Archive for May, 2009

Hackintosh Mini 9: A bit better than a late G4

Image by rblock via Flickr I’ve now had enough time to come to an evaluation of my hackintosh. I used it exclusively for a month and upgraded it from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7. I’ve taken it through full charges battery charges by working at school with wifi. I’ve carried it around in my jacket pocket. My [...]

Buy once, use however

Image by Phil Gyford via Flickr When I buy a piece of media, whether it’s a book or movie or piece of music, I’d like to be able to enjoy it wherever I want on whatever device I want, without having to rebuy it. It’s already accepted that once you buy a CD you can [...]

How control of the internet is split

I’m three quarters of the way through reading Who Controls the Internet by Tim Wu (yes, that Tim Wu) and Jack Goldsmith. It’s an interesting read that doesn’t require a technical background. It begins with the introduction of DNS back when it was a simple hosts.txt file and touches upon events as recent as the [...]

Innovative Canadian and American book hackers

Image by kayray via Flickr Canada has become a bit of a backwater when it comes to access to culture. We’re left out of Pandora, Hulu, and the Kindle. Canadian TV streaming is paltry when it comes to selection, a Pandora equivalent is nonexistant, and I didn’t think we had a Kindle alternative until today. [...]