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Tips for Linux Explorers
Posted 26 June 2003 - 03:46 PM
After all the serious and more complicated Tips, here is an easy one:
For ripping a CD to .wav or .ogg format, insert a CD into your CD-ROM and click on the ¨home¨ icon on your KDE desktop.
In the side bar, click on the icon that says ¨services¨, you will see the ¨Audio CD Browser¨ appear, then select ¨by name¨ or ¨by track¨ for .wav or ¨Ogg Vobis¨ for .ogg format. Copy and paste the files to your /home/bruno/music directory and the job is done.
( .wav can be easily converted to mp3 if you really would want that with the ¨wav2mp3¨ or ¨Lame¨ program. If Lame is installed Konqueror will show the option MP3 too )
Enjoy the music.
* The Lame converter is also called ¨notlame¨ these days. Don´t ask me why but there sure is a reason for it. ( in the desciption it says; ¨this is not Lame¨ but it is the same software )
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 30 June 2003 - 02:21 PM
( might work in other distro´s as well )
For the lucky ones amongst us running Mandrake, you can install extra fonts as many as you like.
Just look for ttf fonts :
or any other site.
And simply copy them to: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/docoratives or /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western
Have fun with your fonts !
PS: Dual-booters, you can also import your Windows fonts with a special tool in the Mandrake Control Center.
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 30 June 2003 - 03:39 PM
Posted 01 July 2003 - 03:49 PM
You will probably have noticed that since KDE 3.0 there are by default only 4 screen savers included. Also adding them from kdelook.org does not really work like it should . . . .
The solution is simple: install ¨kdeartwork¨ via RPM or better even URPMI and you will see 27 screen savers appear in the KDE Control Module. ( kdeartwork is on your CDs )
27 Sceen savers not enough ?
Got a 3D accelerated card ?
Xscreensaver-gl has another 32 of them !
( Type: ¨xscreensaver-demo¨ at the prompt to see if they are already installed or not. )
A few commands:
$ xscreensaver-demo
( will also start the deamon, default: 10 minutes )
$ xscreensaver-command -exit
( will stop the deamon )
$ xscreensaver-command -restart
( will restart the deamon )
There is a .xscreensaver file in your /home where you can override the default settings.
A little script in KDE autostart with just the line ¨xscreensaver¨ makes the deamon startup at boot.
Read the docs: http://www.jwz.org/x...nsaver/man.html
about how to install and get them working.
Of course, as you´re logged in on the forum, there is more fun in reading then watching a screen saver.
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 02 July 2003 - 03:15 PM
These are some of those critical programs for your computer. Without these, your computer will not know where to find any of the partitions or drives on the computer. Goof this up and you can be dead in the water. Never make any changes without a good backup copy.
In this file there is a description of the various file systems. Commands like ¨fsck¨ and ¨mount¨ consult this file for the actions they take.
This looks like a complicated description of the files on your computer, but it is really simple if you break it down into the parts of each entry. Take a look below.
( OR :In order for certain programs to be able to determine where certain partitions are supposed to be mounted by default, the /etc/fstab file is used )
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/memory_card auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0
I will try to bring some clarity in there. Let´s only take the partitions, here for Linux : / and /home and swap. For Windows C:
< partition >< mount point >< file system >< mount options >< dump >< fsck order >
/dev/hdb1 . . . . / . . . . . . . . . . . . ext3 . . . . . . . . . defaults . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . 1
/dev/hdb6 . . . . /home. . . . . . . ext3 . . . . . . . . . defaults . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . 2
/dev/hdb5 . . . . swap . . . . . . . . swap . . . . . . . . defaults . . . . . . . 0 . . . . . . . . . 0
/dev/hda1 . . . . /mnt/win_c vfat . . . iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
For the CD-ROM and floppy drive:
none . /mnt/cdrom . . supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none . /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
You can see the CD-ROM and floppy have the same codes as the Windows partition because they are not Linux default.
For the memory card reader:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/memory_card auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0
Two additional entries are ¨devpts¨ and ¨/proc¨
The devpts file system provides an interface to pseudo-terminal (pty) devices. It is typically mounted at /dev/pts.
The /proc filesystem is to provide an easy way to view kernel and information about currently running processes.
If you build Linux from scratch, you will have to write your own /etc/fstab file.
This file handles the mounted devices and is automatically updated by the mount command.
And it looks a bit similar to fstab but not the 100% same ( notice rw and ro for read/write and read only ) And it does only lists the mounted devices !
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 rw 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/memory_card vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0,user=julia 0 0
Next time we will do the ¨mount¨ and ¨umount¨ commands related to these /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files.
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 03 July 2003 - 01:47 PM
In some distro's the additional partitions ( Windows or second Linux distro ) are not automatically mounted and thus not visible.
From the story yesterday we know about fstab and mtab:
$ cat /etc/fstab( shows you the available partitions )
$ cat /etc/mtab( shows you the mounted partitions )
If you see partitions in fstab and the same partitions are not in mtab you will have to mount them yourself:
$ su < password > # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1( as root, if your win. partition is on hda1 )
This will mount hda1, usually your Windows partition.
# cd /mnt/hda1( to get in that directory )
# ls( to see what is in that directory ) ( ls stands for "list" )
# umount /mnt/hda1( will un-mount the partition, NOTE: not unmount but umount )
In some cases the mount command will print an error message to the screen. ( Mainly in Slackware and Linux From Scratch ) Have a look then if there are any directories in the /mnt directory to mount on:
$ su < password > # cd /mnt # ls
If there is no ( empty ) directory for hda1 ( or other partitions ) you will have to make it first:
# mkdir hda1
Only then you can:
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
So see first what partitions you would like to mount and make the directories for it in /mnt. Only after that you can do the actual mounting. ( the directories will stay after a reboot, the mounting however has to be done again )Do not mount partitions if you do not need them mounted. ( since every twenty times a partition is mounted there will be a fsck at boot, and that makes the time to boot longer)
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 05:53 PM
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 07:01 PM
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 07:16 PM
Right when you think you know the answers..somebody goes and changes the questions
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Posted 06 July 2003 - 02:53 PM
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 06 July 2003 - 02:56 PM
I always want to keep an eye on the volume of the log files. Very large log files often mean something is wrong with your computer. Then depending on what log file it is you can see, determines in what direction you should be looking.
