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It happens to just about everyone. Whether you’ve just bought a new machine, or you’ve just done a reformat/reinstall, you’re probably looking to get a few of the essentials installed. I’m going to assume you’ve already found/grabbed/installed the latest drivers for your motherboard & video card, and go right to some programs you just might [...]

Upon installing Vista on what I considered to be a relatively recent motherboard (the p5pe-vm), I found that the audio drivers weren’t detected or installed. Often, Windows Update finds updated drivers, but this time I wasn’t so lucky. So… I tried the following: Choosing random generic drivers included with Vista Trying an ADI SoundMAX 1888 [...]

Mac OS X is a fantastic OS. It’s not perfect though, and there are a few annoyances that do come along. One is that it creates a file called “.DS_Store” in every folder which contains information about that folder.

I recently came across the following issue: I set up one of our machines with an Administrator account (only I had the password), and a regular user account. The idea being of course that the regular user account would be the only one used except when a program had to be installed. Since multiple people [...]

Those familiar with the OSX86project might know that semthex has been releasing new kernel updates on a fairly regular basis. If you barely muddled your way through the initial install, well… updating the the kernel isn’t exactly a piece of cake. Nevertheless, here are some instructions that might help you…

In previous posts, I explained my experiences installing Mac OS X on a regular PC. This has of course been using copies in which individuals have made various “hacks” to make it work on non-apple-branded computers. In fact, rather than wipe my Windows install every time I wanted to experiment, I ended up dedicating a [...]

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 [...]