warmcola Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 personally i hope they meet the deadline disperse the cash to the charity and the original donators (as colin has planned) and people start working on this together. great point mashulgy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernalzero Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Buddha Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Seems to me we could gather up into little tribes. (Heh, geek tribes ) Then, all we do is work together. Once the solution is found, the money would be split amongst those who did work in the group. Like say A and B are working together. A finds a way to permanently disable the EFI. B then installs Windows. A would get like $8500 and B could get $1500. (I have no real concept of money ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumperZ1 Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Well, except for the actual cash amounts he gave, I sort of agree with Eggman. Get some teams working on the problems, with some sort of reward at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinnu504 Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Great article Mash...ur soooo true.... Well most of you here are saying that once we reach the deadline everything will be back to normal but jus think about it...if "The Contest" was never started there would have been lots of free flow of info and who knows maybe we would be running win xp on a mac by now... Feels good to be with u all here...my first post after joining in aug 05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebush05 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 firebush, that may be a little harsh on the macvidia peeps - they're not actually getting anything out of it. I think theirs is a legitimately slow development cycle. Ok, yes it was harsh.. it was late last night, and this topic reminded me of the nvidia driver project. If its true that they aren't really up to snuff as the rumors suggest, then I guess there's no point complaining. I do feel that had they released what they had a month ago, we would have fully functional drivers today because of a community effort. But anyway, enough of that rant... I have to agree with the money holding back progress of XP on intelmacs. Its probably better to take the cash off the table. The higher that pot goes, the less chance of getting results from a sharing of minds. I'm suprised that Apple hasn't made a bigger effort to help windows run on their machines! I have several friends, including myself, that are holding off buying the new Macs until we know they are windows compatible. On a side note, anyone else get kernal panics in Safari when posting to this forum? Two times in a row, I've gotten halfway through writing a post and get the spinning beachball, and full lockup of not only Safari, but the finder as well.. blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etereo Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 From PC Geeks to Harvard MBAs... I just read an article on the lift of the prohibition, from Harvard to their MBAs, to publish grades. It seemed that before, when I was in fact prohibited, MBAs would cooperate with each other and not only help each other out during school but also upon getting new jobs. This since, pretty much just being a Harvard MBA was enough and all the same. Now that the MBAs can publish their grades, they've seen a decline in the coop between students and also in the quality of the material they've produced, since there are less viewpoints per thesis and such. Boy, doesn't this ring a bell... It certainly seems that not only geeks in need of $12000 abandon their camaraderie for the cold hard $, but people also do it the get to earn a couple more thousand per year (over your already 100 thou) than your former class mate. (When I say a couple, I mean a couple) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xeonOSX86 Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Lets share the money, I'll share AN answer I got on a viable dual boot Mac OSx86 I have a Gateway 9315 blade server. It has 2 SATA drives. I loaded XP on drive "0" It works like anyone would expect.. fine. Boot options, BIOS, and Messages are all available upon boot. Press F-key to enter Bios Set boot priority on drive "0" to drive "1" reboot loaded 81111g from ISO made DVD Booted fine, wiped drive, used disk utility on install disk Installed 81111g with "NO" problems not even a hiccup writing this from osx86 safari client video @ 1024*768 enet working fine snip from apple profiler Machine Name: Apple Development Platform Machine Model: ADP2,1 CPU Type: ADP2,1 Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 2.99 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL CX16 TPR Memory: 1 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: SE7320VP20.15A.P.03.00.0029.061720050943 (Intel Corporation) --------- To dual boot, I just swap boot priority in bios and save/exit. I'll post additional as soon as I reboot into XP. be back in 5 min maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xeonOSX86 Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 To dual boot, I just swap boot priority in bios and save/exit. I'll post additional as soon as I reboot into XP. be back in 5 min maybe? OK, I'm back in, on whatever. Coming to you live from the XP default browser Explorer with SP2 Either I was the accident, or I don't get the requirements. I have a machine that can start up either OS - at will without opening it up, from the keyboard, from a WIRELESS keyboard and I can read from either of my drives XP formatted NTFS OSX formatted HFS+ Journalled w/permissions So, Do I WIN? or was I confused with what you wanted? Your comments welcome, I hope if nothing else, this helps someone get rolling. Louie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 on official efi macs, man. people have been multibooting since august on regualr x86's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 FRAMEWORKS OF REFERENCE: I'm a bit peeved at my mac today so i'm giving my pc some well deserved screen time on the ol' cinema display. nice stuff. ok, were was i... on a cosmic level, blue earth spins in the timbuktu of space. life itself is the grandest of all mysteries. point: there are greater things than computers upon which to spend ones fretting time. there will always be sheer opportunists. there will be people that benefit from your labour regardless of the context. WORK ON OSX86 BECAUSE YOU WANT TO. SHARE YOUR RESULTS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO. BECAUSE YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR IT. I'm afraid that witholding your progress finds you behaving no better than those who would secretly attempt to benefit from it. yes, virginia, there will always be opportunists. you've just found this out within the context of your passion perhaps. i felt it important to reply. i've taken time out from my day on earth to say: hey, mate. forget about someone taking the prize and press on. let 'em. it's about all you can do. they will split off from the pack most likely. they can never really take pride in their prize if they have in some way stolen it. now..no more {censored} about money. except to remind ourselves that very few are motivated without personal incentive or benefit. i'm sure it's why apple chose to switch to intel. money. so if we're going to moan about it, lets start with the bigger of the brothers. peace on earth pea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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