Here is how I do that:
$ su < password > # du -s /var/log/* | less
Will page through less ( scroll with spacebar, close with ¨q¨ ) the logfiles and how many K they are. Also you can see if there are many .gz (zipped) files. We will get rid of those later. First have a look. Do also:
# du -s /var/log/*/* | less
And see if there are any strange large ones, and if there are many zipped ones. No zipped log files means a failing ¨logrotate¨ ( see below for info about anacron )
We will clean out the zipped log messages, because we do not need those anymore: ( be carefull typing, you are root !!! )
# rm /var/log/*.gz
It will ask you for confirmation each time, just check if it really is a .gz file and type ¨yes¨ and hit enter.
Now we do the same with:
# rm /var/log/*.old
Now we do the same with:
# rm /var/log/*/*.gz
That should have removed quite a few files from your HD !!
If you have no .gz log files and they are many MB´s, that means logrotate does not do its job! Logrotate is a cron-job, a maintenance job that is performed every night between 3:00 and 4:00 AM. If your computer is not on 24/7 you should install anacron to do the maintenance at boot.
If you can´t find anacron on your Cds, get anacron: Here and take the top one ( for made in Linux . . anacron-2.3-9mlx.i386.rpm ) download it and just install it by double clicking.
!! Anacron makes that your computer shows heavy activity 3 - 5 minutes after you boot up in the morning (afternoon). The activity is for about 5 minutes, so nothing to be worried about - no hacker´s activity - all normal maintenance jobs !!
One last tip: anacron needs no configuring, it should be pre-configured and run automatically . .
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Posted 07 July 2003 - 02:12 PM
As you type a command in a console you do not have to know the full PATH to that command or program, just the name will do. Type ¨kmail¨ and it will bring up the Kmail program, type ¨cp fileX /mnt/win_c¨ and it will call on the ¨cp¨ executable to copy ¨fileX to the Windows C: partition. No need to type the full path to those executables.
This is because the Kmail and the cp executables are ¨in your PATH¨ ( the full paths are /usr/bin/kmail and /bin/cp )
Most of these executables for normal users are stored in /bin, /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, thus these directories are ¨in your PATH¨
Sometimes however programs are stored in unusual places, or you make your own scripts and programs and store them in a special directory. Then we can add those directories to ¨your PATH¨, so that a simple short command can call them.
First let´s have a look what´s in your path:
$ echo $PATH
You will see something like:
What this means is /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/local/bin/ and /bin etc. are in your PATH
For root:
$ su < password > # echo $PATH
Will give this line:
You notice that the PATHs are different for root than for the normal user ! ( ¨sbin¨ is a good give-away that they are for root )
Now let´s assume you want to add the /home/bruno/progs/exec directory ( where you store your own executables ) to your PATH:
# export PATH=$PATH:/home/bruno/progs/exec
Now you can just type ¨back¨ at the prompt to call on your self-written backup-script or program that you have in /home/bruno/progs/exec.
To permanently add something to the PATH you will have to edit a file, could be in a few different ones ( depending on shell and distro): ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login. ( More in-depth and accurate info can be found Here )
There is a line like:
Just add a colon and the new directory, like this:
And save the file. To load the new settings either reboot or:
# source /etc/skel/.bash_profile
Now you know next time you see the error message that something is not ¨in your PATH¨ how to solve this little problem.
UPDATE: Another way to add permanently to the PATH is:
$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/bruno/progs/exec
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 08 July 2003 - 03:09 PM
The command ¨hdparm¨ is for showing and tweaking your harddisk performance.
To see how your harddisk does compare:
$ su <password> # hdparm -tT /dev/hda( or hdb )
Will give you a result like:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.68 seconds =188.24 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.59 seconds = 40.25 MB/sec
Now before you start tweaking, a warning is on its place, some tweaks may even make your HD unstable, so before starting to change settings:
$ su < password > # hdparm /dev/hda
And note down the numbers so you can set them back to the old values if needed !
And read O´Reilly attentively !!
To find additional info about your HD:
# hdparm -i /dev/hda
This will show you what are the possible settings for your harddisk.
An example:
To set 32-bit I/O support flag to 3
multicount to 16
DMA to 1 ( = on )
You give the following command: ( as root )
# hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 /dev/hda
Again: enabling DMA can in some cases lead to serious instability, so if needed:
# hdparm -d0 /dev/hda
( will disable DMA )
After tweaking you run
# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
again and see if there is an increase of performance.
Have fun tweaking, ( or with the words of O´Reilly: Happy hacking ! ) but please, please be careful !
PS: Additional info: axljab.homelinux.org
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 09 July 2003 - 02:48 PM
Here is a great little trick for all you dual-booters; You know those ultra secret, sneeky "index.dat" files on your windows drive, the ones you can't read nor delete ??
We have just the medicine for that in Linux:
# find /mnt/win_c -type f -name index.dat
This will find the files and print the paths to screen.
Suppose "/mnt/win_c/windows/Cookies/index.dat" is one of them, here is how to delete that file:
# rm -f /mnt/win_c/windows/Cookies/index.dat
Sure once you boot Windows again they will be re-created, but all the old info will be gone
* not 100% sure this will work on NTFS formatted partitions too.
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 10 July 2003 - 03:04 PM
Strange things sometimes happen, one of them is a corrupt rpm database. This means that the computer tells you something is installed and it really is not.
Here is how to solve this problem.
First backup and then delete by doing the following command:
$ su[/size] [size=4]< password >[/size] [size=4]# cp /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 /home/bruno[/size] [size=4]# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.001
# cp /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 /home/bruno
NOTE:( "__" is 2x"_" )
# rm /var/lib/rpm/ __db.002
# rpm --rebuilddb
In case your urpmi database is locked you can do:
# rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK [/size] [size=4]# rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK
A little reminder: the urpmi database ( install on demand ) needs to be updated at least once a month. See to in that you are connected to the internet for this one and :
# urpmi.update -a
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 10 July 2003 - 03:25 PM
Posted 10 July 2003 - 03:42 PM
At the ultra left bottom of the page there is a link that says:
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if you click on that one you get 3 choices:
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This will display the topic in a simple, printer friendly format on this page, no download is required.
