So I just purchased an MSI Wind from Microcenter and have already removed all the OS’ from it. I’m planning on installing Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux. Like most of my laptops, things are just plug and play to get it working, so I have a page to help me remember how I did it at: http://james.jamesandkristin.net/setting-up-msi-wind-to-triple-boot-windows-mac-os-x-linux

So far it looks like it’s perfect for what we need. A nice little laptop that will fit in Kristin’s purse and that will fit in little safes on vacation. Luckily my friend had a usb to ide adapter, so I didn’t have to purchase an external hard drive. I had looked into making a usb boot disks for all three os’s and even looked at using netboot to install. Netboot would have been cool, but I don’t have that much time to get it setup for all three OS’s.

One important note, you need to install Windows XP before anything else.

Well, I’ve managed to upgrade wordpress and gallery again. It’s been a while, so the versions were pretty far behind. One nice benefit of this upgrade is that the photo gallery is now working again. Enjoy.

Hopefully nobody has noticed, but I have upgraded the blog software to the latest and greatest version from wordpress. It was only about 9 or 10 version behind and 2 years old. If you have tried to go to the photo gallery, you have noticed that it currently isn’t working right now. I’m trying to find time to get that working again. I need to upgrade the gallery software and then upgrade the connection plugin to work with it. Hopefully I’ll have it done by next week. Summer is always the time when I have the least amount of time; Trying to finish the basement, clean the garage, get the yard respectable still, and jet skiing. I’m also working on getting my Solaris Systems certification, which I would like to have done before next year.

You heard right, Google thinks that my ip address that I use at my home is located in the UK.  I know this by the pages google displays to me and the ads I see.  When I do a search on google, I get sent to UK google.  I can go back to the regular google, only to be sent back to the UK google.  The ads on google also display adds for people in the uk.  I got to other sites that use Google Adsense and they will only display adds for the UK.  It’s starting to annoy me.

I’m going through Current for my ISP.  From the looks of it, they are based out of New York.  The service is great and when I do traceroutes, it never goes near the UK.

I’ve spent a couple hours trying to find a way to let google know of the issue, but it’s close to impossible to find a place you can just send an email to let them know of the issue.  I actually had an easier time finding a snail mail address for technical support.  If anybody knows how to get this corrected, please let me know. 

Haven’t posted lately because I’ve been so busy.  The few times I have posted, I posted stuff on the family blog since this one is more technical.  If you’ve left a comment and it didn’t show up, that’s because my comment system has been getting blasted with spam.  I’ve tried my best to sort it out, but some probably got lost.  We’re currently working on our basement, so once that is done in a couple months, I’ll probably start working on my MAME cabinet.  Until later, have a good one.