he gave a terrific presentation available on youtube:
I hope they will be able to sell the PDF again here very soon.
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installing Linux on an external disk still makes Win 7 unbootable w/o the external disk
I had that problem like 10 years ago already with other hardware and different Windows.
That computer does not come with a separate recovery medium, the recovery stuff is stored on its own 1st partition.
Once that problem will be fixed, it’s possible to create a separate recovery medium, e.g. a 16 GB USB memory stick, from starting the computer using “F9”.Looks like I can’t fix it with pure Windows means.
Will this fix it?!?
- Yast2 has a module called “Boot Loader Settings”,
- there is a tab “Boot Loader Installation”,
- there is a menu button “Other”,
- there is an entry “Restore MBR of Hard Disk”.
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emacs documentation
I have proudly owned O’Reilly’s “Learning GNU Emacs” since November 1996. It has always been a very, very valuable supplement to the info mode documentation prepared in Texinfo.
That book covers GNU Emacs version 19.30, nowadays I am using version 23.x resp. 22.x. Better GUI integration has happened since and variable customization.As part of my project “let’s create courses and presentations from my e-books!“, I recently also acquired the 3rd edition of that fine book, and I used it today as PDF.I was always happily searching and replacing in case-ignorant-mode. But sometimes my finger do things with emacs, that emacs takes more literally then it was meant. That way sometimes I destroy this and that. LIke my gnus folder and topics structure. One of the minor things is to inadvertently go into non-case-ignorant-mode. But today during my booking-keeping time, I “had to” create yet another nice and useful replacement rule for my bank statement. And again, non-case-ignorant-mode – bad, very bad!I wasn’t lucky, when I tried to look this up in the emacs standard documentation “The Emacs Editor“, but looking it up in the O’Reilly book was a hit. There has always been a section titled “are emacs searches case-sensitive?“. I speaks about case-fold-search and case-replace. I understand that, and I “customized” the variables. Looking at these PDF files using Snow Leopard and its Preview application is also a big plus, I want to tell you. -
being O.T. on mailing lists
A (nice) guy told me in a nice way, one of my postings looked like advertising for O’Reilly books on that mailing list. Luckily enough, we had connected before through Xing (for the U.S. guys: something liked LinkedIn), I gave him a call on his mobile phone, and we talked about it. He actually agreed, that my posting on O’Reilly’s new HTML5 book was the least O.T. posting out of a couple, but still.
Good to get feedback from “mates” and to sort it out one-2-one.
That still tells me, to be a little more cautious with public announcements.
It was about a presentation on HTML5, that I offered to give. Actually: From my “being slightly O.T.” on a couple of mailing lists came an invitation to a technology conference in October. The guy reckoned, if I had specifically offered to that particular group, that I would give a presentation on their meeting, that would have been alright.
Hmmm. Well, it was meant that way. And “just in case”, nobody wanted it on any of the local user groups’ meeting agendas, I would have presented it “wherever”.
I think I do need a marketing person for that. It’s just that I can’t even afford employing and salarizing myself these days. So instead of doing nothing I think I have to accept, that errors and problems and misunderstandings just occur … and deal with them.I do have these Israeli marketing girls on my twitter following list, that’s a little like an ongoing course on that topic – a little.
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Googe Mail “Contacts Manager” has even gotten much, much nicer …
… with the recent update.
I wonder how long it will take for the new features to find their way into the Google Apps version of the Contacts Manager.
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a fresh openSUSE 11.3 install
My NEO‘s hard disk broke over night after running 365*24 for a couple of years (sic!!), so I got me new 3.5″ hard disks for this one and also its brother.
I started installing openSUSE 11.3 over the network yesterday. That worked pretty fine.But I got problems with X. I have no clue, where the X Windows set-up hides. Something tells me, to have a look at, which yast2-* components got activated with YaST’s package management. I think, the thing is actually called SaX. I will call SaX then instead. Didn’t find it. I am stuck. Shall I chat with Andreas Jaeger about this? Better not, he might remove me from his IM list then. I shall wait. It’s not urgent at all. I don’t really need a GUI on that machine. But then: it’s sort of my experimental box. If 11.3 works there, I will upgrade to it on the others as well.