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After being disturbed by one of the wisdom tooth that has caused myself pretty much agony for a while. Today is the day where i would remove the root of the problem and other underlying pain that would come by my way in the near future.

It started off with a pain in the jaw which i though initially, where by i went to a Polyclinic and they referred me to the National Dental Centre. After one session of consultant, the dentists informed that it was due to the wisdom tooth problem, and it would be best if i could remove all 4 of them.

Since i’m currently serving my National Service, i would not have to pay a single cent for the whole surgery, which could easily amount up to 900bucks for a simple day surgery.

It’s interesting that for such a surgery, i even had to wear the patient’s robes. Somehow it feels weird as there are no buttons and its very easily exposed.

These are the remains of my 4 wisdom teeth. There’s the 2 big ones and the rest are the other 2 which are the debris of the other 2 teeth. Pretty disgusting to know about what they did to it to remove them.

But well, now it’s where the difficult part begins. No hot steamy food, no hard food for the time being. Until then, i have 8days of Hospitalization Leave to spend.

A well deserved break definitely!

So what’s a prime number.

A positive integer that’s only divisible by 1 and itself.

That it is, the first thing i learnt in Secondary One. Later i realised they’re are good for tortures as well.

It would be quite a torture itself to ask someone to list the first 100 prime numbers in ascending series. Let’s try..

2..3..5..7..11..13..17..19..23..29..31..37..41..43..brain dead

There is something that was created by George Woltmon, who made use of prime numbers to conduct the stress tests. This particular software “Prime95″ was written to test how well can your computer system work when it is put onto a 100% workload, to calculate as many prime numbers, bigger and bigger. Due to the fact that the bigger the number grows, it will be more difficult to determine if the particular number is a prime number.

More readings can be obtained @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95

On August 23rd, a UCLA computer in the GIMPS PrimeNet network discovered the 45th known Mersenne prime, 2^43,112,609-1, a mammoth 12,978,189 digit number! The prime number qualifies for the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s $100,000 award for discovery of the first 10 million digit prime number.

[extracted from http://www.mersenne.org/]

So, i tried this software on my new PC, just to test my maximum temperature my PC will hit when put all my 4 Cores at their maximum. Here are the results.

It reads a Maximum Temperature of 60degrees, from the idling temperature of 47degrees. Pretty decent work done by my 14cm CPU Fan and the other peripheral fans.

Anyway to sidetrack a little, i finally played the Red Alert 3 that i have gotten recently. The graphics is love.

First time i could proudly put the video settings of the game, details and resolution to “Ultra High” mode. Details such as water ripples, shadows and wind direction can be easily spotted and clearly seen running without hiccups.

For the past 2 to 3 months or so, I’ve been searching the web, the forums to get extra cheap deals to build my next PC. Not really a PC, but not really a Mac as well because it it doesnt have the brand of Apple. It’s a Hackintosh!

For those who aren’t so sure.. A Hackintosh is..

A computer built to run Apple Mac OS X is also known as a Hackintosh, which is a recycled term originally denoting the modified Lisa 2/10 running Mac System, or Macintosh.

Well, let’s not delve into the very technical parts of it. In layman terms, it’s having Apple Mac’s Operating System on a PC, which natively only can be used on Apple’s Computers.

“The internet is for porn”, other than porn as quoted by Monster Trekkie in AvenueQ, it’s a good place for good deals. Almost every part of the build was gotten off eBays and forums. It’s seriously a place for great deals.

The humble specs are as follows.. some of them are bought off the shelves though.

• Gigabyte P35-DS3R Motherboard
• Core 2 Quad Q9450 Processor
• 4GB Kingston Ram
• XFX XXX 8800GT 512MB GPU
• PC Power and Cooling Silencer 500W PSU
• SIlverstone Casing
• LG 19″inch TV
• Scythe Zipang PSU Cooler (a really BIG one)
• Many other fans and coolers..

The build will looks something like this..

Imagine squeezing all these nonsense into one small casing.

The massive 14cm Scythe Heatsink Fan..

Zalman cooling GPU

Delta fans, and the 2 HDD fans at the back.

Thanks to Felix, with his help i managed to put all these parts together. Not a easy feat considering the constrain space in the Silverstone Casing and the amount of components we are trying to squeeze inside the unit.

After the hardware aspects, here comes the software part of the Hackintosh, equally challenging or more i should say.

After extensive reading on www.insanelymac.com i managed to acquire some basic knowledge on installing MAC on a PC using distro genius like kalyway and leo4all created, which makes installation so much simpler and direct. But it’s not as simple as installing other OS’s like XP or Ubuntu. The installation is more complex as the drivers are not so compatible and easily available.

After 3 days of installing and reinstalling, formatting and testing, 3 days of research and trying, I have successfully installed a OSx86 Leopard onto the PC which i have built. It is also dual boot with Windows XP SP3 so that i can play my games that require Windows platform. The sense of achievement is almost unbelievable.

The beautiful wallpaper with the dock.

Expose; one of the software to easily choose the current window u are working with..

And this is the final product… Round of applause.. :D