Another Opinion Among Many

BTW, for anyone who wants to dual, triple, etc boot from GRUB, and you want it easy, check this out. For as many distros as I’ve been able to, I’ve installed the bootloader on the root partition of the distro (my latest Ubuntu install is on /dev/sda5, for example). Then, I chainload it from the bootloader that I’ve already had installed. The advantage of this is that you don’t have to continually have to have your main bootloader reinstalled each time one of the distros has a kernel update.

Here’s how:

-add a new line in your /etc/menu.list or grub.conf file (and if you’re using LILO, 1.Why? and 2.You’re on your own. Read the man page). You will only need three lines for this to work.
-the first line is the title, so : “title Ubuntu 9.10″ (without the quotes)
-the second line is the “root (hdx,x)” line. I’ll use my Ubuntu install for an example. Use this command on this line (without the quotes, of course): “root (hd,0,5)”
-Then, put a third line: “chainloader +1″
-That’s it.

title Ubuntu 9.10
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1

is how it would look.

What will happen, then, is that your grub will boot and then, if you select your new distro entry, it will load the grub install from the first partition of your new distro.

Now, its easy to add and remove distros in your bootloader without the risk of it being changed to a mangled state on a multi boot system.

It occurred to me, after reading just one more random, spammy comment on a blog, that there might actually be people out there who don’t know how to search for things using a search engine.

The comments that I’ve read are definitely from someone who already knows how to use a search engine, but they are just trying to leave a comment relevent enough to the post that they don’t get their link deleted. If a complete stranger shows up at your blog and comments with a question like, “I really liked (insert some keyword they scraped here). Where can I find (whatever)?” You know there idiots are trying to get a link back to their crappy site because the only way they likely found your site was through a search engine. If they could find your site,they can find what they’re looking for.

However, what about those who are new the internet and computers? Are you one of those people and you got to my site by accident? I searched for a tutorial on searching and I found two links that I’d like to share because I like the way they are written.

The one that I like the most (so far) is Search engines at Learnwebskills.com. This site ha a few nice articles for the new internet user. The other one may seem an obvious choice for many. Its Google’s Google Search Basics page. Both sources are well presented and will give you a general idea of how to start searching for what you want to see on the internet.

Cool

Check this out. Perhaps we could get on this.

Wow. I missed out on the announcement. World of Goo (the game) is 1 year old as of the 13th of this month. They’ve decided to celebrate with a DRM free version for Mac, Windows, and Linux (gets the newest version,woo!) at a price that you decide. They want to have all of the copies out there actually paid for. Its an addictive, fun game. Go grab it at http://2dboy.com before the 19th. The sale will be over then.

…on coming up with enough to pay for hosting for another year. If I can’t swing it, you may end up having to see me on my Blogger blog or WordPress.com