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First off some people obviously understand what an emo is and some such as you are just ignorant selfish people who just care about what happens to them althougth we would all like to see the world burn i would like to see such people burn with it if you really need to get a reaction from people just to make yourself feel superior above them in truth you are the lowest class of scum on the planet congratulations these people are emos and scuicidal because of these degrading harmful endeavors that many people take place in truly such people are bullys bullys are not people who are criminals that willingly fight that is just a label for some of those who have been pushed too far i was always the unpopular kid in school i always got in trouble got in fights with people who constantly made fun of me and called me emo yet if we are labeling people emo i am far from it my favorite band is disturbed not once had i ever cut myself but i wore black and had long hair so i am a emo apparently i always had my stress directed into rage instead of saddness hence the fighting so one day i looked up what emo music even was and i hated it shocker but i realized that those are not sad songs they are more of a freaking suicidal song in fact the videos portrayed scuicide that is not a sad person that is a person coping away from scuicide with pain like i did and still do with rage that is why i like disturbed it allows me to unleash it in a song yet emocore music does the opposite it saddens them so the issue is not the person but the music their music is injecting overly emotional saddening scuicidal thoughts into their heads trust me i know what i am talking about i am a seventh grader and there are a fair share of emos and scuicidal people at my school. I do not like punctuation its a pain in the a*s get over it.

When you have finished a minimal install of Fedora 18 you have only the terminal (tty1-tty6) which by default will start on tty1. You will need to log in with root using the password you created during your minimal installation. Note: All the following commands are done in root until we have finished creating your user. Creating a User in Fedora 18 To add a new user that we want to have sudo rights we do: useradd -c "Your Display Name" -g users -G wheel YourUserName useradd is the command to add new users to your system. -c is the comment, which you change Your Display Name to whatever name you would like to have shown at a graphical log in screen and as the name shown on a graphical desktop. They use this comment for displaying that. -g is the command to add yourself to an existing group which I have chosen to add you to users. It should do this as default but Fedora usually creates a new user group based on your username which I find quite messy if you would have a large number of users, each with their own group as their username. -G is to add secondary groups for your user, we are adding this user to the wheel group so that we will be able to issue the sudo command which should be default for users in the wheel group. Setting up Your Users Password in Fedora 18 To set a password up on your newly created user, we issue the command: passwd YourUserName Change YourUserName to the user name you set up above. This command will give you a prompt to create the password. Enter your password. You have now created a password for that username. Enabling The wheel Group so You Can su to root Our next step is to allow us to su to root if we need to so that if we do need to work in root we can, root is disabled in graphical interfaces but not from the terminal. To set this up we first need to edit a file, so run: vi /etc/pam.d/su If you look at this file, it has a few comments suggesting what we can do. The line we want to uncomment is the one after the line that says: # Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group. Move your cursor over the # using the arrow keys to navigate to this line #auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid and then press x to delete that character then press :wq followed by Enter to write (save) the file and then quit. If you would like to learn more about vi(m) you should keep checking back here as I'll be writing a guide on using vi(m). It's an amazing terminal based text editor. I suggested using arrow keys for navigating but we can use letters to navigate too but I'll save that for my guide. Making Sure sudo is Set up Correctly I decided to add this because other distributions like CentOS or RHEL do not have the wheel group set up to be able to perform sudo, so this is really targetted for those distributions and others that may not have it set up by default. To check first we do: visudo Which opens up a vi editor with the sudoers file opened for us. Now in command mode (pressing Esc gets us into command mode) which is default type: /%wheel To search for this line. You will know it's the correct place if a comment above it says Allows people in the wheel group to run all commands I don't recommand uncommenting the one that says using it without a password, this is not secure. If the line has the comment marker (#) in front of %wheel, navigate over it with the arrow keys and press x to delete the character then press :wq follwed by Enter to save and quit the file. Lets Test Everything Out Now OK, so we have now set up our main user who can gain super user privileges when needed so we are now able to work with just this user and can now avoid logging into root. To log out of root user first type: exit Now to log in with your new user type: YourUserName Where YourUserName is the username you created above. Then type in your password you created for this user. Test if we Can su - to root The first test is checking if we can get a root prompt. So first do: su - Make sure you include the hyphen/dash, this means you'll have the PATH of root known to you, which saves you typing exact locations, e.g. Instead of /usr/bin/python you can just type python now. Enter the password for root. If you now have root showing instead of your username, congratulations this test was successful. Now type exit followed by Enter, this should return you back to your user prompt. Test if we Can sudo We are now going to test if sudo works, we require an internet connection as we will be downloading some worthwhile plugins to have that increase the speed of downloading: sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-fastestmirror yum-presto Enter your password, if yum starts working without any problems, then sudo works. Once this has finished we will now update the system. If you installed using the Network Install CD, there should not be much updates. The DVD install should have a few, but because we have a minimal installation, it should not take as long. So issue the command: sudo yum -y update Again, check back here at Xisto where I will explain more on using yum. Once your system is finished updating. It's a good idea to restart your computer and run the update command once more. To restart your computer do: sudo shutdown -r now Installing a text web browser If you want a text browser then run: sudo yum -y install elinks This will now install a text web browser just incase you need to be able to find information. Just type elinks to start it which presents you with the address bar to type where you want to go e.g. https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl you use the arrow keys Up and Down to navigate through links, Page Up and Page Down to quickly scroll through a page. Right key to follow a link Left key to go back a page. g to open up the address bar to type a new address to browse to. Inside Entry Fields you usually press Enter to start editing them and then Enter again to finish editting and automatically send the request. You can use Space bar to accept OK buttons, etc or press the Alt key followed by the hi-lighted letter of the action you want. e.g. Alt+O for OK and Alt+C for Cancel. That should be enough to get you around. Be sure too look in the status bar for more details on where you are whether you're on a link or in an entry box and it'll explain what keys you can press sometimes. Having Multiple Terminal Screens Sometimes you'll need multiple terminal screens, like having multiple windows. That way you can be in your text browser as well as at a prompt ready to type commands you find. Just press Alt+F# where # is a Function key between 1 and 6. If you are at tty1, then Alt+F2 will open up tty2 for you and you just log in normally, and now you can switch between tty1 and tty2. Press Alt+F1 to return to tty1. This definitely helps if you need to be reading a guide on how to set up your system if you have not taken everything down. Well Done! Congratulations, you've completed everything in this guide. Stay tuned for when we install a Graphical User Interface (GUI), because browsing in a text browser may not be to your liking, especially since you can't take advantage of flash games or view pictures of friends shared by facebook. Shutdown your system To shutdown your system just do: sudo shutdown -h now Cheers, MC

