Menus in Fedora 14

Cruising the web and noticed many people asking how to edit the menus. There were many how to’s, but no simple ones.

Try this:::

To get started, go to System –> Administration –> Add/Remove Software.

Search for

alacarte

After installing, go to System –> Preferences –> Main Menu.

Now check or un-check applications you want and don’t want on the Main Menu. Click ‘Revert’ to restore everything.

This does not actually remove the software, just gets it off the menu list. To actually remove the software use the package manager. You can think of this method as being similar to deleting a link in WINDOZE. The link goes away but not the program hangs around forever

Ubuntu and adobe audition 3.0

Heard a lot from many people that they had problems with adobe software (Audition) running in Linux so I grabbed a trial version off the Adobe site. The only real difference between the production version and the trial version is the fact that the trial version is what I call Bombware. That is it complains when the timer runs out. You can verify this with any Hex Editor that permits comparing any 2 files.

#1 In order to bring up Adobe audition 3.0 in linux I must get gdiplus working

Here are the steps from within the terminal

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

Above fetches the winetricks module
sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6


Above grabs some related fonts, oh yay!
env WINEPREFIX=~/.winetest winetricks mfc40

Above is some visual basic trash, but we need it
env WINE=~/wine-git/wine winetricks mfc40

Above sticks all the goodies in our path and sets some variables
Yep we need to do this
Do not forget to tell wine that the gdiplus library is present

Select configure wine from the Ubuntu menu

Select application tab

Add application and walk the file structure to the audition executable

When that has been added select the library tab and type in the override gdiplus.dll or *.exe (which ever file you have installed)

Also you may need msvcrt override

This whole project is working under Ubuntu studio edition 10.04
I’m using this edition for the configuration because most of the work is done for me

Everything works and the video is just fine.
My configuration for hardware is:::
768 meg RAM
2.0 gig intel CPU being pushed to the max, shows 100% with audition running
When Audition is launched system showing 400 meg RAM consumption
Video resolution is set at 1280×1024 for both the splash screen and the desktop vesa mode

Fedora and Iomega zip drives

Fedora 14 tip

I received a number of zip drives of the parallel port variety and plenty of media. Not wanting to waste this and the parallel port is not used anyhow I noticed there was very little useful to me on the web to get the devices going. Also there is a tape drive as well. Here are the simple instructions.

Open a terminal window

Become root su -

type

modprobe imm tap enter

type

modprobe ppa tap enter

type

modprobe vfat tap enter and close the window

The device will appear in the computer icon. Mount the device and it appears on the desktop

How to make a windows pendrive install

As I cruised the web I noticed many people were confused about how to create a bootable pendrive.
For this example I am using a 4 gig corsair pendrive.
Be certain that you do not use a sandisk with the U3 software installed.
Next get this — http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/

Burn the *.iso as an image to a CD. You must burn an image! For that I used brasero, but any program capable of burning an image will do. Keep in mind that a *.iso is nothing more than an archive of the source.

The *.iso can be opened and viewed with 7zip so grab a copy of that from.

Here — http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

I am using 2 systems to get this job done. #1 is a dead system with no OS.

Take the created bootable copy of gparted to #1 and boot to the disk.

If the Gui does not come up type sudo forcevideo then launch gparted. delete all existing partitions and click apply as you proceed. Next you should see nothing but free space on the main drive. Now create a new partition that fills the entire target drive. Format the entire drive as ntfs. Clicking apply as you go along.  Check and make sure the target drive has the boot flag set.!

One more step to go! Plug in the pen drive and let gparted find it. In the upper right of the gui there is a dropdown box. Located the device that is about the size of the pendrive. Delete existing partitions. Create a new partition using the same method as before and ensure that the boot flag is set for it as well.

Now what we have is a bootable device in the form of a pendrive. BUT there is nothing on it as yet.

Return to machine #2 and stick the Standard windows install disk in the drive. When it attempts autoplay the disk simply wait for a point when you can terminate that program. That is abort the install. Then open your favorite file browser and open the disk so you can see the files on the install disk. Plug in the empty pendrive.  Set your file browser to the list view and highlight the top file/folder and hold down the shift key. Highlight the bottom file. All visible files at this point should be selected. Drag the whole mess to the target pendrive.

Now relax, this is going to take a while to finish. I did this with Vista and estimate that it took 2 hours. 7zip is a handy tool to have if your system can not view a *.iso file.

When the job is done take the bootable pen drive to the system for the install and boot to it and do the install.

Wait you say why would any body do this!!!

First –  the system I was working on had a dead internal CD.DVD drive and would not boot to an External CD/DVD drive. It would however boot to a pendrive. The above method took care of everything.

The Children of BOOM

     Born of unions at war’s end, full of hope and promise. Greeting a world renewed in trust,love and peace. Purchased at the price of death and destruction.

     Step forward the babies of BOOM!

    Wrenched from the womb.  Assaulted, to see,hear,taste,smell,touch. Polluting the harmony of being. Grow then, and play in joy and innocence for the time is short! The burdens and duties to come, heavy.  Gather knowledge,strength,wisdom, for such are possessions; concrete. Being mindful that all physical constructs are fleeting, an illusion.

    Build then the essence of being. Gossamer filiments entwined with the Quanta of creation. Exchanging particals of everywhere and everywhen for a foundation to flower in glory! Having no existance in the moment, joining with the eternal.

     Now then, pressed into the mold, shaken,stirred, moving forward as one. Reaching out from the pain, disorder, confusion.

     Rail, Rail! At the chaos!

    What is now? Becomming what was, a mutant of now. What will be, yields not to will. A ghost of hope. Whispy, without form. Fear the form, when subtance given. For the material is of corruption, doomed to decay!