My attempt to install Red Hat 8.0 did not go as planned. While the iso downloaded OK, and the MD5 Checksum matched, apparently the CD I burned for Disk 1 was bad. After a number of attempts to install either hung or spit back an error about being unable to read such and such, I ran the media test of the disk (yeah I should have just run that first, lesson learned) and it failed. Guess we’ll burn another copy and try again later in the week.
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According to Cringely’s latest at InfoWorld, the soon to be released Dell PDA’s will be running an embedded version of Windows XP, not Pocket PC 2002. Could that be what’s keeping the price down? Should be interesting to compare the two I would think, although I think I’ll stick with PocketPc 2002 for my Xmas…
Yesterday I told you that Mike Sanders was back blogging. Today I wondered over there and found him doing a “7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers” series. He’s already gotten habits one and two explained. I think he makes some great points and presents us with some excellent discussion material! Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Fred Langa has a good article up over at Information Week about small and zero-footprint Linux distros.. I may have to download one of the “run from CD” versions so I have something I can play with at work during slow times. It’s almost summer, once we get through our big annual meeting in late…
And man, it can’t come too soon. I’ve been running around fighting fires and giving explanations to people all day! Unfortunately, I’m afraid all it’s done is push back a bunch of things that I need to get done into next week. You know, the week with only 3 working days. 🙂 Ahh well, I’ll…
Just a typical IT day, you’re trying to reconfigure a machine and get it moved, as an improvement for one of your users, but you get sidetracked when your boss comes running into your office, accounting reports falling out of her hands, asking you to investigate a missing payment from the database! Turns out someone…
Robert sent me the link through IM earlier today that he discusses in this post. I’m impressed, this is a pretty good idea to get people to at least think about computer security. Let’s face it most home users are never going to go spend a lot of time looking at computer security articles online,…