Last night Katie and I went to the Beatles Love Cirque show at the Mirage.  It was pretty good.  Better than I was expecting as that’s not really my cup of tea.  Over all the music made it much more enjoyable than using some other strange orchestra music.  The only downfall was that I wish they had a little more aerial acrobats than they did.  Other than that I would suggest if you get a chance to go and check it out.

So I added a 40gb SATA drive to the machine and installed OSx86 to that.  Once the install was complete the machine booted right up.  The only issue is that the video driver was only allowing 800×600.  Once I obtained the updated driver and did a reboot I was able to get 1280×1024.  Everything was working great … So I decided to do an upgrade in hoped to not screw it up.
I updated to 10.5.6 with the Combo updater.  After the install before I rebooted I reinstalled the Video Driver.  When it rebooted the first time it got a kernel panic.  I restarted again and passed -v -f to the boot options.  It booted right up.  After that I did one more reboot and it worked, and was very fast as well.
Once it was back up and running with 10.5.6 I did the software update and grabbed all of the avail updates.  So far so good.

If you are running Apple TV 2.3.1 and want to have AFP installed you will need to obtain a copy of AppleTV 1.1 software. If you dont have a backup, check with a friend or your local torrent site to grab a copy. Once you obtain the backup DMG file you can extract the following files

/System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ByteRangeLocking.framework

Upload the files to your AppleTV and then SSH to the AppleTV. Run the following commands to move the files to the proper location

sudo mv AppleFileServer.app/ /System/Library/CoreServices/
sudo mv ByteRangeLocking.framework/ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/

After you have moved the files you need to edit the hostconfig file to enable AFP to autostart

sudo nano -w /etc/hostconfig

Change the following

AFPSERVER=-NO-

to this

AFPSERVER=-YES-

save the file and then run the following command to start it. If it works you wont get an error message.

sudo /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer

Once started you cant hit Apple+K and enter the following to connect

afp://appletv.local

Use frontrow as the username and the password and you should be all set.

So I did some changing around at my place. I originally bought and MSI Wind Desktop to use as a low powered File Server for all my Media. Its a pretty nice machine, 1.6ghz Atom CPU, 2gb of ram, and OS is on a 16gb CF card. Over all I was happy with it…. Until I started to run low on disk space. I placed a 1tb drive in it, but it only has 2 drive bays. I installed over PXE as I didn’t have a CD/DVD Drive.

Flash Forward to last night.

So Last night I decided to place the drive in my desktop machine as it has more than enough bays(7). I now was left with my MSI Wind doing nothing. I made a trip to Frys and picked up a $30 LiteOn DVD burner and put that in the machine. So now it has a DVD Drive and 16gb flash drive. I did some reading and I can install osx86 on it and from what I read it runs next to perfect. I am still waiting for the ISO to download and then I will let you guys know the outcome. I am hoping for the price of under $300 I will have a decent running machine with OS X installed. I will let you all know in case you too want to take the plunge on a cheap Faux-Apple desktop PC.

So I stopped by Taco Bell for lunch today and they have a notice hanging at the drive through about come April 9th they will no longer have Spicey Chicken.  Does no one buy Spicey Chicken besides myself?  I know I will be heading to Taco Bell less and less as time goes on due to this.

So today wraps up my first day with out smokeing.  Over all it was not that bad, the worst part was my bordom…  I found myself looking for things to do instead of smoking, not limited to but including working through my break at work.  Ohh well I am sure it will get easiser as the days go on.