Here is our baby’s heartbeat.  It was a good gift for my 27th birthday.
 

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.

I’m trying out a new web browser called Flock.

The best points about Flock are:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Integrated del.cio.us bookmarks.  Although the del.cio.us extension works might fine in Firefox.

The worst points:

1. 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.

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