The retail release of 10.8 Mountain Lion has just appeared for download on the OS X App Store.
The current build number for the Golden Master is 12A269 and the SHA1 hash for the InstallESD.dmg file is e5dd2bf5560033cade7dd7d7da5ceec49f701b0e.
Both retail and GM share the same build number and SHA1 hash so are exactly the same.
I’ve managed to get 10.8 Mountain Lion on the HP Probook 4530s with the help of this handy little script which patches AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement with 11 states.
So far so good…Mountain Lion 10.8 GM seems alot more stable than the developer previews and worlds above 10.7 Lion.
I’ve managed to get pretty much everything working, though the ALC889a gave me a few problems to begin with.
Video footage of an iPhone allegedly exploding in a young man’s pocket has been posted online.
17-year-old Henri Helminen is seen pulling out the violently smoking device from his pocket and throwing it on the floor, in security tape footage acquired by Finnish news site Kauppalehti.
This is an easy little edit to remove the need for AHCIBlockStorageInjector, OrangeIconFix or similar.
Phone fans, start drooling. Skeptics, have your grains of salt at the ready. An iPhone 5 — or at least something closely fitting the rumored description of the iPhone 5 — has just been spotted… on a train, of all places.
The shot up above (and the ever-so-slightly-different one below) comes from 9to5Mac, who received them from a tipster who claims to have spotted the device on his way home from work.
Alas, these two just-too-far-away glimpses are as good as it gets for now. While most news reporter-types out there would run through a pack of angry charging bulls and scale a building covered in butter for a shot of the iPhone 5, the tipster seems to have practiced at least a bit of caution in their undercover photography session. The person holding the device was supposedly being quite cautious to keep it at least partially covered, masking the Apple logo behind their fingers throughout.
Fortunately, their eyes worked a bit better than their camera. Here’s what they had to share about the purported prototype:
Could this be the real deal? It’s plausible. The iPhone 5 is said to be coming in just over a month (sometime in September), which means there absolutely are iPhone 5s out there, right this second, being field tested. Apple can install as many cell towers on their campus as they want, but it’s nearly impossible to release a phone without testing its signal attenuation and performance in the real world. After Antennagate, you can bet that Apple is going to make damned sure that the iPhone 5 has rock solid signal performance.
With that said, think back to the lost iPhone 4 prototype. At first glance, it looked just like an iPhone 3GS — because Apple had disguised it as one. A special case was made just to mask the new hardware as something not worth a second glance. Would Apple really let an iPhone 5 prototype lurk about in public in the nude? Maybe in the back of a blacked out van — but on what looks to be something like CalTrain? Doubtful.
Also doubtful: where the heck is the camera flash? While my geek side would love for this to be an iPhone 5, my skeptic side is saying it’s a 3GS shot from a strange angle.
What say you? Real? Photoshop? Just a really fancy fake from China? Weigh in down in the comments.
This is how to get a fully working install of Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a Novatech X10
1. Fresh install of 10.6.3 using Chameleon Bootloader
2. Update to 10.6.8 using combo update – DON’T REBOOT!
3. Install chameleon 2.0 rc5 r699
4. Install the following into E/E
FakeSMC.kext
VoodooPS2Controller.kext
VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext
AtherosL1cEthernet.kext
5. Install/replace the following into S/L/E
VoodooHDA.kext
27aeAppleIntelGMA950.kext
27aeAppleIntegratedFramebuffer.kext
AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext
IO80211Family.kext
6. Install dsdt.aml
7. Install SMBios.plist
8. Install com.apple.boot.plist
9. Install mach_kernel_atom_10.6.6
10. Rebuild caches
11. Reboot
This can now mostly be done with an installer, if you would like to use this please download the zip file from here
Then follow these instructions
1. Fresh install of 10.6.3 using Chameleon Bootloader
2. Update to 10.6.8 using combo update – DON’T REBOOT!
3. Download and extract Novatech X10 – 10.6.7.zip
4. Open Terminal and run ‘sudo -s’ (without quotes) enter your password
5. cd to the Novatech X10 – 10.6.7 directory 6. Install dsdt.aml
7. In Terminal run ‘./installer’ (without quotes)
8. When prompted, select your partition
9. Press i to run the automated script
10. Once it has finished install the contents of ‘Place these in SLE’ to S/L/E
11. Install kext utility from ‘Install these’
12. Rebuild permissions
13. Install the Keyboard Layout located in ‘Place contents in Library Keyboard Layouts’ to Library/Keyboard Layouts, and then select the input source ‘British’ (the one without the flag) from preferences -> languages -> input sources.
