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!

I was looking looking around the net when I ran across a very interesting post on why do some people use linux! People who use linux usually say because it’s secure, free, and because it’s customizable. But is that why we really use linux? Those reasons are all valid, though, but for us linux users, there is something more to linux than just security and customizability ( put the freedom concept aside ).

I personally have multiple reasons to use linux. One being that other OSs simply just don’t do things the way I want. Another on being that sometimes I’m curious about what is going on inside that program I’m using, so I check out the source code to see what is going on. I like using terminal, it’s fun!! There are many other reasons why I use linux which I can’t remember now, but I agree with every bit of this post by Vlad Dolezal.

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 ):

The point is, you can have windows and linux running at the same time on one screen and work with both of them at the same time! Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Doing it is very easy, just get the virtualbox into ’seamless mode.’

To do this, you need to install VirtualBox and have a legitimate copy of Windows, whether windows XP or Vista doesn’t matter, something that works ( which unfortunately is not the case with any of them ). Now, configure the virtual machine which is a virtual windows, like this:

1) On the ‘General’ section drag the “Video Memory Size” slider to 64.

2) On the ‘Audio’ section check the “Enable Audio” box.

3) On the ‘Remote Display’ section check the “Enable VRDP Server” box.

Now, run the virtual machine and install the guest additions.

Go to machine > seamless mode and you’re done

And don’t forget to leave comments if it worked for you

For very detailed walkthrough, click here.

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!