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@braid
InfiniteMac community contributor with 36 recorded dispatches, 5 lead technical dossiers (36,647 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 300,308 historical readers.
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Ranked #287 · 5 dossiers
Thread Reach
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Lead Dossiers
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7,329 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#34
Joined 2008-01-05
Active Window
2008–2010
2008-01-05 → 2010-02-18
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
My Specs: · MoBo: MSI K8N Neo4-FI/Platinum (MS-7125) · Chipset: nForce4-Ultra · CPU: AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+, Venice S939 · Graphic card: nVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCI-E (Asus EN6600) · HDD: Western Digital RE WD2500YS HDD 250GB, SATA II, 16MB · DVD: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B
- Archive Standing
- #208 of 6,691 by Dispatches (36 notes) · #287 of 3,454 by Author Readership (36,647 reads across 5 dossiers) · #1,483 by Thread Reach (300,308 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #34 · Joined 2008-01-05
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- NVIDIA GeForce (6) · AMD OSx86 (5) · AHCI / SATA (5) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (3) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @Puttabong (8) @zephyroth (5) @DoiX (5) @bhast2 (4) @WinLinMac01 (3) @roisoft (3) @bonkey (3) @LeeAMDMAC (3) @ShadeZeRO (3) @Raldo (3) @creative_ (3) @Ianxxx (3) @LawlessPPC (3) @jshanh (2)
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 5 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @braid (5)
36,647 cumulative reads on threads started by @braid
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| torrent crashes the system using the 10.5.2 of zephyroth Here is the thing: system is 100% working. But, any torrent client I use makes the system crash. The HOLD DOWN THE POWER BUTTON screen appears after 10-15 minutes of download. Nforce 4 lan... I tried… | Leopard 10.5 | 21,918 reads 2008-03-19 · 39 notes |
| adobe cs3 suite not working tried 2 diferent cracks but still keeping me sayn "can apply patch on this file..." any ideia? | Software & Kexts | 4,585 reads 2008-03-11 · 5 notes |
| Help for a fresh install... I was using the zeph 10.5.2 rev II on my system and it was ok, only the nforce LAN driver must be changed but not a big deal. Now here is the problem: - I got a 500gb sata II hd last week. 50gb for OS (vista) and the rest for storage. - I… | 10.X Core | 4,344 reads 2009-01-22 · 9 notes |
| imac 9400m lag lag lag I'm using a imac 20" with the 9400m. But I'm having issues with lags in expose. When I use the functions, all windows for instance, the animation is lag, BUT, when I keep doing it, over and over again, suddenly it gets smooth! I compare… | Hardware & Dev | 3,755 reads 2010-02-18 · 2 notes |
| about the vodoo kernel and 10.5.6... I don´t know if here is the right place to ask this, but here we go: I have a a64 3500+, 2gb ram, nforce 4. I was using 10.5.2 by zephyroth because it was very stable, solid, almost no problems. But, I heard about the new voodoo kernel.… | Leopard 10.5 | 2,045 reads 2009-01-17 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (30)
Direct links into threads where @braid contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “well! EVERYTHING is working fine BUT, any torrent client makes the system crash... after 10-15 minutes of download the HOLD DOWN THE POWER BUTTON screen appears. I don´t know what to do... azureus, bitrocket, transmission, anyone. any idea?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-19 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “as I said i did it. Re-installed and use the 10.5.2 geforce + 128mb and here we are, 100% system working. sound ok, lan ok, video ok. Now tomorrow, its the programs trials... ~programs...hm... Ill put them into the test... and windows parti…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-23 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “something weird I found also is: I have 2 hd´s. 200bg for M$ windows, and files, and a 20gb for osx - for now -. When I erased my osx partition and remaded it, it was ok. But, when I finished installed osx and had some problems in the video…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-23 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “[cite] Reinekis:Trying to install and seems like booting starting ok, however I'm getting several lines with "AppleNForceATA: phy connection failed" and suddenly my HDD (SATA2) stops working. Seems like it is trying to boot from DVD anyway …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-22 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “[cite] ryghar:[cite] braid:ok, after downloading and installing, sound works ok, lan works ok, but video card was weird... qi/ce not enable and worse, the resolution is locked in 1024. (geforce 6600gt) I choose the 10.5.2 drivers from the l…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-22 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “ok, after downloading and installing, sound works ok, lan works ok, but video card was weird... qi/ce not enable and worse, the resolution is locked in 1024. (geforce 6600gt) I choose the 10.5.2 drivers from the list, but nop, I have to sel…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-22 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “ok guys I read about the newsgroup, but there is no other way to download it? no ftp? no torrent? no other way?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-19 74,206 dossier reads |
| Hardware Thread “os: winxp pro sp2 | osx 10.4.9 v1.3 uphuck and still testing the leopard 10.5.1 Zephyroth amd 3500+ venice w/ opteron cooler asus a8n se sli (nforce 4 sli/nforce500) 2x 1Gb Samsung ddr 400 2x Prolink Geforce 6600gt Seagate 200gb IDE Maxtor …” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-06 46,836 dossier reads |
| 10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU) “download and install ok here. But, my QE CI was gone. After doing some research, it did work with NVInstaller... 6600gt here…” | 10.X Core | 2008-07-02 33,256 dossier reads |
| What's your average boot up time “I was wondering if there is some procedure that makes the boot time better. Also I belive that some processes on osx could be removed/turned off... any one knows anything about speed up the boot? I´m runnig zeph rev2 updated to 10.5.4 at ve…” | 10.X Core | 2008-07-05 31,845 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread “here: [cite] braid:[cite] Puttabong:@braid: The only way to read/write NTFS on Mac OS X is using a third party program, called MacFuse! http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ in the uphuck 10.4.9 i dont have to install any other program to do so…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-14 30,877 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread “[cite] Puttabong:@braid: The only way to read/write NTFS on Mac OS X is using a third party program, called MacFuse! http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ in the uphuck 10.4.9 i dont have to install any other program to do so, of course it inst…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-12 30,877 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread “wow! Now we´re talking! it seems amazing! No problems with boot anymore, support for nforce4 lan, and geforces 5,6,7,8 video! Can´t wait to install it! I had some problems to write at NTFS partitions. I think it would be very useful if some…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-10 30,877 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “[cite] peppi:[cite] braid:weird... did the command... check it out how it already was ? { askForPassword = 1; idleTime = 0; moduleName = Arabesque; modulePath = "/System/Library/Screen Savers/Arabesque.qtz"; showClock = 0; } anyway/ just ty…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-28 21,918 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “weird... did the command... check it out how it already was ? { askForPassword = 1; idleTime = 0; moduleName = Arabesque; modulePath = "/System/Library/Screen Savers/Arabesque.qtz"; showClock = 0; } anyway/ just typed the write 0 string... …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-28 21,918 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “wow Peppi! I have no idea how to do that! where is the AppleScript? is it a file I have to edit?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-27 21,918 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “mrburns05: did you change the kext? using the 10.5.2 default or the one I told before? ps offtopic) my screensaver still insist in appears. Even set it to NEVER, it comes up...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-27 21,918 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “I´ve just finished download a 65mb file on transmition. Connected to 50 peers, reached the 1mb/s at 50% of the file. Speed remains above 90Kb/s until the end. NO CRASHES. once again I did the procedure of the post n1: http://forum.insanelym…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-22 21,918 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “I did change the 10.5.2 forcedeth version for the regular one. Slower network but no crashes so far. I just dont hit the 1mb speed at the torrent yet, but by http I downloaded at 102Kb/s and it was ok. Still looking for a decent torrent for…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-22 21,918 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “I think I fix it. I was using the forcedeth from 10.5.2 zephyroth release. Than I change for this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=12933 I think the problem its gone. I did run Azureus at 60-70kb/s for about 20 minutes and …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-21 21,918 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “weird because I already used it before with no problems! I guess its the current compilation of the forcedeth driver...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-19 21,918 dossier reads |
| MSN - IRC - AOL - ICQ & other communication “I like audium, but it doesnt support offline messages (msn protocol at least) msn for mac dont support it too amsn does so... I started to use it... and xchat for aqua to irc... can I use ichat for msn accounts?” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-05 5,164 dossier reads |
| Help for a fresh install... “OK. I got the idea. But... every time I log off, I have to execute the script? I dont like the ideia, I'm sure that there is a way to make this automatic but what if we just don't allow the system to create those files instead keep deleting…” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-23 4,344 dossier reads |
| Help for a fresh install... “I heard about Onyx (I think that's the name of it) can prevent those files to be written. It that true? There is other program like BlueHarvest but free? and again, I know that those files are created by the system and not the release itsel…” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-22 4,344 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “thanks for those who did answear my question!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-19 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “very cool. now, where is the torrent, please?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-19 74,206 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “hello from Brazil... (south of Brazil)” | General | 2008-01-05 41,477 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread “still waiting for an answer...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-13 30,877 dossier reads |
| torrent crashes the system “oh, ok, I´m gonna make it later at home” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-27 21,918 dossier reads |
| MSN - IRC - AOL - ICQ & other communication “Jabber? what is it? (ok ok i will google it...)” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-06 5,164 dossier reads |