Old technology but I wanted to take a look at MacOSX without having to fork out the dollars for the technology. First step is acquiring a copy of MacOSX. Best place is via technology classifieds. Next step, is getting a copy of PearPC and PearPCSetup (to ease setup of the configuration file as well as virtual hard drives). Then extract PearPC (jitc version) to a directory of your choice. Run PearPCSetup. Then create a VM as you would in VirtualBox and/or VMWare. Depending on your version of OSX you may need to setup a network adapter as well and/or setup a TAP device. After this boot from a relevant boot image and install as any other MacOSX installation would go. Note that depending on the size of the hard drive you have setup you may have a very long wait. Moreover, you may need to reboot in order to have the installation recognize this as something that you can install the operating system to. Note that it may also be easier if you decide to rip all CD's to ISO files first and use this as your installation media. This can be both quicker as well as quieter. You'll also note the CD's have a tendency to be smaller in size (about the 350 mark for my G4 cd's).
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- Lavinia Woodward was 24 and dreamed of opening hearts as a cardiac surgeon. On December 30, 2016, at her accommodation in Oxford’s Christ Church college, she ended up stabbing her partner in the leg with a bread knife.
According to evidence presented to the court, the argument erupted after Thomas Fairclough, a Cambridge student she had met on Tinder, called her mother, concerned about her drinking. Woodward had already been drinking and using drugs. Before stabbing him, she threw a laptop, a glass, and a jar of jam at him. He needed four stitches and was also injured in two fingers.
She pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding, an offense that carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. The court heard that she suffered from an emotionally unstable personality disorder, a severe eating disorder, and alcohol and drug addiction. In May, Judge Ian Pringle suggested that preventing her from pursuing her vocation would be too severe and postponed sentencing. On September 25, 2017, he sentenced her to 10 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
As she left the courtroom, in tears and with her family, she was seen mouthing "thank you" to the judge.
- The surgeons who saved one patient ended up flat on the floor.
At Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China, a team of surgeons spent 32 hours removing brain tumors from one patient. The patient made it through 32 hours of brain surgery, and the surgeons ended up on the floor.
Before the operation, Dr. Chen Jianping and the other surgeons stood at the table with steady hands. After it, two of them lay flat in their scrubs, too tired to stand.
Should surgeons ever work 32 hours straight, or is that too much to ask of anyone?
Sources: Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, ZME Science
- Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed an experimental gel that could help restore damaged tooth enamel, offering a promising new approach to dental treatment.
Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, but once it is significantly damaged, it cannot naturally regenerate. Unlike bones, enamel contains no living cells capable of rebuilding its original structure.
The researchers developed a protein-based gel designed to imitate the natural processes involved in enamel formation. When applied to a tooth, it creates a framework that encourages minerals from saliva to form new enamel-like crystals.
Laboratory experiments showed that the material could help restore mineral structure to damaged enamel within approximately two weeks.
The process works by guiding calcium and phosphate minerals into an organized structure resembling natural tooth enamel. This is different from simply coating a tooth with a protective substance.
The technology could eventually help treat early enamel erosion, tooth sensitivity, and damage caused by acidic foods and drinks.
However, the findings do not mean that severely damaged teeth or cavities can already be repaired using this gel. Further clinical testing is necessary to establish its effectiveness and long-term safety in patients.
Researchers hope the technology could eventually provide dentists with a less invasive way to repair early enamel damage before more extensive treatment becomes necessary.
If successful, it could represent an important advance in regenerative dentistry, a field focused on helping the body restore damaged tissues rather than simply replacing them.
Source: University of Nottingham; Nature Communications; research on enamel regeneration.
- On August 22, 2026, in Manaus, Brazil 🇧🇷, heavy rains cause a hole dug under a house to flood.
Inside are several puppies.
Their mother, a dog named Mary Jane, quickly senses that something is wrong. 😯
Very agitated, she grabs the attention of her owner, Edineia Moura, and leads her to the spot where her little ones are trapped.
Edineia then begins removing the mud and water with a shovel.
But two puppies are still stuck at the bottom.
Mary Jane then climbs into the flooded hole herself to get them out. 🥹
She comes back out with one of them, then goes back in for the last one.
In total, the dog had a litter of seven pups.
All of them were ultimately saved. 👏
- Bryan Cranston’s viral commentary forcefully reignited the national crossfire over systemic accountability and the indelible legacy of slavery: “Even though you might have never owned slaves, white people still owe Black people reparations because we still benefited from slavery.”
While this definitive quote anchors his message, Cranston has repeatedly used his public platform to demand institutional reckoning. He previously bluntly challenged the U.S. to "seriously think about reparations," tracing modern economic divides directly back to the theft of "150 years of free labor."
