Extra man puzzle
Where does the extra man come from
Look at this image and count the number of men. Then when it switches their heads, count again.
This will drive you mad for hours and even though I have been given a solution to it, it doesn't make sense to me and is driving me CRAZY!
Check it out and see if you can work out where he comes from 
Facebook cheat code
Today I read a fun post on a Facebook forum which told me to do the following:
On any Facebook page type in:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, and then press enterIt will add some nifty effects!
lol..
This may be recognised by many as an old Konami cheat code and it's pretty cool that facebook has stolen it 
Check it out!
Holidays!!!
Hey,
Yesterday was the final deadline for all of my assignments and projects at College. This means that I am free now until september!
I can't wait for the free time and am very glad that I will be able to have more time to put into web projects such as Drag Racer and SJGmusic. The fun won't last for long as it won't be long until I run out of money. This weekend is a bank holiday but on Tuesday I intend to do alot of phoning around to get myself a temporary job .
In the meantime though I have alot of free time which I have thus far wasted playing Facebook games and looking at youtube. It wasn't fruitless though as I did find this HILARIOUS clip from Galaxy Radio below:
Enjoy
Love
Stephen
Guide: Hackintosh with Asus P5KC
If you read my previous post you will know that this afternoon I have spent a little while (re)installing MacOS on my PC hardware. The reason is due to a harddrive corruption on the previous install. I do not place the blame for this on the software I am going to tell you to use, but mostly the choice of drivers that I had installed. I would warn you off the drivers in question, but I stupidly neglected to take any notes on my last installation. This time I did not!
Hardware
The hardware I am installing on is as follows:
- Asus P5KC
- Intel Q6600
- 4GB Geil Ram
- NVidia 8800GTX
Software
There are a few choices for which installer to use when installing MacOS on PC hardware. The one I chose was iAtkos, mostly because I already had a DVD burned lying around but I'm sure last time there was an educated reason for it. The following Guide uses iAtkos 5.0i 10.5.5. I'm not going to offer a download link but if you're creative you should be able to find it pretty easily..
Method
This is not a step-by-step guide. I am merely typing my notes up into readable form in the hope that it is of to some use to somebody. For a step-by-step guide or more information about the osx86 project visit their wiki.
So....
The DVD booted without any problems, I loaded the setup, chose Utility > Disk Utility. I then created a partition and set on my way.
I chose my new partition as the install location and then hit next. On the next screen I chose Customize and this is where the important stuff is chosen.
I am not going to go into details as to what every option does (mostly because I don't know) but there are descriptions for each on the install disc.
Bootloader:
PC-EFi
X86 Patches:
- Decrypters
Appledecrypt
- Enablers
SmBios Enablers
-Removepowermanagement
-OHR
Drivers:
- VGA
-- Nvidia
NVinject
Efi Strings > 8xxx
- System
Sata/IDE
NTFS -3G
Once you have chosen these options (or different if you have slightly different hardware), run the installer and let it reboot. If all has gone well you should be able to Sleep, Shutdown and Reboot. For my the P5KC onboard lan and sound is missing. As I don't use onboard sound you'll have to use your initiative. Lan drivers however can be found here.
I am now installing updates to 10.5.6 and then will quest to re-find my soundcard drivers. I hope this information is useful to you.
Stephen
P.S.
is it disc or disk?!
Bye Bye Mr Hackintosh…
I expected that this day would come eventually, but like all software crashes, it still hurt when it did . Today, my pride and joy hackintosh has finally thrown in the towel.
It was never a perfect install, but I had gotten used to all of the hangs, crashes, bangs and rattles that it had and they would warm my heart like no native MacOS ever could.
But today, the dreaded day came. I booted up the box this morning to a POST error (I can't remember what exactly). I thought this was a little strange as the box has always posted despite being overclocked to 3GHz from 2.6GHz. I had turned off the power supply last night as the fans had kept spinning despite shutting down (one of the mac install's lovable traits). I didn't think that this was going to be a big deal so I rebooted, got it to post and it started to load MacOS. This is where the problems started.
It hung on boot up, so I rebooted again. This time it got to login prompt but would go no further so I rebooted yet again. This time I tried a verbose boot and it flagged up an error about corrupt HDD (something about keys, I can't remember exactly). Then came safe mode and it hung again. I repeated this for a few hours trying to boot from my install CD and run Disk Utility. My final try came when I burned Disk Warrior to DVD, only to realise 3 DVDs later that it wasn't going to boot on PC hardware. I finally (about an hour ago) conceded that there was going to be no way I could recapure the old install so I have began to backup data.
I am using TransMac to copy all of my needed files from the Mac partition onto a FAT32 drive and it is working rather well. I will then be installing a fresh copy of MacOS again and praying that I didn't leave anything obvious behind. I will be doing a little bit of research before I install as I wasn't overly happy about the shutdown/restart/sleep not working so I may try a different install CD to iAtkos. Most likely not though as I cba downloading any more ISOs.. I wasted enough DVDs today.
I'll make some notes during the install and write a little guide up here when I'm done
Stephen
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