My six years old Laptop -- still works fine.

The first week back to NY

On Aug. 18, I came back to New York with the desire of finding a job around the Apple area. The first week was gone, I did not do any action on it, still in relaxation.

For the first 3 days, I thought it was only two days, I tried to cancel our homeline and dsl service and switched to cable. It turned out the technicians from RCN company could not get the installation job done with their poor ladders. We are in a three stories condo house. Actually, it's only two families house, but the basement is more than half on the ground. The fact is there is no any access to the roof. the only way to the roof is using pretty big ladder. All of technicians or maybe their company are only equipped with small ladder. Probably, they have to write some kind of application if they want to settle down my business. Finally I gave it up and kept my current service. Every once in a while I thought maybe I could go with "naked dsl", after searching little bit online, I was disappointed to find that Verizon does provide dry loop dsl, but not in Queens.

Thursday,Friday, went over some basic concepts of analog circuit design. Saturday, Sunday manageed to go crabbing on Jones Beach.

Now, it goes back to Monday. Kind of hurry, it's almost the end of Aug. Things I should to this week: Sending out resumes to the few companies in new york area, replying back to several huntters and to see if they can arrange some interviews next few weeks.

JT

Aug.27 2007

OS X 10.4.8 on T60

Finally, I got Tiger run on my T60. (Intel Core 2 duo 2.0G 1G, 100G HD, ATI x1400, SoundMax card. IPW3945 INTERL PRO 1000 )

so far, only need to find driver for IPW3945, everything works fine.


here is little work for Graphic Card and Sound card.

Graphic X1400

Edit /System/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist , add two lines

Graphics Mode
1400x1050@60
below
Boot Graphics
Yes

and edit System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist, adding Dev ID of your card (7145 for X1400)
IOPCIMatch
0x71451002
to enable CI/QE support

SoundMax card

Delete AppleHDA.ket
install azaliz.audio.pkg
edit /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/Info.plist
change IOHDAudioCodecVendorID value to 0x11d41986
edit /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAzaliaController.kext/Contents/Info.plist
change IOPCIPrimaryMatch value to 0x27d88086.

and then fix permissions, clear kext cache
sudo diskutil repairpermissions /
sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.*
sudo kextload AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/

reboot you should got 1400*1050 resolution and sound card work.