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On stage at its GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia had one person on an iPad gaming head to head with another on a new LG TV using a service called Gaikai. The demo game was Hawken, a mech-oriented title that isn't even in market yet. These two were gaming on hardware that couldn't hope to run top-line graphics intensive game locally. Yet both where pounding away at each other, and the amazing thing was, the guy on the tablet was winning, showcasing that screen size didn't matter as much as gaming skill.
This is often the problem with games: If it comes out on one platform and you or your friends don't have that platform, not only can't you play the game, the developer gets a fraction of the available revenue. But if games were delivered like streamed movies, then they could go everywhere. You could play from your connected AV system in your car, your iPad, or your TV in the home.
This is truly cloud computing, though Nvidia calls it GeForce Grid.
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I was out to breakfast the other day, and I have a nasty habit of listening in on the conversation at neighboring tables if it has to do with tech. The guy talking had been a recent convert from Windows to the Mac, and was talking about switching back because the Mac sucks. (His words not mine, no desire to peg the hate-mail meter this week.) He was complaining because he was going to have to dump his near-new MacBook Pro for an Ultrabook, and he was going to lose on that investment.
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Citrix demonstrated new hardware that could scale to support 100 desktops off one tower that looked smaller than my (admittedly rather large) PC.
This is the freedom to run what you want wherever you want. To not be tied to Apple or anyone else. To have software delivered like it was electricity. Someone else worries about malware, and backups, and making sure a catastrophic event doesn't destroy your digital life along with your real one.
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One of the most fascinating demonstrations had to do with modeling galaxy-class events. No I'm not referring to something out of Star Trek (the Enterprise was a Galaxy Class Starship). What Nividia showed was the progress from its existing Fermi platform, which can model the birth of the universe, to the Kepler platform, which can model what's going to happen in a few short years when the Andromeda Galaxy runs into our own. Granted, a few short years in galaxy-class events is 3.5 billion years, so no need to jump under a table (not this would do you any good, mind you). As you can imagine, the scale is massive, and the capability is a magnitude (10 times) greater than what it was with the older hardware.
We often get excited about 20 percent performance leaps, so 10 times the performance is amazing. If this level of advancement keeps up, heck, we'll be obsolete in a few years.
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You may think I'm joking on this last one, but one of the other Nvidia presenting at the show was Universal Robotics. This is the company bringing to market thinking robots that can respond to sensor-based events. In short, they can see and change their actions based on what they see. I'm hoping the eventual result is more like Robbie the Robot than Terminator, but I have my doubts. In any case, at the Nvidia conference, we once again saw major progress with regard to what you can do in the cloud, and even what machines will be able to do in the near-term future. Granted, they may be the only thing that is left of us in 3.5 billion years to say "oh crap" when the galaxies do collide.
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My sympathy goes out to the family of Mark Bishop for their loss due to an auto accident Feb. 18 in Connoquenessing Township.
Could the accident have been avoided? Yes.
First, however, let me make a point.
In 1969, I lived in Newburgh, N.Y. Newburgh was famous for three things: It was the model city of the United States, it had the widest main street in the country, and people had to go to the police station to pick up their welfare check.
You guessed it. If you had booze on your breath or had any doings with the police, no matter how small, or didn't have proper identification, no check.
My point is, people are getting methadone at clinics and driving away. They are there because they have had a drug problem in the past, and are not pillars of society to boot.
Yet we, the taxpayers, pay for this plus, in many cases, mileage allowance, bus fare, or even cab fare for some people to get to and from the methadone clinics.
I did not cause their drug addiction; I shouldn't have to pay for it.
These people should be checked and made to produce a valid driver's license and current insurance card before they get anything and leave the clinic. I don't think that is too much to ask.
Justin Enslen, the driver of the vehicle that crossed into oncoming traffic, killing Bishop, was driving with a suspended driver's license.
These people who are going to methadone clinics dug the hole, so let them dig their way out — but on our conditions.
