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OK.So you do admit that Vista is not what you need with all the negative comments and the security issues around it and within inside you feel that you want a MAC.But you have just spent a couple of grand on your new (or a year or so old) PC.So, what are you going to do now? Well, in this tutorial I show you how to DUAL BOOT Mac OS Leopard on your Vista installed Intel (and also AMD) computer.Follow the instructions very carefully and feel free to post any doubts or suggestions you need.

DISCLAIMER:This Guide is for educational purposes only and it is highly recommended you buy yourself an original Mac. Also please do not post links to the Torrents as they will be removed.

Well before we proceed with the guide, here is the stuff that you will need for a successful dual boot setup.

• Vista Already installed on your Primary Hard Disk.
• iATKOS v1.0 DVD. (Do not ask me where you can download this)
• Windows Vista Boot DVD (Just incase something goes wrong)

Well now that you have everything ready, lets get started then. Please note this is going to take sometime so I suggest you have some Music playing near by and grab yourself a cup of coffee while you do this. Sit tight, here we go……….

• Install Vista on the First Partition of your Hard Disk. I am not going to elaborate into How to install Windows, I hope everyone knows it. If you already have it installed then read on..
• Right click on My Computer and Click on Manage. Select Disk Management. Now Create a new Volume for OSX by shrinking an existing volume. You need atleast 5GB of space and the new volume should show up as Unallocated.
• Make sure that the partition shows up as Unallocated, else repeat the previous step.
• Now restart the machine and boot into the Leopard DVD that you burned using the iATKOS v1.0 DVD Image.
• Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter.
• You should see scrolling text on the screen now. If it stops anywhere then drop a comment and I’ll try to help you out.
• After a while you should be looking at the Leopard Installer. Follow the instructions on Screen.
• Once the Loading Bar vanishes Select Utilities -> Disk Utility .
• Select the Volume you created previously and format it as MAC OSX Journaled Extended. Once the formatting is done the volume is ready for installation.
• Now Close Disk Utility and Select Utilities -> Darwin Boot. Type Y at the prompt.
• At the prompt when it asks for the Disk Number enter 0. For the Partition Number if your Leopard Partition is 2nd on the disk, then enter 2 and so on.
• Accept the following prompts and you should see a success prompt saying that so many block of data were written successfully.
• Now get back to the Leopard Install Screen. Choose the partition that you made in the beginning and follow the instructions on screen.

  Please don’t select any patches etc during the installation, this is normally the reason for most failed installations. Just the plain install would do.

• Once the Install is done, reboot with the DVD in the drive. Press F8 at Darwin Boot Loader and type -s and press enter.
• Execute the following commands :

  fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

  flag 1

  quit

  reboot

• Now before the PC restarts remove the DVD. At this point you should be able to boot into Vista normally.

  Note: If you are unable to log into windows, because there is an error which says “winload.exe” correupted.! Relax. Just insert the Windows VISTA boot DVD into the drive and restart. Click on “Repair computer” once you are inside the DVD and it will automatically detect if a problem exists and suggest “Repair and Restart”. Press the same, and remove the DVD once the PC is about to restart. You should now be able to log in to vista without any problem.

• Now that we have almost everything running fine, lets proceed with the dual boot setup.
• Boot into Vista. Copy the chain0 file from the Leopard DVD to C:
• Open the “Command prompt” with “Elevated Admin” privileges from the Start Menu.
• Type the following into the prompt

  bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”

  bcdedit /enum active

  bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0

  In the first command type {current} as it is, literally..nothing else..just {current} with the brackets. In the 3rd command however, replace the {GUID} with the alphanumeric GUID you see in the enumerated list under MAC OS X. You can see this list on your terminal as soon as you type the 2nd command above.

• Close the Command Prompt and Restart Vista.
• You Should now be looking at a screen with two options to boot into Mac OSX or Vista.
• Select Mac OSX to see if you can boot into it. You should see the familiar Darwin boot Loading screen with the timer going down. If you dont do anything, then it counts to zero and again shows the menu screen with Vista and MAC OSX options. Dont panic!

  Again select MAC OS X, and now as the timer counts down, Press F8. You would see a list of partitions on your disk with their names. Select the partition with MAC OSX installed by using up/down arrows and press ENTER.

• Voila!! your Mac should be booting up as you read this..

