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My Experimental PC Harddisk Layout

I’ve finished with my experimental PC (well, not quite) and done with partitioning of the hard disk.

Well I decided to put 5 Operating System inside my experimental PC and now they are coexisting fine inside the shared space of 80GB harddisk.

This time i determined to learn about Fedora Core 4 (i’ve never use Fedora or any Red Hat products seriously before) and FreeBSD 5.x (I only have experience using 4.x branch of FreeBSD and OpenBSD 3.5). So I’ve install both on the same PC.

I’ve put on Windows 98, to test out my home-made program how they react on legacy Microsoft Windows OS. And I also installed FreeDOS to play my old DOS game comfortably, the DOSBox is excellent, but i’ve rather want to relive my younger days with DOS :), besides my FM801-based soundcard is supported under dos, why waste it?

I really want to experiment with Cruxwall (results of hacking crux into easy firewall interface) so i’ve added one more Linux partition inside the hdd. I guess Xen would e suffice if I want to run another Linux-based system.

And why the Windows XP? well the experimental pc is shared by people who arent comfortable with Unix-like operating system in my house, so i’ve to include that. But my own personal PC is running SuSE 9.3 all the time :)

The bootloader? OK, I just use the plain-vanilla NTLDR (Windows XP) bootloader to boot Windows XP and Windows 98. The NTLDR can chainload Grub, which in turn can boot any GNU/Linux system as well chainload the FreeBSD bootloader. :)

I dont use any other 3rd party bootloader, because they tends to be problematic.

Here’s the partition map of my experimental pc

Partition Map, mypapit

And my experimental pc specs is :
Pentium 4 1.70 GHz (400MHz FSB)
Memory 512MB SDRAM
HDD 80GB
1 CDRW, 1 Floppy Drive
2 NIC

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Limited Update and Creative Common License

Dear reader, I’m here to announce that starting today, my blog will have limited update throughout the the whole week until 1st August 2005. This is because I’m busy adjusting myself to the new environment.

I’m also going to refit my pc and reorganize my data and harddisk and all of these will take my time away from my blog and my usual activity. I promise I’ll get back writing to this blog after a few days.

One last thing, I’m officially announcing that all of my original writing in this blog are released under the terms of Creative Commons (Attribution) License. Well, I was thinking of GNU FDL, but the terms listed there is too complex for me to understand.

Anyhow, enjoy and don’t be naughty when I’m away ok?

commons license

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Longhorn : Microsoft Windows Vista

Rumours floating around the internet that Microsoft is going to release it’s latest operating system product codename “Longhorn” as Windows Vista.

According to the rumours, the “Vista” name would be in line with the vision the company has presented for the operating system, which is due on the market next year, replacing the current Windows XP.

There is still no official announcement or confirmation from the Official Microsoft Longhorn website about this, but Microsoft has already registered domains to go along with the newly christened Windows, including windowsvista.com. The domains were registered in late March, indicating the company made the decision even before WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year.

According to the same source, Microsoft Windows Vista is going to ship out somewhere around the end of the next year (2006)

Update :
Microsoft release official announcement today 22 July 2005 (Pacific Time) about Microsoft Windows Vista, thanks to bro Hafidz for pointing me.

p/s: If this is true then, you might see your windows boot logo as Microsoft Windows Bueno Vista Kolumbia Tri-star. lol.

Source :
1.BetaNews
2.SeattlePi.com
3.Slashdot.org

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Firefox 1.1 is scraped in favour of Firefox 1.5

News from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html revealed that the Mozilla Development team is going to scrap out Mozilla Firefox 1.1 release in August in favor of Mozilla Firefox 1.5.

The new Mozilla Firefox will feature new Gecko engine, ongoing HIG compliance, sw/update and extension manager improvements.

Quote from the site :

We are planning for a Firefox 2.0 and 3.0, but will divide the planned work over (at this point) three major Milestones, 1.5 (September 2005), 2.0 (unscheduled) and 3.0 (unscheduled). All major development work will be done on the Mozilla trunk, and these releases will coincide with Gecko version revs.

According to the roadmap, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 (Deer Park) is scheduled to be released on September 2005

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Sharing files are easy with Dropload!

Ever having the problem of trying to send a file to one of your friends but nothing worked out? Like firewall which excludes you from sending it through your IRC or Instant Messenger.

Well Dropload might be right for you! Dropload is a website which offer “pickup” service for the users in the internet. You can put many types of files such as mp3, movies, word docs, zip, pdf and etc. The catch is that the maximum amount of you can put there is 100MB and all the files will be deleted within 7 days regardless whether your buddy pick it up or not.

The signup procedure in Dropload is suprisingly fast! I was thinking that i would fill a dozen of textbox before I actually can use the service, but then I was wrong. Dropload is easy to use, you basically upload your files there, and Dropload will email your friend with the link to the uploaded file for him/her to download it.


dropload website

Whoa? What’s wrong with GMail? ok, first of all, not many people have GMail, and another good reason is GMail only allows 10MB worth of attachment. Not to mention that GMail limits the type of attachment you can send with your email.

So for those out there, if Gmail or Yahoo-mail does not suit your needs, then Dropload will. Visit Dropload Website to take a closer look at their service.

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Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 32MB for sale!!

I’m broke and i want to loose my Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 graphic card for only RM35 plus shipping cost (via pos laju). If anyone interested of having this graphic card, you can contact me via this blog or email me.


mypapit Nvidia Riva TNT2 for sale

Details as follows :

  • Bought in Feb 2003
  • 7 days personal warranty
  • Includes latest Windows XP/2000/ME/98 and Linux drivers
  • This thing works and support 3D rendering and last tested on 12 July 2005
  • Selling price : RM35 plus shipping via pos laju

Nvidia graphic card is a widely use and known graphic card. They have driver support for various operating system platform including Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Nvidia offers regular driver updates from their website and they give good 3D graphic performance.

I want to sell off this graphic card because I bought another graphic card and I dont have any computer to put this graphic card on.

If you buy this graphic card, I will include free Knoppix 4.0 LiveCD as a bonus!

Anybody interested?