Mac OS X Lion

Posted on 09/04/2012 by tolga

Lion

I had decided long ago to install Snow Leopard on my PC, but Conti told me to install Lion because my Intel HD 3000 graphics card wasn’t supported until 10.6.2. So, I grabbed a copy or myHack and ran it to make a Lion (10.7) install disk.

Why I used myHack? Because ModCD hasn’t been updated to install Lion yet.

First of all, you need access to a Mac system to prepare a Lion installation disk with myHack, as it comes only for Mac. So, I first used ModCD to install Snow Leopard (steps are: grab the file, take out the ISO, burn the ISO to a CD, boot off it, swap the CD with the retail Snow Leopard DVD, hit F5, install). Then I grabbed myHack from here, moved it to /Applications and ran it. This step is a must.

myHack initially asks for your sudo password to be able to make the installation disk.

myHack initial run

myHack initial run

myHack then asks you where to store the installation file.

Choose installation disk location

Choose installation disk location

I picked my USB disk (/Volume/myHack OS X Installation Disk) and then the preparation began. myHack takes a while (like 20 minutes or so) to complete the task and at the end it asks whether to install generic Extra folder or specify our own. Pick one, and the operation is complete in a few moments.

Now, to boot off our computer with our new installation disk. When you boot, initial boot screen welcomes you. Install as usual.

See you in another post.

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The Shire to Mordor

Posted on 12/01/2012 by tolga

The other day I and my wife watched the first two movies of LOTR again. Today, I came across a post, leading me to try if the route from The Shire to Mordor actually exists. Well, below is the result:

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Not reading properly is a bitch

Posted on 06/12/2011 by tolga

I’ve been building websites with the popular CMS drupal. Since I migrated to Drupal 7 on localhost, I’d been getting the error “PHP Fatal error: Interface ‘Iterator’ not found”. Naturally, the first thing I did was ask in #drupal on Freenode. No usable response. I filed a bug in Drupal’s database system because the error was coming from database.inc (the issue is at http://drupal.org/node/1016882). Then I migrated some of my websites to Drupal 7 and started getting this error once again. I asked in ##php as well. I asked in #centos because I was using CentOS at the time. I was told to install php-phpunit-File-Iterator, and the issue was fixed, until I restarted the webserver and got the error again. In the meantime, comments have been made on my issue on drupal.org, but I had failed to read them properly. All I had to do was put the line 

export LOCALE=C

in /etc/sysconfig/httpd and restart the webserver. Damn!

PS: This PHP bug is mentioned at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35050

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Crashed Mac

Posted on 17/11/2011 by tolga

I’ve been using Linux as an host operating system, and Mac and Windows as guest operating systems on Virtualbox for a while now. Recently, I couldn’t boot Mac because my computer has been replaced hence the hardware change. I asked around what to do and here’s what I did. I checked what caused Mac to crash and it was com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext. I installed a wonderful tool called MacDrive. This tool allows you to use a Mac drive in Windows Explorer, and perform any operation on it. In the Virtualbox configuration for Windows 7 virtual machine, I attached the Mac drive as a secondary hard disk, as seen below:

Then I started up Windows, started Windows Explorer and the virtual hard disk with Mac on it was there. I fired MacDrive, pointed to the Mac drive, and deleted /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext. And voila, my Mac was bootable again! Now I’ll be able to use synchronize my iTunes again. You might ask “why did you go through all this trouble and not just re-install Mac?”. Well, I chose not to… :)

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Republic Day

Posted on 29/10/2011 by tolga

Today is a big day for the Turkish Republic. It’s the 88th birthday of our Republic. This year’s celebrations were canceled because of the horrible, horrible earthquake in Van. Our hearts are with them and always with our Republic and Atatürk.

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August Rush

Posted on 24/10/2011 by tolga

I watched this movie like 2 years ago with my wife and we loved it. The first scene is what gave me goose bumps. The second is a guitar duel. I want to share these:

Watch the movie.

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Earthquake

Posted on 24/10/2011 by tolga

Yesterday, there was a big earthquake in Van in Turkey. It was and still is pretty sad. So far, 139 people died. I extend my condolences to all the people out there.

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New operating system

Posted on 07/10/2011 by tolga

My VPS was hacked a while ago, and everything was lost. Therefore I am turning on a new leaf and starting anew. I will also write in English as I have a few followers on Twitter. Let’s hope everything turns out smoothly.

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