Bubbling…

I recovered yet another fatally crashed computer with a linux live cd and yet the term Linux Life-saver(tm) given to that Fedora live-cd!!  and the credit goes to that specific cd!!  My friend called me, worried about his just-uploaded video files.  And he didn’t have any other copy.  Using some weird program he wanted to optimize his computer, and his computer crashed with the next restart.  So he called me, and I told him put your fedora live cd in and boot your computer with that.  Then we recovered his files with ntfs-3g (now the credit goes to developers of this utility).  So I thought I would post it here on how we did it, very simple.

1) restart your computer with any linux live cd ( really, all of them would work )

2) install ntfs-3g and ntfs-config.  In fedora:

$ su -c ‘yum install ntfs-3g ntfs-config’

3) GNOME:  go to System > Administration > ntfs configuration tool

KDE 3.5:  Kmenu > System > ntfs configuration tool

KDE 4:  Alt+F2 ( run command ) and search for ntfs and click on ntfs configuration tool

4)  it gives you some choices of HDDs.  check the one you want to enable and click on Auto configure

5)  fire up a file manager and put into your computer a cd, or even better, a USB disk and start moving your files and backing up your windows drive!

This is the link if you want to see how are those Sulphuric waves doing

In one sentence: so far so amazing! It’s now stable and completely usable. I now have a workable F9 system ( rawhide ) which I use daily. No more F8!!! Though we have yet ( one week ) to see the final artwork, but it’s still amazing. Some of the things I really like about F9 are:

-PackageKit: an amazing and fast front-end for yum. Specially mixed with yum 3.2.13, which has a policy that can be set to only download the best possible architecture for you beloved CPU what are those junk i386 packages when you can have the x86_64 ones? And I love the Package-Kit applet which shows up in the panel so you don’t have to worry about when something is finished or even worse, having some windows open while you don’t need them ( update windows ) It will notify you when the thing you’re doing is finished!

-Firefox 3: very natural look, I just love it. Bookmarking couldn’t get easier, especially for a bookmark-worm like me! And it’s faster, but the downfall is that it’s still Beta 5, not final!! but on the hand, it’s stable

-World Clock applet: Now I can easily have different time zones in my hand. It’s very handy when you want to call somewhere you have no idea what the time zone and you don’t have enough time ( lazyness? ) to look it up!

-New artwork ( seen this one but still out of rawhide ): Simply I like the Sulphur ( ph not f ) artwork, it looks nice

P.S. and I might not have cleared myself, but you have the choice of policies in yum whether you want the best possible architecture only to be installed or all of the architectures to be installed!

Lynx:

Lynx is a console web browser. Very simple and easy to use, just press and type a URL to go to that URL. press d to download the target. But the downfall is that it doesn’t show images ( because it’s console-based ) and therefore some websites ( e.g. facebook ) do not support it.

Alpine:

An email client. Yes, that’s right, a console-based email client. You can setup IMAP and POP access to your favorite mail service provider.

SSH:

With SSH service you can connect remotely to other SSH-enabled computers ( e.g. linux system ) very securely. In terminal, just type: ‘$ ssh -l login host’ while ‘login’ is the remote login/username and ‘host’ is the IP address or host computer address.

ok, I finally tried to unite my fedora system with windows XP pro SP2 ( fancy name ) and it worked. Thanks to softpedia.com for the great tutorial and thanks to virtualbox for making it possible. By the way, today I saw that Sun Microsystem has acquired Innotek.

Anyway, these are the screenshots, I just followed the tutorial ( refer to second previous post for that ):

It might be old but I just wanted to remind you again, that Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha 1 is out!

check it out on http://fedoraproject.org!

I’m really looking forward to see the final artwork!

In case you haven’t heard of it, Sulphur is the nickname for Fedora 9 to be release on April 30th These are the full results:

vote_count | name
————+—————-
62 | Sulphur
54 | Bathysphere
43 | Chupacabra
39 | Mayonnaise
32 | Dragicorn
29 | Woodwose
23 | Tourette
13 | Asperger
13 | Barmanou
10 | Chingachgook
6 | Kingsport Town
5 | Marfan

honestly, I would vote for Sulphur too!

BOOM! after having a little bit of trouble with installing openSUSE, finally I gave up (not as in completely) on that and got back to “my” fedora 8 I set it up differently this time. With totally new look! another thing, I’m using Gnome again. Just for some time. Just for a change. Needless to say, I’m now passionately waiting for KDE 4 finally release. Although I wanted to build it myself, I don’t have the knowledge to. So, I’m currently satisfied (not really) with testing it in a virtual machine. Actually that was why I tried to install openSUSE at the beginning. So here’s some screenshots from my current Gnome desktop.

copying some files over

updating

System files

updating

updating

echo icon theme
compiz enable
wallpaper: “frog” @ vladstudio.com