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VANCOUVER - Tourism Vancouver, eager to build on the astronomical growth in Chinese vacationers to Canada, has harnessed the power of one of China's newest and hottest singer-songwriters — Vancouver's Wanting Qu — to serve as its first tourism ambassador.
Wanting's signing this week comes as Vancouver and B.C. experience double-digit growth from Chinese tourism. China's dominating business influence around the world is well known. But as its middle class rises, it is also being seen as a major source of new international tourists.
Stephen Pearce, Tourism Vancouver's vice-president of leisure travel and digital marketing, said China is third behind the United States and the United Kingdom in visitor overnight stays to Vancouver. Last year, Chinese tourists made more than 150,000 overnight visits to the city, compared to 175,000 from the UK and 1.8 million from the U.S.
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But within a year or two, China will overtake the U.K., he said, while tourism from the U.S. remains stagnant.
"We've been looking at flat growth out of the U.S. for the past several years, and double-digit growth out of China over the same period. Going into the future we see that continuing to be the trend," Pearce said.
"What we are seeing is more liberalized policies in terms of Chinese people being able to travel. We are seeing more affluent Chinese as a sector of the economy in terms of where they want to travel. I think Canada is a fresh destination and they are discovering us, and I think Vancouver has got brand awareness."
Pearce also believes Vancouver's successful 2010 Winter Olympics helped.
"I think the Olympics put us on the radar screen with China, and I think this relationship with Wanting Qu will do that again," he said.
Wanting, who moved to Vancouver when she was 16, will help create six videos marrying some of her award-winning music with images of Vancouver, Whistler and B.C. In the fall, Tourism Vancouver will also bring over four lucky fans from China on an all-expenses paid Wanting-escorted trip to Vancouver and Whistler.
"She's doing this for the love of the destination. I know that is sounding like something of a cliché, but she is doing something we couldn't possibly envision we could do with a person of her calibre," Pearce said. "We think that the Vancouver people will see through her eyes, through the videos we expect to develop with her, featuring her music and featuring Vancouver and area, will inspire people to come here."
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson also welcomed Tourism Vancouver's efforts to broaden the city's tourism reach to Asia. "Wanting is representative of the incredibly talented overseas Chinese who are part of Vancouver," Robertson said. "We are proud to be a growing global hub for creative talent and I extend my thanks to Wanting for sharing her enthusiasm for Vancouver in China."


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Red Bull Ultra Natural cancelled for 2014
The vision of Travis Rice, the Red Bull Supernatural in 2012 and Ultra Natural in 2013, presented a backcountry snowboard contest on a scale never before seen. Both events aimed to bridge the gap between contests like The North Face Masters, King Of The Hill, traditional slopestyle, and filming a video part with a focus on rider creativity, flow, and line choice. "I want to create an event where a contest run has the potential to be more progressive than a video part," said Travis Rice in a 2012 interview on TWSNOW.com. "I'd like to see this event become the highest echelon of competitive snowboarding. I'm totally backing slopestyle, all the stuff, but I feel that there's even a level above slopestyle. Riding fresh snow changes everything. I'm hoping that the up and comers will be a big part of these events as they continue in the future."
Here's what Red Bull, Jeff Pensiero from Baldface Lodge, and Travis have to say about the cancellation.
From Red Bull
"As a progressive visionary, Travis Rice has a long term goal of hosting Red Bull Ultra Natural in various locations around the globe. Additionally, the television time slot for Red Bull Ultra Natural in 2014 is being pre-empted by extensive Olympic coverage. As a result, the difficult decision to postpone the event in 2014 has been made. After two amazing years of creating and hosting a truly unique, successful and groundbreaking event, Red Bull will work with Travis next year to scout new backcountry zones for a potential build site. Red Bull would like to tip their hat to the entire event crew and Baldface Lodge staff for their participation in helping to shape the future of competitive snowboarding. Everyone from the loggers to the build crew to the homies and staff of Baldface Lodge magically transformed the now famous "Scary Cherry" run into what has become that of snowboarding legend, all in a backcountry location that allowed the greatest snowboarders of our time to freeride together for seven amazing days."
