New book!!!

My new book, Red Hat Linux 9 Bible, is 1031 pages of awesomeness ha ha. It came with the install disks for Red Hat 9 of course and a bunch of RPM's. But just starting to look through the book is amazing and i can learn so much from this book. Just to let you know I'm not a total Linux n00b (Ive burned my fair share of .ISO's) but i want to learn as much as i can about Linux, I just love the openness of the OS, and if i get good enough i might even try to build my own distro with some custom tools if i can get good at programming(which is going to take some time). But at any rate this is a great book, well worth the price i think [...$50...] and I'm looking forward to reading it and installing RH9 on my box.




The -BOOK-


See, not a total n00b, i carry this around with my laptop (I like the extra size of the DVD-RW, and the compactness of the mini dv disk) Backtrack is awesome haha.

What boredom makes me do....

Ive decided to add two HDD's that I had laying around to my latest desktop. One HDD is a Western Digital 80GB PATA drive and the other is a Western Digital 30GB. And well after getting my new book and receiving the latest Ubuntu distro from Canonical software( I just wanted to see how long it took to get something for free) so all these things coming together coupled with the boredom from my recent surgery I've decided to install some new operating systems on my desktop.
So I've decided to document my methods, wrong or right, to help others or help myself remember what I did wrong.

So, first a little documentation on my system: it currently has a single 320gb HDD, the processor is an AMD 4800+ dual core overclocked to around 3GHz [yes its aircooled using a zalman, the huge 140mm one with the fins, but ive been looking into water cooling], the Graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce 8500GT with 512Mb of onboard RAM from MSI, the fanless one[im going to add a second one for SLI soon], the Motherboard is an ASUS M2N-DeluxeSLI if i remember correctly, and I currently only have 2Gb's of RAM, and the current OS is Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

The operating systems I plan to install ar as follows: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, Red Hat 9, and Windows XP Home Edition.

Well...Lets get Started

The first thing I wanted to make sure of is that I DO NOT touch the HDD that I have Vista installed to avoid problems. so I just went ahead and disconnected the Sata cable and the power from the drive, well that's done so now I have a significant amount of confidence in going ahead with everything else.Second thing, clean install environment on my two previously used drives and the best way I know how to get a sterile drive is DBAN. So while I wait for that to run tonight on both of my drives, ill do a little reading in my book.


DBAN running, only on pass 1 0f 3.

Video From The palmetto Cruisers motorcycle Awareness Meeting

My laptop

My laptop is an IBUYPOWER LX850-2. The specs are as follows: 17" 16:10 wide screen, the native resolution is 1680x1050. Mobile AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core TL-64 processor [2.2GHz]. It has 4 Gigs of DDR2-667 PC5300 Corsair RAM. The graphics card is a Mobility ATI Radeon HD2600 with 512 MB of built in RAM, not shared, I don't know the clock speed of it because frankly I'm to lazy to look it up, it has HDMI and VGA out(no DVI sadly) . The HDD is a 250GB 5400RPM SATA drive (notebook drive of course)(I wanted a 500GB 7200RPM HDD but my dad wouldn't go for it). The optical drive is a Combo drive- 8x DVD+R/+RW, 16x CD-R/RW. It has a built in 1.3 megapixal CMOS instead of CCD webcam(which i think they forgot to hook up), it has a built in 3 in 1 card reader/writer, built in Wireless radio [a/b/g, no Draft-N or N), a built in bluetooth radio, 3 USB ports, and 1 IEEE-1394 Firewire port, and of course a built in 10/100/1000 LAN Interface.( oh and it runs Vista...yes i know...Home premium)


These are just pictures of my lappy and my little crappy bluetooth headset that i use with it for Skype.

MAKE: Television & Project submissions from make magazine on Vimeo.

Xbox Mods

Painting my XBOX

This is just a simple little thing that I did, i decided to paint it because i got tired of it being just regular black. Although this isn't the whole thing(my camera went dead and i couldn't find my moms camera(and my laptop didn't come with a driver for the web cam) so i was totally screwed. It turned out basically good, i wasn't able to everything i wanted because of time constraints and my skill level this being the first time I've painted somethinglike this. One thing that came out not so great was because i did it so quickly was that the painters tape(it was old and crappy) left a finish on the paint. I did all of this in just three days by staying up late and nearly going insane over getting it right. But enough babble time for the pictures.





















This is the top of the x-box, I taped of the
emblem on top and the fins on the sides as well as
the small triangles on the front and back.

This is the face plate before i sanded and painted it