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One More Year

Posted on November 16, 2007

Welp, I turned 26 today. I think this calls for a review of the last year of my life.

At the age of 25, I can only call this the year of change. I quit UPS, my parents and sister moved out of Ohio, and I moved to NYC. 25 was the age that I learned who I was and who I wanted to be. I went on a mission to find out what I wanted to do with my life.  I wanted to know where I would be in 10 years. To help aid my search, I moved to New York City in March. There I learned that life has a lot more then just college and drinking. I learned that I have potential and talents that society needs. Because of this, I decided to move back to Ohio to complete my education and increase my experience in the field I felt I was good at. I also used my experience and lessons learned to keep in mind that NYC was where I wanted to live. That is the fuel I am using to get through school. I know from the bottom of my soul that I want to go back to NYC after college. That is the lifestyle I want to live. I love the bustle of city life. Ya it is nice living in the suburbs and having cars to go anywhere, but being able to meet so many different kinds of people in a square block is more important to me. The bottom line for me is that I want to prove not only to myself, but to my friends and family that I am someone great. This is important to me. Why? Because I want them to be proud of me in every aspect. They know that I have a kind heart, but they don’t know that I am capable of great things. I never seem to follow through with what I say. Times have changed. I _have_ to follow thorough with everything. The move back to Ohio was good and bad at the same time. My friends are awesome. They have expressed nothing but gratitude for my return. They know my potential. They know that I am capable of great things. They also know that they now have the chance to see my evolve to that. I am thankful for it. I am thankful I have family that cares for me. If not for them, I would be some junkie on the streets. I know this.

That’s all I have for now. Its a bunch of rambling, but it is all true. Thank God for everything. Thank God for me and my family and friends. I would do anything for them.

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Working Again

Posted on October 27, 2007

So I am working again. This is nothing noteworthy in any way. What is noteworthy is that I am in the planning and implementation stages of starting my own company. I just finished up one proposal with a company and will have to begin to draw up others in the coming weeks. I have not settled on a company name or anything like that…it will come in time.

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Ubuntu (7.10) Gusty Gibbon with Dmraid Install

Posted on October 23, 2007

One major issue remains for most when it comes to installing Ubuntu on a dmraid “fake raid” enabled system. Most of us who fall into this category use this because we still run a partition with windows on it. With the new Gutsy Gibbon release, things are a bit easier, but one must still trick the system. Here is how we do it.

What you will need:

  1. Gutsy Gibbon Live CD.
  2. Internet connection that works out of the box.
  3. A few minutes.

Load the Live CD:

Insert the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Live CD and boot up your machine. Once booted you need to install the dmraid package to gain access to your fake raid mapper.

Open a terminal and do the following:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install dmraid

Now you can run the installer. When you get to partition management, make sure you select manual. On the next screen you will see a drive named something like nvidia_egcccede. That is your fake raid array in raw form. You probably have a windows partition on there somewhere. Here is what my disk looks like:

nvidia_egcccede — Entire Drive. Do not touch.
nvidia_egcccede1 — /boot
nvidia_egcccede2 — /
nvidia_egcccede3 — /home
nvidia_egcccede4 — /windows

Thats all I will cover about partitioning a fake raid. Once you have the desired effect, click next.

Now you need to tell the installer not to install the bootloader. When you get to the last screen hit advanced and uncheck install bootloader. Hit next. The installer will now partition and install all the required packages to your new dmraid partitions. When it completes this is 15 minutes or so, you have to install the bootloader by hand.

Open a new terminal.
$ ls /target
bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var
boot dev home initrd.img lost+found mnt proc sbin sys usr vmlinuz
$ sudo dchroot /target

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Sitting and Waiting

Posted on September 28, 2007

Back in Ohio for some weeks now. Not much going down as usual. Just trying to get things put back in order with jobs and school. Feeling optimistic about everything, just missing New York already. Ready to push hard the next few years and get this whole school idea done.

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Under the Sun

Posted on August 25, 2007

Vacation was nice! Perhaps it was just the fact of being somewhere 600 miles away from anywhere I lived. Perhaps it was the beach that I could actually swim in. To any effect, it was needed.

So the move from New York back to Ohio for school is almost here. The move will be simple. This desicion was made in order to work solely on school.