Motorola is releasing the H5 MINIBLUE Bluetooth Headset. It has an in-ear speaker and microphone so you can use it in even noisy environments. It’s dead small too so all of you wanna be spies out there will be in heaven.
The headset is released in Australia May/June 2006 and is retailing for around $225.
“Australians all let us rejoice, For we are young and free”…But for how much longer???
Is Australia getting a compulsory Identity Card? It is now offical, “From 2010 people will not be able to receive government health and welfare payments without a card.”
Check out the Sydney Morning Herald article.
Hrmmm, I know I’m sceptical…
I’ve put together a HowTo outlining how to set up an Intel Mac to triple boot OSX, Windows XP and OpenSuSE Linux. It is similar to the Triple Boot BootCamp HowTo on the OnMac.net site with the exception of bootstrapping the Linux install section. In my HowTo the Linux install is done from installation media (ie. CDs) You can grab it from here.
Have Fun! ; )
An invaluable tool when hacking about with the partitions on your Mac is Carbon Copy Clone. This tool allows you to make a bootable clone of your OS X partition. It is very useful when you mess up the partition table and you don’t want to re-install and configure OS X and all of the installed Applications from scratch.
Once you have a clone, you can just boot your copy of OS X on your firewire drive, reset the internal HDD partition table to it’s default state (ie. one big partition) and copy the OS X clone back, and start hacking again.
Finally I managed to get my MacBook Pro to triple boot. It’s plenty of fun, um, i mean hair tearing…Using a HowTo from Onmac.net and bootstraping the Debian install using debootstrap I was successful. I am now able to boot into Debian Linux chainloading with the NT Boot Loader.
Definately not for the faint hearted. : )
I have been messing around with my Intel Mac in an attempt to get it to triple boot (OS X, Windows and Debian Linux) and managed to screw up the partition table to the point where OS X wouldn’t allow me to re-install. So I whipped together a quick and dirty HowTo on sorting out the partition scheme.
If the Installer doesn’t allow you to install OS X onto a partition (ie. “You can not install Mac OS X on this volume…”) because you have messed around with the partitions, then do the following:
1. – Launch Disk Utility
2. – Select the Hard Disk (not the volume) on the left hand side of the screen (it will normally be labeled with the hardware vendor’s name) and select “Get Info”.
3. – Look for the “Partition Type” line. This line should contain “GUID_partition_scheme”. If the line conatins “Apple_partition_scheme” then you will not be able to install OS X on your Intel Mac. If the “Partition Type” line contained “GUID_partition_scheme”, STOP HERE! If the “Partition Type” line contained “Apple_partition_scheme”, proceed to the next step.
4. – You must now erase the whole Hard Drive (not volume) and create a new partition. This should create the GUID partition scheme by default.
5. – You should now be able to change your partition table (eg. split partitions, etc.) whilst still retaining the GUID partition scheme.
6. – Continue with your installation.
That’s it…Too easy!
I’ve been saying it for a couple of years now, but it has now been published in the media so it must be true. Check out this article in a Sydney publication called Radar.
I have been asked a couple of times how to download and compile KisMAC from SVN, so I have put together a HowTo. In the HowTo I have detailed instructions on how to download KisMAC via SVN to get the most recent version and compiling it. You may want to compile it so you can run it natively on your Intel mac, or you may just want the latest cutting edge version. Grab it from here.
I have recently purchased a MacBook Pro so I have been able to compile KisMAC natively on Intel. I grabed the source code via SVN and compiled KisMAC release 115 on both the Intel and PPC platforms and made the binaries available for download.
Apple has released Boot Camp. Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP on your Intel Mac without moving your Mac data.
From the Apple Boot Camp page:
For your convenience, Boot Camp burns a CD with all the Mac-specific drivers for Windows:
Apple’s share price jumped 10% as a result of this announcement.
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