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Installing Microsoft Silverlight v3 on OSX

Shai Perednik — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:51:29 +0000

For some reason the Microsoft Silverlight installer thinks hackintoshes are powerPCs. There’s a simple workaround for this:

Download the Silverlight plugin for Mac OSX.
Mount the .dmg file
Drag the Silverlight.3.0.pkg file to your desktop
Unmount the .dmg – not required now
Right click on “Silverlight3.0.pkg” and choose the “Show Package Contents” menu item.
Double click on the “Contents” folder.
Double click on the “Resources” folder.
Drag and drop the file “InstallationCheck” to the trash.
Close out the folder you’re working in.
Finally double click on the “Silverlight3.0.pkg” package, and it should install fine now.

VIA Msi Wind Forums • View topic – Installing Microsoft Silverlight v2 on OSX (Advent 4211).

Installing Microsoft Silverlight v3 on OSX originally appeared on Shai Perednik.com on July 14, 2009.

PC Pitstop users rate netbook satisfaction: MSI Wind U100 on top

System — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:20:02 +0000

Automatically pulled from My Clippings on NewsGator Online

PC Pitstop offers online diagnostic tools for finding problems with your PC and tuning it up. In other words, they come in contact with a lot of PC users. This week the company published the results of a survey asking netbook user about their satisfaction with their little laptops. The results? Overall, it looks like a lot people are pretty happy with their netbooks. The top 9 machines had user ratings of 3 or more stars out of 4.

The MSI Wind U100, Asus Eee PC 1000HE, Samsung NC10, Asus Eee PC 1000H, and Acer Aspire One snagged the top 5 spots. And fewer than 17% of the people owning each of those netbooks complain that their systems are slow. Less than 6% complained about their computers freezing.

Of course, an Intel Atom based computer is going to be slower than a lot of laptops out there. But the point is that these netbooks are fast enough for most of the tasks users expect them to run, and customer satisfaction seems to be pretty high.

via Technologizer

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PC Pitstop users rate netbook satisfaction: MSI Wind U100 on top originally appeared on Shai Perednik.com on July 3, 2009.

Upgraded Wind MacBookNano to 10.5.7 100%

Shai Perednik — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:50:57 +0000

Today I took the plunge and updated my MSI Wind runnnig 10.5.6 to 10.5.7. Normally I would have waited longer before applying a major update. However with recent reports of 5hr battery life on the 6cell u100 I decided to update.

Following this post everything went through fine. I had to remove ffScroll and SmartScroll, reaply the Trackpad driver included in the driverpack and not I’m back @ 100%. No hickups.

Interesting thing is after the update my TimeMachine update was 3.2GB and is still backing up.

Below is the post i followed via the MSI Wind Forums

MSi WindOSX86 10.5.7 Upgrade pack for both 10.5.4 and 10.5.6Quote:

DISCLAIMER: While I feel extremely confident that I tested the crap out of these installer packages I can not test every situation or configuration. This means you should BACKUP IMPORTANT DATA so that you are prepared to reinstall OS X.

Download Link: (Current version 1.5)
MSi WindOSX86 Upgrade Pack v1.5

The above driver pack only has the 10.5.7 Update pack to allow you to install the 10.5.7 Combo update and the 10.5.7 Update pack and after your restart you will still have full access to your Trackpad and Keyboard. It doesn’t matter if you are running 10.5.4 or 10.5.6, just follow the instructions and you can easily upgrade to 10.5.7.

New notice in this installer

Here’s what’s included in the PDF guide:
Guide to install 10.5.7 Combo update on MSiWindOSX86 build

Prerequisite:

Downloads:
The Driver pack with instructions
The Apple 10.5.7 Combo update (Apple web site)

Ready to install:
Download and then install the Apple 10.5.7 Combo update.
DO NOT RESTART!!
Now run the appropriate installer. This will install the missing PS2 kext’s so that when you restart you will have your keyboard and trackpad.
It is now okay to reboot; click whichever “Restart” button you like, it doesn’t matter.
Just to clear up any misconceptions, here’s a screen shot of my system while I was performing the update:

Almost done:
As you may or may not know, with almost any combo or “point” update, your system will restart, begin to boot up but then restart a second time. This is completely normal and to be expected.

Once you are back on your 1024×600 desktop with a working keyboard and trackpad, you may notice you do not have any sound control in the menubar. Perfectly fine and will be fixed on the next reboot. You should notice on the this shutdown that it shows the familiar “Preparing Boot Caches” dialog box. That too is expected and just what the doctor ordered to fix the sound.

Final boot:
You’re done!

21-May-2009: Revised the download to one driver pack. Updated the ApplePS2Controller.kext so that it will display the Trackpad settings in the Mouse/Keyboard prefpane.
10.5.6 Updates:
21-May-2009: revised installer and UNSELECTED the Trackpad option, added new notice regarding Trackpad and dual booting.
20-May-2009: revised the installer and UNSELECTED the Networking option so now you HAVE to select the Networking option (I can’t believe this has caused so many problems!)
14-May-2009: revised networking file, fixed framebuffer file, added battery kext

Upgraded Wind MacBookNano to 10.5.7 100% originally appeared on Shai Perednik.com on May 15, 2009.

Wind U100 Hackintosh w/ 407159-001 native Airport

Shai Perednik — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:52:42 +0000

I have an MSI Wind U100 and installed a 407159-001 and no airport.

Following the posts @ Mac Rumors I removed each service one by one, added Airport, restarted, and it works!

Remember to hit apply after removing the services. Then add Airport. Hit apply again. Restart the computer. And it should work.

I noticed that I have to have the hard wifi switch set to on when the computer is starting. Not sure if this maters, but just a note.

Wind U100 Hackintosh w/ 407159-001 native Airport originally appeared on Shai Perednik.com on May 8, 2009.