Today’s other annoying discovery
I was a naughty boy and nabbed a torrent of one of the pre-hacked Leopard installers for generic PC kit — getting the shits with Windows, figured it wouldn’t hurt (much) to at least try turning this laptop into a Hackintosh.
I was a stupid boy and didn’t immediately delete the thing when it turned out to be a self-extracting RAR archive. Which did indeed contain what it was supposed to contain, but also contained a trojan that the combination of Windows Defender, Adaware, and AVG couldn’t completely remove. Defender did at least notice it and tell me about it within a minute of extracting the ISO image, but that’s about as good as it got.
Knowing that I pretty much have to nuke the Windows install, I’ve decided to give Linux one more chance. If I can get the audio working adequately, can find some way to make iTunes work well enough to manage my AppleTV, and run Warcrack in a reasonable-enough fashion, I will refrain from blowing AU$3k on that shiny new iMac. For now. I do still rather want one, but if I can limp along until the next generation comes out, then that’s probably a good idea.
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iTunes doesn’t work well in Wine at all yet, if that’s what you’re thinking.
Yeah, I know, haven’t even bothered trying that again. I’ve got it running inside VirtualBox. It works well enough, except for the bit where merely running iTunes — not playing anything — immediately chews 60-80% of a CPU core!