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This will enable you to download a version of this topic in an editable Word format. This will open your browser's download dialogue box* the MS word version can be displayed in the OpenOfiice program you have on your Linux box ( even Koffice can do the trick )
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 15 July 2003 - 03:38 PM
As we all are growing older ( and our computers too ), we want to test our memory . . . .
To see the amount of memory, open a console and type:
$ free
. . . . . . . . total . . . . . used . . . . . . free . . . shared . . buffers . . cached
Mem:. . . . 515340 . . . 378232 . . . 137108 . . . . . 0 . . 18312 . . . 209020
-/+ buffers/cache: . . . 150900 . . . 364440
Swap:. . . . 248968 . . . . . . . . 0 . . . 248968
Well that did not tell us very much did it ? So lets do some serious testing.
What you need is a program called ¨memtester¨ ( for downloads see links below )
Description: Memtest is a utility for testing the memory subsystem in a computer to determine if it is faulty. The original source was by Simon Kirby <firstname.lastname@example.com>. I have by this time completely rewritten the original source, and added many additional tests to help catch borderline memory. I also rewrote the original tests (which catch mainly memory bits which are stuck permanently high or low) so that they run approximately an order of magnitude faster.
Here is how it works, ( I have 512MB memory )
$ su <password> # memtest 512M 1 -l >( 512M ¨one¨ ,¨-L¨ ) ( The 1 is for running the test only once, the -l makes a logfile in your /home )
Output to screen and logfile in /home:
Run 1:
Test 1: Stuck Address: Testing...Passed.
Test 2: Random value: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 3: XOR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 4: SUB comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 5: MUL comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 6: DIV comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 7: OR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 8: AND comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 9: Sequential Increment: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 10: Solid Bits: Testing...Passed.
Test 11: Block Sequential: Testing...Passed.
Test 12: Checkerboard: Testing...Passed.
Test 13: Bit Spread: Testing...Passed.
Test 14: Bit Flip: Testing...Passed.
Test 15: Walking Ones: Testing...Passed.
Test 16: Walking Zeroes: Testing...Passed.
Run 1 completed in 1418 seconds (0 tests showed errors).
Looks like my memory is still okay.
The current version of memtest should be available at
Read the docs: /urs/share/doc/memtester !!
( WARNING: this program will take your CPU to 100% during a long time . . see to it that your cooling is O.K. )
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 17 July 2003 - 03:25 PM
( Only Mandrake )
There are a few different ways to search for packages in the Mandrake Control Center. The search field can be used with wildcards ( * ), in names, descriptions and files. Any individual file in a particular package can be found this way. Also any terminology given in the information-panel can be found with the description search.
If you have a general idea of what you are looking for, then do a search using ¨find in description¨. If you know the name, you can search by using ¨find in name¨. You can use ¨find in files¨ in case your looking for a specific lib* file ( library ) and do not know what package it comes with.
Also you can have a look at 'all the packages', by group, size, selection state, source repository and update availability.
The feature ¨source repository¨ is the most interesting one.
Remember, it will not have many options nor packages under "by source repository" unless you first add a few different sources. Ones to consider are the "Penguin Liberation Front" (PLF ) and ¨Thacs¨. If you are a Mandrake Club member, then go to your Club preferences page and add a source for ¨contributions¨, ¨club-contributions¨ and ¨commercial applications¨.
When you have a look at the different packages available, you will find a wide variety of offerings, including games, educational tools, scientific tools, word processing, HTML editors, SWF editors, drawing programs, photo editors, sound/music manipulating software. Anything you can think of, you can find them there. If you have some free time, scroll down through all the programs available. Most of them have unusual names, so be sure to read the descriptions too ( for the descriptions you can choose ¨normal¨ or ¨maximum information¨ ).
I sure hope you have a fast connection, because when you are done browsing, you will sure be downloading a lot of them. ( If you have disk 3--the international CD for Mandrake, you will find many of the files here as well as on the other disks. )
Happy software browsing!
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 22 July 2003 - 03:24 PM
Last time I wrote about searching software packages for Mandrake, today we do a general round-up.
Searching for software is relatively easy in Linux because there are a few places that act like huge warehouses where all the packages can be found.
Most important resource is Freshmeat
as they have a search engine on their site that will find you any package you like, be it in tarball, .rpm, or .deb format.
Tarball is universal for all Linux distro´s ( but there is a difference between the .tar.gz format and the .tgz one that is special for Slackware and VectorLinux ) Sourceforge foundries is a good place to look.
Also the ftp sites from the specific distros have plenty of extra packages.
RPM is ¨RedHat Package Management¨ was originally developed for RedHat but today also used for Mandrake and SuSE ( most of the time there is a difference between RPMs for Mandrake or RedHat so see to it that you get the right one ) A special search engine for RPMs is: RPMfind.net
As .deb are Debian specific packages, you get them though apt-get at the Debian mirrors but also on sourceforge and freshmeat.
An enormous resource for all thats related to music and sound is the site Linux-sound.orgyou should really go and have a look there, it´s amazing what you can get from that site. ( no ZZ Top MP3s though, actually no music files at all, but everything to make them. )
If you are looking for a package and the Freshmeat search engine can´t find it because you do not know the name of it . . . try google/linux
More resources:
Linux Games
Linux HQ
Kernel Archives
Window Managers
If after trying all this, you still do not find the software you´re after . . . . just post a topic on the All Things Linux Forum and we´ll get everybody searching for you !
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 24 July 2003 - 03:57 PM
Now we will install those packages, open a console and ¨cd¨ to the directory where you downloaded the files and install them in this order:
$ su < root password > # rpm -Uvh rcd-1.4.4-0.ximian.6.1.i586.rpm # rpm -Uvh red-carpet-2.0.1-0.ximian.6.1.1.i586.rpm # rpm -Uvh rug-1.4.4-0.ximian.6.1.i586.rpm
Now all you have to do is type:
# red-carpet
The first time you get two dialogs, choose:
this system ( not remote ! )
start deamon = yes
And you get the GUI of the Red Carpet
Next time only typing ¨red-carpet¨ will do the trick.
