Hi SABR, thank you for welcoming me. So far I enjoy it here, as I have a few months ago before I started posting. Thank you for that link--I have done my best to comply to the rules outlined within it. I did not know about those signature rules until you told me, so I apologize for that. I have seen other people with really long signatures too--I hope they get to read the link too. I still have to shorten my sig--we'll see! Thanks again!

Cya!
~Melo, MoD (well, mod of the NBE Quest website!)~

Hehe, thanks, Cyrana. You find people of all sorts, I guess!

Cya!
~Melo~

OK, thanks Bofors--I kind of did not understand your answer, but I guess according to you, it's OK to post cannabis pictures then.

QUOTE

Great, how big is your chest?

32AAA--so far, I have not found a NBE (natural breast enlargement) product that works for me. But other people on the NBE Quest website claim that they have had success. Sometime in the next couple of months, I may order a NBE product that is supposed to work better. I am going to try something else next month or two, too. Thanks for asking!

Cya!
~Melo~

wow. this thread is going nowhere

Hey
im better known as T-mags
I go to highschool, where im a sopmore
Im The Head MLA (Mid level administrator, Franzy) I go to the same school as Franzy and we have been good friends for about a year, i am more elite than franzy when it comes to windows, but once we switch platforms, its the other way.
I some experience with OS 9 but most of my mac experience came from OSX86,
joined this forum when Franzy told me that he found a way to get osx on a pc, and when i first saw 10.4.1 on his dell 5150...i nearly crapped my pants, and now he's converting my entire school...one computer at a time...
I mainly test all of this Osx86 stuff

if you want my about my hardware, let me know

I'm Rich - It all started with an Apple ][, an osborne 1, a Wang VS300 (!) then a Mac 128k, a Mac II, then a NeXT Cube, a Nextstation color...it was all going so well - and then W95 came out and no one wanted to be 'different' any more. Certainly not my employer of the time. So I got sentenced to 10 years of crashes and BSODs, but now I'm back on the platform I love, and the pesky windows stuff that I can't get working in crossover works in Parallels.

I'm a developer - language agnostic, but it has to have unix underpinnings, and since being uncermoniously booted off NeXT hardware, I've kept an unhealthy hobbyist interest in Linux, Solaris, AIX and tried to keep my openstep and rhapsody boxes running in that time, but for the last few years though, its been PearPC and Ubuntu for me - and then deadmoo -cough- landed on my desk, and after the demise of other forums, I found myself here - you'll do, you're a nice bunch

Like Munky, my comedic heroes are Bill Hicks (anyone here in marketing?), Trailer Park Boys (qv) and Dara O'Briain, and musically, well, iTunes reckons that - according to its inaccurate (imho) play counter, Aimee Mann, Wolf Parade, Sonic Youth and David Bowie are my favourite artists. Well, well. You learn something new every day. An inveterate petrolhead and sometime musician, there are hours that don't have enough days in them.

//R

hey guys, ive been here for about 6 months but ive never really told anyone who i am.
im ryan. im gonna be a freshman in high school this year in illinois. im probably one of the youngest people here, but i was suprised to see that colonels was just a year older than me my dad has always been a fan of microsoft products, but oddly he got me and my older brother a really old powermac (like 65 mhz)when we were really young. we played a few games on it, but nothing really came out of that machine. we got a gateway profile (one of those computer+monitor PCs like an imac) running 98 and then an HP pavilion desktop in 2003. i really learned how to use a computer then, and ever since ive been spending most of my time playing online games and doing things with my computer. i never really used a mac except for at school, but i never really liked them. the guy that watched over the computers at my school last year had an ibook(and later a macbook pro), and actually kind of showed me how awesome osx was. i soon became fed up with my computer as well as windows and bought a macbook pro. i never really made a hackintosh, but i think i may do so soon, just to have something to do. im trying to learn how to code in python, and hopefully i can learn more than what i already know.

Hi, Im Gabe, aka, "Gaber". Im a freshman in high school, and I enjoy skateboarding, filming, web + graphic design, theatre, and life, tehe. Im a happy Mac user, recently switched over around 3-4 months ago, best decision I have ever made, haha. Not much really to say, I play the alto saxophone, um, I enjoy fingerboarding....Ive been a few nationally aired commercials...well, thats pretty much it, haha. You'll find out more about me as I post. Hope to stay here for quite some time!

hey im asap18 after the song A.S.A.P. by ti. Im a sophmore in high school in texas. Ever since i was a child i was brainwashed to use pc's since my cousin works for msoft and then i discovered pear pc, then osx86, and now the macbook. I play basketball and cross country for school so i guess im not a total geek although i do enjoy computers.

