June 25, 2010

The government is desperate

It is about the summon this time. This really hit me.

I was able to renew my Car's Road Tax for the past 2 years (2008 & 2009) with no fail. All of a sudden, this year, I was unable to renew my road tax due to a blacklisted summon dated 14 February 2008, of which I didn't even knew about it at all.

As per my understanding, once you're stopped by the police/JPJ and given the summon by hand, and the summon was signed by you, and if you didn't settle it in the next 3 months, then only you get blacklisted.

This summon was not even notified to me, by anyone, and if I even knew about it, I am eligible to get a trial as well. I think, it is the responsibility of the police team to hunt for the people who made the offense and nowadays, tracking people are just at your fingertips.

I was worried if actually someone else used my car plate number as there was once a car with my plate number was reported to bang a lorry in Klang but my car was actually being repaired in a workshop in JB and never been out during that accident period. I've got a summon and was called for investigation but after lodging a police report, the police officer told me not surrender myself as the letter from the workshop is good enough to prove my innocence.

So it might be someone else's fault. But back in 2008? Then I was supposed to be unable to renew my road tax in that year itself!!!

That sounds like I was found guilty without me knowing about it. That is cruel!

How does it feel like when all of a sudden you get a slap a your face and told, that's for trying to court my wife, but you didn't even know the wife?

June 7, 2010

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 on the Old Acer TravelMate 4050.


I was using IATKOS 10.5.7 for this install. It offers a much more flexibility and option in installation compared to Kalyway. It's easier to install using Kalyway anyway.


I'm not sure when does this notebook was being manufactured but I remember buying it from a second hand shop a the price of RM1700 (initially was 1500 but I added another 1 GB of RAM).

It seems to be possible to run Mac OS X on most Intel processor platform (except for my Asus laptop, that is purely stupid isn't it?) and my next quest would be to try to install Mac OS X on an AMD processor platform. My sister's old desktop would be a good one to try.

Everything seems to be working okay except for the Airport which driver was not properly working. Other than that, everything is okay :)

* this update is made using Acer TravelMate 4050 with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7

June 6, 2010

Snow Leopard on PC - Screenshots from my Hackintosh.





The setup of my PC. A tower desktop, a 19 inch LCD screen, wireless keyboard & mouse. Inside the desktop is:-

  • Intel Quad Core 2.5 GHz
  • 8 GB Ram
  • Gigabyte EP43-UD3L Motherboard
  • MSI nVidia 9500 GT 1 GB RAM
Step by step system booting into Mac OS X.

Anyway, I'm still facing problem with the BIOS reset. I will fix that up later.


June 2, 2010

Retail Snow Leopard on my desktop

Finally, after buying the Snow Leopard installation CD for quite sometimes (I think I bought it last year), only now that I managed to get it installed to a PC and get it fully running. Tried with so many methods, then I decided to buy an almost compatible to Apple setup CPU.

The spec of the newly bought PC is as below:

  • Intel Quad Core 8300 2.5GHz Processor


  • Gigabyte GA EP43-UD3L motherboard bought from Lowyat


  • MSI n9500 GT 1GB PCIe Display Card


  • 8GB RAM


  • 1 TB HDD
  • I first tried the Kakewalk Installation method which is pretty easy to be done but I have to choose the GA EP45-UD3L method instead as it doesn't have any support for EP43-UD3L, so that was the closest I can pick. The installation was easy, except that the display card didn't work Out Of the Box (OOB), of which I have to use lookup for the nvflash utility, setup a bootable Dos USB flash and run the nvflash to get the ROM file. The using the OSx86 tools to inject the EFI string using the NVCAP string obtained from the nvflash utility.

    Unluckily, my sound card is not as advertised in the website, which is reported to be using the ALC 888 codec. Mine was using the ALC1200. Using Kakewalk installation method, it was kind of messing up with my HDA kexts and installing the Kext for ALC1200 downloaded from the Internet was not a success.

    Then I tried using the Snow Boot Loader installation Method. Good thing was:

  • Display work OOB. Even though I have to change the resolution, it goes blank blue and I restarted. It goes well after that.


  • ALC 1200 was installed with success. It works like a charm!
  • But I'm not pretty sure whether it is running in 64 bit or otherwise. I will have to check.

    Will put a snapshot in the next post. Cheers :)

    I have a retail SL running in my desktop.

    Finally, after buying the Snow Leopard installation CD for quite sometimes (I think I bought it last year), only now that I managed to get it installed to a PC and get it fully running. Tried with so many methods, then I decided to buy an almost compatible to Apple setup CPU.

    The spec of the newly bought PC is as below:

  • Intel Quad Core 8300 2.5GHz Processor

  • Gigabyte GA EP43-UD3L motherboard bought from Lowyat

  • MSI n9500 GT 1GB PCIe Display Card

  • 8GB RAM

  • 1 TB HDD

  • I first tried the Kakewalk Installation method which is pretty easy to be done but I have to choose the GA EP45-UD3L method instead as it doesn't have any support for EP43-UD3L, so that was the closest I can pick. The installation was easy, except that the display card didn't work Out Of the Box (OOB), of which I have to use lookup for the nvflash utility, setup a bootable Dos USB flash and run the nvflash to get the ROM file. The using the OSx86 tools to inject the EFI string using the NVCAP string obtained from the nvflash utility.

    Unluckily, my sound card is not as advertised in the website, which is reported to be using the ALC 888 codec. Mine was using the ALC1200. Using Kakewalk installation method, it was kind of messing up with my HDA kexts and installing the Kext for ALC1200 downloaded from the Internet was not a success.

    Then I tried using the Snow Boot Loader installation Method. Good thing was:

  • Display work OOB. Even though I have to change the resolution, it goes blank blue and I restarted. It goes well after that.

  • ALC 1200 was installed with success. It works like a charm!

  • But I'm not pretty sure whether it is running in 64 bit or otherwise. I will have to check.

    Will put a snapshot in the next post. Cheers :)

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