See it was that simple. No more HFS+ and Blinking Cursor errors. Just follow this guide step by step and you should be able to dual boot Windows Vista and Leopard in no time. If you have any questions just drop in a comment, I’ll reply at the earliest.

For Drivers and Patches I suggest you look at the InsanelyMac Forums. This guide would have been nearly impossible without :

• Uphuck Forums
• InsanelyMac Forums
• OSX86 Wiki.

If you are looking to Install Leopard on an AMD based machine follow the instructions here to patch your iATKOS v1.0 Image. Special Thanks to I Am Nihilist

Recently, Dell launched a new laptop, the Dell Latitude E6400 which has a whopping battery capacity of 19 hours. This Latitude laptop is equipped with two batteries which along with the latest technology and software provides 19 hours of battery life

The company’s Latitude E6400 runs for as much as 10 hours on a single nine-cell battery, and an additional battery that snaps on to the bottom of the laptop adds as much as nine hours of battery life, Dell officials said at a press event in San Francisco. That gives users close to a full day of laptop use without carrying an AC adapter to recharge the batteries.

The Latitude E6400 comes with a 14.1-inch screen and runs an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It can have as much as 8G bytes of RAM and 250G bytes of storage. The system comes preloaded with Windows Vista, with an option to downgrade to Windows XP. It is priced starting at US$1,139. The Latitude E6500, a similar laptop with a larger screen, was also announced, starting at $1,169. Both systems are available immediately.

The question I am asked most often is “How do I install a dual-boot with Windows XP on my new Windows Vista computer?” The answer is that it’s not that difficult, it’s just very time consuming, and you need to own a copy of Windows XP.

Note that you should not attempt this if you aren’t ready to troubleshoot any problems that might occur.

The first issue we encounter is that computers with pre-installed operating systems take up the entire drive. Luckily Microsoft included the Shrink volume feature in Vista, so we can easily shrink the Vista partition down to make room for XP.

Open the Computer Management panel, which you can find under Administrative tools or by right-clicking the Computer item in the start menu and choosing Manage. Find the Disk Management item in the list and select that.

Now we’ll shrink our volume down by right-clicking on the main hard drive and choosing Shrink Volume.

Now you can choose the size that you want to shrink, which really means you are choosing the size that you want your XP partition to be. Whatever you do, don’t just use the default. I chose roughly 10gb by entering 10000 into the amount.

The next step might be confusing, because we need to change the cd-rom drive that’s invariably taking up D: at the moment, because we want to use D: for the Windows XP partition, but it’s already taken by the cd-rom drive. If you skip this step than XP will install onto the E: drive, which isn’t the end of the world, but it’s not quite as tidy.

Right-click on the cd-rom drive in the list and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths from the menu.

Now we’ll change the CD drive to use E: by selecting that in the drop-down.

Now we can create a new partition for XP to live on and make sure that the drive letter is set the way we want. If you do not create a partition now the XP install will do so automatically, but it’s easier and cleaner to do it this way.

Right-click on the Unallocated free space area and then select New Simple Volume from the menu.

Follow through the wizard and select whatever options you’d like, making sure to use D: as the drive letter.

Now you will need to close out of disk management and reboot your computer. This is because we can’t do the next step until we reboot. (you can try, but it won’t work)

So we’ve come back from rebooting… open up Computer from the start menu and then right-click on the D: drive and select properties. Give your partition a meaningful name like “XP”. It would be wise to name the C: drive to “Vista” at this point as well.

Now you’ll want to pop your XP cd into the drive and boot off it. You may have to configure your BIOS to enable booting off the CD drive, or if your computer says something like “Hit Esc for boot menu” you might want to use that.

Once you come to the screen where you can choose the partition to install on, then choose either the unpartitioned space or the new partition you created. Whatever you do, don’t try and install onto your Vista partition! See how much cleaner it is now that we’ve labeled each partition distinctly?

We’ll assume XP is completely installed at this point, and you will have lost your ability to boot into Windows Vista, so we’ll need to use the VistaBootPro utility to restore the Vista boot loader.

Download and install VistaBootPro from vistabootpro.org

During the install you’ll be forced to install the .NET 2.0 framework. Open up VistaBootPRO and then click on the System Bootloader tab. Check the “Windows Vista Bootloader” and then “All Drives” radio buttons, and then click on the Install Bootloader button.