Arrr damnit I didnt see this thread and started my own http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=25257

Never bothered to do this before so what the hell.

I'm br0adband, aka bb for those that love mistyping the nick even with nick completes, and I'm 39, living with my relatively "new" Wife in downtown Las Vegas, NV, USA. I've been working with computers since I was 7 years old, building my first "computer" in 1975 from a kit for an Altair - long before a lot of you were even born.

I've worked with "personal computers" since the late 1970s, Apples, IBM-PCs, Commodores, Ataris, etc etc... all the way up to today's high end hardware.

While I don't use OSx86 for anything serious - it's too slow and simply not enough software for me to bother with it - it does seem a bit odd that I'm half-responsible for the first working generic DVD installer that I released about a year ago to the community.

bender12 (say hi if you bump into him, he deserves it) did some tinkering around with the 10.4.1 stuff and happened upon a particular combination of files that "worked" and allowed almost anyone - at least those using primarily Intel-based hardware - to install a working copy of OSx86 10.4.1 - and then the community just exploded basically around that.

I'm the guy that took the code bender12 made, added docs to it to make it easier to understand and install, and then dumped it for the world to leech.

I still dabble with the community, as this posting shows, and I'm in the IRC channel (#osx86) sorta-kinda frequently. While I'm not on top of the situation as I was in the past, I'm still around.

First post here.

Invisibl is my name on most if not all fora I visit/lurk/contribute to. I am an old bastard, prolly not the oldest here but grim and grey all the same.

I got addicted to macs in about 93 or so and gradually made a change from cutting hair for a living to working in Audio post production as a result.
Tried a while at being a musician ( electronic) and several years later decided I was bored with it all.
Still have a website and albums being sold but I have no time or patience for it. ( fearful truth of becoming older)

I master music and edit and mix short films TV shows and Documentaries.

I had a wee time doing second tier help desk a year ago and from that decided to do my A+ certs ( in about a weeks time in fact) so I been studying and doing the odd Post production job here and there.

In the ancient days of system 9 I was quite involved in trading war3z ( Had to to get hands on up to date mac software) and started a wee bit of s/w hacking. But the lifestyle soon took over and that part of the brain was overcooked by the wake and bake, Still that is the why I guess that attracted self to these environs, the piratical nature of doing the victimless forbidden.

Perhaps it is the current bastion of romantic: well to me at least.

But props shouts and much respect to the contributors here..... My passion is awakening once more.

well im brandon and a freshman in my highschool. I live in a town with less than 400 people in it and my computer teacher thinks that it is an honor to be around an lcd monitor, thinks the tower is called the processor, and believes that RAM is the part of the computer that you save all your data on and ya i have to try so hard everyday from telling her it is all bs. I am 15 right now and I got an 01 toyota celica for my 14th b-day. I would say that there are maybe >5 people that know anything about computers in my community so i guess you could say i'm all alone when it comes to stuff like that. Most of my friends play sports but i dont really except i was in track last year and am thinking about track again or golf. This year as a freshman my parents are bribing me that if i stay in the top six of my class they will buy me a white macbook this summer. I am very high ranking in my school already but this year will be tough because I have a math class that is 2 years above my grade level so hope that all works. I am very interested in GUI design and redid the Windows XP UI to match my school colors and mascot a couple of years ago using stardock skinstudio. Thats about all i can come up with right now so...later

Hi all.

First post here. It's great to see such big community out there helping out others. Until 3 days ago, I've never used a Mac OS in my life. I've always wanted to try it, and now I have. With the help of this wonderful forum I was able to successfully install a Mac OS X on my HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop, and it works great! It took me a while to get the sound and video working, but I've managed.

Soon I'm going to write a complete tutorial on how I did it.

So... hey everybody, nice to be here

My name is Cormac. I'm currently a Computer Science major at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I am part geek: Very interested in distributed hashing table systems, Unix systems security things - especially those belonging to those brilliant OpenBSD guys, and gambling theory. Mostly though, I'm a typical, rather energetic college student. I am a member of the RIT weightlifting team, I spend free time rock climbing and hopefully working a good deal while in Rochester. I was born in Galway, Ireland and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. I have the accent... and I'm very single, and very disease free - just fyi - all you sexy Hackintosh girlies.

