Kickstart Configurator Fedora 14 installs!

Install the Kickstart Configurator on a Fedora 14 install
yum install system-config-kickstart

Once installed, run Kickstart Configurator
/usr/sbin/system-config/kickstart

Used instructions/documentation found here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/ch-redhat-config-kickstart.html

Earth day 2011!

Three monitors, five printers, one scanner, one pc, and a battery backup.  All kept out of the landfill!

Manually create Windows 7 USB boot media

Steps to create your own Windows 7 USB boot media.

1) Open a command prompt with admin privileges.
2) Type diskpart
3) Type “list disk”
4) Locate the entry that corresponds with your USB thumb drive, and type “select disk ”
5) Type “clean”. This will wipe the partition.
6) Type “create partition primary”
7) Type “select partition 1″
8) Type “format fs=ntfs quick”.
9) Type “active”.
10) Type “assign”.
11) Type “exit”, then close the command prompt.
12) Open the ISO file in 7-zip. Extract the contents to your thumbdrive.
13) Remove and boot.

Borrowed this from the comments made by thirdwheel in the following blog post: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/install-windows-7-from-usb-drive-requires-2-simple-steps/

Giving up on Dell Mini 1010

The Dell Mini 1010 is a decent little netbook, but the GMA500 chipset really kills the idea of using Linux on this thing. Linux is a great OS, and something I will probably look into running on a 'home server' PC again in the near future. Its been great to learn, and I am glad to be armed with new knowledge of an OS, however, Windows support is where my career will grow.

So Linux on the Mini 1010 is done, it will get its previous Win7 backup restored soon. In the meantime, I intend to finish my Linux course and begin working on learning VB.Net and/or C# programming in order to facilitate building packages for PC deployments.

To the Cloud!

With the release of Amazon MP3 cloud service this week, I've moved most of my favorite tracks to the cloud! Similarly, purchased storage from Google to store our photographs. Finally completed uploading pictures through Picasa. So gradually moving important or useful data to the could.

As a consumer, both of these services are useful. Photos can easily be shared with far off friends and family. The Amazon MP3 service streams to Android and web browsers, so music can be made available virtually anywhere!

This may make moving to a Linux platform full-time much easier.