I can never overemphasize the importance of this enough. Back up your important data files. Daily. This is a very simple procedure. It takes approximately five minutes. It will save your files. 1) Insert a thumb or flash drive into any USB port on your computer. 2) For Windows copy your “My Documents” folder contents… Continue reading Howto: Backup your data files
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Howto: Install Fedora from a LiveUSB flash drive or CD.
When you have a liveUSB flash drive or liveUSB CD the installation of Fedora is fairly straight forward. 1. Install the LiveUSB flash drive or CD. 2. Reboot your computer. 3. Press F8 to acquire the boot menu of your computer. Some systems may require a different F key such as F2 or F5. 4.… Continue reading Howto: Install Fedora from a LiveUSB flash drive or CD.
Howto: create a local repository for Fedora.
Creating a local Fedora repository is a great way to conserve bandwidth. You can update all of the computers on your local network from one repository. 1) Install a web server. I use apache. su -c yum install httpd -y 2) Create the directories that become the local repository. su -c mkdir -p /var/www/html/yum/F15/releases su… Continue reading Howto: create a local repository for Fedora.
Howto: create a custom spin of Fedora 13
Much of the documentation I read on the World Wide Web suggests using revisor to create a custom Spin of Fedora. I find that revisor is not well suited to my needs. I use LiveCD Creator. To install it: yum install livecd-tools -y I suggest you install the fedora-kickstarts and spin-kickstarts packages as well. yum… Continue reading Howto: create a custom spin of Fedora 13
Howto: Fedora® LiveUSB
What is a LiveUSB? It is a condensed (Live image) version of Fedora® you can install to a flash drive. You can then boot to Fedora from the flash drive on any computer. You can also install Fedora to any system from the LiveUSB. There is an easy to implement option. This may be a… Continue reading Howto: Fedora® LiveUSB
Adobe security issues
The Flash player and Acrobat reader have security issues again. This vulnerability affects Flash Player 9 through 10.0.45.2. Adobe Reader 9, Acrobat 9, and other Adobe products (including Photoshop CS3, PhotoShop Lightroom, Freehand MX, Fireworks) provide Flash support independent of Flash Player. Install the 10.1 version of Flash if you need flash or uninstall flash… Continue reading Adobe security issues
ASUS P7H55M-Pro BIOS update
ASUS recently released a new BIOS update (1303) for the P7H55M-Pro motherboard. The new BIOS addresses memory errors with the 0802 BIOS. Memory tests revealed no issues but on rare occasions I was experiencing a couple of memory related errors. IRQ_NOT_Less_THAN_OR_EQUAL and PFN List corrupt errors indicate your BIOS and memory are not communicating correctly.… Continue reading ASUS P7H55M-Pro BIOS update
Why does copyright matter?
Someone, meaning well, posted one of my solutions verbatim to the Intel community forums. Whether they got it here or someplace else is irrelevant. When the poster was notified, that they had violated my copyright, they promptly removed the post in a very timely and mature manner. I appreciated that. Let me make this perfectly… Continue reading Why does copyright matter?
Data communication – of the IEEE 802 type
There is a lot of confusion and misinformation related to data communication. An interesting snippet related is that data storage occurs in multiples of 1024 per Kilobit or Kilobyte. Data transmission occurs at 1000 per Kilobit or Kilobyte. Wired communication is typically IEEE 802.3 in a range of speeds 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 Megabits… Continue reading Data communication – of the IEEE 802 type
Howto: Securely remove data from a drive.
Many purported security experts believe that reformatting a computer will remove all traces of data. That is just not accurate. Drives can be formatted and reformatted and will still have files that can be easily recovered with the right tools. There are 2 primary ways to permanently remove data from a hard drive. One is… Continue reading Howto: Securely remove data from a drive.