My name stems from my love of Nikon photography equipment and other products. Most people have said that I have the most diehard loyalty to Nikon, which I guess is true if I have Nikon eyeglasses on top of the myriad of Nikon equipment I already own. I love photography, however, I would never want to have it as my career.

I'm a systems engineer for a fortune 5 communications company based out of Basking Ridge, NJ. Anyone want to take a stab at who it may be? I analyze software, do bug reporting, and write documentation for internally developed applications. Really simple stuff in my eyes. I personally think I should never of left my previous job working as a system administrator as a midwest university.

I also develop websites in my offtime. My most recent project has been http://www.tampaforums.com. Think of it as a Myspace for the Tampa bay area.

Not really all that much to me. <shrug>

hello

Im 39 professional living in Buffalo NY .I work for local nonprof with networking and main term upkeep...
While not fixing things i dabble in photography (nature etc.). Only been using macs for a couple
years now but am finding them very friendly....so thanks for all those you have the experience who take the time to teach newbies like myself ...b

hey.

Im a junior in high school. Very into technology, I take AP computer science, and next year Princeton comp sci courses . I like windows and mac for different things. Ive loved computers ever since my sister taught me how to use our old IBM running Windows 3.1, and there after got obsessed. yep, i also play drums. But other than that, im a pretty boring guy, with a beautiful girlfriend.

my name's yemingxp,(in chinese 叶明刚 i dont know if the chinese word can display correctly on this website or not), ohmm, i come from china, majoring in computer science and tecknology, i came here after i installed 10.4.6 ghost edtion, so i got a lot problems ,hope you help me in the future days

Hi I'm Calvin.

I'm a young 18 year old making his way in the world after having bastard parents that kicked him out

Have always been a mac fanatic since young.

I'm a Christian Brothers College Boy, previously at Melbourne High School (Australia).

I love dnb, prog house, trance, goa and dance.

I date guys but the odd girl slips through at times.

lol

I have a blog at http://calt03.spaces.msn.com

That's about it!

Nice to meet all you guys and girls here. My Compaq M2031AP is running great, minus the card reader, PC card and the battery meter.

Hi there! My nick ARMAGEDDON as you see. I'am 20 years old student of Saint-Petersburg Aerospace Mechanics University in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation. Soon i will be a network information security specialist. At now my work in network administration - IS admin. Also i'm interested in science, music, politics and... japanise anime 4 years worked and lived on a Macs

Hey, im joseafus, from Aqua-Gero
My friend Arix told me about this site, and it looks great

you joined here too? lol how'd you get here?

how? i dont know
i just remember you showing it to me, and with os x86, i had to join

hey, my name is jordn. im 16, and i live in Leeds, England. i have been interested in macs since the launch of OS 10, and have owned one since i inherited an older Mac Mini. ive followed this project ever since it started at theuneasysilence, and watched it blossom into what it is now. i'm currently studying Computing, Geography, Economics and Environmental Sciences in college (taking physics next year!) I enjoy mountain biking, playing the guitar, socialising with friends and the like. i spend way too much time on the internet, and far too much time playing Americas Army (my nickname is the same, so look for me if any1 plays).

currently using OSX 10.4.8 as a test bed until i can afford a 23-inch iMac....

Hey there,
I guess its about time I introduce my self. Name is Jordan first of all. Im 19 and I go to University of Pittsburgh. I first got involved with Macs at high school, but hated them until I tried Panther through PearPC. I also loved the features that Tiger had so I asked my folks to get me an iMac G5 for graduation,and shes still going strong. Besides computers I love to swim, and ski and hopefully try snowboarding the winter. I volunteer as a tutor in a high school to try and help others that are having trouble with their work. Overall my life is pretty hectic as most, but its always nice to just relax and let the world pass you by. As for my username, I made it up for GMail and liked it enough to use it for usernames wherever I go. Peace .

Hey everyone,

This is my first post on these forums. I was introduced to them by my uncle. He's been kind enough to lend me his computer, which is running JaS OSX 10.4.8. I'm a freshman in college, hoping to save up enough for a Mac Pro. Right now I'm learning everything I possibly can about C++, and programming.

okay .. so this happens to be my second post ..

well .. im a mac user .. and i found a use for my dj-box .. a dell d600.

I will try to get it to work as a dj-machine in OSX .. for that i will need to get higher resolution and the creative audigy Z2 PCMCIA card to work... and some other stuff ..
also ..
I will make it dualboot with winXP2 and later on Vista...

so .. back to reading

Hi I'm Chris! I'm a Sophomore in High School and I love computers (Mac). I'm currently trying to jump start my programming career by constantly reading computer related stuff (Which is what brought me here). I want to thank anyone who posts information on this site because you are all helping me reach my goal of becoming a programmer.

