MacMan Post 5,000 and Counting

[MacMan]

Well a little more than a year ago, I joined this awesome commmunity. When I started I was a Hackintosh noob. After I sold my original Mac Pro I wanted to get a another one but couldn't afford it. I looked at the OSx86 scene and was turned off by distributions. In late 2009 I found the LifeHacker article on building a Hackintosh using the retail disc and started researching. I found tonymacx86's post on insanelymac talking about iBoot and I started reading his blog to learn more. After researching his blog and joining the forum I dove in head first with my 1st build, viewtopic.php?f=54&t=3219.

After making typical noob mistakes I was successful and started hanging out in the forum. One of the 1st thinking that annoyed me in my build was the Unknown AHCI Controller in System Profiler. I started researching solutions and wasn't happy with what I found. I then looked at them and decided I could make it better. Hence my JMicron36xSATA and JMicron36xeSATA kexts. Then tonymac and I decided to tackle the JMicron ATA issues and I created my JMicron36xATA using the driver I found on JMicron's site and enhancing it to support all JMicron ATA controllers.

At this point the lostswede asked me if I was interested in helping out on the forum as a Moderator and other things. tonymac was working on the original MultiBeast 0.9 and I started helping him out by testing and providing feedback. I don't remember when but I took over the design and building. The two of us restructured MultiBeast and created version 1.0. Since then we have restructed it twice more, 2.0 and finally with 3.0.

I also started helping tony edit DSDT's for the database. When looking at what he had I decided to see what was missing and what wasn't need. Hence http://macmanx86.blogspot.com/2010/06/n ... abyte.html.

Next I decided to tackle socket 1366 systems and built my second system viewtopic.php?f=54&t=6354. I then tacked the DSDT for these systems http://macmanx86.blogspot.com/2010/11/m ... ocket.html.

Late last year I went back and looked at what I had done for the Legacy8xxHDA kexts to create one for the ALC892. I then realized I could create one unified kext instead of many multiple ones. So we now have ALC8xxHDA http://macmanx86.blogspot.com/2010/12/n ... audio.html.

In between these numerous projects I was continuing to help users on the forum and being the bad cop. I did a quick search and found that I posted 101 times on piracy, 156 times on distributions and moved 91 posts to the correct forum. I also passed tonymac's post count.

It's taken a while to write this as I started a new full time job recently and haven't been around much other then help moving the site twice to new hosting providers.

So on to post 5,001

 

[tonymacx86]

 

[The Fighting Saint]

Great job to both of you! I wouldn't have tried this without this website. I'm happy you avoided the piracy route. I joined in March 2010 and read thousands of posts and even changed what I wanted to build a couple of times before I finally went for it in December. It took awhile for me to pull the trigger on building a system but I wanted to make sure I fully understood what I was doing and this site provided many answers and gave me the confidence to build a nice system.

Macman - Good luck with your new job. You're a great asset to this community and I hope you stick around.

I don't think I'll ever get anywhere close to 5000 posts! I've been here almost a year and haven't even made it to 100 yet.

Thanks again to everyone who contributes. Without it there wouldn't be this great community.

 

[ijhu]

This is the wonderful forum. Without it, I wouldn't be interested in APPLE/MAC at all.

tonymacx86 & MacMan , you two are amazing.

 

[rene204]

Thank you for your hard work...

Rene

 

[wiggums]

Thank You so much. Without this forum, i would have had to tackle the octopus that is insanelymac. I still reference it, but all things hackintosh is explained in greater detail here. Now my house is full of hacks, including an i3 H55m-usb3, i7 P55-UD4P, C2D HTPC and a dual boot Dell 1545 Laptop that scores 1400 Points higher running OSX(32 bit) than in Windows(64 bit)!

 

[snugglez64]

U make tonymacx86 great!

Thanks for the awesome work done here guys!

 

[danijell]

Well, I'm about to build my 1st hackintosh this weekend, and I do truly believe I won't have any undoable issues - thanks to this community, and specially some of you...

I would like to slightly change the comment above (@snugglez64: nhf, don't want to make corrections ): you made allready great TonyMacX86's work enjoyable

 

[JoshNYC]

 

[eelhead]

I just want to thank you as well! I am very new here and I know I will be using your guide to help me with my first build.

So thank you very much and keep up the great work!