That´s all, have fun !!
-- Jul 24 2003 ( Project is dead ) --
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 29 July 2003 - 05:34 PM
If you want to backup your mail, addresses and appointments from Evolution, to import them later in an updated version of your distro, or in Evolution of another distro. All you have to backup is the ¨mail¨ directory you will find in /home/bruno/.evolution.
Later you can either import the files with the import-function or just replace the ¨mail¨ directory.
With the import function you have to browse to the ¨inbox¨ files you will find in /mail/local/inbox for your mail, any subdirectories you made will also be there.
For only importing your addresses, either copy /addressbook or import the addressbook.db that you find in /addressbook/local/addressbook.db. ( I think just copying the ¨addressbook¨ directory is the easy way and in previous versions the import function did not always do what you wanted it to do )
For only importing the tasks/calender you do the same as with the addresses.
Backup /home/bruno/.evolution/mail/pop, /home/bruno/.evolution/mail/config the /home/bruno/.gconf/apps/evolution and the /home/bruno/.gnome2_private/Evolution for the settings of your ISP/pop-mail addresses.
If you make a backup from the ~/.evolution directory to CD on a regular basis, the day that something serious will strike your computer you will just grab the CD and be able to get Evolution back in its old state in a flash.
PS: Another handy file to backup: Export your bookmarks to a file in your home directory and put that on the CD as well. ( Edit bookmarks, in the menu-bar --> bookmark --> export and you can choose where to put it, Mozilla exports them in HTML, that makes it easy to import in Galeon, Firebird, Konqueror and of course Mozilla. )
My Hometown ~ Registered Linux User #299965 ~ LFS User #11450
Posted 31 July 2003 - 07:07 PM
The Mandrake GUI has a nice looking Lilo, that is why I like to use that one to add other distro´s. As an example we will add Slackware ( located on hda5 ) to the Mandrake Lilo. You can add as many distro´s as you like. All commands are given in Mandrake.
First we have to make a few directories, one in /mnt to mount the slack partition on ( temporary ) and one in /boot.
And open a console:
$ su[/size] < password > # mkdir /mnt/slack # mkdir /boot/slack
Then we mount the Slack partition and copy the Slack vmlinuz to the /boot directory of Mandrake ( in this case ¨ vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20¨ while in other cases just vmlinuz, BUT know that the vmlinuz often is just a link to the vmlinuz+number and a copy of the link won't work ). Please have a look before you start what the vmlinuz is called that is in the /boot of the distro that you want to add . ( Also: if there is a initrd.img present, like in other distro's, you need to copy that as well )
# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/slack # cp /mnt/slack/boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20 /boot/slack
Now that is done we can change the /etc/lilo.conf, but first we will make a backup:
# cp /etc/lilo.conf /home/julia
Then we open the file in vi:
# vi /etc/lilo.conf( the changes are in red .)
default="Mandrake" ( ! I did change Linux to Mandrake ! )
label="Mandrake" ( ! I did change linux to Mandrake ! )
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"
vga=788 (check this number, this is for my monitor, and copy it to the Slack part)
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"
append="devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe"
then save
Now we want to write the new lilo to the MBR:
# /sbin/lilo
And you will see:
Added Mandrake *
Added Slackware
Added linux-nonfb
Added failsafe
Added floppy
If you get an error message it means that you made a typo somewhere . . .go back in with vi and correct the file . . . .
The * means that Mandrake is the default to boot if no action is taken at the lilo screen.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Now, Slack will NOT be automatically mounted if you boot Mandrake . . we mounted it only once . . . if you want it mounted every time we need to adapt /etc/fstab . . . . . but I would leave it like it is and do ¨mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/slack¨ whenever you need to address Slack from Mandrake ( wich will not be very often )
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PS: I know there are may other ways to do this ( even a GUI tool in Mandrake can do the trick ) but was is my favorite way to adapt Lilo.
PS2: For aditional info about adding RedHat 9.0 and if CDRW does not get recognized in Slackware see Here
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Posted 05 August 2003 - 04:33 PM
You probably know already that every 20 to 30 times you reboot your system, or after each un-clean shutdown, you will get a check of the integrity of your file system.
NOTE: this text is only relevant for Ext2 filesystems . . . for Ext3 see "IMPORTANT" at the bottom of this tip.
Also you might have seen on the screen as the system files are checked that you have to hit the Y button within 5 seconds . . . . now, 5 seconds is very short and the chances are you will be just too late . . . the system will continue booting, but if there are problems with the integrity . . . you have a problem . . so most of the time at a file check I had my finger close to the Y button . . not anymore !
I did a few little tweaks:
Open the file "/etc/sysconfig/autofsck" in vi
$ su < password > # vi /etc/sysconfig/autofsck
" i " ( to put vi in insert mode )
And you will see two lines:
change the value to yes and it will hit the Y for you)
Save the file
Esc ( put vi in command mode )
If there is no such file as "/etc/sysconfig/autofsck", just make it (They are the same commands to make or open a file in vi)
Mine looks like this:
File, on Drake, said:
# -*- Mode: sh -*-
# $Id:$
# Specify here how many seconds we wait for timeout
# Specify if we do automatic fsck.
#Specify how many seconds we wait for mounting crypto.
The last line is only for if you have a crypto file system installed ( search google/linux if you want to know more about crypto file systems)
The text above is only relevant if you use Ext2 filesystem !
cooker, on Oct 31 2003, said:
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Posted 07 August 2003 - 04:58 PM
For the install of a Linux distro's we will have to change the BIOS settings.
Most important changes are:
1) The value for "PnP aware OS" has to be set to "NO"
2) And the order the BIOS looks for boot options . . ( the MBR is mostly on IDE 0, we want to boot from CD ) We will have to put the CD-ROM on the first place, the floppy and the IDE 0 in second and third place. After the install we can put the BIOS settings back as they were before.