Any noobs need help you can ask me because I might know.

I'm Kelly, 20 years old, single... work as a Technical Support Consultant for an Internet Service Provider. I am hoping to back to school, sent off some applications and just playing the waiting game at the moment. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada.

I have been a Mac user since the age of 6... back in 1992. My mom got a PC in 2002 (gasp) and the Mac withdrawal was just too much for me so I got an iBook last year.

im Isaac, im from northern cali, hate M$, and installed osx86 for 2 reasons, 1 because i couldnt afford a real mac, and it pised the hell out of my friend

EDIT: now live in the middle of hick-land (indiana), and bought a new mac

EDIT 2: wow i sounded like a douche bag a year ago. now i skate, paint, break and enter, and record it, and put it on my mac.

Name: NET
Sex: Male (hetero)
Born: yes ( in 1980),
Job: cince '00 technological security department cheef, I own a small company called DataSec cince '93 usning *nix.
OS X cince: i'm in love with osx's # cince my old friend in Edinbourgh shown me that osx has got BSD # (long before this forum:) )
Living: right now Poland/Germany,
Education: in add. to my informatic. edu. studying economy on Westpomeranian School Of Business,
Interests: photography, web/graphics design, travelling, good music for example Tool, interesting paintings... and a lot more...

right now working uder improoving my english writing skills (they are poor)

i got the name 'goofygoober' from the spongebob squarepants movie. i'm 27 years old.

after moving from SoCal to SF in 2004 i purchased an iBook G4 1.2GHz, and fell in love with all things apple. so as the story goes, i've been running osx86 for about a week on my PC.

i'm a mechanical engineer by schooling but work in the world of finance.

it's also safe to say i love almost all things that require electricity.

Hey, what's up?

I'm 28 years old, married and have a 6 month old girl. I'm a web developer and I've been using PCs since I guess the early 90's. I have always been a Windows user (except for the Commodore 64 days) and have always wanted to mess around with Mac OSX but didn't really want to buy a MAC since I have several powerful PCs. I unfortunately only found out about this OSX86 project a few days ago. Great project by the way!

Merry Christmas everyone and happy boxing day!! Grab those DEALS! ehehe


btw: I guess the Personal Statement is not your signature? Where do I find the Edit Signature option?

"My Controls" at the top center then "Edit Signature" can be found under the "Menu" almost 3/4 of the way down (look for "Personal Profile"

thanks.. I'm not used to this message board software - I got so used to the usual phpbb.

Offtopic ?> !

Hello everyone!

I'm Henrik from Norway. My friends and pretty much everyone else usually call me Henke, so that's the background for my nick (btw. Henke is more commonly a swedish nickname for Henrik).

I am 18 years old, and I'm a last year student in the norwegian secondary educational level (15/16 yrs. - 18/19 yrs.), and I'm planning to study computer science after that.

My affection for Macs and Apple started when I was a little kid and visited my older cousin, whose father, my uncle obviously, was an architect and used nothing but Macs. Over the years the affection has been amplified by several factors, among others my own increasing skills and knowledge about computers and science.

I have followed this community in the background for a good while, but today I decided to register, to take part in this project and hopefully, as my skills and knowledge increases further, be able to contribute constructively as well.

So, that's me.

Enjoy the holidays!

conan obrien
location: usa
im 360 years old
i was born with a apple remote and a mighty mouse
i like macs
ive been doing computer stuff for about 6 years and i know enough about them
i like to drive
i have a 20 inch monitor
i hate dell
i like pie
i dont smoke or drink
dont have kids
im funny

Okay...after printing about 1/3 of this site,(and finally getting Unix tuts from a boss and sucessfully editing my boot graphics) I guess I'll introduce myself,too.
I'm Dave,I'm old,and I've been wanting this OS since High School and making A++ in Computer Science on an Apple IIe.
Being broke,and recouping from a divorce (insert readers yawn here) I had no alternative but Windows.To Bills credit-I met my current (and last!) wife on msn chat,and without windows I couldn't have accessed this incredible site.
Thanks to Mr Jason for founding it,and all the rest who coached the rest.I can literally say Insanelymac has changed my life.My wife now is screaming for a mac and I've been invited to a local Apple users group where someone is giving (?!) me a G3 tower.
Otherwise-I enjoy bad movies(as of this letter,my latest is "Billy the Kid vs Dracula"),killing LOADS of time here,video editing,photoshop and usenet.
Now to see if this avatar works and again-to EVERYONE here-
Thank You!

