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I saw that eve online got another release so I decided to re-try it. It's still great plus I have the (human) experience from my last trial (no experience points and I also noted one can't have access to some goodies while on trial) so I'm not so lost. It's really eye-catching and fun. Screenshots following. Also, all screenshots I'll make during my trial period I'll post them here . Eve online screenshot Originally uploaded by schrepfler . Eve online screenshot Originally uploaded by schrepfler . Eve online screenshot Originally uploaded by schrepfler . Eve online screenshot Originally uploaded by schrepfler . Eve online screenshot Originally uploaded by schrepfler . Eve online screenshot Originally uploaded by schrepfler .

I'm getting on the del.icio.us bandwagon slowly. I still don't use it's community features but as I have a favorites list that goes way, way back (>7 years) I decided to start converting it slowly, that way updating my bookmarks might be easier and safer. I don't know how long will it take but slowly it might just happen. If you are interested it's here .

I've been asked what's the way to edit the configuration files. Basically it comes down to two issues. First you need to have the rights to edit the file. This is done by using the sudo command from the terminal utility. sudo bash That will start the bash command shell as a super user (su). Now you need to use a editor to change the file, I've used pico (if you use Gentoo, it's very similar to nano, they are forks). pico /System/ Library/ Extensions / ATIRadeonX1000.kext / contents/ info.plist (I'm not sure about caps) After that modify the file as instructed in previous post .

It seems that you can edit the files and delete the cached drivers even under vesa so there's no need to go to single user mode in order to enable drivers for OSX.

My friend thinks that if Apple would sell MacOS X for Intel as a retail OS with the same price of Windows he'd buy one.

The networking issue is this, neither the integrated 3com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet network adapter works nor the ADMtec AN983 out of the box. However after reading these items , the downloaded tulip driver works with ADMtec AN 983 and 985 and also: Linksys LNE100 Netgear FA511 Accton EN1217 Abocom FE2500 3Com OfficeConnect 10/100B 3CSOHO100B Microsoft cards and probably some others as well... check this driver if your card isn't supported. As far as I know, no one has been lucky with the Marvell chip. There are some posts here and there so research is already on it's way. It's a shame, in linux, I used the sk98lin and now the skge driver with excellent results. I tried the new sky2 driver but without success, can someone report if sky2 is intended to be used with the 3C940 under linux?

After the successful install, it was obvious that both network adapters didn't work and neither did the graphic card. As my friend didn't know anything about MacOS these are some steps that might work and they might not. In order to make the ATIRadeonX1000.kext driver work (the kext is a directory containing driver stuff), you must modify the Info.Plist file and add your deviceid to the values beneath IOPCIMatch. To find out your card deviceid you need to open the system profiler and look at your graphic card. It'll show you values for deviceid, vendorid, revisionid, and eventually it will say it's kext have been loaded. What you need to do is to concatenate the deviceid and vendorid so if your deviceid is 0x71C2 you need to append the vendorid (ATI is 0x1002 as I can see) resulting in the end string 0x71C21002. Here the things get tricky, various things were tried and in the end I'd recommend the following procedure: Boot the kernel in single mode by passing -s whe...

HOWTO: MacOS x86 and the Asus P4P800 Deluxe, P4c, Sapphire X1600 Pro AGP 256MB and ADMtec AD983 A friend of mine that likes to tinker with alternative OS'es and has the same hardware as mine recently downloaded the demonoid patched iso of MacOS 10.4.4 for the x86 architecture. For the moment all of the hardware mentioned above works quite well except the motherboard integrated gigabit LAN based on the 3COM Marvell 940-MV00 chip (under linux you'd use the sk98lin driver, that was deprecated for skge, and now it seems there's sky2 but I can't make sky2 work with my network card under linux, am I wrong to understand that skge is deprecated for sky2?). After you had liberated some free space for MacOS, you need to drop in some linux fdisk, add a new primary partition and set it's type to af (it doesn't matter if fdisk doesn't support HFS+, it just reserves the space, you'll format later). As the demonoid dvd is already patched there was no fuss really, all y...