29 May 2009

Back to the Dark Ages

I'm back to dual-booting the MSI Wind - Mac OS X Leopard & Windows XP Professional. Though with an almost perfect setup (don't forget about the internal mic that still doesn't work what with VoodooHDA already installed), I've found out that there are things that only Windows XP can give me.Mainly two things: (1) torrenting and (2) video streamingOkay, there's a ton of fairly...

26 May 2009

Rekindle An Old Flame

I and MacBook Mini have been together now for three months and though there've been rough patches here and there, the relationship is rather going strong - with lots of reinstallation and hard disk wipe out in my attempts to get to know him; really and truly get to know his heart.As a consequence, MacBook Wind has been left to gather dust and gunk especially (and literally) under...

17 May 2009

I Hate Blogspot

I hate blogspot. I don't hate blogspot perse - I just hate how it looks. I really love how macbookwind.wordpress.com looks and feels and no matter how I tweak macbookmini.blogspot.com, tried different themes, layout and such, it still sucks in comparison to my wordpress page. CSS you say? There was only one time that I actually mulled over the thought of learning CSS but...

08 May 2009

Pushing It

Whenever I install OS X on my netbooks, I would always stop with the Mac OS X Setup Assistant and not opt to register my "Macs". They weren't real Macs anyway plus I haven't installed the correct kexts to be able to connect to the internet. I'd end up having an alias file in my home directory; the one with the Tux.With my LAN port working perfectly fine, I ventured to push it...

02 May 2009

Upping the Ante

I just did what a broke person should not do: spend moolah when even her next payslip couldn't cover her bills as of date. But I had to give in to my inner geek and so after paying the internet connection bill, I ended up buying a 2 GB stick of DDR2 PC-667 RAM for my MacBook Mini. (Click here for that story)The HP mini 1000 only has one SO-DIMM slot which is occupied by default...