Check this comparison (courtesy of VJFranzK).
Yearly Archives: 2011
[Muzaq] How to Create Dubstep Wobble with NI’s Reaktor and Razor
This is a nice and short video tutorial by CrystalCircuit. Enjoy…
[Muzaq] ximekon – Meltdown (2011)
[Win] Oracle VirtualBox: Workaround For Initialization Issue Pt. II
Find our previously released workaround for initialization issues here.
CPU VT-X/AMD-V Issue
After configuring a dual core virtual machine and trying to start you may encounter a message box indicating:
- Hyper-V launch failed; Either VMX not present or not enabled in BIOS.
- Hyper-V launch failed; at least one of the processors in the system does not appear to provide a virtualization platform supported by Hyper-V.
This issue may occur no matter which host operating system you’re using. The reason for this might be:
- you’re not using a CPU that supports hardware virtualization
- your BIOS does not support hardware virtualization properly
- hardware virtualization is disabled in your BIOS settings (check it!)
- there is a bug in your current BIOS version
- the trusted execution flag prevents booting properly
Known Workarounds
Try these settings in your BIOS:
- Enable Execute Disable bit (depending on the motherboard manufacturer this can be called: XD-Bit, EDB, NX-Bit, AMD EVP)
- Enable Virtualization bit (depending on the mobo manuf. this can be called: VT, IVT, AMD-V)
- Enable VT for Direct I/O Access (depending on the mobo manuf. this can be called: VT-d based I/O)
- Disable Trusted Execution Technology (depending on the mobo manuf. this can be called: Intel TXT, TET)
Of course, upgrading your BIOS to the latest version can also be of help, but flashing the BIOS is always a little risky.
Final Words
As we’re currently using VirtualBox only on the Windows XP platform we categorized this article under Win, anyway it is very likely that the same issue also occurs under Linux or Mac OS, as VirtualBox on all platforms derives from the same source code.
The above settings apply for example for installing MacOS SnowLeopard in a VM under Windows 7 on Gigabyte EP35-DS3 or Dell Optiplex 745/755.
[Muzaq] ximekon (2011) – Be Not Afraid, ma sa Allah
[MacOS] Save Energy by Using Deep Sleep aka Hibernation
Looking at the situation in Japan at these days, it seems overdue to begin worrying about all our energy consuming devices.
As a MacOS user we are used to some quite convenient features. Like just clicking sleep and the system goes to sleep.
What most of us don’t realize at this point is, that sleep mode logically requires energy as it will immediately wake up when I hit the keyboard.
So for me this began causing me a bad conscious – until I found the way to hibernate MacOS also on desktops
How to Hibernate aka Deep Sleep
- Download Axonic Labs’ Deep Sleep Widget for Snow Leopard 10.6 here.
- Unpack by double clicking
- Install to
/Library/Widgets
- open terminal and
- enter in terminal:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
Step 5. because Hibernation Safe Sleep is disabled by default on desktop systems like iMac, Mac Mini, or Mac Pro’s.
By the way: first tests show that this Deep Sleep Widget is at least compatible to Chameleon EFI RC4 :-))
[Internal] Long Time no See
Watching Californication and Boston Legal we decided to take a break and sleep with our lawyers ;-)