snow Leopard DSDT for the Gigabyte H55M-UD2H
May 26, 2010 4 comments
Recently, Apple dropped the price of their developer program to $99. I decided to grab it. Apple lists the main benefits on their site: -Mac OS X Pre-Release Software -Development Videos -Apple Developer Forums -Technical Support I’ll go into a few details (as much as you can while staying within the NDA anyway), but if [...]
A quick note: There are plenty of guides out there about taking apart your Mac Mini in order to install/upgrade the RAM, and swap out the hard drive with another. This is meant to be a supplement to those guides, because you’ll notice that the most recent Mac Mini’s (as of this date), are slightly [...]
in-win BL-631 case review – small, packed, and mostly quiet with decent airflow
May 24, 2010 1 comment
On the lookout for a small case, capable of holding a typical small motherboard, I came across the IN-WIN BL-631. It’s a small case making it somewhat portable, it can hold a MicroATX motherboard, half-size video cards, 2 hard drives, and a standard CD/DVD-ROM drive. Unfortunately, if you decide to actually utilize all those things, [...]
The fix when the P5KPL-CM won’t sleep
May 23, 2010 8 comments
We’ve got a couple ASUS P5KPL-CM motherboards, and when we’d try to put them to sleep, well they’d wake right back up again. Immediately. Everything powers down, you get the click, then it immediately wakes from sleep. This happened both in Windows 7 as well as in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (a hackintosh install) [...]
Here’s the deal. I had a pretty low power machine with an i3, integrated video, etc. It’s life long dream was of course to be our new file server so that I could start shutting off my sauna-in-a-case rig that was serving files 24/7 while out-performing our home furnace in heat output. The i3 got [...]
FreeNAS fix – afp file permissions
May 22, 2010 2 comments
After setting up users and groups in FreeNAS, I found that I wasn’t able to give any users write access. I could get guests to read. I could get users to read. I couldn’t get anyone to write. – For whatever reason, it took a few searches before I came across the mac section of [...]
FreeNAS fix – creating ZFS raid-5 (aka raidz) and UNKNOWN showing everywhere
May 22, 2010 3 comments
While attempting to create a ZFS raid5 pool in FreeNAS, I had an issue where Size, Used, Free, Capacity, and Health all showed as UNKNOWN. In the configuration tab, the pool/virtual_device/dataset showed up under “current” but never under “detected”. Unfortunately there was absolutely zilch out there for information on this issue. 3 hours later…. (warning: [...]
FreeNAS error while installing – the fix
May 22, 2010 7 comments
For those installing FreeNAS to a USB drive, a common error message is as follows: gzip: stdout: Broken pip Error: Failed to dd image on ‘/dev/da0′ Unmount CDROM. There was a problem while copying files. Fortunately, the fix is easy. Step 1: Restart the computer WITHOUT the USB drive plugged in. Step 2: Let the [...]
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