At this point, the Windows Vista bootloader is installed and you’ll only be able to boot into Vista, but we’ll fix that. Instead of manually doing the work, we’ll just click the Diagnostics menu item and then choose Run Diagnostics from the menu.

This will scan your computer and then automatically fill in the XP version.. click on the “Manage OS Entries” tab and then click in the textbox for Rename OS Entry, and name it something useful like “Windows XP” or “The Windows That Works”

Click the Apply Updates button and then reboot your computer… you should see your shiny new boot manager with both operating systems in the list!

If you get an error saying “unable to find ntldr” when trying to boot XP, you’ll need to do the following:

• Find the hidden files ntldr and ntdetect.com in the root of your Vista drive and copy them to the root of your XP drive.
• If you can’t find the files there, you can find them in the \i386\ folder on your XP install cd

There’s more information on this forum thread, thanks to nrv1013

This is a critical piece of information: Windows XP will be installed on the D: drive, even in Windows XP… so you’ll need to keep that in mind when tweaking your system.

You can share information between the drives, but I wouldn’t recommend messing with the other operating system’s partition too much… it might get angry and bite you. Or screw up your files. What I do recommend is that you store most of your files on a third drive shared between the operating systems… you could call that partition “Data”.

I’m going to write a number of followup articles dealing with all of the issues with dual-boot systems, so subscribe to the feed for updates.

SOURCE: HowToGeek

Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he’ll tell you that it’s having to develop for SUSE and for Red Hat and for Ubuntu and … you get the idea. The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that’s going to make ISVs and other programmers start to love developing for Linux.

AppChecker, now in beta 3, is a downloadable open source Linux program. Once installed, the program shows you a Web page, the LSB Database Navigator. Here, you click on the Application Check link. This presents you with a Web form interface to fill out. In this form, you’ll enter a name for your report and Name field, and in the Components field you’ll enter the file path for your application. Next, enter the application’s individual files, directories, installed RPM packages (prepended with pkg:),; RPM and .deb package files, and tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. To make this manageable, click on the Select Application Components button so you can enter each item in a separate field. Next, select the LSB Version and LSB Profile you want to test against.

You then let AppChecker rip. It will automatically decompress archives and start testing. The program will check out your ELF (Executable and Linking Format, a.k.a. binary files), Perl, Python, and shell scripts. So far, this doesn’t sound much more than just another fancied-up version of the forerunner of all program checkers, lint, but it’s what AppChecker does next that will make it a must for any Linux software developer.

AppChecker then checks your program not only against different versions of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), but also against all the Linux distributions in the LSB Database. After the test is done it will present you with a report. It’s this report that makes AppChecker special.

In the Web-based report, you’re shown the compatibility status of your application with the various distributions, and which external libraries and interfaces your program uses. If all goes well, it gives you the option of putting your program in for LSB certification straight from the test program. It doesn’t just give you a thumbs-up or thumbs-down for your application on any particular distribution, according to Amanda McPherson, Linux Foundation vice president of marketing and developer programs — it “gives you the details you need to get your program running on a particular distribution.”

McPherson warns, “This is a beta program and there’s no guarantee, but yes, if AppChecker says your program should work with, say, Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04, then your application should work on these distributions. The results can get very granular. It will tell you this library or this interface isn’t available in this distribution. It can also recommend some replacements. For example, OpenSSL is often a problem and you should use different SSL library.”

The program’s initial idea came from McPherson and Ted T’so, the Linux Foundation’s CTO and noted Linux kernel developer. AppChecker was then put together by T’so and the Russian Academy of Science. The program is licensed under the GPLv2.

According to AppChecker’s technical documentation, AppChecker works by analyzing your “program’s C/C++ symbols — mostly functions with some global variables — and libraries required by an application that are satisfied by dynamically linked libraries provided by a distribution.”

AppChecker isn’t a debugger. It doesn’t check that the “type information expected by the application matches the type of the object provided by the distribution’s libraries. For example, the layout of a data structure might have changed, or the function parameter that had previously been a 32-bit integer may have been changed to a 64-bit integer. Another problem that cannot be detected by the AppChecker is if the details of a function’s behavior changes from one version to another.”

What it does do is spell out for you what libraries and interfaces are provided by any given distribution, and make suggestions on which ones you might use as replacements to work on a particular version of Linux, or that will work on several different Linux distributions, McPherson explains. With this tool, you can quickly see what you need to do with your application to make it more portable across different Linux distributions.

