Notes

August 5, 2010 Notes

Remastersys Demo - This program will allow you to create a customized Live CD/DVD or to backup your entire Linux operating system with your data to an installable Live CD/DVD.
http://remastersys.sourceforge.net/
http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/ubuntu.html

HDDBOOST submitted by Earl K.
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=HDDBOOST

Opera Unite submitted by Ralph S.
http://unite.opera.com/

Battery University submitted by Eugene R.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/

July 8, 2010 Notes

Dreamlinux Demo submitted by Charles K. If you like "The Doc" in MAC, you will like this distro.
http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/
http://dreamlinuxforums.org/index.php?topic=6677.0

The Seagate FreeAgent DockStar was shown by Ron J. at our Linux meeting section entitled "What's New in Tech." A very interesting device...

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VVmJownZJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM4JkZQA-YE
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-DockStar-Network-STDSA10G-RK/dp/B002MRRU6G/

LiveUSB Drives: Why, How-to, and Where At submitted by Ron J. This is a refresher for people who want to boot Linux from a USB flash drive.
http://www.tildehash.com/?article=liveusb-drives-why-how-to-and-where-at

Damn Small Linux is now considered to be a dormant Linux distribution.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall

June 10, 2010 Notes

Even though this is a LUG you must know Windows technology so Linux can coexist.
boot.ini = XP
Bcdedit = Vista/7 Boot Configuration Data  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcdedit#Boot_Configuration_Data
EFI System partition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_System_Partition
Extensible Firmware Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
Advanced Format Drive Technology http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2888
http://hothardware.com/Articles/WDs-1TB-Caviar-Green-w-Advanced-Format-Windows-XP-Users-Pay-Attention/

http://www.ubunter.com/

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-post-install-guide-what-to.html

May 7th, 2010 Notes

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Guide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid

The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-10.04-lucid-lynx

Free Your Machine Installation Script
http://urbanunderworld.net/software/linux/fym/

Amahi Home Server - Making Home Networking Simple
http://www.amahi.org/

Microsoft Windows Home Server "Vail" Preview
http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer

Fedora Kiosk
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Kiosk

Mythbuntu
http://www.mythbuntu.org/

TeamViewer full version - Linux (Beta)
http://teamviewer.com/download/

Older Notes

System76
http://www.system76.com/

Customizing Grub2 boot menu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1296225

Adobe Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for 64-bit Linux
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Misc

text editor = /etc/lsb-release
command line = run lsb_release -a

Windows 7 will run 120 days for free
From a command prompt in Administrator mode type "slmgr /rearm"

ntfs-config

Grub Re-Install

On a multiple boot hard drive (Windows and Linux or Linux and Linux) make sure you save your menu.lst. If you load another OS and it rewrites your MBR (Master Boot Record) you can restore the old GRUB menu following these steps.
sudo grub

This will get you a "grub>" prompt (i.e. the grub shell). At grub>. enter these commands

find /boot/grub/stage1

This will return a location. If you have more than one, select the installation that you want to provide the grub files.
Next, THIS IS IMPORTANT, whatever was returned for the find command use it in the next line (you are still at grub>. when you enter the next 3 commands)

root (hd?,?)

Again use the value from the find command i.e. if find returned (hd0,1) then you would enter root (hd0,1)

Next enter the command to install grub to the mbr

setup (hd0)

Finally exit the grub shell

quit

That is it. Grub will be installed to the mbr.
When you reboot, you will have the grub menu at startup.

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