Prolegomena With all those different Apple Computers available like Mac Mini’s, Mac Book Air’s, Mac Pro’s, why the hell should we consider setting up a hackintosh these days, since a Mac Mini comes at a price tag of only 600€ here in Europe? Well the answer to this is quite simple. Hackintoshs aim at people […]
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[OSX86] Building a Hackintosh with ProQ’s AnyOS Motherboard
April 30th, 2014 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News 
Tags: BIOS, Bootloader, Darwin, dsmos.kext, efi, Emulation, Gigabyte, hackintosh, Installation, kernel extension, kext, Logic Board, MacOS, Motherboard, osx, OSx86, ProQ, QuoComputer, Rumor 
No Comments »[MacOS] How To Uninstall Waves Entirely
April 21st, 2014 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Well, in case you just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks (like we did ;-) ) and your Waves plugins don’t behave as expected a new installation of Waves could make sense, but first things first. A proper uninstallation does not always work entirely well with Waves’ uninstaller. So in case something goes wrong, follow […]
Posted in MacOS, Muzaq, Muzaq-Production Tags: error, Fail, Failing, fails, Installation, issue, Manual, Mavericks, Non Working, Not Working, OSX 10.9, Problem, Uninstall, Uninstaller, update, Upgrade, Waves No Comments »[Bitwig] The Platform-Independent DAW Is Out NOW
March 27th, 2014 J. ΞPSTΞÏN One of the most promising tools of the last view years – the platform independent DAW Bitwig Studio has eventually been released yesterday. It is available for MacOS, Windows and Linux. Bitwig is a Berlin based company, originally founded by former Ableton developers. The relation to Ableton is something that put the expectations of Bitwig […]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, Muzaq, Muzaq-Production Tags: Ableton, Apple, Berlin, Bitwig, competition, DAW, Debian, Digital Audio Workstation, independent, Java, Linux, Mac OS, MacOS, Mea, Microsoft, platform, Sequencer, Sequencing, Snow Leopard, Thanks, Ubuntu, VST, Windows No Comments »[DVB-S2] Tips & Tricks for the Cloud IBox II
January 27th, 2014 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Abstract The Cloud Ibox II is a cheap affordable satellite receiver running Linux. It is priced between 90 and 130€. It features: 2 x USB (although the case shows otherwise, it seems this is 1x USB 1.0 and 1 x USB 2.0) Ethernet connection DVB-S2 tuner 1 x card reader linux based dreambox plugin […]
Posted in DVB-S / DVB-C, Labs Tags: Antenna, Cloud Ibox II, Dreambox, Linux, OpenPLI, operating system, Re-Install, Recording, usb, Wi Fi 1 Comment »[Ableton] Repairing Defective ALS Files Manually
January 14th, 2014 J. ΞPSTΞÏN What happened? many avoidable (stupid) situations arise from hectic rush: we for instance accidentally deleted an ableton set (.ALS file extension) from a local NAS server without going too deep into detail: since we don’t have a RAID based NAS we could recover (some parts of) the desired .als file by putting the NAS’ […]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, Muzaq-Production Tags: Ableton, Ableton Live, Ableton Live 9, Ableton Suite, Ableton Suite 9, alp, ALS, bug, Compressed, Corrupt, crash, Crash Log, Default.als, Files, issue, issues, repair, Restore, XML, zip 3 Comments »[MacOSX] Bonjour Issues with Realtec 8111B on Gigabyte GA EP35 DS3
March 24th, 2013 J. ΞPSTΞÏN … can be solved easily using Lnx2Mac’s driver :D His driver is based on Realtec’s Linux driver which has been released under the GPL.
[iOS] iPhone 4 and the iOS 6.x firmwares
March 22nd, 2013 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Abstract You are using an iPhone 4 and you coincidentally updated to iOS 6.1.3, which cannot be jailbroken at the moment. Since you saved the SHSH blobs you think you can restore by doing a replay APTicket attack with TinyUmbrella or Cydia. Sadly iTunes shows errors like 1600, 1601, 1602, 1604 etc. If you have […]
[MacOS] Determine Manufacturer of a Mac Book Pro Retina Display
March 16th, 2013 J. ΞPSTΞÏN There is a a lot of fuss going around the latest Retina equipped Mac Book Pro’s. Looks like the MBPs can be delivered with either a Samsung display or a Sharp/LG. The problem is: the Sharp/LG displays seems to produce ghosts on the screen. Apple says there might be “image persistance” in some rare cases, […]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News Tags: Apple, image persistance, LG, Mac Book Pro, Mac BookPro, MacBook Pro, MacBookPro, Manufacturer, MBP, MPB, Retina, Samsung, Sharp No Comments »[Win] Autologin for Windows Vista and Windows 7
December 2nd, 2012 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Abstract: If you are working with virtual machines for testing and development purposes often, it might be comfy not to have to login manually after each reboot. So for those circumstances you can use a somewhat hidden feature to automatically login. Security Warning: We strongly recommend not to do this on your working machine where […]
[Muzaq] Universal Audio Annouces UAD-2 Octo
October 5th, 2012 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Universal Audio is stepping on. Producers who still thought the UAD-2 Quad’s power ain’t sufficient can soon get a UAD-2 Octo, thus effectively using 8 SHARC processors. Nuff powa foa de ppl ;-) As a side effect of this step the prices for the rest of the UAD-2 family (PCIe and Satellite) are lowered. Entry […]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, Muzaq, Muzaq-Production, Windows Tags: 400, 800, Apollo, Card, Core, Cores, Custom, Duo, Eight, Firewire, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, IEEE 1394, IEEE1394, Latency, Octa, Octo, Omni, Omni 6, one, Quad, Satellite, SHARC, Solo, Thunderbold, two, UAD, Ultimate, Universal Audio, Voucher No Comments »