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Latest build of Chromium 4 as my default browser for a week, on OS X.

Let’s see how I can survive this.

First step: Install AdBlock+ And Subscribe to EasyList. That was why I could never survive Chrome before. Oh well that and the fact that the window decorations on Chrome for Windows make me want to jump out of the Window. (no pun in…yeah it was intended).

Msi Wind Forums • View topic – 100% Working Snow Leopard Retail install

This solution seems to work. Here are the exact steps I followed

1) Image your Snow Leopard CD

2) Restore the image on your USB stick

3) Run NetbookMaker (the instructions mention running Netbookinstaller which is an error)

4) Boot the USB stick

5) Format the drive as 1 partition, make sure in options you select GUID partitions. (This is in Utilities/Disk Utility if you’re not used to this)

6) Install…

7) Boot and install the Realtek drivers ( http://files.binaryfactory.ca/windtools/Realtek_RTL8187SE_MacOS10.5_Driver_073_UI_1.6.2.zip )

Reboot. At this point, video works, Wifi works, sound doesn’t, and I haven’t tested everything else.

9) Enable Filevault. The whole point of Netbooks is to bring them to places where you’ll forget them isn’t it?
9.5) Enable Time Machine (See point 9)

10) Install 10.6.1 as I had forgotten to slipstream it to my USB stick. I didn’t install the combo. I’m such a rebel.

More to come tomorrow or Friday !

Right click Safari, click Get info, check the Run in 32bit mode box !
Tada!

I have just upgraded my Macbook pro to 10.5.8.

I didn’t use the combo update for two reasons:

1) My ADSL is totally messed up, waiting for Bell to fix it, so 700+megs is insane for an update
2) I figured that since my OS X install was about a WEEK OLD that it could handle updates easily.

The install went fine, I rebooted.. and now I can’t even launch Firefox 3.5 !

Update: I rebooted a second time, and now Firefox seems to work fine. My spotlight index appears to be wiped, which I assume is normal.

Weird.

Doing it the cowboy way – not even bothering to read about it. Wish me luck !

Update: The install went relatively well, but after rebooting, I had no sound, and 800×600.
I installed the driver pack from : http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-drivers/retail-install-driver-pack-final-release-t11311.html which shouldn’t be used with installs that were made with the MSIWindOSX.iso installer, but what the heck.

Had troubles booting, removed the Realtek 1000 Ethernet card kext ( in single user mode )..

It now boots..

Wifi: Still works
Photo Booth: Still works
Sound: Still works
Ethernet: Probably doesn’t work, I don’t feel like finding a cable and an available port to test it (should be easily fixable though)

Sleep: Works and resumes fast, seems to cause issues with Photo Booth if you sleep while the camera was on, though I am not sure this is a “new issue”. Closing and restarting photo booth works.

Anything else I should test?