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
- Backup your data. Backup your user data and anything else important, you will be formatting your hard drive.
- Boot from your Windows install CD
- 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
- Select your new C: drive and format it as NTFS and go
- Finish the complete Windows install process
- Boot from your Fedora Core 5 CD 1
- Choose install in graphical mode and start the process
- When you get to the Partitioning Options Screen choose:
- Use free space on selected drives and create default layout
- Check the box for Review and modify Partitioning layout
- 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.
- 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
- Continue configuring everything to it’s default, add the apps you need and you will be good to go.
- Restart and boot Fedora and boot Windows to see if they work
- Boot Windows load your anti-virus and anti-spyware applications then run Windows update
- Finishing configuring your systems and have fun.
Considering myself more a Milwaukean then a Minnesotan I find it humorous that this year I have lived in the two drunkest cities. According to the duluthsuperior.com Forbes is reporting that Milwaukee is “America’s Drunkest City”. At least the article puts a positive spin on it in the end saying there are other things to do in Milwaukee.
Which there are. Like take a brewery tour or go to a Brewers game or any of the other fine non-alcohol related good time you can have in Milwaukee. But why would you want to do it without a good beer?
Also see Forbes.com taps Milwaukee as America’s drunkest city.
I just downloaded the AOL ’s release of the search queries for a half million users from the mirrors and I wanted to see if any of the sites I maintain are listed in it. So then I went to the command line and tried grep. I am big newbie to grep, so I had to read the man file.
From what I figured these work. There may be better solutions.
in it’s simplest: replace pattern with the word you are looking for, and file with the file name you want to grep. It then creates a file in your current directory called resultfile.txt.
grep -i pattern file > resultfile.txt
to search for lines that contain multiple words: (repeat the “| grep pattern” for each word)
grep -i pattern1 file | grep pattern2 > resultfile.txt
to search for lines that have pattern1 and exclude lines that have pattern2
grep -i pattern1 file | grep -v pattern2 > resultfile.txt
Maybe you know grep better, but I thought this would be a fun topic for you to try. Let me know what you find and if you have any better ways to grep thru this data.
These were copied from the nadamac.de website. In July 2006 the pages were taken offline, and CamiTools was no longer being developed by nadamac.de. I managed to get a google cache of his old page, and I am saving it here. If you are looking for CamiTools, CamiScript or other Camino enhancements check out pimpmycamino.com
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Stephanie and I got married two weeks ago today. The wedding was beautiful, and plenty of friends and family showed up. A huge thanks goes out to the Feulings for letting up have such an awesome wedding. Another huge thanks goes to my family for helping with all the little stuff during the last week, but they couldn’t have done such a good job without help from Steph’s sister Teresa, and our best friend Kileigh.
Check out my Flickr photos tagged with wedding. The photographers are sending a dvd disk of the data files soon, and I will add move with that tag. Also check out our honeymoon photos. My sister and brother-in-law were so gracious and gave us their time share in Cab San Lucas, and we had the most relaxing vacation ever down there.
Thanks to everyone!!!
I ended up ordering my photo book through flickr using the qoop printing service. I had originally wanted to do a minibook which would put one picture on a page, but that ended up being $50ish per book. So I ended up choosing the photobook, with a layout of four photos per page. It took about a week for the book to arrive. The printing, binding and stock were all perfect, qoop did a good job.
My only criticism is that by choosing the photobook over the minibook made the book only 20 pages. The book feels more like a magazine then a photo album.
With the purchase of my new all-in-one printer-scanner-copier I have started to scan a bunch of old photos from my families albums. Now that I am familiar with the scanner and my quality of scans has increased I want to print my first book of the old scans.
I use flickr to share my photos. They use QOOP to print books, posters, and all sorts of other stuff. I like the minibooks the best. Their size and style fits my tastes perfectly. I like the ease of which they let you assemble a book from an group of photos in your account. What I don’t like is that they sometimes mash your photos into their slots which results in images cropped the way you do not want them cropped. I want the images at the original size, not some new unknown size. They also make you use the same layout through out the book. I signed up for the QOOP beta program which might solve these issues, but I’ll have to wait and see.
Now I suppose I could crop the photos to fit their dimensions and re-upload them, but that seems like a lot more work for me. I am willing to layout the entire book myself in InDesign. This works the best, and would be simple with InDesign’s center content button.
So I went looking for a book printer that could do short 1 or 2 off runs. I found lulu.com. A self-publishing website that offers you the ability to upload a variety of formats and they will pre-flight it and print them on demand for you. They offer a variety of sizes, but they do not offer a decent stock for a photo book.
So my friend who is a print purchaser told me about SyNet Media, a company that he sometimes sends work to. They have a manual layout option That would allow me to get close enough to what I desire. There site seems to run a bunch of java applets and is not the easiest to work with. However I think it will end up being the best option available.
Do you have any experience with photo book printing? Have you used any service that you would recommend?
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Time is counting down to the wedding day.
I never realized planning an event like this is so much work. My first advice would be to just hire a planner if you can afford it. But if you cannot afford that, just keep it small and simple. Choose a small intimate venue. Don’t have your ceremony, dinner and receptions at different places.
On that note, I must say Jim Raffel does an amazing job co-ordinating and planning the user group meeting for ColorMetrix every year. That event is entirely different, but I can sympathize on the amount of thought that must go into just the planning.
And one last piece of advice to the wedding planners. Register somewhere like Amazon.com. You will never run out of items to add to your registry.
The Downtown Journal (formerly Skyway News) just ran an article where they interviewed my sister. “Freedom from the kitchen” by Carl Hamm gives a good overview of her business and her career preparing food.
Jocelyn also had the whole cover of the Dec/Jan edition of the Bloomington Magazine. This article talked about how she does holiday cookies for her customers, as well as her usual meals.
I must say that if you get a chance to eat food Jocelyn has prepared you will be very pleased. She is inventive and fortunately her customers are adventurous enough to try some of her creations.
Jocelyn can be contacted thru onthetablepc.com
Greg at Metblogs.com pointed out a very nice traffic map of the twin cities that uses google maps. It has over 200 points where traffic is tracked. At each point you can get a speed estimate that lets you know of slow downs. You can turn on traffic cameras and get live up-to-date images of the traffic. Auto accidents and traffic construction alerts can also be displayed.
I have tried in the past to use live traffic data before I leave for work, but by the time I get on the freeway conditions have changed. When this live data can be pumped into your car via gps then it will really have a benefit. Regardless this is a great exercise in using the Google Maps API, and I can see this site getting some good advertising revenue in the future.
I probably won’t get much use out of this site, as my commute is all of 50 feet on a bad day.
Link: minneapolistrafficmap.com
via: metblogs.com
