I’m starting a new post, I’ve got to keep (Read
everything together so I can come back when I understand Linux and laugh my ass
off at my pathetic attempts. Here’s a step-by-step of where I’ve come
from.
On)No, this is no longer -
or I’ve decided not worth - the trouble. CS won’t run on an iBook, or any mac,
until they go Intel. Dual boot with Windows is the only way this is possible,
you can try Virtual
PC. I did, it was… interesting.
Continue reading ‘iBook + Linux = Reality?’
Monthly Archive for June, 2005
Last night, I did it. I took my PC out from under
my desk (an esteemed position of which any piece of hardware would happily find
itself situated). I hauled its nasty beigeness out of there and, after removing
processor to eBay away, put my PC to rest in a cupboard where it can rot. Good
riddance. I also got rid of the 20″ Monitor I’d love to use with my iBook, if
Apple didn’t make my screen so bright and wonderful maybe I would. So - all done
with PCs, thats it.Now, here’s my
problem - once in while I get a craving for some blood, gore and digital
mindlessness- we call it “Counter-Strike”. A very popular fps built as a free
mod for Half-Life. I was (smugness) one of the first million users to become
addicted… and now and then, usually on a Sunday morning I like to
get it
awwwwwnn fps stylee. Owen usually helps out,
but nothing weird… anyway this was one of the few justifications for all the
noise and waiting and crashing and usurping that Windows is and
does.So, I’ve made the switch to Mac
100% - I’ve burned the bridge. For about a year I’ve been running a G3 900MHz,
460MB RAM with 32MB of Dedicated Video RAM. You can’t really compare Macintosh
spec to Wintel (can I still say that) spec, but still - I was running HL1 / CS
on 400Mhz, P2 until about 12 months ago - no
problemo.What I really want to do is
run a hobby OS - tamper around with an operating system while keeping my Work /
Important(ish) stuff seperate and secure. Last night I attempted to install OS
9.2.2… for kicks on an external drive. My iBook allows booting from external
disks - being firewire it should work (I’ve done it with 10.3 no problem at
all). Anyway learning a new Macintosh OS didn’t add up when I remembered that CS
could run on something other than Windows; I’m going for LINUX - I want to
install linux on a firewire external drive (40GB) running Debian or Fedora,
anthing that supports CS / Steam which runs great on LINUX - so I
hear.Can I - why’s no one done this
before? I mean LINUX on an iBook - easy? From an external drive - possible?
Running Windows Applications - Steam / CS… it should work. Someone tell me
how!Update:
I’ve got my iBook to boot into yaboot (from and on an external firewire drive).
I have to type in a nasty long hack of a code, but it seems to work. I don’t
understand how or why but this code gets me to the installer:
boot
fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:3,yabootBut
thats as far as I do get - into installer, get to setting up the hard disk - and
problemo - I can’t see my firewire Hard Disk (i.e. the one I want to install
Dembian to). I can’t touch my internal, I mean I don’t want to. So - where do I
go from here. I’m really stuck Google isn’t my friend today. Maybe I need a new
installer that can locate my firewire disk in the partition table… but surely
it knows Firewire is there - isn’t yaboot loading for ther?! So, I’m lost - help
me! Anyway - I’m documenting all this
over here now.
AMD
Processors_iBook
RAMCanon
1218_Ibanez
Artcore
I know;
what would Bob Geldof
say? But I’ve got some miscellaneous
space-wasting goodies I have no need for. Over the next week or so I’ll be
sticking them up on
eBay (the e is for Evil) - so the rest of the world can have a chance
at my outgrown CPU collection, guitar, camera bits and anything else I can’t
justify storing.
Here’s a quick tip for anyone putting a website
together. Just put it online - what’s the worst that can happen? By putting a
semi-constructed project online and directing friends and family to it your
going to very quickly get into the swing of on-the-fly updating, modifying
re-thinking… Don’t compile
to-do
lists or bother with diagrams of the inner workings of fading menu scripts, just
throw something together - browse the web as normal - if you come across
something sweet throw it in. Today I re-wrote my CSS… Jon’s CSS mainly… its getting better.
I’ve also changed my direction on Coppola 1 point whatever - i’ll wait around
for K2 and build on
that. CSS has stood up, it is the way. Oh, the down-side of on-the-fly editing
of live websites is that they become unstable - Meta Comment is undergoing some
ch-ch-ch-changes.
Flat61 had a great post a while
back centering on how shitty Belmont
Street is. It was very poetic, the post that is - not Belmont
Street… which is as poetic as turd on a pole, or worse; Alanis Morissette
lyrics. Andy started with a general slating of the ‘buzzing’ metropolis that is
Aberdeen and then went on to beat his truncheon of sarcasm upon the pitiful
patron’s of Aberdeen’s most
happening
alleyway (or shortcut to the museum / cinema) that is Belmont Street. Anyhoo, I
was there a few days ago - and I don’t have much to add. Its so mind numbingly
pedestrian that the most out
there record the patron of an independent
bottom-floor LP shop could offer me was Monty Python; “its got Neil Innes on
it”. Great, your so weird you should be in real
life.Anyway, If your new to all this
blogging crazyness and your bored with the meta-comment, bitching, Apple-sucking, “oh sorry I couldn’t post
this week”-ing, linking and general poor quality of this or any other
self-praising blog- I’m happy to bring you news that Flat61 is back in town, with all
its bitching, meta-commenting, pornography, sudo-agitprop and general
wonderfulness intact (or soon to be, archives can be reached on archive.org).
Its a view of our crazy world from an indebted Canadian named
Jennifer and a British Shit labeled Andy. Whom I once met in a bar, although I
don’t think it was on Belmont Street. More after the link.
