Chad and Christine

“Mister Wind-Up Zombie sez, “This past weekend a zombie quasi-flashmob two or three *hundred* strong materialized in the center of Vancouver and staggered through an upscale mall, onto the skytrain and down Main Street before joining their resting brethren at a local cemetry. The Flickr group has hundreds of pics and some discussion.” These photos are *priceless*.”

-Cory Doctorow, Boingboing

Flickr Gallery

Via Boingboing

This is why I always try to have my camera with me. It would be awesome if someone in Charlotte organized one of these here.

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I’m going to go watch my favorite Zombie movie, Dawn of the Dead (remake), now.

Today Free Marauder’s Map free from me.

Here to download

Others on eBay totally inaccurate.

In honor of yesterday’s post I give you the man that invented CTRL+ALT+DEL

Talking about inventing ctrl+alt+del and getting sacked in the process.

8.15.05 Permanent link to this entry

Make the switch early, Installing OSX86 on your Dell

Build Your Own Mac for $199

I spent the better part of Sunday working the bugs out on this developer kit install.
The problem I was having was that the instructions available only explained how to install the osX86 image from a USB hard drive, which I don’t have. Eventually I was able to find instructions here and there throughout the forum on how to use a windows share instead of a USB hard drive. So, I scoured the forum and put together my own guide on installing the osX86 image from a windows share.This was a really fun project and I got to play around with Linux a bit which is always cool.

What Started it all
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Pictures

Instructions for loading OSX86 When you don’t have an external USB drive.

By now instructions on installing OSX86 using an external USB hard drive are all over the web. But if your like me you don’t have a USB hard drive, so I’ve rounded up the instructions on installing it using a Windows share. This way you don’;t have to go through 40 pages of documentation to find what your looking for.

Step 1
Download Ubuntu Linux http://www.drabbuh.com/chadsspace. be sure you get the “Live CD”
Download tiger-x86.tar.bz2 (try Google to find the torrent see me if you have trouble finding it)
Download Newest Version (currently v3.42) of WINRAR. There are files larger than 2 gb in this archive and only the newest version can overcome the previous 2 gb limit

Step 2
Burn the Ubuntu CD image to a CD. This is an iso file, so burn it to a CD as an image.

Create a shared folder on your network. (I called mine tiger)

Unzip the tiger-x86.tar.bz2 into the shared folder (put the unzipped files directly into the tiger (or whatever you called yours) folder, taking them out of what ever folder they were unzipped into by default)

Put the Ubuntu CD into the target machine and boot from it

Step 3

From Ubuntu download smbfs
–Do this by Going to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
–mark smbfs for download and apply

Step 4

Mount shared Drive by opening the Root Terminal and typing:
mkdir /mnt/tiger1
mount -t smbfs -o username=*yourusername* “//*ipaddress*/*sharename*/ /mnt/tiger1
For my install it looks like this:
mkdir /mnt/tiger1
mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator “//10.40.2.35/tiger” /mnt/tiger1
Then it will ask for password type it in

Now type cd /mnt/tiger1 and it should be the shared drive
You should now see “root@COMPUTERNAME:/mnt/tiger1 # “ as your location
Step 5

Type
dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/had

Replace hda with the correct drive! If you only have one drive, it’s probably had

After you press enter your cursor will blink for the next few minutes while it copies the image to the hard drive you specified.

When it finishes it will display
6143+1 records in
6143+1 records out
6441910272 bytes transferred in 1167.569416 seconds (5517368 bytes/sec)

Your time may vary of course

Step 6
Remove CD and reboot.
Your done Loading OSX85! Now we just need to reset the password.
When you bbot up you may have to press a button at the Darwin screen and press –x to boot properly.

To reset the password reboot the machine again. Again, hit a button at the darwin screen. This time type “-s” and hit enter to boot into single user mode. At the command prompt screen type:
sh /etc/rc
passwd curtis

It should prompt you for a new password. You can change any users password this way by replacing “curtis” with any other username.

Done! Now reboot once more.

Everything should boot, and at the login screen enter your new password.

If you don’t want to change the password the deadmoo password is bovinity
You may need this for your key chain.

Some people are putting this string in at the Darwin screen:
platform=ACPI|X86PC

It seems to speed it up quite a bit.
You can make it stick so you won’t have to type it in everything you boot by editing the file:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

and changing the text:

Kernel Flags
to be:

Kernel Flags
platform=acpi|x86pc

Here is the motherload of OSx86 info

http://www.concretesurf.co.nz/osx86/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=4348079212cb20e6aca42e79b8d8d264

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http://www.concretesurf.co.nz/osx86/index.php