Take a look back at Travis and the Baldface crew prepping the Supernatural course in 2012.
From Jeff Pensiero at Baldface Lodge
"I was given the opportunity of a lifetime when asked to host Red Bull Ultra Natural. It took two years of planning, cutting and laboring to create the course, and during that process we experienced a lodge collapse! It could have been easy to get lost in all the challenges at that time, but the opportunity to create something this incredible was just too great, to allow failure in any way. Working with Travis was like having rocket fuel in the tank and his endless energy and creativity helped with the lodge rebuild as well as the course build. I can't thank him enough for his positivity and support over the years. What we were able to accomplish with Travis and Red Bull truly changed the face of competitive snowboarding forever."
From Travis Rice
"I have a vision for this event but it was Jeff, the loggers, and the whole Baldface team that allowed me to turn that dream into reality. From building the features, to working with the best people in the business, to shredding pow with a group of the best snowboarders and friends in the world, that's what it's all about right there. Establishing Red Bull Ultra Natural at Baldface Lodge was an absolute honor and a privilege, and I hope we're able to repeat the same amazing quality and vibe of the event as we begin to scout new locations next year."
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About a month ago I entered a contest to host a POM Wonderful dinner party. POM would pick 100 people to host a dinner party inspired by, Pomegranates (of course). I entered at first because Bryan and I love pomegranates, and I really wanted to try to incorporate them into some recipes other than just drinking the juice and eating the seeds. To my surprise I got an e-mail back saying I was one of the 100 picked and I would be receiving two cases of pomegranates and some goodie bags for my guests. After getting this e-mail I had about 9 million thoughts running through my head of what to make, how many people to invite and oh I can't forget the decorations! After sitting back and relaxing for a little bit I decided that simple was the best way to go.
Bryan and I will hopefully be in New Jersey for Thanksgiving this year and my dad, stepmom and stepsister will all be in upstate New York, so I figured we would do a pre-Thanksgiving inspired dinner together yesterday, just the five of us. Keeping with the Thanksgiving theme our menu was as follows:
Salad with Pomegranate Seeds and a Pomegranate Balsamic Dressing
Roasted Chicken with Pomegranate Glaze
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Garlic Green Beans
Pomegranate-Cranberry Sauce
Hard Pomegranate – Apple Cider
Brownie Cupcakes topped Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting
Pomegranate Sorbet
Over all our dinner was great- with a few minor setbacks of having a small kitchen, sink and not being happy with my frosting! It was nice to have my family here for a relaxing afternoon filled with football and a very tasty dinner (If I do say so myself). Our decorations were simple – some small pumpkins in the center and on each plate was a pomegranate and an instruction card on "how to open a pomegranate". Most of the recipes used were ones that we make often, simple yet very tasty and all 100% Gluten Free! Below are some of the recipes with photos. (I must note that I got caught up in feeding everyone that I forgot to take a few photos, such as the roasted chicken when it came out of the oven-sorry!)
Salad with Pomegranate-Balsamic Dressing
(We usually have mixed greens and what ever else we can throw into the salad, it is completely up to you)
One -two large romaine lettuce heads, chopped (Or mixed greens)
1/2 cup sliced carrots
1/2 cucumber sliced
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes (optional)
1/4 cup pomegranate seeds
Pomegranate-Balsamic Dressing
Salt and Pepper
1/2 cup of good olive oil
1/4 cup pomegranate juice
1/8-1/4 cup balsamic dressing
Add all ingredients to a covered jar or salad dressing mixer. Shake well and enjoy (you can adjust the measurements to your flavor liking)
Roast Chicken with Pomegranate Glaze
1 Whole Chicken (about 9 pounds)
1/4 cup room temp butter
1 1/2 tablespoons of Seasoning of your choice – I use a mixture of rosemary, thyme, oregano and sage.
