http://www.taleslinger.com Where Tales Linger Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:55:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Four Pillars on Index Funds âȞ Get Rich Slowly (-)Posted using ShareThis http://www.taleslinger.com/2008/the-four-pillars-on-index-funds-a%c8%9f-get-rich-slowly/ More Bill ... http://www.taleslinger.com/2008/bill-nye-on-the-brain-1-of-3/ Nuff Said... http://www.taleslinger.com/2008/bill-nye-on-the-brain-3-of-3/ Here's a video of the Ron Paul Anthem w the Suicide Girls. Its very catchy, with a lot of energy. http://www.taleslinger.com/2008/ron-paul-revolution-anthem-w-suicide-girls/ 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: http://www.taleslinger.com/2008/colbert-explains-that-gas-costs-contain-no-profit/ Mysterious stranger video with Mark Twain in claymation. Very creepy. http://www.taleslinger.com/2008/mysterious-stranger/ 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. http://www.taleslinger.com/2008/darwin%e2%80%99s-moth-comet-orchid-in-madagascar/ 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. http://www.taleslinger.com/2007/some-sad-words-about-the-partition-editor/ 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 ... http://www.taleslinger.com/2007/how-to-format-a-fat32-usb-in-xubuntu/ 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.  ... http://www.taleslinger.com/2007/converting-vmware-vms-to-2-gb-partitions/