I finally upgraded my ‘Hackintosh’ (my PC with OS X on it) to 10.4.9! Yay!

I’ve been dreading doing it, because I knew I would have problems, and yes, I did have many problems. Mainly problems with the USB driver, but it’s now all resolved and working better than ever! By better than ever, I mean it’s faster too because of the new kernel!

The update I used was JaS 10.4.9 Intel SSE3(only) update. After I installed the update (just by using Installer.app), I did get an error saying it couldn’t complete; that was bad. I also couldn’t launch any other applications after applying the update. But after a restart, I got an error saying it couldn’t load the AppleUSBUHCI kernel extension. I’m assuming this is because I updated to the latest kernel, and they were no longer compatible (lucky my HD Audio driver still worked!). So, for a while, I had no mouse, no keyboard, no flash drive to fix the problem, so all I could do was watch it boot up. To fix this, I updated the IOUSBFamily kernel extension (apparently, the AppleUSBUHCI kext was a plugin for that). I found this, actually, at Apple’s website here, and installed the NON -log version. That fixed the problem and now I have a once again fully functional OSX partition.

*sigh* Now I just need wait until Leopard comes out before I’ll have to do all this stuff again.

Yes, I am finally writing about iBAPPO, it’s been a while since I’ve had an update to this site!

iBAPPO is a community website for IB and AP students, mostly of North Canyon. I have been working on iBAPPO for about 3-4 months now, and it’s looking great! We’ve already got 75 registered users! It’s turning out to be a huge success.

For those of you programmers/computer geeks who are curious, iBAPPO currently has around 8500 lines of code. That is, a fusion of PHP, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, and of course, HTML.

At this moment, I am working on a project called OpenBAPPO. OpenBAPPO will be an Open-Source version of iBAPPO for developers to play around with and maybe help iBAPPO become better. However, I am doubting releasing some of the security code, because I got a little lazy on some parts of php session validation, general security stuff; don’t want to leak that! So if you’re really interested in OpenBAPPO, leave a comment.

iBAPPO (OpenBAPPO) as well as BuzzBlog will soon become part of BuzzSoft©, yet another project I’ll be working on in the near future. It’s basically going to be a collection of my programming projects, at the moment, my PHP/SQL forum and blog software. But it may even go as far as the wordpress theme of this website.

For those of you interested, here’s the link to iBAPPO:
www.ibappo.com

Yes, we registered that domain!