It isn’t perfect, of course. Not only is the program still in beta, but some libraries and interfaces aren’t in the LSB databases. Still, it’s a huge step forward in enabling developers to see exactly what they’re dealing with in writing an application for multiple different versions of Linux.

AppChecker users can keep their test results to themselves, but McPherson hopes that they’ll share their results with the Linux Foundation. “If you choose choose to share your results with us, it helps the Linux platform and helps the LSB get better. For example, it tells us what libraries Linux developers are using that aren’t in LSB. We can then include [them] in the LSB, and that will make the LSB better.”

SOURCE: LINUX

Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Description

The one to watch.
5 mega-pixel camera, digitial TV, DVD video capture and 16GB memory, for a true multimedia experience.

Nokia N96 - Key Features:

Network	Quad Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900
3G	Yes (900/2100 HSDPA)
Memory	16GB
Memory Slot	microSDHC
Wi-Fi	Yes (IEEE.802.11b/g)
Bluetooth	Yes (stereo)
Camera	Yes (5 mega-pixel)
Size	103 x 55 x 18 mm
Weight	125g
Battery (BL-5F)	Talk Time: 220 mins; Standby Time: 220 hrs

Camera:
Explore and capture the world around you. Built in GPS works in conjunction with the 5 mega-pixel camera to automatically geotag your photographs. Store not only the date/time but the location for each photograph automatically and seamlessly. Auto-focus, Carl Zeiss optics and a high intensity dual LED flash combine to create photographs with exceptional clarity.

Video Player:
Immerse yourself in entertainment. The brilliant 2.8″ high resolution display lets you view your videos and photographs in stunning detail. 16GB of on board storage allows you to take your collection of high-definition movies with you.

Video Record:
>Experience DVD quality video capture. Record video at high resolution VGA (640 x 480 pixels) and at a smooth 30 frames per second. Digital video stabilization ensures smooth steady video capture reducing unwanted shake whilst the video photo light allows night time recording. Built in TV out option allows you to connect your Nokia N96 directly to a TV for watching your movies on the big screen.

TV:
Watch TV without a TV. DVB-H support brings digital TV directly to your Nokia N96. Where available, DVB-H brings your favourite TV’s shows and channels to watch on the go.

Music Player:
Take your music with you. Built in 16GB of storage and expandable memory lets you carry over 6000 songs in your pocket. Hear a song you like? Download and buy songs instantly on your Nokia N96. Stereo FM radio lets you listen to your favourite music stations and talk shows.

Navigation:
Find new places around you. Assisted GPS (AGPS) technology and Nokia Maps provides free downloadable maps and satellite imagery for over 150 countries around the world. Find your way whether your driving or walking on foot. Location based services lets you find cash machines, shops, restaurants, bars and useful locations near you automatically when you need them.

Internet: Carry the internet in your hand. Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map technology displays complete websites. Support for HTML, Java script & Flash bring a rich multimedia internet directly onto your phone.

Technical Details

•	Dimensions: - 103 x 55 x 18 mm - Weight: 125g
•	Display: 240 x 320 pixels (2.8 inch)
•	Network: - GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 (Quad-Band) - WCMDA: 900/2100 (Dual-Band)
•	Camera: - 5 mega-pixels - Digital Zoom - Dual LED Flash
•	Music: - Supported formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+ & WMA. - FM Stereo Radio (RDS) - Nokia Internet Radio - Nokia Music Store
•	Video: - Hi-Resolution VGA Video Recording - 30fps Video Recording - Supported formats: MP4, 3GPP, H.264 & Real Player - Video Streaming
•	Ringtones: - Monophonic - Polyphonic (64) - MP3 - AAC
•	Messaging: - SMS - MMS (with video) - E-mail (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4)
•	Memory: - Phone Book (Unlimited) - Dialed Calls (30 Days) - Missed Calls (30 Days) - Received Calls (30 Days) - 16GB (internal) - microSDHC (external)
•	Call Features: - Hands Free - Caller ID - Voice Dialing - Push to Talk (PTT)
•	Connectivity: - microUSB - Nokia 3.5mm AV connector - Bluetooth (2.0) - Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g) - GPRS Class 32 - HSDPA (3.6 Mbits)
•	Navigation: - AGPS - Nokia Maps
•	Features: - DVB-H Digital TV Receiver - TV Out - Office Document Viewer (Word, Excel) - PDF Document Viewer