MySpace Girl - The Afters
As many of you know, I found Bethany on myspace. So to me, this video is funny and sweet.
Jeremy Horn and Chasen Tour “Bluefield, VA”
A clip from a concert a few months ago.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Run Fedora 8 without killing your hard drive.
If you have a windows computer but want to run Fedora 8 you don’t have to try to reparation your hard drive. Go ahead if you want to but don’t cry if you loose everything you have on that computer.
On the free side of things, you have two good bets. The first being a live CD. Fedora will boot from a CD just fine as long as your computer has a sufficient amount of memory. The down side to this is that your changes won’t be saved. You can use a USB drive if you want to though.
The second option is to download the free VMWare Player and a Fedora 8 Virtual Appliance. You can run this within Windows (or another Linux Distro). The down sides to this are that the VMWare Player and the appliance are large files and will take a while to download and because you are virtualizing Linux it will use a chunk of your windows memory while you run it.
To use the live cd get a live image from Fedora. Make sure you get the architecture for your processor. The i868 iamge will not work with a 64-bit architecture. Then burn the iso with an image burner. Put the CD in your computer and reboot. It should boot into Fedora. If it doesn’t boot from the CD you may have to go into the BIOS and make it boot from the CD.
To use VMWare Player, just download and install. You will also need a Fedora 8 appliance. (The linked appliance is in a compressed 7z file. To uncompress it you will need 7-Zip.) Run your Fedora configuration file and it should load.
Have fun.
Filed under tech | Comment (0)Need an image burner for Windows?
Need an image burner for Windows? Try this program: ImgBurn. I had to burn an live cd iso on a computer that didn’t have an image burner so I gave this program a shot. It was small and simple to use. It did exactly what I needed.
Filed under tech | Comments (2)Flock
I’m trying out a new web browser called Flock.
The best points about Flock are:
- The People sidebar. The Facebook option is great for keeping up with friends, and if there are any links or pictures you want to send them, just drag and drop.
- The blog features. Flock has a pop browser editor to type your blog posts and you can drag and drop items from websites into your blog. It seems to support all the major blogging services and you can even customize it to use your own website. Since I have WordPress installed on my website I’m using that.
- The Web Clipboard bar is great for saving notes. I like it better than Google Notebook, mainly for the fact about the easy with which you can save images and the fact that you don’t have to do any finagling to get it in the sidebar.
- The media bar. Also great for keeping up with friends, and discovering new pictures and video. It’s neat to have a stream of media like that.
- Integrated del.cio.us bookmarks. Although the del.cio.us extension works might fine in Firefox.
The worst points:
- The project spins off from Firefox, but Firefox themes will not work with Flock. I assume that that many of the Firefox extensions will not work with Flock in the future. However, at this point my favorite Adblock Plus does work.
I’ll keep playing with flock for a while. I”m not sure if I’m going to continue to use it or not, but I sure do love that Facebook feature.
Blogged with Flock
Filed under links, tech, webtools | Comment (1)Setting up Google Apps
Google is the king of giving away great products. One of my favorite is Google Apps. The best part of Google apps is the ability to use gmail under your domain. So you can keep your john@imadoe.com and get all the benefits of Gmail.
To get started go to google.com/a.
Click get started. I’m just going to use the free version. I don’t need any extras or want to pay per user.
Google needs to know your domain. I already have a domain so I’ll enter it.
Be sure to understand, that you MUST alter you DNS records. If you get this wrong you can really mess up your mail. Either way, it can take a while for DNS records to propagate across the internet.
Enter a username and a password.
Ok. Now we must verify domain ownership.
You have two options with this… you can either upload a file or you can change a CNAME record.
I’m going to verify it by changing the CNAME record. I’m using GoDaddy but you should be able to do this with any domain host. Google has instructions for this at http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=47283&topic=9196.
So, I’m going to GoDaddy to make these changes. Google has instructions for this at http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=47283&topic=9196.
So I’ll take the string the google gave me and add a new CNAME record and point it to google.com.
Now I’ll click verify, and wait. Sometimes this can take up to 48 hours
To sign back in, go to google.com/a. The sign-in section isn’t oblivious. It’s in the upright hand corner. Click on returning user, sign in here.
You’ll get this:
Type your domain and select Manage this domain.
Click the Activate Email Link
They’ll give you instructions on how to change your CNAME records in the DNS. So yet, again I will be change CNAME records at GoDaddy.
When you’ve made the changes, click the “I’ve completed these steps” button in at the Google Apps dashboard.
Google will check your records. Again, this can take up to 48 hours.
When that’s done you can check your mail at http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomian.com or you can set up the account in an email client with either POP or IMAP. But that’s a post for another day.
If you want to change the URL where you check your mail, you can click on Email on the Google Apps Dashboard.
Then click on change URL.
You can the change that to mail.yourdomain.com or even a custom domain.
Follow the steps the google gives. This will involve adding a CNAME record the points to ghs.google.com
And that should do it.
Filed under tech, webtools | Comments (4)Infrastructure plans final for Bluestone Tech Park
It’s good to see progress in the region.
It seems they have finalized some plans to move forward with the infrastructure for the Bluestone Regional Business and Technology Park, near between Bluefield and Tazewell. They should begin breaking ground in March.
This is very important to the region’s future and Jim Spencer says it best in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph article.
Filed under Tazewell | Comment (0)“Tazewell County’s number one export is not coal,” Spencer said. “It’s not gas. It’s not hardwood products. It is children. Unless we do something to have jobs available for our children, and we can operate the best educational system in the United States, but we will continue to export those kids to other areas. It’s got to be quality jobs where you can make a good living.”
Ok. Let’s give this another try.
Ok, let’s give this another try. My blogging last all of 6 minutes, but I’ll try harder this time. Not much of a focus right now but it may develop one later on. It will probably focus on tech resource and websites, the Mercer-Tazewell county area, and thing I find interesting in general.
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