Dave Harris

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To Buy or Not To Buy… May 12, 2008

Filed under: Mac — daveharris @ 5:29 pm

Of course I am talking about the iPhone.  I went into the awesome Apple Store (I’ll take some photos next time) and was about to buy one but they had sold out of the 16GB.

But then Dad said that it will be the same price in NZ.  So it’s $USD 499 + 2.5% foreign exchange credit card fee = $671.  Stuff was saying that it was going to be $700 in NZ.  So it’s not really any cheaper, if $700 is to be believed.  Has any more news come out or have Vodafone been tight-lipped?  I assume that the $499 includes the 8.65% sales tax…

So do you think its worth buying it here and haking it, or should I wait and get the official one and get too expensive 3G and GPS????  I’m sure there will be some awesome app that uses GPS and I’ll be annoyed it didn’t wait.

What should I do??? Sound off in the comments please ;)

 

OSx86 with nVidia 7600gt August 8, 2007

Filed under: How-to, Mac, OSx86 — daveharris @ 7:58 am
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This is quick and dirty how-to to get Quartz Extreme and Core Image at full resolution working on OSx86 (with OSX 10.4.8) a nVidia 7600gt 256MB card.

Follow the simple insructions below and you can’t go wrong:

  • Install OSx86 with the optional Natit package
  • Once booted find your card identifier by adding the DeviceID and VendorID together to get a string (mine is 0×02e110de)
  • Edit the corresponding <string> tag for the IOPCIMatch key in these four packages (in /System/Library/Extensions)
    • Geforce.kext
    • NVDANV40Hal.kext
    • NVDANV30Hal.kext
    • NVDAResman.kext

    If the file is like this:
    <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
    <string>0×00000000&0×0000ffff</string>
    Replace it with this:
    <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
    <string>0×02e010de&0×0000ffff</string>

    If the key has a number of values in the string tag, just add 0×02e010de&0×0000ffff to the start of the list.

  • You now need to flush the kext cache so run the following:
    sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.*
  • Now reboot and enjoy the goodness of Mac OSx86 :)

I cannot claim the credit for this, I got it from this forum here http://www.osxx86.info/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1514 by a post by sinjon (shot mate ;) )