Dell deliver Ubuntu soon~~~!!!

Finally, Dell will deliver machines with ubuntu

Source : http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/unbuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&

Ubuntu Feisty + AIXGL + Beryl + Kiba-dock

1 Setup Ubuntu 7.04
2 Setup AIGLX and Beryl
3 Download and install kiba-dock_0.1-1.2_i386.deb package
4 Run 'kiba-dock'
5 Drag and drop launcher to the empty dock
6 Run 'gset-editor' to configure kiba-dock

Dual Boot XP and Vista, But Vista first and XP after

This is what I did to install Windows XP AFTER Vista with NO Vista DVD:
1. Using vista shrink volume, make another partition for d:\winxp
2. Clean install XP using cd then continue install the necessary drivers.
3. Install .Net Framework 2.0 and VistaBootPro
4. While in VistaBootPRO:
Manage OS entries Tab: add windows legacy for xp-drive letter c:
Bootloader Tab: Click Apply at "Reinstall the Vista bootloader"
5. Make sure boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect already at root drive c:
(can also copy from the xp cd folder I386)
6. Restart computer to see the dual boot menu.

Overview
There is currently 2 OS(s) installed in the boot manager.
Current timeout before default boots: 30
Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista

Entry # 1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry # 2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive:
System Bootloader: \ntldr
Windows Directory:

Burn ISO in Windows XP, 2003 and even Vista

事緣今日想試下用部vista 既notebook去燒下cd, 諗住vista應該有built-in 既燒碟software. 搵左一輪發覺vista好似 xp 咁只可以 drag-n-drop d files 去個 writer drive 度, 之後就燒 而唔可以燒 iso.

google完之後竟然俾我發現左件好野, microsoft 有套叫 Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools 既筍野, 入面有好多command line既tools. 而我要用既就叫 cdburn.exe

用法如下:
C:> cdburn.exe D: C:\xxxxx.iso

如果你唔係一碌木, 你必定明白個command點用, cdburn.exe 之外仲有個dvdburn.exe 總之就正啦.

之後再講下點做ISO檔案

Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en

Remote X -- Windows' Clone

SeamlessRDP, a seamless windows implementation for rdesktop. SeamlessRDP makes it possible to run individual applications rather than a full desktop. In this mode, rdesktop creates a X11 window for each window on the server side. The remote applications can be moved, resized and restacked.

To start using SeamlessRDP, a few simple steps are required:

1. Get rdesktop 1.5.0 or later from http://www.rdesktop.org/.
2. Get the server side component, "seamlessrdpshell". It is available in the seamlessrdp CVS module. You can also download a pre-built binary from http://www.cendio.se/files/thinlinc/seamlessrdp/seamlessrdp.zip . Unpack the files to some directory on the server, such as c:\seamlessrdp.
3. Run rdesktop with:

rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe notepad"

Web 2.0 in a nutshell

What is Web 2.0? This is the question right now. So let's answer it.

Web 2.0 is about four different interacting things:

1. Community. This is the most obvious one. Community is basically interaction between members, between websites, and between the website admins and its members. In the old days, we had the BBS and then IRC and then forums. Now it's more of the same, but also extended in one crucial way: we are happy to share without claiming ownership. The best example is Wikipedia: no one claims copyright control over it, and so we are breaking the traditional authorship rights. When we contribute to Wikipedia, anyone can read our contribution, anyone can copy it, anyone can edit, and dang it, anyone can delete it. This is very new.

The other new thing is voting. Now we have popularity contests of our contributions. Our forums have reps, delicious has the popular lists, and of course digg is the ultimate voting system. If you think hard, you can also convince yourself, Google's PageRank is essentially an algorithm that measures social popularity (link = vote).

2. Technology. Here we talk about XML, APIs, new content management systems like blogs and wikis, and if you're that inclined, sure, AJAX. The new technologies support the formation of communities and the interactions I explained above. XML gives us RSS and AJAX. APIs are a more general term that gives us mashups, and arguably, everything else. Basically, it's the use of standard technologies everyone agrees on. This, IMHO, is the biggest "technological" breakthrough: actually agreeing on a technical standard!!!

3. Architecture. This is best described by the Cluetrain Manifesto as:

Quote:

The Web has become the new corporate infrastructure, in the form of intranets, turning massive corporate hierarchical systems into collections of many small pieces loosely joining themselves unpredictably.

Essentially, we're talking about a more modular way to build applications. The (re)rise of Ruby on Rails and MVC model, along with other frameworks like CakePHP, is testament to this aspect of Web 2.0

4. Look. Every movement has a look: the 60s, the 80s, and now Web 2.0. Long gone are square boxes with plain boring color. No man, bring on the colors. Give me some jive. Don't be square. Lively and fresh is what we are. Why be something else? And yes, white space is great.

So this is Web 2.0 in a nutshell. Web 2.5 is in beta now and will be released shortly.

quoted from eKstreme (http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/)