Recent content by cmactrix

in the end i suppose Apple is happy!

i've heard that they are recommending that if you are runnig a number of programs etc and you computer is starting to get warm then once your battery reaches full charge then to disconnect the power supply (so that you are running off batteries) and continue using for a while. (??,i didn't se...

but if you read the beginning of this thread... the person wants to install XP Without using BootCamp! (and to not have Mac OSX at all!!)

you need to install X-code tools which should come on your installation cd 1. or it should be somewhere on the apple site. that will give you the basic gcc g++ compilers... if you need additional libraries you should look into fink and DarwinPorts.

yer my MBP very occaisionally does something weird when i close the lid to put it to sleep... i like putting my MBP to sleep, but when i have it at home and im trying to get some sleep, the white light at the front keeps pulsing from light to dark all the time, its annoying. Is it possible to...

if you have the money, then definately get it... it is bloody good :)

this may seem silly.... but can i ask why you bought a MacBook Pro then completely removed Mac OSX to put windows xp on it??? seems crazy to me...

umm fan noise is fairly non-existent.... although it does get pretty hot (see other thread)... what screen issues are you referring too?

but were you running anything that was actually needing to use the processors and memory.... i mean mine got quite hot, when i was running iMovie and importing video / audio streams from miniDV camcorder (via Firewire), it ended up being a 20GB file.... i was also running some fairly...

what features in a linux dist are you looking for..... if your looking at programming (C, C++, Java, etc) then you can do all of that already yourself.

fink does work... although, i would recommend downloading each of the C++ source libraries and comiling them for your own machine and yes darwin ports does work... ... see the thread glib libraries for more details. (I installed, glib, glibmm, atk gettext, pango, libxml, libc++, ummm heaps...

the intel ones i got from here that was a link from here i tried locate glib.h... nope. I recently found pkg-config from fink, so im slowly building up libraries...

ok I've found and downloaded a copy of ink for intel it took quite a while to compile everything. Now when i do /configure it runs that alright, but when i run make it doesn't know where to find glib.h do i have to update PATH or something?

i may have over-stated it when i say pwns, but yes i pulled the both HiFi amd Bose out to listen to the same song off the same ipod. And i thought the Bose had better base and was more distorition free...

i hope this is an isolated incident... but yer i think its a given that the MBP could quite easily overheat....