Parallels Beta Build 3036 early available

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

download here

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):
* Drag and Drop files and folders between Windows and Mac.

A long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders
from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa.

* Coherency. Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones.

Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time.
No more switching between Windows to Mac OS.

* Read/Write BootCamp partition.

Since this build, an Apple Boot Camp partition with
Windows XP installed could be used as a virtual HDD for Parallels Desktop for Mac.

* Boot from BootCamp partition.

Another long awaited feature that lets you boot your
32-bit Windows XP residing on Boot Camp partition directly in Parallels Desktop for Mac.

IMPORTANT!

You need to boot in your Windows XP natively through Boot Camp
and install Parallels Tools for Boot Camp package in it before your first boot
in Parallels Desktop for Mac.

forum link

*NEW* XInfoAqua script (X-Chat)

Remember that script made by Spaz to print your system info?
This was not working anymore with the new 8.8.1 kernel….
Prasys and Joey just released a new modded version, works great with X-Chat 0.16.

Download here

Instructions:

Just drop the file to Application –> X-Chat Aqua —-> Plugins. Restart X-Chat.
To ’show-off’ your mac in the #chatrooms , simply type /macinfo
Please don’t spam.

If you have any problems , just hop by to #scripts – irc.macspeak.net

Here is what my /macinfo outputs:

HacPro X86
CPU Intel Pentium D 2.66GHz @ 2.66GHz [SSE3/PAE/XD/EM64T/DualCore] L2 Cache
1024K RAM Used 638.7MB/1.0GB Virtual 405.81M/1024.00M Disk Used 195.19GB/234.22GB
Display GMA 950 [64 MB of shared system memory/CI/QE/Q2DE] 1280×1024@75Hz
OS: Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8L2127) Kernel: Darwin 8.8.1 Uptime: 4:45 (Nov-14-2006 : 23:33)

My favorite IRC client

No need to tell you that, real geeks use to hang on the IRC.
If you’d like to join them, and you are on a Mac,
I would recommend X-Chat as IRC client.

Before you begin, be prepared to a completely different language, called “Nerdy Talk”.

This site will help you a lot to jump into this language: www.urbandictionary.com

Some of the coolest channels are:

on irc.r-type.ca:

#Hackintosh
#mac4all
#OSx86.kernel

on irc.macspeak.net:

#OSx86

Check the entire post for XInfoAqua script, click read whole post below:

Spaz provided this script for X-Chat: XInfoAqua

A system info script. It gives you system information, weather, music playing,
azureus downloading info for XChat Aqua under OSx86.

To install this script, copy it to the Plugins folder of X-Chat.
Then restart X-Chat. Now run the command /machelp for instructions.

Instructions for full 10.4.8 (semthex/mifki kernel)

Edit the script XInfoAqua.py,
search for if (mac_type==”ADP2,1″): mac_name = “Developer Transition Kit”
Add a new line above or below if (mac_type==”ACPI”): mac_name = “Hackintosh”
sudo pico /System/Library/SystemProfiler/SPPlatformReporter.spreporter/Contents/Resources/SPMachineTypes.plist
Add a new key ACPI and string Hackintosh and you’re done.

JaS permanent fix for new Rosetta

This is for people who have rosetta crashing, mine is workin well, just tried Photoshop, Word, Powerpoint, etc…

No crash at ALL!

Seen my previous post about first boot in 10.4.8 with new kernel? Well, it seems you have to do this command at each boot (update_prebinding),
otherwise Rosetta will crash on the second PPC app you run after boot.

So guess what, JaS just got a fix for that, so it will work after every reboot
and you don’t have to worry about it anymore.

Download:

JaS.10.4.8.Rosetta.Fix.app

Instructions by JaS:

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