14.Reboot
You should now have Q/E, audio, webcam, ethernet, wireless, sleep, restart, bluetooth, 2 finger scrolling, 1 finger scrolling…etc
The keyboard layout has been customised for a british keyboard and has mappings to what is on the actual key. The cmb, alt and ctrl keys have not been moved, so alt=cmd, win=alt ctrl = ctrl.
The brightness and volume function keys also work.
I have set this up as a macbook air so Remote Disc is working nicely, as obviously this netbook doesn’t have a cd/dvd drive so it’s quite handy to have.
I hope this helps someone out as I’ve been working on it for quite some time.
The guys over at TUAW, who don’t normally play the rumormill game, claim they have reliable sources indicating that Mac OS X 10.7 (aka Lion) has been released for internal testing within Apple.
This means we may see Mac OS X Lion announced and made available as early as the WWDC conference which runs from the 6th-10th of June.
I look forward to getting my hands on the real thing and seeing how well the final version plays ball with non-Apple hardware.
David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite.
Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools.
Braben argues that education since we entered the 2000s has turned towards ICT which teaches useful skills such as writing documents in a word processor, how to create presentations, and basic computer use skills. But that has replaced more computer science-like skills such as basic programming and understanding the architecture and hardware contained in a computer.
His solution is not to create his own course, but instead to manufacture a very low cost PC that can be given to kids for free and courses built up around their use. When we say low cost, we mean so low even the OLPC would be impressed.
Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has a HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into a HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? $25.
The hardware being offered is no slouch either. It uses a 700MHz ARM11 processor coupled with 128MB of RAM and runs OpenGL ES 2.0 allowing for decent graphics performance with 1080p output confirmed. Storage is catered for by an SD card slot. It also looks as though modules can be attached such as the 12MP camera seen in the image above.
We can expect it to run a range of Linux distributions, but it looks like Ubuntu may be the distro it ships with. That means it will handle web browsing, run office applications, and give the user a fully functional computer to play with as soon as it’s plugged in. All that and it can be carried in your pocket or on a key chain.
This tiny, cheap PC is going to be distributed through a new charitable foundation called the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It will also promote computer science studies in schools.
As for when the Raspberry Pi device will become available, Braben says he hopes to be distributing it within the next 12 months.
Read more at BBC News
As I’m sure most of you know by now, it is looking more and more like Apple will not be announcing the iPhone 5 at this years WWDC event. Inst
ead more and more speculation is pointing towards a September or later release date. In fact yesterday we had a report that suggested that the iPhone 5 won’t even begin production until September, with a release date looking more likely towards the end of the year.
Now another report this time from All Things Digital, claims that word on the street is the iPhone 5 will make it’s debut at Apples music event in September. Apple traditionally use the music event to focus on iPod’s and iTunes. While the iPhone is normally announced at WWDC
As I’ve reported here before, Apple doesn’t plan to unveil a new iPhone at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which this year will be largely software-focused. And increasingly, I’m hearing speculation about the company possibly commandeering its annual September media event to launch the device instead. Which seems plausible.
In the past, All Things Digital have been fairly well informed and are quite often right with their “speculations”. As their post goes on to explain the decline of the iPod and it’s appeal, it does seem to make sense that Apple would announce the iPhone 5 at the event.
I’m sure many of you are quite possibly holding out on upgrading to the iPhone 4 at this stage and are waiting for the iPhone 5. What happens if Apple don’t announce the next gen iPhone at this years WWDC? Will you be moving to Android? Or can you wait?
Let us know in the comments
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