Salt and Pepper
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a small bowl mix the softened butter and herbs until well combined. Set aside
Make sure the giblets and neck are removed from the chicken cavity. Rinse the chicken and pat dry with paper towels. Season with salt and pepper – also season the cavity. Place your chicken in the roasting pan and gently lift the skin using your fingers – be sure not to tear any of it. Once the skin has been lifted, take half of the butter and herb mixture and spread evenly under the skin. Take the remaining butter and herb mixture and do the same over the top of the chicken. Place chicken in oven. About thirty minutes into cooking add about 1 cup of chicken stock to the bottom of the roasting pan and baste the chicken. Continue to baste the chicken every 30 minutes. (please be sure to check the size of your chicken to determine how long it should roast for). For a 9 pound chicken, cook for 2 – 2 1/2 hours.
During the last thirty minutes of the chicken brush it with the pomegranate glaze (see recipe below) every ten minutes, do this again when your chicken has been removed from the oven. This sauce can also be drizzled over the meat on your plate (which I did)
Pomegranate Glaze
(Very concentrated flavor, and very good)
1 cup POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice
In a small sauce pan heat the pomegranate juice over medium heat. Simmer until juice has reduced about half, about 10-12 minutes.
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
(We love mashed sweet potatoes, especially with the cinnamon added. We tend to eat more sweet potatoes than regular ones)
1 – 1 1/2 pounds of sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
1/2 – 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup soy milk
salt and pepper to taste
In a medium sauce pan add sweet potatoes and cover with water. Boil for ten minutes or until the potatoes are fork tender. Drain well. Either by using a potato masher or using a stand mixer add your potatoes to a large bowl (or bowl of a stand mixer), add butter and soy milk and begin mashing (or whisking), until smooth. Season with cinnamon and mix again until well blended. Season with salt and pepper.
Garlic Green Beans
(one of our favorite side dishes, quick, easy and very flavorful. This replaces the green bean casserole on our table)
1-2 pounds of fresh green beans
3 large cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper
Lightly steam the green beans until bright green yet still crispy. Drain well. In a medium-large pan melt butter and olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic and stir in the green beans. Toss the green beans so they are all coated in the garlic and butter/oil sauce. Season with salt and pepper.
Pomegranate-Cranberry Sauce
(I usually make this a day in advance)
1 Bag (12 oz) fresh cranberries
1 cup pomegranate juice
1/2 cup sugar – you can use either with sugar or packed brown sugar (I used the brown sugar this time)
1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
salt and pepper
1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
In a medium saucepan – over medium/high heat add the pomegranate juice and sugar. Bring to a boil. Add the fresh cranberries, once the berries start to pop open reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally. Cook until most of the cranberries have burst open and the sauce has thickened a bit, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add in the pomegranate seeds. Cool to room temp before serving (or if you are making this in advance like I do (I think it tastes better the next day) cool completely and transfer to an air tight container.
I used the recipe on the back of the Betty Crocker Gluten Free Bisquick box.
2 cups Gluten Free Bisquick mix
1/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup milk (I use soy)
3 eggs
Heat oven to 400 degrees
Cut shortening into mix, using fork, until particles are size of small peas. Stir in remaining ingredients until soft dough forms. Drop by spoonfulls onto un-greased cookie sheet. Bake for 13-16 minutes or until golden brown. Makes 10 biscuits.
Hard Pomegranate-Apple Cider
(We used a local hard apple cider from Newport Vineyards, which is right down the road from us)
Serves four
3 parts hard apple cider
1 part pomegranate juice
In wine glasses (or any fun glasses you might have) add three parts hard apple cider and one part pomegranate juice and stir lightly. Serve chilled.
Brownie Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting
12 Brownie Cupcakes (I used the Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Brownie Mix and made them in a cupcake pan – you can use which ever brand you like). Make these the night before so they can cool and that is one less thing to bake the day of.
Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting
(sadly below isn't the recipe that I used, I made my own but it didn't have much pomegranate flavor so I suggest using this one instead)
8 oz cream cheese softened (room temp)
4 oz butter softened
3 oz of pomegranate juice (juice from 3-4 large POM Wonderful Pomegranates,* or 1-1/2 cups POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice)
14 oz Powdered sugar
1 cup arils from 1 large POM Wonderful
Prepare fresh pomegranate juice*, score 1-2 fresh pomegranates and place in a bowl of water, break open the pomegranates under water to free the arils (seed sacs), the arils will sink to the bottom of the bowl and the membrane will float to the top, sieve and put the arils in a separate bowl. Reserve 1 cup of the arils from fruit and set aside, (refrigerate or freeze remaining arils for another use), reduce the pomegranate juice, over low heat, down to 3 fl. oz., Allow to cool, place butter into electric mixer bowl with paddle attachment and cream on medium-high speed for 1 minute, add the cream cheese and continue to mix for 2 more minutes, turn the speed down to low and slowly add in the powdered sugar and the pomegranate juice reduction, mix until the sugar is fully combined, remove icing from the mixer and place into a piping bag with a round or star tip.
(I have never made sorbet before so I asked my stepmom to use her ice cream maker so I could attempt making pomegranate sorbet. I found the following recipe online at Saveur and it is very flavorful and refreshing!)
1/2 cup sugar
3 cups pomegranate juice
1 Cup water
Place sugar, 1 cup water, and pomegranate juice in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Refrigerate until well chilled. Process in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Serve garnished with pomegranate seeds. (This article was first published in Saveur in Issue #9)
Our table setting
Our POM Wonderful inspired meal
To make our Hard Apple-Pomegranate Cider we used a local hard cider from Newport Vineyards (It's the best we've had)
A light refreshment – Hard Apple-Pomegranate Cider
"How To Open A Pomegranate"
A simple yet flavor packed and refreshing dessert – Pomegranate Sorbet
Each guest got a POM Swag-Bag which included a POM bracelet, POM recipe cards, POM pamphlet, a free coupon for a bottle of POM wonderful juice and an awesome reusable POM wonderful tote. They also got to take home a few pomegranates.


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Q&A on the revised rules for computerised airline ticket reservation systems
1. What is a computerised reservation system?
Computerised Reservation Systems (CRSs)[1] act as technical intermediaries between the airlines and the travel agents. The CRSs provide their subscribers with instantaneous information about the availability of air transport services and the fares for such services. They permit travel agents, whether brick-and-mortar or on-line, to make immediate confirmed reservations on behalf of the consumer.
Not consumers, but travel agents use a CRS as they require a subscription and a specific training. They are not to be confused with on-line travel websites that offer travel choices of several airlines to the consumer. These online agents usually use a CRS in the same way as their brick-and-mortar counterparts.
No CRS intervenes when a consumer makes a booking on an airline's Internet website or via an airline's call centre. In these cases, the airlines and the consumers are in direct contact, without any intermediary.
There are currently three major CRS providers active on the European market: the European company Amadeus and the American companies Sabre and Travelport[2]. They handle about 60% of all airline bookings in the EU.
2. What are the present rules with regard to CRSs?
Regulation 2299/89 establishes a Code of Conduct for CRSs that offer their services in the European Union. It imposes a set of rules on the CRSs, the airlines and the travel agents, such as:
3. Why do we need to revise these rules?
The Code of Conduct for CRS was designed in 1989 in a different market context from today: at that time, the vast majority of airline bookings were made through CRSs. For air travel, consumers could practically only rely on one single information and distribution channel, the one constituted by CRSs and travel agents. This single channel was very vulnerable to competitive abuse, especially in the case of vertical integration between CRSs and airlines.
Since then, CRS technology and economics have changed a lot: thanks to the development of alternative distribution channels, such as the airlines' Internet websites or their call centres, consumers have nowadays access to a multiplicity of information and booking channels for air transport services. About 40% of all airline tickets in the EU are booked via alternative channels and about 60% via travel agents and CRSs.
The Code of Conduct is increasingly ill-adapted to the changed market conditions:
The rapid development of the alternative booking channels may reduce the need for these rules in the future. The proposal foresees a report by the Commission within five years of the application of the revised Code in order to assess the need for the maintenance, the revision or the abolition of the Code of Conduct.