In my case the answer would be: no, I was never born. I always existed

Are you god?

Tat Tvam Asi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tat_tvam_asi:..._interpretation

So either you are a narcissist, or you are calling me god? Tsk.

You didn't quite get it.

Tat Tvam Asi means: You (every human being) are That (the Ultimate Reality, the Brahman)
It is only a matter of becoming fully aware (not easy)

Name: Dicenet
Location: USA
Age: 25
Race: White (i cant even get a tan )
Background: Network Administrator on the US for a company of 500+ people.
Interests: Computers, Networks, WebDesign, Sleep, Picking My Toes, Scratching my Head, Shooting Computers, and some other stuff
About Me: I am a Dyslexic computer/network geek that likes to read... hahahaha not really. I hate books, you would to if you were dyslexic. Anyway, I have been working with computers for 11 years now and networks for about 6. I dont have a College Degree, but I have many Certs that I dont like taking the test for, MS 70-216 was a pain in my butt it was easy but the questions are to long

Well I guess that is all for now, I started a blog here, about my adventures with MacPC's and we shall see how that goes.

Dice

Thought I'd better introduce myself here, even though I'm horrible at telling people about myself.

So here goes.

My name is Lasse Havelund. I'm presently 15 years old (turning 16 in July), and I have a passion for technology and computers. I live in the city of Kolding in the south of Denmark.
Aside from going to school (obviously), I work part-time in a computer store/repair shop, and do a bit of web- and graphic design next to that.
I've always wanted a Mac, but I've never had the money to get one, so trying out OSX86 is a great sensation.

My initial affection for Macs were instated when I visited a friend of mine, whose dad has... about 90 Power Mac G5's he uses for webhosting.

I was hooked instantly on this strange operating system, and since then, I've had a secret wish of some day owning a Mac.

I'm also very interested in linguistics, and speak Danish, German, English, Esperanto, a bit of Swedish and a bit of Norwegian.

Name: Windin
Location: UK
Age: 28
Background: Network Administrator working in an outsourced IT company, i look after a recruitment company with about 700 users but its citrix so its easy. Married with a mortgage and two cats who I seem to work for.
Interests: Computers, Networks, football (the real kind no pads) I run my own armed forces website

About Me: I am also a Dyslexic computer/network geek strangely, I have been in IT since I left University in 2001 all windows apart from as someone said a C64 a long long time ago. Just come back into the whole OSX86 thing after playing around with the deadmoo image ages ago. Nice to see things have improved

Pro Grape, or Professional Grape as is his preferred styling (though his close acquaintances and friends are allowed the honour of calling him, simply, Grape; I am one such person, and so will take the liberty of using his familiar name, though more with the purpose of conciseness in mind than that of demonstrating my acquaintanceship with him; for, in reality, I am a mere minion in comparison to the many in his wide social circle), currently resides in Canada. As one might have supposed after reading his name, he is a professional grape; that is, he is a grape by profession. There is very little information available as to what exactly this position entails, but many sources indicate that they have been assured by Grape himself that it is indeed a very demanding and time-consuming passtime, not one to be taken on lightly. One cannot help but sympathise with such an excellent and illustrious fellow, as these days it seems there is precious little time for leisure, at least for the ambitious at heart (as it seems the man under discussion must be).

Name: Dylan Keller
Age: 15
Location: Chanute KS
Background: A computer nerd (yes i am SMART than my whole class put together, I'm only a freshman!) i have my own little business where i help people with there problems 20$ a person. so i get payed alot when theres a job offering.
Intrests: MAC OS X (hell yea) Reading, drawing, writing my own fanfiction.

I got hooked on Mac OS X since 1st grade when OS 8 was around and popular my first mac was a Macintosh Quadra 650 running OS 8. Ever since then i been addicted to Mac OS then when OSX came out, I WANTED A iBook so badly i was about to tear my head off and sell it. Since i couldn't get a Mac i decided to keep my intrest on them. until i found Mac OS X x86 for x86 computers and i could literallly hear the Halljelaua in my room and it took 2 days just to download it . My science teacher gave my my first Macintosh that was MINE. a Powerbook Duo 230 with the battery dead. I wish it had the damn cd rom then i could upgrade it.

10 years ago, i was like them