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The basics on Windows hard drive partitioning and why you should consider separate Windows partitions.

There thousands of references on this topic and many go into great detail. I wrote this article with the basics in mind so that you might go away with answers and new ideas rather than more questions you had to start with. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows Media Player cannot see files on your Sansa mp3 player.

You connect your Sansa mp3 player to your computer, start your music sync software, but the music you know to be on the player cannot be seen by your sync software or your computer via drives/devices in My Computer.

In this example Windows XP is the OS, Windows Media Player is the synchronizing medium, using the Sansa m240. The fix should work for other Sansa versions and some other players. This problem probably would not have happened using Linux as one would have unmounted the device before disconnecting it. Which leads us to what I believe may cause this problem, at least sometimes. Read the rest of this entry »

XP Recovery Console Will Not Accept Administrator Password

You find the fix that will bring your Windows XP (pro / home versions) OS back inperfect working condition. You make your way to the Recovery Console using the XP Installation CD, you are asked for the administrator password, you type it in with confidence only to discover that access is denied because your password is not accepted.

Well, the fix is easy and hopefully you have found it while you are still able to boot into Windows XP and set one Registry Value.

1. Go to ‘Start > Run – In the open field type regedit.exe
2. In the Registry Editor navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\
Setup\RecoveryConsole
3. Change the value of SecurityLevel to 1
4. Close out of regedit and reboot your computer.

You will not be asked for the Administrator Password again while in the Recovery Console.

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Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: rpmforge
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from rpmforge: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from rpmforge: [Errno 256] No more
mirrors to try.

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This repository connection error can happen after a fresh OS or repository installation. In this case the example will be the third party repository rpmforge which I based my decision to use CentOS as a Desktop OS.

Fortunately this matter was resolved with one Yum update option. Hopefully it will work as easily for you. Read the rest of this entry »

Linux - The freedom does matter.

Our choices of Linux desktop operating systems have to do with everything from personal needs, technical ability, to our machine hardware. I have always hosted our websites on Linux servers because I learned in this environment, and up until the last few months I’ve done most of my work and play in a Windows PC environment with the aid of great free and open source software like XAMPP and OpenOffice.org for the same reason. Read the rest of this entry »

Part 2: Linux hard drive installation

This article/tutorial will show you how to install Linux directly to your hard drive without disturbing your Windows master boot record (MBR). Read the rest of this entry »

Part 1: The easy way – An Introduction to Virtual Linux

Most of my machines run two versions of Windows and two versions of Linux. This is one of two methods I have found to keep both operating systems smoothly separate, yet happy together. In Part 2 (should be out in a week or less), we will talk about another method you can use to install Linux / Unix directly to your hard drive and get the same results. Read the rest of this entry »

Help separate style from content using CSS table structure in your design. Using table id and table data class. Read the rest of this entry »

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