Some people have some serious problems getting in the BIOS, some computer brands are making it really difficult, so here is an overview of the different options related to the brand PC:
(took the quotes out of several threads in the Linux and Hardware forum )
zlim, on Jun 21 2003, said:
AMI/Award: [Delete] during boot
Toshiba: [Esc]during boot
Toshiba, Phoenix, Late model PS/1 Value Point & 330: [F1] during boot
Compaq: [F10] When blinking cursor jumps to top right corner of screen
Compaq: [F10] when logo screen is displayed
NEC: [F2] during boot
IBM PS/2: with reference partition-[Insert] during boot
IBM PS/2: Need reference disk and ADF disk for setup
Emachine: [Tab] during boot
some Dells: reset button twice (I suppose this means power reset button)
Misc computers: [Ctrl]+[Alt]
Dell: [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Enter]
AST Advantage, Award, Tandon: [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Esc]
Zenith, Phoenix: [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Ins]
Phoenix: [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[S]
Olivetti PC Pro: [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Shift]+ Num Pad [Del]
Misc computers: [Ctrl]+[Esc]
Some PS/2: [Ctrl]+[Ins] when pointer at top right of screen
Phoenix: [Ctrl]+[S]
Tandon 386: [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Esc]
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Rons, on Jul 29 2003, said:
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Martinultima, on Aug 2004, said:
* If you have a computer that is not listed here and you do know the code, please send me a PM and I will be glad to add it to the list.
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As a sort of follow-up to my recent post on Google News, Wired has the answer to a question that has been nagging me for about two years now: why is Google News still in beta? The answer appears to be lawsuits.
As it turns out, however, Google has a problem that is nearly as complex as its algorithms. It can't make money from Google News. So while other online publishers like Yahoo News and MSNBC earn tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year and continue to grow, Google News remains in beta mode -- three years after it launched -- long after most of the bugs have been excised.
The reason: The minute Google News runs paid advertising of any sort it could face a torrent of cease-and-desist letters from the legal departments of newspapers, which would argue that "fair use" doesn't cover lifting headlines and lead paragraphs verbatim from their articles. Other publishers might simply block users originating from Google News, effectively snuffing it out.
The article goes on to detail how Google not only faces IP-related challenges here in the US, but the international IP regime that we've been actively working to force on the rest of the world has made other countries hostile territory for Google News, as well.
What I would love to see is an attempt by Google to use Europe's new database copyright laws, which extend IP protection to specific collections of publicly available facts, to argue for the company's right to profit from their news aggregation service. That way, whoever won, everyone would still lose!
Oh, and on an unrelated note, I must link this headline from the Times of India. I, uh, don't quite know what to say.

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Richardson helps Cleveland run over Chiefs
Cleveland, OH – Trent Richardson rushed for a pair of touchdowns on Sunday, as the Cleveland Browns defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 30-7, at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
Richardson finished with 42 yards on 18 carries, while Brandon Weeden was an efficient 17-of-30 passing with 217 yards for the Browns (5-8), who have won three straight games.
Kansas City quarterback Brady Quinn, who spent his first three NFL seasons in Cleveland after the Browns selected him with the 22nd overall pick in 2007, struggled against his former club, throwing for just 159 yards with an interception on 10-of-21 passing.
"It's disappointing to come back and lose the game," said Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel, who spent four seasons as the Browns' head coach before coming to Kansas City in 2011. "We didn't play very well in the second half and basically that's what it comes down to."
Jamaal Charles was the lone bright spot for the visitors, rushing for 165 yards and a score on 18 carries for the Chiefs (2-11), who snapped a six-game skid last weekend with an emotional 27-21 victory over Carolina less than 24 hours after linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, then traveled to the team's facility and killed himself.
The Chiefs seemed to carry that momentum into Cleveland, as the visitors scored on the first play from scrimmage.
Charles took a handoff over the right side, burst through the line, and juked past a defender before outracing the defense for an 80-yard touchdown to make it 7-0.
After a quick punt from the Browns, Quinn converted a 3rd-and-8 with a 23-yard strike to Dwayne Bowe and then went back to Bowe two plays later for a 47-yard gain to the Cleveland 4.
The Chiefs would come away empty however, as Ryan Succop's 27-yard field goal clanked off the left upright to keep the margin at 7-0.
Cleveland countered with a deep drive of its own, as Weeden found Greg Little for 34 yards to the Kansas City 20. Weeden then hit Josh Gordon for 18 yards to the Kansas City 2, but the Browns couldn't punch it in, forcing them to settle for a 23-yard field goal from Phil Dawson to pull within 7-3 with just under four minutes left in the first.
After forcing the Chiefs into a 4th-and-3 on their next touch, Travis Benjamin fielded the ensuing punt at his own 7-yard line and shook past a defender before changing fields and racing down the left sideline for a 93-yard punt return TD to give the Browns a 10-7 lead on the first play of the second.
"Travis is the fastest man I've ever seen in person," Richardson said of Benjamin's punt return. "That punt return, he just sparked up the whole team because we feed off of each other's energy."
Neither offense made it across midfield from there and the Browns carried their three-point edge into the locker room.
Cleveland started the first possession of the second half from its own 40-yard line after Succop booted the kickoff out of bounds. Benjamin then took a reverse 15 yards and Gordon followed with an 11-yard reception.
Facing 2nd-and-6 from the Kansas City 13 later in the drive, Josh Cribbs took a direct snap around the left end for 12 yards before Richardson punched it in from one yard out to press the margin to 17-7 with 12:28 left in the third.
Cleveland got the ball right back three plays later, as Quinn's pass was tipped up in the air by Joe Haden and landed in the arms of Tashaun Gipson, who returned it 23 yards to the Kansas City 13.
Weeden then hit Gordon for 11 yards to the Kansas City 2, but back-to-back penalties wiped away a pair of scoring plays and the Browns had to settle for a 24-yard field goal from Dawson to extend their lead to 20-7 with 8:42 left in the third.
After a Kansas City punt, Weeden converted a pair of third downs on the Browns' ensuing touch before Little took an end-around 17 yards down to the Kansas City 1 on 3rd-and-9 on the final play of the third quarter.
Two plays later, Richardson finished off the 12-play, 82-yard trek with a TD surge up the middle, giving Cleveland a 27-7 lead less than a minute into the fourth quarter.
