For some reason ubuntu 8.4 just did not play well on my work computer. I was rebooting a couple times a day from stuff locking up. I like debian based distros and looked for an alternative. I have tried linux mint before and loaded that up. I was not aware how close to ubuntu it was though. Even the sources.list is 3/4 ubuntu repos. They change a few things and offer more multimedia stuff installed by default, but it is built on ubuntu and feels the same. I have yet to have an issue in the past couple days. Me happy.

That there is some windows programs running in linux without a virtual machine. I had heard about wine for years now and decided to check it out using dvd shrink. The install was easy and I installed DVDfabHD decypter as well. I had been having issues with K9copy and made a personal backup of my southpark movie this new way. It went really fast and used both cores. Happy.

Pitivi is the answer for replacing microsoft movie maker. Really I just need to shrink down the file sizes, but I can create clips like I did with movie maker here in pitivi. Only thing left is steam porting their games to linux, which is rumored to happen soon. Joy.

I use linux as my main OS at home, but have a windows partition for movie maker and steam games. Well I had an old 5,400 RPM 100 GB drive in there and the MBR got written to it somehow on my last install. I wanted to get that out of my system and figures I would enjoy Hardy Heron since it is pretty much done (been using it on my laptop for months).

XP was easy and so was the ubuntu install. I have a 300 GB second drive that holds all my data so there was not need to create a separate home partition. It is formatted fat32 so both OS’s can use it. After loading up the nvidia driver I set up dual screens with the nvidia settings GUI, no need to edit xorg.conf, which was really nice. Compiz is enabled by default and I bumped it up to the cube by installing CSM. I have a canon printer which has heen a headache in earlier ubuntu installs. This time it was ready to go out of the gates, drivers and all. All I had to do was click make it my default and all was well. Lets see windows do that.

I doubt any BorK reader will care, but this is the fricking most awesomest 3rd party VMware plugin ever made. SVmotion allows you to move a virtual server to another LUN (datastore in ESX) while powered on. Regular Vmotion allows you to move a VM from host to host, but not across datastores. It is not supported by VMware yet, but nothing needs to be loaded up on the host or virtual center server, you just add the plugin to your client and it uses features already built into ESX which are not offered currently by VMware.

Long story short, it is going to solve an issue here at work that has plagued us for many months. I tested it and it works flawlessly.

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First pic that came up when I google imaged shuffle

It is a second gen, 2GB, purple sucker. Thing is tiny. I tried to get it to work in linux. Linux said the database was not happy. Had to load up itunes on the XP partition to get some tunes on there. This is pretty easy cuz a 2nd hard drive I keep all my stuff on is fat32 so both OS’s can see it.

Sniffed around on the internets and found this handy tool: iPod shuffle Database Builder From what I hear it works pretty darn good.

30 cool ones

Downloaded ubuntu Hardy alpha 6 for the laptop. It is pretty darn cool from what I have seen. Got wireless, compiz, the new gnome, and firefox 3 on it. Had a bit of an issue with scim messing with my language, but got rid of that. Took me a bit to get the xorg working well since I did not notice there is a new way to do it graphically. The nvidia settings GUI got my resolution correct which is a first. No hacking necessary.

I picked up everything with ease. This will be the next LTS distro so they are making it pretty cool.
Gotta love an OS that puts out a new version every 6 months. I am not ready to switch at work yet since I doubt vmware server is ready for Hardy yet. Still for my home PC it works great.

Impressed I am.

There is a battle going on in the comments section of an LJS article.

It on bitches.

So on our new laptop I had gone through the pain of burning off the restore discs and then wiped the sucker completely clean. I even deleted the partition that contained the restore info. Well a few things did not work out and I decided to start over and thought about getting vista on there to play with it some more, plus I like the movie making program. So I pulled out the restore discs and got going. To my surprise it recreated my restore partition as well. I resized the vista to 50GB with the linux install disk and it all better now.

ctrl + shift + T will bring back your last closed tab in firefox.

I end up going back into my history for closed tabs many times a day. This is sure to make me even more productive

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So the weekend was cool getting the USB hard drive to work and the extra internal storage on the computer. I was messing with it because I was fixing a friends computer. I used a linux live CD (ubuntu) to transfer his whole hard drive over to my USB drive.

I am privileged to work on many folks puters cuz they muck them all up with malware. This is the first one where I was able to just use the restore partition build into most new computers. It was so simple I was amazed. It literally tool 15 minutes. No searching for drivers and installing crap. I did add some antivirus and firefox.

I was gifted one of these fine external USB hard drives a while back. It totally saved the day cuz I figured I might as well back up my important data off my network share, then my network share died. Phew…. Since my network share was dead the USB drive got a bunch of use. Well recently is has started getting a little flaky. It would mount as read only and no matter what I did I had to reboot my machine for it to show back up. Eventually a reboot would not fix it anymore. I finally decided to just mount the sucker in fstab and it is doing pretty good now.

I added another 300gb internal drive and plan on using the USB drive as a precious data backup device only. Thing just scares me too much to use as a regular drive.

I love to show my flippy cube to people. My dad was pretty stunned to see it. Well they keep making it cooler and cooler. This is just a screen saver and not all that cool, but they keep coming up with cool stuff and I am pretty excited to see what the future holds. More here