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Well, I was planning on getting a bunch of other videos done today. However, I caught a cold and feel like I have been hit by a truck.

I may get some work done on the new version of TechnoChubby.   We’ll see how I feel.

We finished the install of OS X Leopard on the big black box that was intended to be our media server. We took a video of the install and posted it on YouTube.

We’re gonna do some more videos on how to do stuff like get unity working on vmware, install X11, and nvinstaller.

Well, the upgrade went fine. I am still using a very old theme, so it will be interesting to see how it holds up. I need to get around to updating it soon.

So much to do, so little time!

Figure I would take the afternoon and get this dang site updated to Wordpress 2.5.

So, if things seem to stop working or things start to look funny, I am just upgrading the site.

Hopefully, all goes well.

Well, I went and bought a MacBook Air today. I was going to go buy the black MacBook but once I looked at it compared to the Air. I went for the Air. We’ll get some videos done of it later today.  (quick kudos:  Thanks to Mary at the Apple Store at Town Square Las Vegas for the help)

Also, since we’ve been going towards the Mac platform of late, we are now in the process of selling our old laptops. I’ll be eBay-ing again this week.

On a final note, I’ll be updating this site to Wordpress 2.5 sometime this weekend.

Well, I broke down a while ago and bought a real Mac. Just a Mac mini. I decided after using it for several days that I really felt at home in the Mac environment. I like it so much, that I am now budgeting to buy a full blown Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro.

However, for the time being, we can’t afford to start switching everyone in the household to Mac, so we decided to play with putting the Mac OS on the PC’s that we have. (I do plan on buying Mac hardware as we are able)

I tried various “Hackintosh” “distros” as it were, Kalyway, Zephyroth, and other methods. However, for me, I have found the leo4all “distro” to be the easiest to install. I have had some issues with the “V2″ of leo4all. But, the original version works fine and has given me the least amount of configuration issues.

With that said, this is what I have running now:

Machine #1: (the same one we built at http://www.youtube.com/technochubby )

Processor: Intel Q6600
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Formula
Memory: Corsair 4×2gb DDR2
HDDs: Seagate 500GB, 500GB, 500GB, 1TB
Graphics: XFX nVidia GeForce 8800GT w/ 512

System Notes: On board LAN works no issues, SATA set to AHCI 4 of the 6 ports work no problem. Sound worked fine with the ADI1988 patch on the leo4all.

System #2:

Processor: AMD 5600+
Motherboard: Asus M2NPV-VM
Memory: OCZ 4×2gb DDR2
HDDs: Seagate 300GB
Graphics: onboard 6150

System Notes: On board LAN did not work, I installed a Netgear GA311 for wired and Hawking HWU8DDA for wireless. Sound Required the HDA patch with Linux Codec method. I could not get the on board 6150 to work right. Threw in a PCI GeForce 5200 and worked with no issues (nvinstaller)

System 3:

Processor: Intel Q6600
Motherboard: Asus P5E-VM
Memory: OCZ 4×2gb DDR2
HDDs: Seagate 300GB & 1TB
Graphics: eVGA nVidia GeForce 8600GT w/ 512

System Notes: On board LAN did not work, I used a Netgear GA311 instead, SATA set to AHCI 4 of the 6 ports work no problem. Sound worked fine with the ADI1988 patch on the leo4all. Did not try the on-board video, video card worked great with nvinstaller.

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I have also been working on getting OSX on my UX280P with no luck. The leo4all install method gets the farthest. But it does not seem to want to play nice on the screen and I can’t even get to the initial install choices. I need to do some more research on this.

I have given my mac mini to Angel and she is liking it. Dana is still pushing back on the switch for her. (she finally got her vista laptop set up the way she likes it, I understand) I gave system 3 to Andrew.

Eventually, we plan on going full blown Mac hardware, it’s just not feasible for us to do so at the moment. but we’ll get there.

Welp, it’s been a couple months since I have updated.  I figure I better get around to it.  Anyways, we’re settled and are liking our new digs.  We’ve been re-organizing and getting ready to do some cools stuff in the coming months. My son turned 6 (wow, they get big fast!)  I had another birthday.

We’ve been working on a tech site that I am going to start posting my tech stuff too.  It’s going to be at www.TechnoChubby.com .  We plan to use this site for everything we like tech.  (By we, me and my friends and some of you :P)  If you go to that site now, it’s got our first iteration of it, but it’s going to be getting a major revamp here soon.

After that transition takes place, I am going to use this site more on personal stuff.  I’ve always wanted to blog more on my thoughts and views on things, not sure why I haven’t.  But, I plan to…  lol.

We’ll see how this all goes in the coming weeks.

This will probably be my last post for 2007.  A lot has happened in the last month.  We moved to a better and semi-permanent location.  We found a place in Henderson, NV we liked and it will be our “home base” as we do plan to travel in the coming year.   It’s a nice 3 bedroom apartment, townhouse style with attached garage.  Pictures below:

New Apartment 2007

Our new apartment in Henderson

31 Photos

We had a good Christmas.  Draylan got lots of presents.  I am telling you we spoil the hell out of my son.  If we don’t do it, he has plenty of aunts and uncles that do it for us.  lol

I am still playing Entropia Universe.  I have been meaning to get more time in world but I have been busy with the move and all.

I have found another time sink however.  It comes in the form of a PS3 game called Eye of Judgement.  It’s a hybrid console and collectable card game similar to Magic: The Gathering and Yu Gi Oh.  It’s played using the Playstation Eye and a game board where you lay cards down and they battle.  I’ve never been into card games before, but this one has me hooked.  We’ve started a local Saturday night “Eye of Judgment” night where some of our friends get together and we play.  If you are in the Las Vegas/Henderson area and play Eye of Judgment, give a comment or send me a note and we’ll send you an invite.

Anyways, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year!  2008 wil Rock!

I really need to get blogging on a regular basis. I was laid out sick for most of September.

Anyways, September was for the most part an uneventful month. The big BIG big thing that has happened is that my son started school for the first time! Lots of anticipation and excitement for us. He took to it well, he’s having a lot of fun in school.

I’ve been outlining the next phase of what we’re doing with our web stuff and other sites. I will be working on two non-porn sites soon (Surprise Surprise). We’re taking the Happy Fornicator site offline for a bit while we re-group on what it’s purpose is.

On the Linux side of things I have been checking out Ubuntu 7.10 which is due out on th 18th of October. It’s looking interesting. I’ll be installing the release as soon as I get my hands on it. I think I will be re-doing the main home server yet again.

The plans for Costa Rica are still out there. We’ve also started looking at other opportunities in other countries. It’s time for us to get out of Las Vegas.

Entropia Universe is still occupying my free time. I am having a lot of fun with it and see some potential for residual income down the road.

Anyways, I just wanted to give a quick update.

I am still unsure why my database did a huge oops on me.  I decided to install wordpress from scratch and convert over to Next Gen Gallery.  I put as much of my posts back as I could and I will work on cleaning up the posts as I am able.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to get some pictures up and update you all on some of my projects.