After a quick punt from the Chiefs, Cribbs returned the punt 38 yards to the Kansas City 35, setting up Dawson's 34-yard field goal to press the margin to 30-7 with just over nine minutes remaining.
The Chiefs made their way deep into Cleveland territory on their ensuing touch, but Quinn was sacked on 4th-and-8 from the Cleveland 16 to turn the ball over on downs.
The teams then exchanged three-and-outs before Cleveland ran out the clock to secure the victory.
Game Notes
Dawson connected on three field goals and now has 302 for his career. He is the 25th player in NFL history to convert 300 or more field goals ... Weeden (5) now has the most wins as a starter by a Browns rookie quarterback ... Bowe, who finished with two catches for 70 yards, left the game in the first half with a rib injury and did not return ... Kansas City Chiefs running back Peyton Hillis had spent the last two seasons in Cleveland. He finished with 11 yards on five carries.


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While some questioned his tactics and legitimacy, Sander Sildver of Southwestern Advantage was acting legally within Marion and Peabody city limits after acquiring peddler's licenses to sell educational books this weekend within city limits.
This is the second year Sildver has been in the area selling supplemental learning books for kids preschool through 12th grade. Residents from Marion, Florence, Peabody, and Hillsboro received visits from Sildver.
Southwestern has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau despite receiving 77 complaints in the last year. Complaints included that sales people arrived at houses at odd times, were rude, pushy, and wanted too much information about the resident and neighbors.
Several Marion County residents also had the same complaints.
"He was extremely pushy," Heather Diemer of Florence said.
Andrea Schadel of Marion said she turned him away too, but he didn't take no very easily.
Tactics Sildver used were persistency and name dropping.
Terry Jones of Marion said he understood Sildver's pitch for what it was, one practiced sales tactic after another.
"He was nice enough to us," Jones said. "I just understood everything he was doing was so he could try to get a sale."
Jones and his wife, Chelsi, purchased a few books for their son, Dawson, and Chelsi's day care kids to read.
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I am totally serious here, folks. I went to school for 12 years (didn't need grade 13), I went to University for 5 years, and then after taking a bunch of courses here and there, I did a 3 year graduate degree. By my math, that puts me at 20 years of school. Today, I am turning 41-years-old, so that means I have been in school for almost half my life and still, my kids say, do and know things that blow me away.
A few examples are below.
This past weekend I realized that I watch a lot of wrestling on TV, when Mark Henry came on the TV and Linus blurted out, "Hey Stewie! It's the World's strongest man, Mark Henry". Then of course came the questions from Stewie as to whether Mark Henry could have helped me take the treadmill downstairs instead of coach Eric, and if he would have needed just one pinkie or if he could tuck it under his arm and go.
Later in the day I was singing the theme song from new WWE star Brodus Clay and I blurted out, "Gonna call my doctor…" when Berry corrected me and said; "NO, daddy. Gonna call my Momma"… and so she sang, Should she know this???
Later that day, I sang "Gonna call my Momma" when she stopped me and said, "I don't want to call my momma. I want to call my doctor", and so she sang.
Another interesting thought from Stewie occurred when he asked the urban mummy if she still had her sweet tooth. Laughing, she said that she did, to which he replied, "Good! Otherwise all food would taste like dirt!"
I love listening to Berry call her brothers. She yells, "Brothers? Where are you brothers?"
Tonight, during dinner, Berry wanted to pee, and I wanted one of her brothers to take her, but she wanted me to take her. I was in the middle of making a batch of homemade pancakes. and really didn't want to take her. I tried rationalizing with her – a no no, I know – and I explained to her, but when I was about to give up, Stewie blurted out; "Berry! You want ice cream? There is an ice cream truck in the bathroom. Go with Linus." In a second she was gone to the bathroom with Linus so I could finish making dinner.
Also, we have a rule in the house that the kids are not allowed to climb over the couches. They do anyways, but we try to keep them from using it as a jungle gym. Today, after telling Stewie to stop climbing over the couch for the 7th time, I resorted to some good old fashion attention getting and when he jumped up I took the spatula and whacked him on his little behind. He spun, squinted his eyes at me, frowned disapprovingly at me, then said, "Don't smack me with that spatula Daddy". I replied to him, "But I've asked you 6 other times not to climb over the couch and I even told you if you did, I would remind you not to, even if it meant smacking your behind – not to hurt, but to help you remember". At which point, he looked me right in the eyes and said, I'm telling mummy" and on came the tears.
He played me.
He's 5.
Linus got me today too, when someone asked me what 126 + 38 was and as I was calculating it in my head, Linus had already said 164 3 times. Oy.
So after these few examples, I ask you all, parents, have you found your kids do or say things which are way beyond their years? Like when you need your kids to program your iPad, much in the same way your parents needed you to program the VCR.
I'd love to hear your stories too.
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The Knicks avoided a potential let-down game in New Orleans, coasting (except for some select moments) past a banged up Hornets team. After jumping out to a 29-17 lead in the first quarter, the Knicks stalled in second, getting outscored 31-24 and taking a 5 point lead into the break. Everything started to click in the second half (as it has for almost every game this season) and the Knicks ran away with it, 102-80. Below are some notes on what went right and what went
left wrong:
- Carmelo Anthony led all players in scoring with 29, and got the majority of it in the first quarter. The Meloman shot 8-9 from the field and 2-3 from deep, scoring 19 points. The Hornets started out with Al-Farouq Aminu guarding Melo, with Ryan Anderson also taking a crack at stopping him. They, um, failed and Melo outscored the Hornets in the first quarter by himself. Melo relentlessly backed down the smaller Aminu in the post, either passing out to the perimeter after the defense collapsed, or scoring over Aminu if no help came. When Anderson was matched up against him, Melo blew by him into the center of the defense and did the same. His one miss in the first was a heat-check PUJIT that missed badly. I wasn't pleased with that particular shot, but had it gone in I would have done a cartwheel, and I don't even know how to do a cart-wheel. He finished the quarter with two brilliant plays as well: First, Melo had a beautiful spin move from the left block , and then in one motion drew a blocking foul and put up a 6-ft floater. The floater went down, and Melo knocked down the free throw ending his scoring for that period. On the next possession, Melo set up on the left-wing, reading the help-defense. As the shot clock reached 3, he threw a laser cross-court pass to Steve Novak who buried a corner 3. That was a pretty cool sequence. It's worth mentioning that Melo shot 4-13 for the rest of the game, but he's Melo so it's fine.
