I learned skating (not figure skating though.) in collage, but never enjoyed it. I must say that this couple was fantastic. It makes me think that no matter whatever you do, passion is one of the essential ingredients.
The link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2onmlL194M&mode=related&search
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Fedora Core 6 on Latitude X200
Recently, I received a HP laptop as a gift. This little x200 thus could finally be turned into a 100% linux machine as I wished for a long time. Since it was in dual boot (WinXP and Fedora core 2) for roughly a year. I expected that the FC6 would work perfectly. Oh, well, life seems a little rougher this time.
I already installed FC6 on my other two desktops without any 'extra' problems. 'Extra' means more than expected :-) All of my desktops are 64bit, it was nature to install 64bit instead of 32bit for me. I hated my decision on this 64bit FC6. The firefox addons problem is just simply annoying. There are some ways to get around of it, but I was too tired to try them out.
Ok, my little x200 is 32bit. There shouldn't be any problem then. Yes, on flash player addon side, it was true. But wait, we were not there yet. Before we could see the pretty screen, trouble came! It wouldn't start. GRUB WOULD NOT START. I was panic at the beginning. Since this laptop is about 5 years old, I was thinking to replace the hard drive although there was nothing wrong with it. (I just experienced a hard drive failure on my desktop a month ago.) My immediate thought was there must be some bad sections on this poor old hard drive. So I did partition again, and reinstall FC6. The same problem was still there! It was thus not the poor little hard drive then. Let's work on THE PROBLEM itself, the grub. It turned out the solution was simple, just replace the grub with a working one. Reboot the machine, runs smoothly thereafter. It would save me some time if I worked directly on the problem.
As Confucius said, Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
I already installed FC6 on my other two desktops without any 'extra' problems. 'Extra' means more than expected :-) All of my desktops are 64bit, it was nature to install 64bit instead of 32bit for me. I hated my decision on this 64bit FC6. The firefox addons problem is just simply annoying. There are some ways to get around of it, but I was too tired to try them out.
Ok, my little x200 is 32bit. There shouldn't be any problem then. Yes, on flash player addon side, it was true. But wait, we were not there yet. Before we could see the pretty screen, trouble came! It wouldn't start. GRUB WOULD NOT START. I was panic at the beginning. Since this laptop is about 5 years old, I was thinking to replace the hard drive although there was nothing wrong with it. (I just experienced a hard drive failure on my desktop a month ago.) My immediate thought was there must be some bad sections on this poor old hard drive. So I did partition again, and reinstall FC6. The same problem was still there! It was thus not the poor little hard drive then. Let's work on THE PROBLEM itself, the grub. It turned out the solution was simple, just replace the grub with a working one. Reboot the machine, runs smoothly thereafter. It would save me some time if I worked directly on the problem.
As Confucius said, Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Loud is its sound, but never word it said.
Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.
Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it.
Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh greatly at it.
If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the Tao.
Therefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves:--
'The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;
Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back;
Its even way is like a rugged track.
Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise;
Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;
And he has most whose lot the least supplies.
Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low;
Its solid truth seems change to undergo;
Its largest square doth yet no corner show
A vessel great, it is the slowest made;
Loud is its sound, but never word it said;
A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.'
The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skillful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.
Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it.
Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh greatly at it.
If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the Tao.
Therefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves:--
'The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;
Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back;
Its even way is like a rugged track.
Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise;
Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;
And he has most whose lot the least supplies.
Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low;
Its solid truth seems change to undergo;
Its largest square doth yet no corner show
A vessel great, it is the slowest made;
Loud is its sound, but never word it said;
A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.'
The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skillful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.
chmod, chown
I was trying to change a group of folders' owner the other day. It took me a few minutes to realize that 'chmod' was not for this purpose. The right command is 'chown' :-) I should use Linux more frequently.
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