New things I've learned that are cool

#1 is the Iatkos distribution for turning a regular PC running windows into a dual boot running Mac OS X. This shit is cool. It would probably run better on my desktop but I was scared to flatline that one accidentally so I did my laptop. Fortunately it worked and didn't kill my laptop. Unfortunately there aren't many drivers out there for the chipset on my video driver. So basically my laptop will dual boot and show nothing when I choose mac os x. However if I attach an external monitor I see good stuff. I havent gotten some stuff working like networking, but if you can believe it the webcam on my laptop which never gets used magically worked. Go figure. So I've effectively done nothing with the mac os yet, but its still cool I can.

#2 I got a dell mini for my sister in law's sister. She wants windows, its got Ubuntu. I've got XP Professional so I'm dropping that on there. So i read some stuff and found out about slipstreamming. You basically take your OS cd, put it on your hard drive(for example I have Windows XP service Pack 1a). Then you download service pack 3(or whatever service pack you want). This program called nLite will slipstream service pack 3 overtop of your image. Burn the iso out to cd and you now have your regular OEM Windows CD with all the service packs you want. So the next time you reinstall you dont have to download 1 million and 1 updates from windows. Pretty cool.

#3 Women drivers... Just kidding. They still suck!