- Jason Kidd kept the troll-bus rolling, as he played as ridiculously as he looked. Although his stat line doesn't look spectacular (3PTS, 5 REBS, 4ASTS, 2STLS, 1 poorly positioned head-band) he was stellar. There was one stretch where Kidd intercepted a pass, then in one motion threw a touchdown pass to Melo all the way down court, followed by Kidd again playing the passing lane, throwing the ball out to Felton on the break only to then get it back for a spot-up 3. His best moment, however, was when Aminu was coming full speed to the hoop on the break, started gathering for a layup, and Kidd ripped the ball cleanly out of his hands and threw a behind-the-back outlet pass all in what seemed like a split-second.
- Raymond Felton had 15 PTS by making 5-6 3s. I believe all but one of his attempts was wide open, and the one that I am referring to was an amazing shot, beating the clock while double-teamed and falling away. The Knicks didn't run too much pick-and-roll, as the ball was in Anthony's hands for the majority of the time the starters were on the court, and in turn, Felton became a spot up shooter.
- Tyson Chandler went through a spell in the second quarter and played very tentatively, most likely because of the 2 quick fouls he had picked up. At halftime, Herb Williams was interviewed and said the coaches were encouraging Tyson to play more aggressively, which for some reason made me think of this. Needless to say, Tyson came out fired up in the second half and finished with 7 PTS and 12 REBS.
- Clyde was wearing a suit that was the same color as a crushed blueberry. He also called Tyson the "MVP of the Defensive Player of the Year." Or, as I call it: Clyde things.
- During that second quarter where the lead shrunk, the Knicks bench played poorly. Prigioni had a poor game, throwing away a couple passes, and the overall defense was poor. Whatever.
- James "Flight" White came in the 3rd quarter, which caught me off guard. Flight proceeded to steal a pass and then through down a monster tomahawk. Also, he wore incredibly bright orange shoes.
- Steve Novak shot 2-10 from 3, but most of those came in garbage time and Steve was just chuckin'. He'll be fine.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd, that's about it. Woodson rested the starters in the 4th, getting them ready for the second game of the back-to-back, which is against Dallas. Jason Kidd returns to Dallas! And Tyson! It should be a good one.


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(please excuse the horrific lighting…by the time I finished this pie the sun had set…forcing me to use creepy indoor lighting)
After missing last month's Daring Bakers challenge, I told myself I wasn't going to miss the next one. Since joining this lovable bunch of bakers, I have been able to exercise my baking muscles to churn out such things as Sticky Buns, Bostini Cream Pie, and Tender Potato Bread. Each challenge brought about new knowledge of baking techniques and tips (with over 300 Daring Bakers in your support network, there is a wealth of knowledge to be shared!). So I was looking forward to getting back in the swing of things this month.
And this month's challenge is…Lemon Meringue Pie. Zoiks.
You have to understand a few things about me and this dessert…number one being, well, simply put, I don't actually enjoy eating it. Second, I am not a big fan of meringue…at all…ever. Suffice to say I have never made, nor thought of making, this dessert. I have never made meringue either! And egg whites are an old nemesis of mine...
But that is why I joined this group…not to bake what I have baked a hundred times before, but to conquer things that I have never baked before…things I would never even think of baking…things that make shiver and shake and yet, as any Daring Baker would, still swagger into the kitchen, Microplane zester in one hand, citrus reamer in the other, to look that lemon in the eye and whip those egg whites into shape.
And that's what I did. Sort of.
Bumps in the road are part of every challenge, and as I was already expecting, this one yielded more bumps than usual for me. First, the crust. Working with crust or pastry of any kind, or any ingredient that needs to be "chilled" is a major challenge in my kitchen, whose heat and humidity are off the charts. You need to work very, very fast, and "chill" things in the freezer instead of the fridge. My crust, which stuck and tore all over, turned out to be quite literally a patch-up job at best. Of course, you couldn't see that once the filling was in ;)
So, the filling. It seemed to come together like a charm…thickening quickly and blooming into a beautiful shade of yellow. I poured it into the pre-baked and cooled crust and hoped for the best.
I started on the meringue, my knees knocking a bit. How challenging is it to do something you feel is your weakness, at the same time knowing you won't enjoy eating it? Very. But, as is often the case when I push myself to do something out of my ordinary circle of things, I was pleasantly surprised. I like making meringue! Watching the egg whites magically turn pearlescent as you add the sugar. Piling mounds of sticky, cloud-like pillows onto the pie. Swatting at it with a spatula to coax peaks and swirls out of its surface. Then seeing it get all toasty in the oven. Like toasted marshmallows. It's a very bibbity-bobbity-boo moment (it'll do magic believe it or not!).
Don't let the swirly, toasty peaks fool you though. Beneath their peaceful exterior lie a filling that just wouldn't set. Yes, hiding sneakily beneath the surface, waiting to surprise me when I tried to slice the pie for my guests! Criminy. If you have any suggestions for me they will be much appreciated! Should I have let the pie and filling set in the fridge before adding the meringue? Should I have cooked it for longer and thickened it up more? Help wanted :) It was much better after a night in the fridge as it firmed up some…
From the taste testers: The pie was enjoyed by my mom, who loved it. I gave some to my best friend K and she liked it but thought it was a little too tart (although she did liken it in general to her grandma's lemon meringue pie…thrill!). C thought it was too tart as well. My kind guests said they liked it but I'm not sure if they were just trying to be being polite to my runny pie...
Me? As someone who doesn't really enjoy lemon meringue pie, I am the worst judge of all. I thought it tasted like, well, like lemon meringue pie…something I still don't really love, but something I now know I can make :)
Thanks to Jen the Canadian Baker for choosing this challenge and giving me the opportunity to make something I wouldn't have made otherwise! I think I can finally distinguish between "soft peaks" and "stiff peaks"…yay! :) Jen, you don't know how long I have been agonizing over the difference…so from the bottom of my heart…thank you!
