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Hisham Khalifa

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The apple of my eye: building my core i7 hackintosh pro rig

Jul 29

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A Snow Leopard follow up to this post is here.

A couple of months ago I built a quad-core Mac Pro equivalent “Hackintosh” based on Intel’s X58 and Core i7. All components were selected for their compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard. My goal was to build as close a Mac Pro clone as possible using off the shelf parts, with the ability to do Apple Software Updates on a retail, unmodified OS X installation as you would with a real Mac.

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Nymphberry

Mar 7

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Infomania

Nymphomania?

No, no! INFO-mania

Oh, I see
what is it then?

Blackberry
push email
get through
push me out of sleep
out of hours and days
out of life

Sacrifice all for some crack-
berry

Answer quick
always on
but switched off

Neither here
nor there

Always trying to make
one last check
until the end of days
when nothing crosses the ether

When signals are no more
when all’s gone forever

Inspired by this BBC report.

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Space Invaders and Machibuse

Oct 4

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No, nothing to do with another daytime television show about speed house remodeling or a popular regional dish (machboos.) Rather, Space Invaders and Machibuse here refer to classic arcade games.

Those of you who have not played the original games might still have come across the many versions and clones of Space Invaders and Pac-Man (Machibuse is the original, Japanese name of the pink ghost Pinky in Pac-Man.

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