This interesting rainbow effect is what greeted me when I booted my newly Leopardised MacBook Pro this morning. At first I thought it must be a driver issue, but with further investigation the video proved to be in “rainbow mode” when booting from the HDD, Windows and the Tiger DVD. It was even glitching on…
MacBook Pro Graphic Corruption
By Howard | Published November 30th, 2007Installing Leopard from a Disk Image
By Howard | Published November 29th, 2007My first generation MacBook Pro steadfastly refuses to read the dual-layer DVD that Leopard comes on. All my Windows machines can read it (or at least the BootCamp partition) and my G5 can read the disk too, but the MacBook Pro won’t boot off it. However, I do have plenty of external drives kicking about…
Apple support Vista on BootCamp
By Howard | Published March 28th, 2007Apple updated BootCamp today and introduced support for Windows Vista, so it looks like I can spend some time over the weekend doing a fresh install of Vista with supported drivers this time. Of course it also means I get to have some fun removing the Microsoft Bluetooth stack and replacing it with a fully…
Philosophy majors shouldn't write technology editorials
By Howard | Published April 19th, 2006Richard sent me an email yesterday with a link to this article along with the message “You’ll love this one…” If you’ve followed the Windows on Mac saga recently go and read it now, if you’re anything like me and Richard you’ll have plenty to say on the subject once you’ve finished reading. I couldn’t…
Why my primary Windows XP machine is still a Dell
By Howard | Published April 12th, 2006The MacBook Pro is great running XP; but has several flaws which mean it probably won’t become my primary machine just yet… No Audio Routing If you plug headphones into the headphone socket audio continues to come out of the speakers. This is known (and documented by Apple) but is still irritating. If I’m…
The Best Windows PC is… a Mac?
By Howard | Published April 6th, 2006Some of you will know of my odd status as a PC and Mac user. I switch between both depending on where I am and what I’m doing; you’ll also know of my weakness for shiny Apple hardware and my purchase of a MacBook Pro within hours of their release. So I followed with interest…
We're beyond baby steps now…
By Howard | Published March 13th, 2006The wizards (nay, geniuses) over at the Max OS X Internals Blog have developed what they’re calling BAMBIOS – software that allows legacy booting on Intel-based Macs. From their post: For example, a regular (that is, non-EFI) version of Linux can be readily booted using this software. [...] Linux works fine, and we have made…
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