You can find the original recipe here. Check out the other fabulous creations from the Daring Bakers here!


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NEW YORK – Now that Tatyana McFadden has completed an unprecedented Grand Slam sweep of the Boston, London, Chicago and New York marathons in a single year, she can put away her racing chair and take out the skis.
After winning the New York City Marathon on Sunday with ease, McFadden will return to school at the University of Illinois, take an exam, compete in a Nordic skiing World Cup race in early December, graduate (and give the graduation speech to her class), then head to national championships in January, and likely the Sochi Paralympics in February.
No wonder she's exhausted. A few runs on ice and snow will seem relaxing in comparison.
"What a great accomplishment," John Farra, the U.S. Paralympic director of Nordic skiing, said Sunday. Given her high level of fitness, strength and endurance from wheelchair racing, working on the technical skills needed to maneuver a Nordic sit ski will be the focus this season, Farra said.
McFadden is a quick study. After winning three gold medals in track and field at the London Paralympics, McFadden decided to give a new sport a try. She won a national cross country skiing sprint title after only a few days of training.
A trip to Russia for the Paralympics will have special meaning for McFadden, who was born with spina bifida and spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage in St. Petersburg.
Last year when McFadden visited her orphanage, she gave her gold medal from the 2010 New York City Marathon to the orphanage's director. "It was a good way to say thank you for keeping me safe for as long as possible and for keeping me alive as long as possible and a chance to show them how strong I am and the things I'm doing in life. It was an amazing experience," she said about the visit.
McFadden's success has resonated in the country of her birth. On Sunday her mother, Debbie, received messages from supporters in Russia who had watched an online feed of the race.
In the previous three times McFadden has competed in the New York race, only potholes could keep her from finishing first. In 2009 and 2011, flat tires led to sixth and third-place finishes. In 2010, her wheelchair tires survived the uneven streets and she blew away the field by almost six minutes.
On Sunday, nothing could stop McFadden, not the additional pressure of history or the bumps along the way. "If I flat, I flat," she told herself to calm the nerves. "I have time to change it since I was in the lead." This time, she didn't need the spare tire she straps onto her chair.
Considering McFadden's nearly four-minute lead, she could have changed a tire, given her chair a tune-up and still have won the race. It's been that kind of year for the 24-year-old from Clarksville, Md. McFadden hasn't lost a race all year. In addition to her four marathon victories, she won six golds in six different distances at world championships.
McFadden began her remarkable run in Boston on April 15, and ended it in New York, a race which served as a 26.2 mile tribute to Boston. Six months after two explosions near the Boston Marathon finish line killed three and injured more than 260, a record 50,740 runners gathered at the starting line at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island.
Blue and yellow Boston Marathon flags fluttered in the brisk 15 mph winds. Every runner was given a blue ribbon to pay tribute to Boston and a yellow line was painted alongside the traditional blue line heading into the homestretch.
There were other reminders of Boston as well, with an unprecedented level of security surrounding the race. Even so, runners said the heightened measures, especially at the finish line, didn't affect the race.
"For me, I was not fearing anything," said Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai, 32, who won the men's race in 2:08:24.
Ryan Vail, who was 13th and the first American male finisher, said he didn't feel "intruded upon at all by the security."
Mary Wittenberg, president of the New York Road Runners, said the increased security is "our new reality." She also said there were "zero incidents, zero threats."
In the end, the boisterous crowd , not the hundreds of police officers who lined the route, is what runners noticed most. "The crowd, they really helped me a lot because they were cheering, joyful, and also they were helping me, telling me, you are closing the gap. Go, go, go, move," said Kenya's Priscah Jeptoo who won the women's race after passing Ethiopia's Buzunesh Deba just before mile 24.


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The leader of a national organization for cemetery and funeral rights plans to be in Savannah today, rallying the public to push for stronger consumer protection.
"We hope to bring some justice to the citizens of Savannah as well as to the state of Georgia," said Carolyn Jacobi, executive director of Eternal Justice Inc., a Maryland-based group for death-care rights.
All questions and concerns will be welcome, she said.
"I don't care if it's conditions at a cemetery or missing bodies, we want to document it all," Jacobi said.
In March, the Savannah Morning News documented complaints showing the state is failing to promptly investigate funeral homes and cemeteries on issues including cemeteries and burial records not properly maintained and failure to promptly file death certificates.
Jacobi said she will be focusing most of her efforts on recent complaints concerning the Savannah Cemetery Group, which operates several cemeteries locally, including Forest Lawn Memory Gardens and Magnolia Memorial Gardens.
She accuses the cemetery group of restraint on trade because it wants to require steel vaults for all its burials rather than concrete vaults.
The cemeteries are doing this, she contends, because steel vaults are more expensive and because the cemeteries' owner has "cornered the market" on providing steel vaults, which she said do not last as long.
Charlie Smith, general manager of Savannah Cemetery Group, disputes those assertions.
One steel model available costs $1,950 - about $5,000 less than one of the most expensive concrete vaults sold - and has a warranty 22 years longer than the concrete model, Smith said.
"We only want what's best for our cemeteries and customers equally," he said. "We brought in a product that had been kept out of the Savannah market for 20 years."
That was to the sole benefit of concrete vault providers, he said.
Under Georgia law, Smith said, cemeteries are responsible for a product once it is in the ground.
"So because we have to be responsible for it, we can decide what product can be used in our cemeteries," Smith said. "Some cemeteries choose only concrete. Some require no vault.
"Steel is a 100 percent better product."
Jacobi also wants to encourage citizens to complain about the state's Cemetery Board, a newly created organization that handles public complaints about most cemeteries.
The Secretary of State's Office, which coordinates investigations by state agencies with the board - the disciplinary arm - told her it has only 40 complaints across the state, Jacobi said.
She believes consumers have far more complaints.
But Vicki Gavalas, director of communications for the Secretary of State's Office, said Friday that the Cemetery Board has 40 cases under active investigation across the state. On Tuesday, the state board plans to have its monthly meeting in Macon. Four of the cases before it concern the Savannah Cemetery Group.
But based on information Gavalas had available Friday, she did not believe any of the four cases concerned complaints about steel vaults.