I’ve been pulling a few allnighters trying to get a Dell Mini 10v to run both Snow Leopard and XP. Getting there!
It’s great having OS X on such a small computer.
To get Snow Leopard on, I followed this guide: Snow Leopard with A06 Bios. One slight difference is that I created 2 partitions when setting up with Disk Utility: One Mac HFS and on FAT32. Snow Leopard went on the first one. It’s a little flakey, but it works. I was messing about with it today.
Truthfully, I need this device for running a digital mixing desk via WiFi and a range of other PC only audio programs. So that meant getting XP going again as well. This time I turned to a different guide: Installing XP using a USB Flash Drive. It works perfectly except after the Text section, I kept getting an error saying that hal.dll was corrupt or missing. Looking through forums, it seems that this is common with installing from USB. Ouch. All that time wasted.
Still looking at forms revealed that this method worked with a single partition. This spurred me into looking at the boot.ini file from the USB drive on my Mac Pro.
This revealed that the both mentions of partitions were for partition(1). Of course, because there is a bootloader on partition 1, and Snow Leopard on partition 2, this means Windows is actually on partition 3. So I changed both instances of partition(1) to read partition(3). Setup then completes successfully. I need to go back now and reset the bootloader, but all is good for now!
Yesterday was a Plan B kinda day. I was shooting a video with Blasterbra (my 2nd music video-still a lot of learning to do!). The original concept went out the window when one of the main participants pulled out. A miscommunication in his role meant that he was comfortable doing what the band wanted (nothing nasty!). Fair enough. So Plan B is a fairly straightforward band video. The files are converted and ready for editing, which I’ll be working on this week. In the meantime, here’s a shot of the wonderful folk posing that were involved. I think a single explosion here would’ve wiped out the Galway Hardcore scene.
Here’s a quick 5DII short from a few weeks back. There’s a HD version on Exposure Room too. Basically a few weeks back I noticed the tide was really high as I parked up to go to work. I had gone in early and with the spare time, I shot a few sequences to create this little short.
I’ve been to Philip Bloom’s DSLR Cinematography course since, and of course I’m wishing I’d had a Z-Finder for this to give me a better views and better camera support. Not to mention and focus follower!
As I love my Hitech Filters a lot, I created a group for them on Flickr ages ago. While not active discussion wise, there is some wonderful photography there.
I got the wired connection to the LS9 working eventually, and once I figured out that I was using the wrong port on the Router, I got a wireless connection running. I even managed in running Windows in Parallels emulation.
A mildly hoodied and Emo-esque Funeral suits played the Roisin Dubh tonight. Excellent gig actually, with great support from The Lost Chord and Jon Dots.
