It seems every time I visit a tech site hosted on wordpress, they are using the iNove theme. I’ve decided to move away from that theme and use something a bit plainer and a bit more customisable. Credit to the guys who made the theme (links are down the bottom), lets see what I can come up with from here!
Not long ago I built myself a new PC and being a Mac OS X user for a few years now I decided to build myself another OS X capable PC. The PC I had for a few years up until this was built for the 10.4 transition to intel and worked like a charm. The only problem I had with it was the limited driver support, video glitches and just general all around non-smoothness. The specs of that PC where:
I put some research into getting a new PC and searched the various Hackintosh forums (insanelymac, hackint0sh.org, etc) and came up with the following:
I went for the native install method of installing OSX and got through the process without a hitch. The nice part of OS X is that the 8600 GT card was natively detected and required very little messing around to get things working. The only thing I really had a problem with was the onboard network card on the gigabyte motherboard dropping out after a few days and decided to go for a $10 network card that worked out of the box. Upgrades etc seem to work fine and i haven’t had any issues yet and sound normally stops working after installing a new SU (10.5.x->10.5.x) and requires a bit of messing around with the .kext files to get it all happy again.
VMware works for using Windows when I need it and I haven’t tried gaming on it yet (i have an xbox360 for that), but it works relatively smoothly. Other than the occasional hiccup everything is working fine and it’s been pretty stable.
From itnews.com.au:
The System Administrators Guild (SAGE) of Australia said the publication of the Federal Government’s “black list” of pornographic and violent websites has fatally damaged its proposed compulsory Internet filtering regime.
The black list’s appearance on wikileaks.org demonstrated the futility of the Government’s proposed censorship regime and the need for fresh thinking, the not-for-profit organisation said.
Donna Ashelford, president of SAGE-AU, said publication of the list has, in effect, given every 15-year-old in Australia a guide to porn online.
Given every 15 year old in Australia a guide to porn online? Haha.
I’ve just recently signed up for twitter and unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a wide array of good clients out there for OS X (my OS of choice). Primarily it comes down to two clients for me:
Both of them seem to have their + and – and what it comes down to is if you’re a fan of Adobe AIR or not. Twitterrific is written in Adobe AIR and is somewhat sluggish at times. Nambu on the other hand is written in Cocoa, but is in the beta stages. Nambu also as integration with other social networking sites such as ping.fm.
My vote goes to Nambu mainly because it is somewhat snappy and responsive and hasn’t crashed on me yet. Check them both out for yourself;
Nambu
Twitterrific
Let me know what you think!
From news.com.au:
POLICE have raided a Wikileaks associate’s homes in Dresden and Jena after the website published a list of banned websites.
Theodor Reppe owns the German domain registration for “wikileaks.de”, one of the many URLs used by the whistleblowing website.
This morning, Wikileaks published a Twitter update:
“Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner over censorship lists – stay tuned.”
Wikileaks, which offers an anonymous service, has previously published alleged web censorship lists from Thailand, Denmark, and Australia.
How the tides have turned. First wikileaks published a list of web URLs which they claimed was the ACMA’s official blacklist and Stephen Conroy denied this was the case. Then another updated was published, and another.. and now we have Stephen Conroy saying the leaked list ’seems like ACMA’s blacklist’.
Personally I don’t have an issue with any site on that list until they start blocking sites that I visit and are completely law abiding (superherohype.com, for example). Although in saying that, what government would use the filters to block anything which is anti-<insert-country>-government, or offends some people (online poker sites, please). It will be an interesting few months, thats for sure.