How to make NTFS Partitions writable in OSX86

September 12th, 2009 | Posted by deCoder in Misc - (0 Comments)

Just use MacFUSE.

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Booting XP and Mac OSX86 togheter [howto]

September 12th, 2009 | Posted by deCoder in Life Hacks - (0 Comments)

I’m assuming that you installed Windows XP on 1st disk and the OSX86 on a separate disk (2nd disk)

Here we go…

Getting the chain0 file from your OSX86
- Put a memory stick in the PC and boot OSX86
- In OSX86 start terminal and type:
cp /usr/standalone/i386/chain0 /Volumes/[MemoryStickName]/

chain0 is a 512 bytes file containing the Darwin boot sector

Placing the chain0 file to the root of your XP boot partition
- Reboot to Windows XP
- Be sure to copy the chain0 file from the memory stick to root of the Windows XP boot partition (usually C:\)

Editing boot.ini file
- Click-Right on My Computer, then Properties, Advanced, Start Up and Recovery and then Settings
- In the Startup and Recovery page, press the Edit button
- Add the following line to the boot.ini
C:\chain0="Mac OS X"
- Save boot.ini and reboot

On the boot screen you should have another option to boot OSX. Select it and press Enter.

The PC should boot OSX86.

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Change Scale Factor to get more pixels on your Mac

September 4th, 2009 | Posted by deCoder in Life Hacks - (1 Comments)

For you guys (me included) wanting better resolution on your 1024×600 netbook (Eeepc, MSI Wind, etc.)

Here is a cool tip from troniu.

Start Terminal and type:

defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor 0.8

killall Finder

And you got 20% more pixels ;-)

For Free!

More details here.

Problems that I found on EeePC 1000h:

  • Safari doesn’t open anymore
  • PhotoBoth effects page 2,3,4 shows shifted
  • Context menu on dock icons shifted up
  • OS tray bar icons not scalled correctly
  • It seems there is a conflict with SwitchResX application and is not possible to rollback after a reset. It only worked after I uninstalled SwitcResX

My recomandation is to use this per application, since there are some big problems when downscaling the entire desktop.

To do that, just type in terminal the following command:

defaults write com.applicationpath AppleDisplayScaleFactor 0.8

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