Play ogg files in iTunes

Downloaded a Quicktime plugin version 0.1.8 from Xiph.org, as suggested. Dropped into /Library/Components and it plays Ogg.

Voodoo power management to replace coolbook

Somewhere along the way Coolbook, which I paid for, has stopped working. I checked and there are kexts that allow the speedstep functionality to work without CoolBook.

http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-software/working-speed-step-quick-and-fast-more-coolbook-t6075-20.html

The kexts changed their names to VoodooBattery.kext and VoodooPower.kext, but I downloaded and tried them to see if they stopped the fan going a lot, kept the temperature down and extended the battery life.

Edit:

Found more in dept discussion here:

http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-software/good-news-speedstep-form-superhai-now-work-oob-t4932.html?sid=52f81bd75ff3b7220c6d35ddad4062c0

Have had a couple of crashes since, on both AC and battery power. Maybe need to change plist file referred to in first forum topic.

Noted a few problems: Dvorak keyboard needs to be re-added after crash, I have two battery icons on the task bar, and (this is weird) when on Dvorak keyboard the Ctrl key combination now works on the Dvorak key (like in Windows) not the qwerty key (as it used to). But now realise there are two Dvorak keyboards - the one that says (option key symbol) Qwerty is different and that explain the difference.

Helpful post:

you can add the bootflag via osx86-tool, which you find here: http://pcwizcomputer.com/osx86tools/
download it, start it, click on "add efi strings / boot flag", fill "FSB=133 memoryType=19 memorySpeed=677" (without the " of course ^^) in the top left text-field (should be empty), then on apply changes at the bottom.

Found a person in the second forum page 7 i think that says that it doesn't work with msiwindosx, which IIRC is what I installed - gives stuttering iTunes and kernel panics. This is what I have seen. Time to uninstall? I'm pretty sure that the problem only happens on battery power.

Found that edowar on that forum is recommending the GenericCPU ??? .kext over the Voodoo ones. Tried to uninstall the Voodoo ones and try that instead, but ended up uninstalling it too because it also caused stuttering when on battery power. There are two versions at least listed, tried this one:

http://www.mediafire.com/?m79y9mxmi0m

MAMP (PHP, MySQL, Apache), JQuery

Installed MAMP to get MySQL, Apache and PHP. Works pretty well out of the box. Can change location for your root in the MAMP control panel, I put it at username/Public/www.

Had some issues with file permissions when I wanted to edit the .php files from the Windows machine at mum and dad's: I had to share the Public folder using the Sharing preferences, using SMB. Then I had to change the permissions on the www subfolder, maybe using the finder properties where there is a permissions list.

I used JQuery a few months back to get Ajax functionality - it's lean and capable and easy to learn, and has good tutorials.

Found an article that gave me an idea how to fix bluetooth being turned off - remove Personal Area Networking (PAN) from BT facilities of the mobile phone pairing. Tried this to see if it worked, and it seems to be. I posted info on the forum:

http://forums.msiwind.net/post83961.html#p83961

Bluetooth turns off strangely

The bluetooth icon went all greyed out, and the menu showed that it was off but the option to turn it on (in the bluetooth preferences pane) was greyed out.

The suggestion to run Bluetooth File Exchange which would offer to turn BT on, worked, from the following page:

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/bluetooth-woes-osx-t4102.html

Successful BIOS update to 1.0A

Followed instructions from Cantisque on July 4th 2008. Basically download HP's disk tool and win98 files from files.extremeoverclocking.com, and use the MSI 1.0A utility. But I actually used the Advent 1.0A BIOS file from my previous blog entry, by changing the .BAT file to refer to the Advent BIOS image not the MSI one.

Seems my BIOS 1.08 is the reason my page up and down keys don't work - but now they do go!

Update went smoothly, page up and down now work, thankfully. And Home and End.

Updating to 10.5.6

After much searching I found that the following article seems to be the best update path for 10.5.5->10.5.6.

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/msiwindowsx86-iso-problems-all-updated-t6441-20.html

The biggest problem is that I would need a USB keyboard.

Eventually I figured I could use the on-screen keyboard (Preferences something), 

but when I did the update I lost the screen again, the old blue screen and mouse curson. It seems that is something a bit unique to my computer, and maybe one or two others. I revived my old advice put on forums.msiwind.net and here to use the terminal to fix the drivers - this time the kexts were already on the HDD though. But of course the keyboard had stopped working in the terminal too.

Eventually I found a USB keyboard and fixed the display drivers as before, then ran the package from the forums to fix the keyboard and trackpad. Weirdly, when I rebooted the Ctrl key was stuck down until I pressed it again - making clicking anything do weird things.