4. What are the objectives of the revision?
The objective is two-fold:
More precisely, the revision will allow to:
5. How does the Code of Conduct protect consumers' interests?
As seen above, the revision of the Code of Conduct reinforces competition in the airline distribution sector and thereby reduces overall distribution costs – which are part of the final price paid by the consumer. Furthermore:
6. Will travel agents be able to provide neutral information to consumers?
The proposal recognizes that under the current Code of Conduct, there was an increasing risk of content fragmentation: this is one of the reasons for the revision. The higher than necessary booking fees induced airlines to develop their sales via their less costly Internet websites. Therefore, travel agents were not assured to have access to all the fares of an airline. Some low-cost airlines do not offer their services at all on the CRS displays.
By reinforcing competition between the CRS providers, the revised Code of Conduct will create the market conditions in which CRSs will provide high-quality services at better prices. This will induce airlines to provide more content via the CRSs. The US experience with price freedom has shown that more airlines provide 'full' content to the CRSs and even some low-cost airlines – like Southwest Airlines or JetBlue – started to use the services of the CRSs.
7. What are there special provisions in case of vertical integration between CRSs and airlines?
What are parent carriers?
A parent carrier is any carrier that owns or effectively controls a CRS.
The provision on effective control means that the ownership condition may not be circumvented by other means, such as for example contractual relations between the airline and the CRS which would provide effective control of the airline over the CRS. This control may be individual or jointly conferred to the carrier with others.
The proposed revision does not change the definition of a parent carrier. But it does clarify that the specific rules for parent carriers also apply to rail undertakings that would control a CRS (see below).
What specific rules are imposed on parent carriers?
Are the specific rules imposed on parent carriers still necessary in the present market context?
Yes. Travel agents are still very dependent on CRSs and certain categories of air travellers are still dependent upon the services provided by travel agents, e.g. corporate travellers (mainly because of the need of a centralised travel management). The competition from the alternative distribution channels has not yet developed sufficiently to ensure that, in the absence of regulation, there is no risk of competitive abuse of the CRSs.
8. How does the revision promote rail services and intermodal transport?
The Code of Conduct already applies to rail services that are integrated into an air transport CRS (it does not apply to 'rail only' systems). It ensures that rail services are given a non-discriminatory treatment in the CRS. The provisions with regard to parent carriers and display neutrality apply to rail services, too.
However, today's provisions with regard to non-discriminatory pricing lead to a de facto discrimination of rail services as they are charged the same fees as the airlines for each booking although the average value of the rail tickets is smaller. By establishing pricing freedom with regard to booking fees, the proposal allows rail companies to negotiate booking fees which are better adapted to the value of their tickets and hence creates an incentive for rail companies to offer their services on the CRS systems, too. This way, travel agents and their customers can more easily compare and combine rail and air services for travel over shorter distances, especially in the presence of high-speed rail services.
[1] Also known as Global Distribution Systems (GDS).
[2] Galileo and Worldspan are being merged into Travelport GDS.
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In the past couple of weeks I have taken a look at two of the more popular Linux operating systems.
Last week I tackled Debian and before that I tackled openSUSE.
This week I am looking at one of the more user friendly operating systems and one a Windows user looking to move to Linux for the first time.might want to try.
PCLinuxOS is aimed at a similar audience to Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Zorin but unlike those operating systems PCLinuxOS is not based on Debian.
So without further ado lets get started.
Click here for a full guide showing how to dual boot PCLinuxOS with Windows XP.
Click here for a full guide showing how to dual boot PCLinuxOS with Windows Vista.
You can download PCLinuxOS from this link:
I chose the KDE 32 bit desktop version. The machine I chose to install PCLinuxOS on is the Samsung R20. (The same machine that I had previously installed openSUSE and Debian).
I installed the live KDE version to a USB drive using UNetbootin and rebooted the computer.
The PCLinuxOS installer (Drak) is one of the best I've used. From start to finish the install took about 10 minutes.
