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Elliot Smith: Links for 2009-03-31 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Knoodl
Knoodl facilitates community-oriented development of OWL based ontologies and RDF knowledgebases. It also serves as a semantic technology platform, offering a JAVA service-based interface or a SPARQL-based interface so that communities can build their own semantic applications using their ontologies and knowledgebases.
Catalogablog: eXtensible Catalog NCIP Toolkit
visualvm
Java "troubleshooting" tool
Lambda Probe
Monitoring and management tool for Tomcat
The Rasoi - Restaurant & Bar
somewhere to try for food in Leamington
nexus Maven repo manager
sventon - subversion repository browser

Elliot Smith: Installing Windows on the second hard disk of a Linux machine

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:18:45 +0100

I recently upgraded the hardware of my old desktop PC, with the aim of providing the house with a new-ish Linux machine for watching movies and using the internet, and a Windows machine for writing music and playing (old) games. My plan was to use two hard disks: one for Linux, another for Windows, and choose which to use at boot time.

Normal procedure is to install Windows first, then install Linux into a spare partition on the same hard drive (Windows tends to overwrite any disk you put it on). But it's easier to get a Linux machine up and running, see what hardware you've got, and get a decent system without needing to go and find loads of old drivers. So I decided to install Linux first. I plugged in a drive for it as the Primary IDE drive, and installed Ubuntu Linux onto it.

Then, I unplugged the Linux drive, plugged the other drive in, and installed Windows 2000 onto the second drive (just to make sure Windows couldn't overwrite Linux). Got that working too.

Then I plugged the Linux drive in, as the first drive on the IDE cable; and the Windows disk as the second.

The trick then is to get grub (the Linux bootloader I'm using) to present you with both disks as options as boot time. There's a sample configuration in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but that didn't work for me: it looked like it was working, then just hung. I tried a couple of things, but nothing which worked.

Finally, I found this blog entry and used the configuration there. The trick is to make Windows think it's installed on the first disk on the IDE cable. I added this to the bottom of menu.lst:

title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1

which does the trick! Now I get a working Windows 2000 option in my grub boot menu.

Bob Sutor (IBM): Daily Links 03/31/2009 (p.m.)

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:29:22 +0100

Second Thoughts: Blue Moon

“Look out, Lindens, here it comes. One in a blue moon, a virtual world comes along that might really challenge Second Life — and now it’s here, Blue Mars. Sign up for the beta here that is reportedly opening in June — but only if you are a developer who wants a preview of how your content made on professional software like Maya will look in this world. It’s not ready for the proles yet.”

tags: OB, virtual worlds, Second Life, Blue Mars

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Mike Shaver (Mozilla): it’s full of bits

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:00:07 +0100

Deb’s excellent post about Firefox 3’s bookmarking system hit Digg today, on our shared server, which reminded me that I needed to install some WordPress caching software. No sweat; wp-super-cache, I thank you.

Bob Sutor (IBM): Daily Links 03/31/2009 (a.m.)

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:29:26 +0100

Netflix To Charge 300% More For Blu-ray Discs — InformationWeek

“Under the new plan, subscribers who were paying $16.99 per month for Netflix’s popular three-discs-at-a-time plan, plus the $1 Blu-ray premium, will now have to pay $20.99 per month in total, representing a 24% overall increase in the cost of the plan.”

First Silverlight, now this.

tags: OB, Netflix

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Elliot Smith: Links for 2009-03-30 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Qimo
Linux distribution aimed at 3+ year olds

Bob Sutor (IBM): Reading update

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:00:42 +0100

I just finished reading The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon after finishing A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge last week. Now on to Startide Rising by David Brin. I’m working my way through my list of Hugo and Nebula award winners. The first and third books mentioned are good in that way because they each won both awards.

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Bob Sutor (IBM): Daily Links 03/30/2009 (p.m.)

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:29:24 +0100

The Open Cloud Manifesto Debuts

“Meanwhile, despite the early hoopla about the manifesto and who is supporting it, the effort is a step in the right direction. And it is expected that the big-name holdouts will come to the table in some form to have open discussions about the topic.”

tags: OB, cloud
Microsoft, TomTom Settle Patent Infringement Battle

“Microsoft and TomTom have come to an agreement to settle patent infringement claims the companies made against each other. The cases have been settled through a patent agreement under which TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage under the eight car navigation and file management systems patents in the Microsoft case.”

tags: OB, TomTom, Microsoft

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Bob Sutor (IBM): The Open Cloud Manifesto has been published

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:56:51 +0100

The very, very secret (not really) Open Cloud Manifesto is now published and available online.

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Bob Sutor (IBM): Video on IBM and open clouds

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:51:39 +0100

Here’s a video from YouTube of IBM Researcher Jonathan Appavoo talking about IBM and open clouds: