The Four Pillars on Index Funds âȞ Get Rich Slowly (-)
TaleSlinger on Jul 09 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
Ron Paul Revolution Anthem w/ Suicide Girls
TaleSlinger on May 17 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
Here’s a video of the Ron Paul Anthem w the Suicide Girls. Its very catchy, with a lot of energy.
Colbert Explains that Gas Costs Contain No Profit
TaleSlinger on May 10 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
This is a pretty funny look at an Oil Company ad which purports to show where the cost of gasoline goes.
Mr. Colbert points out that according to the ad, there’s no place for profit.
Clip from Comedy Central below:
Mysterious Stranger
TaleSlinger on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
Mysterious stranger video with Mark Twain in claymation. Very creepy.
Darwin’s Moth & Comet Orchid in Madagascar
TaleSlinger on Apr 27 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
Here’s a short video showing a prediction that Darwin made 150 years ago that was recently born out, regarding Madagascar, moths, nature, Darwin and infrared lighting.
Some sad words about the Partition Editor
TaleSlinger on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Tech, linux
I learned a difficult lesson today. while using GParted to partition a hard drive, I attempted to change the label of a partition on my drive. A careful reading of the warning indicates that it will erase the drive not the partition.
Caveat operator.
How to Format a Fat32 USB in xUbuntu
TaleSlinger on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Tech, linux
I wanted to format a large USB hard drive as FAT32, so that I oculd easily move data between Linux and Windows.
- I had trouble doing it in Windows XP (personal edition) because there was no option to format as FAT32 (only NTFS).
- I tried using Partition Magic, but it wouldn’t do the USB drive on reboot.
- I tried formatting in Xubuntu7.10, but as a relative newbie, I ran into several obstacles:
- My hard drive was formatted as NTFS, so it didn’t mount in Xubuntu (shows up in file manager, but can’t read/write it, and can’t find out where it is).
- I eventually found that I wanted to use mkdosfs, but needed to figure out what for format — I almost formatted my main partition…
- I added the “show mountable devices” widget to the top panel. It showed where the half-mounted NTFS drive was actually mounted (in my case it was /dev/sdb1)
- I “sudo mkdosfs /dev/sdb1″, which formatted the drive properly.
Converting Vmware VMs to 2 GB partitions
TaleSlinger on Nov 03 2007 | Filed under: Entertainment
I recently needed to convert some VMs from single large disks to smaller, 2 GB files. The key was using the vmware-diskmanager.exe that came with VMWare Workstation and following the directions carefully.
I tried a couple of the GUIs that people have written for this, but I didn’t get them working. In the end, I used the command line, since I just had a few to do.
The example that comes with the commandline help was all I needed:
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vm
