How to Turn Your PC into a Mac

An anonymous reader writes "CNet is running a Mac fanboy's idea of a nightmare feature entitled 'Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac'. While the idea of turning my PC into a Mac-like machine does get my juices flowing, I'm not sure the user experience would be exactly the same but I'm going to spend this afternoon trying it out anyway. "To borrow a metaphor from Spartacus, some people like oysters and some people like snails. Except what if there was a way to make your snail do some of the cool things oysters can do, like make pearls? And what if you could make your PC do some of the cool stuff that Macs do so well?"" Seems to me that this would be a lot easier if step one was install linux...

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Re:It seems like all this does...

[dargaud]

If I can ever get my hard drive compacted to one end so I can partition it [...] It's a good thing for Slashdot that we can add some value in the comments, 'cause there's bugger-all in dumb fluff like TFA Even though it's completely off-topic, let's try to push this one step farther. I want to do the opposite of the GP: I have a small system disk (with XP) which I want to change to a bigger one. What's the simplest way to do this ? Here's my current idea:

• Plug in new drive
• Boot with Knoppix and do "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=..." with the NTFS blocksize
• Remove disk A and replace it with B. Boot it.
• Go in the disk manager and merge the unused partition after the main one (I'm not sure if this is possible)

Anyone care to comment on this ? Thank you.

UK iPhone definitely has worse reception that US

[Penx]

I have an unlocked US iPhone on O2 and my house mate and one of my colleagues have a locked UK iPhone on O2. I definitely get better reception and EDGE coverage than both of them. No idea why, but hints that it's the hardware or possibly firmware. I'm on Firmware 1.0.2