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Booting Ubuntu installer off flash
8 Jun 2008I was trying to setup a buddy’s old laptop to run Ubuntu and wviewweather, and having no luck because his CD-ROM drive was flaky. So i found this great utility (OK, google found it) that sets up a USB flash drive so that it will boot as if it were the CD-ROM. This is: UNetbootin. [...]
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- Tags: boot, flash, install, iso, Live CD, ubuntu, unetbootin, usb, wview, wviewweather
Linux Slug: VOIP & Weather Station
2 Sep 2007I wanted a silent weather server to run wviewweather on, to go with my new Davis Vantage Pro 2.
In view of the latest problems Vonage has been having (they are involved with litigation with Nortel, Sprint, Verizon and SunRocket), I decided to go somewhat farther afield to seek out an alternate solution.
To serve as both [...]
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- Tags: 7960, asterisk, davis, freeware, linux, nslu2, vantage pro2, vonage, weather, weather station, wviewweather
Linux installed
31 Mar 2007Finally got my first LINUX server up-and-running for the fire department. It’s a great indication of how some distributions are much better than others. Read on to see how it progressed.
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- Tags: debian, freeware, linux, ubuntu, weather station, wviewweather
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David Kabal writes random bits about life, gadgets and computers. David is an engineer living in Boulder, Colorado, up in the mountains, where he's also a firefighter.
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