I am a hypocrite. I keep complaining about OS X and macs, but every new computer I get gets OS X installed on it. OS X on the Dell Mini 9 is a beautiful thing, and I finally managed to get my beefy new server up and running. Alas, even I am becoming Mr. Apple Fanboy.

Why on earth does the home key take you to the top of the file and the end key to the bottom? How often do you actually want to do that versus go to the start and end of the line? Is there a way to remap the keys to go to the start and end of the line?

Is this one of those one-button-mouse things that make no sense but apple is committed to preserving?

And MacFuse has corrupted my windows disk not once, not twice, but three times so far. 

Bah. Humbug.

After 2 days of pain, finally a hackintosh is born. My advice to you if you’re thinking of setting up a hackintosh: don’t. Go buy a cheap mac instead.

As I was fond of saying in the old days: Linux is free if your time is worthless. Hackintosh is about the same.

Having said that, I can confirm OS X 10.5.6 runs on a Toshiba A135-S4467 with most things working, with the exception of: sleep and wifi (so far). Things that do work: wired ethernet, USB, both external keyboard/mouse (with USB) and internal laptop keyboard/mouse, sound, and dual boot with Vista.

I’ll probably post the painful details at some point. In the meanwhile, I’m back on the mac. The things one does for the sake of the iPhone…

I’m looking for a way to remotely log in to an OS X box and use the UI. Think X-style remote login where I have my own instance of the desktop (I’m just viewing it remotely) as opposed to VNC style screen sharing. Basically I want to be able to develop with XCode and the rest of the iPhone SDK without having to have a mac physically present. Is such a thing possible?