The first part of the installer deals with partitioning your drive. You can choose to use the entire disk, use existing partitions or choose a custom partition setup..
Depending on which partitioning option you chose a few extra screens appear asking about the partition setup and then the installer creates the partitions and then starts copying the files.
When the files have finished copying you are then asked to choose the boot loader.
That is it. You are then asked to reboot the machine and you are ready to go.
Well actually not quite. When you reboot you are then asked the rest of the necessary questions such as keyboard layout, timezone and user details.
A nice touch though is that when I first boot into PCLinuxOS it has remembered my wireless connection from when I entered it into the live session saving me from having to enter the password again.
When you first log in you are shown a message stating that your system needs to be updated.
I followed the instructions and 128mb of updates were installed which is not unreasonable.
First Impressions
When you first log in to PCLinuxOS you are presented with a screen that to Windows users may seem quite familiar.
There is a taskbar at the bottom and just a couple of icons on the desktop.
Customising the desktop
As you can see you can brighten PCLinuxOS up with a few simple clicks.Other things you can change in the folder view settings are the mouse actions and also if you choose the location option you can choose the icons that appear on the desktop.
There are a whole host of other options for configuring your desktop.
Simply click the configure your desktop icon in the quick launch bar (spanner and screwdriver)..
You can add desktop effects, configure desktop search, change screen resolution, change the locale and window appearances.
The systems settings screen that loads lets you configure other things as well such as network settings, bluetooth, printer configurations, the login screen and many other settings.
If you want to configure more serious options such as adding users to your system, setting up a firewall, creating an FTP server etc then you can click the "configure your computer" icon on the quick launch bar which is a little spanner icon in a circle. To run this feature you need to be able to enter the root (administrator) password you created when you first installed PCLinuxOS.
Connecting to the internet
The network card on my PC was picked up straight away in the live session and carried across to the installed version.Clicking the network icon brings up a screen similar to the one displayed and as you can see I have two networks available to me.
Flash and MP3
Imagination – DVD Slideshow Maker
VLC Media Player – Media Player
Kamerka – Webcam application
TV Time – Television Viewer
K9 Copy – DVD backup
Dragon Player – Video Player
KSCD – CD Player
Clementine – Audio Player
Juk – Music Player
LibreOffice Writer
LibreOffice Calc
LibreOffice Database
LibreOffice Impress
Okular – Document Viewer
Calibre – Ebook library Management
KOrganiser – Personal Organiser
KCalc – Scientific Calculator
KTorrent – Bittorrent Client
Krfb – Desktop Sharing
KGet – Download Manager
Dropbox – Online File Hosting
Thunderbird – Email Client
Filezilla – FTP Client
Kopete – Instant Messenger
KFlickr – Photo Management
KGmail – Gmail Notifier
Choqok – Microblogging Client
KRDC – Remote Desktop Client
Skype – Video Calling
UMTSMon – Control 3G Devices
FireFox – Web Browser
DNG Image Converter
GIMP – Image Editing
ImageMagick – Image Editing
KColour – Paint
Digikam – Photo Management
Inkscape – Vector Graphics
KBreakout – Arkanoid
Bovo – 5 in a row
Gnugo – Chess style game
Kigo – Go
KMahjongg – Mahjongg
Kiriki – Yahtzee
LSKat – Card Game
KPatience – Patience
PySolFC – Card Game
KSudoku – Sudoku
KMines – Minesweeper
Naval Battle – Ship Sinking Game
KAtomic – Logic Game
KHangMan – Hangman
|File Tools
Dolphin – File Manager
Konqueror – File Manager
Midnight Commander – File Manager
(Various Other Tools not listed)
KWrite – Text Editor
|More Applications
Ark – Archiving tool
K3B – Disk burning
Nepomuk – Backup
Q7Z – 7Zip
(and loads more tools)
Installing Applications
The PCLinuxOS Magazine
Click here to download PCLinuxOS
Click here to get PCLinuxOS on DVD or USB


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