Before you start

You will need the following stuff:

• USB pendrive (min. 2 GB required)
• JaS Mac OS X 10.4.x or 10.4.7 Retail DVD
• Pacifist software (www.charlessoft.com)

Format the pendrive

Plugin your USB pendrive and open Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities).

Select your pendrive device in the left menu, and click the partition tab.
Enter a nice name for your device like osx86.

Hit Options… button, and choose Master Boot Record.
From the drop-down, choose 1 partition as the volume scheme.

Be sure the filesystem is Mac OS Extended (Journaled),
Hit the Partition button.

Next, we need to enable Owners, open a Terminal and type:

sudo /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a /Volumes/osx86

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This is not really new, but it will take which ever windows you have open and fly them
around your screen, flip, twist and twirl them around in an impressive eye candy way.

Best of all, It is free.

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What is Clonetool?

Clonetool is a Hard Disk Cloner utility that runs in the Command line.

Clonetool

Seems the SSE3 instructions emulation is done for SSE2 users.
A beta9 kernel has been shipped to some testers.
More to come. Stay tuned!

I never saw such an easy install on unix-based systems.
This applications just kicks ass.

I installed Apache2 + PHP 5.1.6 + MySQL 5.0.19 database in just a few clicks!

There is a widget available for stop/start servers from Dashboard. Kewl!
Check it out, it is called MAMP and it is for OS X: http://mamp.info/en/home/

Wow this is a kick ass release, can’t wait to test it out!
Kudos to Parallels for bringing us such release!

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My report:

Coherency works great.
It makes everything behind the active window invisible
(except the taskbar), which gives the illusion that the application
is running in MacOS X. (Not working yet with Vista).

Helas, the boot from bootcamp partition option is grayed out on a Hac.

Any workaround? Wait and see…

Some of the kewl features (read whole post):
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The security update has been reported to work on any INTEL SSE3 machine.
AMD is broken, since it replaces some of the files (Finder) that have been patched.

You need to be sure that you are running r2d2,
which should be the case if you installed latest 10.4.8 JaS DVD.

If you are not sure, run the command kextstat under Terminal,
and see if r2d2.kext is listed/loaded.

If you are running the last modded from source 10.4.8 kernel,
you don’t need r2d2.kext anymore, it is integrated in kernel.