New address: http://myhack.sojugarden.com

I have left a pointer at the old location but please update your bookmarks accordingly!

I posted a welcome thread there so I won’t repeat myself here, but I wanted to let all the subscribers know that it’s live.

Here is a link to the welcome thread, and you will find a link to the forum in the menu from this point forward.

I am no longer managing support requests in comments on the blog, it is too much work and too difficult for users to navigate to see issues which have already been addressed.

Please use the forums from this point forward.

Cheers

As I’m sure you have all noticed I have been doing some redecorating around here…

I’ll be continuing to revise it bit by bit in my spare time but I’m rather pleased with the results so far aside from a few small adjustments I still want to make, particularly the header and menu – I am just testing different formats for now. I’m open to any comments, opinions or suggestions anyone has for things that could be improved.

The new myHack logo was generously crafted and given to me by blackosx it will become the new myHack app icon as well. PolishOX came up with the idea of an axe going through a Mac Pro for the myHack logo and blackosx pulled it off better than I imagined it, even included a revision with “apple juice” blood!

Happy hackintoshing!

In case you were wondering why this site was down for about 5 hours today, last night we had one of the most severe thunderstorms of this monsoon season here. The lightning and thunder was some of the most intense I’ve experienced in recent memory. It was striking several times per minute all over my neighborhood – it felt similar to the controlled demolitions of buildings I’ve witnessed from a few blocks away, it wasn’t a crack it was a hard hitting thud that rattled your chest and bones.

I generally enjoy thunderstorms but this one was more than inconvenient. I was in the process of working on updating the template for this site when the power went out, and stayed out for over 5 hours. Additionally more than 18 people are dead, the power is still out to many homes, and fortunately I don’t have to commute to work because the transportation system is in chaos.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so here are a couple pictures from down the street to illustrate:

From the Korea Herald:

The precipitation in Seoul between Tuesday and early Wednesday morning exceeded 400mm, the national weather agency said, adding heavy rain is expected through early Thursday morning.

The Korea Meteorological Administration said downpours tallying a record 60mm per hour were recorded in the country’s central and southern parts.

Southern Seoul was the hardest hit part of the capital.

The building of the educational TV station, EBS, was flooded and SK Telecom’s mobile networks. Flooding was reported in streets, subway stations, underground walkways and residential districts throughout the city.

A number of flooded main roads in downtown and southern Seoul were closed to traffic, while a motorway linking Seoul to southern Gyeonggi Province was closed due to a landslide.

 

I live in Southern Seoul and it is still raining…

So if this site goes down again sometime in the next day or two, you know why… but I am hoping the worst is over. I have also just realized that I lost about three weeks worth of work on an important project I was working on – my workstation drives shorted out from the lightning and I was in the middle of syncing a backup at the time, so I only have a partial copy on my server. All attempts at recovering the data have failed… %#&@*!

Update – count has risen to 32 people killed and 24 seriously injured and many more missing…

This is from CNN:

More than 750 rescue workers had been dispatched to the site after the collapse occurred at midnight, according to the Central Disaster Relief Center.

About 400 families have lost their homes and more than 14,000 were left without power.

The hillside gave way during a summer of record-setting rainfall, which has caused flooding and major traffic disruptions across portions of the country.

Chuncheon is about 75 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of the capital, Seoul, which has seen more than 400 millimeters (15 inches) of rain since Tuesday.

Sixty households in the capital have been cut off by high water, and six people are missing, the disaster center reported.

The Korea Meteorological Agency has issued a special heavy rainfall alert for cities in the center of the country. The forecast calls for the downpour to continue at a rate of 60 millimeters (2.4 inches) per hour over the next day.

“This is a lot of rain considering that the amount we saw yesterday and today consists of three-quarters of what we got during the rainy season,” Cheung Kwan-young from the meteorological agency said.

South Korea typically experiences a rainy season during the summer.

I added a new search feature to the sidebar, instead of only searching the myHack site it will also search all of the following sites:

• Nawcom’s Blog
• Meklort’s Blog
• Prasys’ Blog
• Netkas’ Blog
• Apocolipse’s Blog

These sites are also linked individually at the bottom of the navigation sidebar. There may be other hackintosh sites out there, but these are ones that I can vouch for personally as providing reliable information.