After waiting 5 days of downloading, I finally got the installation DVD iso of the sexiest operating system ever - MAC OS X Tiger 10.4.6 for Intel with SSE2 and SSE3 patches for older and new processors support. I didn’t waste much time and I burnt the DVD and freed a partition of 6 GB to have the system installed on.

In the past few days I had some reading about this system and its hardware compatibility to expect the types of problems I might face with my hardware. I was dying to see it and finally it’s here on a DVD

So I rushed and booted the system and I got a nice Apple Icon in the center of the screen and I waited for 5 minutes with complete patience in hope to see the next, the thing which didn’t happen!

Quickly I started searching on the internet and I found two great website http://www.osxx86.info/ http://forum.insanelymac.com then I started searching for how to get the boot log, I found the -v and -x boot options for verbose and safe mode. I discovered that the installer was printing out a message “still waiting for root device”!, After some search I discovered that I should set the DVD and the Harddisk as Master devices (primary master, secondary master). then quickly I had things working but this time with a new error “Load of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 88″, so again quickly to google and I found that it may have millions of reasons! - I tried a very strange one which is reburn the DVD but using the lowest speed 2.4x and surprisingly it worked!!

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Hello Guys,

I wanted to share you my happy experience with Creative SoundBlaster XtremeMusic Sound Card.

I was searching in cairo for audigy 4 sound card from creative and I didn’t find it at all and suddenly I found this amazing piece of art and I didn’t hesitate getting it even if its price exceeded 650 L.E but I’m a musician and I use those type of cards as best as it can be used.

This card brings the best sound I’ve ever heard out of a machine really guys it’s awesome specially on PCI 2.1 bus because I’ve heard that it has some problems with older buses because of its high I/O bandwidth to the mainboard but it worked fine with me on my nVidia mainboard.

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I’d upgraded my “Desktop Box” earlier and I fell into the choice maze “Intel or AMD” and ofcourse I was very interested in the 64bit approach as my work will be improved and go faster with this architecture.

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