good information. thank you. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:56 PM, <dutchman_mn at charter.net> wrote: > If you know a U of M student, you can have them purchase it for around $30+ > > Perry > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Samael wrote: > > i am forced to get free stuff right now due to huge financial constraints. >> me and my wife are both in school (she is going to le cordon bleu, sooo >> expensive) and our 2 kids get all of the cash i can scrounge up. they are >> awfully cute kids so i have to forgive them for using my hard earned cash >> for their diapers and food. ^ ^ >> i am going to install virtual box right now and give it a go. (give it a >> go, been listening to too many british speakers latley) >> >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:36 PM, <dutchman_mn at charter.net> wrote: >> >> Your best bet is to purchase the actual Mac OSX. I did, burned it to an >>> ISO image and went from there. I had nothing but trouble with VMWare, >>> that >>> is why I ended up using Virtual Box. You can run Virtual Box on a Linux >>> distro, I am using Windows 7 as it is a work laptop. If you go down the >>> hardware route, the challenge would be find something that can run one of >>> the later versions of OSX Leopard/Snow Leopard. >>> >>> Perry >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Samael wrote: >>> >>> i tried downloading a mac os a few times before using a windows box. i >>> >>>> have >>>> vmware workstaion. i just couldn't get the disk to burn. it would go >>>> from >>>> a gig or something like that to 1 mb then errors; kinda weird, never >>>> figured >>>> that one out. i think software would be fine though i would have to >>>> admit >>>> a >>>> actual mac would be a little more interesting; not quite sure why. i am >>>> going to school for computer science not computer engineering. so, >>>> either >>>> would be a great help! i have a dedicated linux machine now that i >>>> would >>>> like to learn how to use xen or something similar. anyway, in closing, >>>> software would be just fine... >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, <dutchman_mn at charter.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Do you need to learn hardware or software? The reason I ask is that I >>>> >>>>> have >>>>> Mac OSX 10.6.3 running on Virtual Box 4.x (on Windows 7). So you can >>>>> work >>>>> with the OS outside of the hardware. I did it in order to learn how do >>>>> develop in Objective-C for iOS. >>>>> >>>>> Perry Hoekstra >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Samael wrote: >>>>> >>>>> does anyone have a mac they can spare? i would like to become >>>>> familiar >>>>> with them to prepare myself better for school. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------ >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> *tclug-list at mn-linux.org* >>>>> >>>>> *http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list*< >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >>>>> >>>>> <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110224/b1b823ea/attachment.html>