Archive for October, 2006

The PrintWiki Foundation today publicly launched PrintWiki - The Free Encyclopedia of Print.

Published by
Mike
at October 31, 2006 in General and Technology. Closed

Rochester, NY, November 1, 2006 - The PrintWiki Foundation today publicly launched PrintWiki - The Free Encyclopedia of Print.

The PrintWiki Foundation’s goal is to provide a comprehensive, open-source encyclopedia of printing and publishing.

The PrintWiki.org website provides a collaborative platform that enables anyone to contribute to the collective knowledge of the printing and publishing community. The result is a rewarding, constantly improving experience for anyone seeking or sharing knowledge about printing and publishing. Anyone can contribute and edit content to the catalog of quality information on the printing and publishing industry. The site belongs to no single person or group. The site will be continually updated, expanded, and improved upon by the community.

PrintWiki is not a staffed organization and is maintained by a group of volunteers who carry out editing, site maintenance, code development, and other administrative support.

All content contributed to the site is released under a Creative Commons License. Under this license anyone may copy, distribute, display, and make derivative works available for personal or commercial use.

For more information visit PrintWiki.org

About the PrintWiki Foundation

The PrintWiki Foundation is currently formalizing as a non-profit legal entity and will provide oversight for the PrintWiki Project. The founding board has chosen Adam Dewitz to serve as interim executive director during the formalization process.

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Disclaimer - Michael Woods the author of W.oods.name is a founding board member of the PrintWiki Foundation.

Dual booting WinXP and Fedora Core 5

Published by
Mike
at October 5, 2006 in General and Technology. Closed

Today I decided to tackle a WinXP and Fedora Core 5 install on my Sony PCG-K13. My company uses Fedora as a server platform, and I always wanted to have a server in my office to use and experiment with. I had also always wanted to dual boot my laptop just for fun.

I will admit I was a bit intimidated at the idea at first. So I pulled up del.icio.us and looked for some guides on how to dual boot your computer. I was willing to erase my hard drive for this setup, so I wasn’t to worried about having to try it a few times.

This quick guide assumes you have installed Windows XP and Fedora before

  1. Backup your data. Backup your user data and anything else important, you will be formatting your hard drive.
  2. Boot from your Windows install CD
  3. When you get to the Windows partition page, split your drive up into two segments. My drive is 30GB so I split it in half. It will look something like this once you set it up:
    • C: Partitition New (Raw) 15000MB
    • unpartitioned space 15000M
  4. Select your new C: drive and format it as NTFS and go
  5. Finish the complete Windows install process
  6. Boot from your Fedora Core 5 CD 1
  7. Choose install in graphical mode and start the process
  8. When you get to the Partitioning Options Screen choose:
  9. Use free space on selected drives and create default layout
  10. Check the box for Review and modify Partitioning layout
  11. The next screen will be the Disk Setup Screen. There will be a bunch of things in the window, you should have three volumes
    • a NTFS volume
    • a swop volume
    • a ext3 volume

    and some other stuff, but if you have those you are good to go.

  12. On the next screen you will set the boot loader configuration.
    • Choose Fedora Core if you want your default to be Fedora
    • Choose other if you want it to be Windows
  13. Continue configuring everything to it’s default, add the apps you need and you will be good to go.
  14. Restart and boot Fedora and boot Windows to see if they work
  15. Boot Windows load your anti-virus and anti-spyware applications then run Windows update
  16. Finishing configuring your systems and have fun.