This ongoing clash exposes the deep-seated friction over generational liability for historic crimes. Proponents argue that centuries of bondage and subsequent state-sanctioned oppression engineered a cycle of compounding economic disenfranchisement that still handicaps minority wealth.
Opponents, meanwhile, contend that saddling modern citizens with race-based financial liability for an institution they had no part in is fundamentally unjust.
Ultimately, the debate centers on the urgent imperative for a nation to confront, balance, and actively dismantle the structural remnants of its history.
- OUT OF CUSTODY A WEEK — NOW ACCUSED OF A MACHETE BREAK-IN AT A FAMILY HOME
It’s becoming the new norm for homeowners: being confronted by an alleged offender given a licence to run riot by lenient sentencing or bail.
A teenager accused of trying to break into a Port Melbourne family’s home armed with a machete had been released from custody only the previous week, according to the father who confronted him.
At least in this case, the alleged offender came off second best.
Daniel Shoppee says police told him the 17-year-old had served a 49-day sentence relating to burglaries just hundreds of metres away.
Now another family is living with fear.
According to the Herald Sun report, barking dogs woke the household at about 5.30am. Shoppee says his mother screamed after seeing someone wielding a machete and trying to get into the home.
Inside were his wife and their three boys, aged one, two and four. His parents, both in their 60s, were also there.
Shoppee and his father intervened. During the confrontation, Shoppee suffered a fractured hand and the teenager sustained a broken jaw.
In my view, Daniel and his father showed real courage in protecting their family. There is something heroic about stepping forward when the people you love are threatened. And make no mistake, their actions probably prevented this individual from perpetrating more alleged acts of violence.
But confronting someone armed with a machete is desperately dangerous. This could have ended in death or permanent injury. Their courage deserves recognition; nobody should have to face that choice at their own front gate.
Unfortunately, we may see homeowners facing court for dealing out summary justice on these brazen and unrepentant criminals.
In Victoria, a homeowner can face no criminal penalty at all if they act in lawful self-defence—even if the intruder is seriously injured or killed. But a break-in does not automatically justify any level of force.
Under section 322K of the Crimes Act 1958, the questions are whether the homeowner believed their actions were necessary to defend themselves or someone else, and whether their response was reasonable in the circumstances as they perceived them. This protection applies to defending family members during a home invasion.
If self-defence does not apply, possible charges and maximum prison terms starting at 5 years.
Police arrested a 17-year-old and charged him with attempted aggravated burglary and possessing a prohibited weapon. The allegations will be dealt with in the Children’s Court. In other words, the most this alleged offender faces is 2-3 years jail, although aggravated offences can be uplifted to the County Court.
And please don’t tell me this individual will get bail again. If the circumstances reported here are established, the community deserves a clear explanation of how any further release would keep people safe. The report does not say whether bail has been sought or granted.
The reported timing of his release demands answers. What supervision was in place? How was the risk of further offending being managed?
Shoppee praised the police who responded. His frustration is with a system he believes leaves officers confronting the same problems repeatedly.
For his family, the fear didn’t end with the arrest. A passing car now has them sitting upright, wondering what’s happening.
Families should be able to sleep safely in their own homes. Rehabilitation matters, and so does protecting the public.
What needs to change? Has the Labor Government failed and does any policy or political party offer a solution? Tell me what you think.
#crime #burglary #selfdefence
- Two Detroit-area doctors and a clinic manager were charged in April 2017 in what prosecutors called the first federal prosecution under a 1996 law banning female genital m*tilation in the United States.
Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, an emergency room physician, was accused of performing the procedure on two seven-year-old girls from Minnesota at a clinic in Livonia, Michigan, in February of that year.
According to investigators, the girls were flown from Minnesota to Michigan after being told they were going on a “special girls’ trip.” One of the girls later recalled being told they were visiting a doctor because “our tummies hurt.”
Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, who owned the clinic, and his wife Farida Attar were also indicted, accused of allowing the procedures to take place there and aiding Nagarwala.
All three were identified by prosecutors as members of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a Shia Muslim sect. A federal complaint described the group as a community “known to practice female genital m*tilation as part of their religious and cultural practice.”
Nagarwala’s attorney maintained her client had committed no crime. Attorney Shannon Smith told a judge that Nagarwala had merely removed mucous membrane from the girls and handed the tissue to their families for burial, calling it a religious custom rather than m*tilation.
Prosecutors disputed that account, later arguing in court that Nagarwala had carried out similar procedures on as many as 100 girls over roughly a decade, each instructed to keep the surgeries secret.
The case prompted lawmakers in Minnesota to push new legislation. The Minnesota House voted 124-4 to impose felony penalties on doctors, parents and guardians involved in genital cutting.
In November 2018, a federal judge dismissed the genital m*tilation charges, ruling that the 1996 law exceeded Congress’s authority, though related charges in the case continued separately.