Hey, thank you for helpful info here. I have a qestuion:For my WordPress site I started to use Simple Press forum plugin when I opened the site (it's for people I know). Then I realized it was really slow and inconvenient and decided to switch to phpbb forum for the site.I wasnt able to embed Phpbb forum into WP using wp-united because of the theme I'm using.But it seems to me that I got some connectivity using PHPBB Single Sign On WordPress plugin it enables users to login to Phpbb using WP and the other way around. So now new users that register on Phpbb forum are automatically added to WP Users.However, old users can't login into Phpbb forum using WP username & password.To add to that I use Visitor Maps and Who's Online plugin in WP and when old user tries to log in to Phpbb they show up in Who's Online on WP side but can't login to the forum.Do any of you know if that means that old users login to WordPress when they try to access phpbb forum?In other ways, would all new users be able to login into WP (if I say create something) using their Phpbb login info?Any help would be appreciated!

You could use bs=4K if you want to it will speed it up. The default 512 bytes is being used if it is left out. The structure of the USB will now be iso9960 which is the CD's file system which makes the vfat partition, etc pretty irrelevant but I added it because it's handy to know. You can use this method on most bootable media if you are wanting to boot from it. You can also use it on non-bootable media, if you want to just use the USB like a CD.It's the OS that will detect the structure and know what to do with it, whether it be the BIOS or Linux, etc. There are many ways to use dd, even extracting it to a folder. It will still consider it a USB device but it'll have an iso9960 structure to it.Cheers,MC

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How To: Install Fedora 18 Minimal Installation Do you find that most the programs that are installed on your system, you never use? If you answered yes, then this guide would be good for you if you are considering installing Fedora 18. It gives you the power to only install what you use, avoiding over bloating your system. Installing Fedora 18 as a minimal installation is my preferred way of installing this distribution. This option has been available with Red Hat and Fedora for a long time as I remember it from the first time I started using Red Hat. It may not be an option given with the Live Media they provide now, but it is available with the DVD and the Network Install CD. Note: While reading the Fedora 18 documentation about minimal installs, it talks about downloading boot.iso for the minimal install. This boot.iso does not seemed to be mirrored by anyone except from the official Fedora download server. I was quite disappointed when I found out that it has the same checksum as the Network Install CD. So if anyone else is looking for boot.iso, it is the Network Install CD which is mirrored by most mirrors and not difficult to track down. I hope Fedora get round to fixing their documentation, as I felt their documentation may not have reliable instructions. What You Need Reliable Internet Connection if you choose Fedora 18 Network Install Fedora 18 Network Install CD or Fedora 18 DVD Media like a USB Stick (larger than the ISO size) or blank writable CD-ROM/DVD A lot of time First Download Fedora 18 DVD or Network Install CD Just go and find Fedora 18 DVD or the Network Install CD and then download whichever one is compatible with your computer. I am using 64-bit. The Network Install ISO image size is about 294MB and the DVD is 4.3GB. If you don't know what architecture your system is, you can find the help guide just below the download links to help you identify which one you may require. If you download the Network Install CD you will require an internet connection, as it downloads the latest software to install with while the DVD just uses what's on the DVD so you do not need to download them. Preferably the Network Install CD is better because you do not need to do an update as you will be working with the latest packages. If you do the DVD install, it's recommended to download the updates afterwards. So the choice is yours, whichever you choose. Write or Burn it to Your Media If you are using a USB stick, everything will be erased on it in my steps. The USB stick needs to be at least 300MB for the Network Install CD (really it only needs to be the size of the ISO but more is better) or larger than 4.3GB for the DVD. You will require the tool dd (disk dump) which should be standard on Linux and can be downloaded for windows. Now I'm using dd because the manual suggests that you use LiveUSB Creator tool only for Live Media which Network Install CD or DVD are not. The documentation maybe out of date too and it might be possible to use LiveUSB Creator tool but I did not risk it. From here on, my instructions are Linux specific because that's what I'm running on. Learn How To Detect Your USB Device First plug your USB device into the computer. Inside a terminal run: dmesg | tailand make note of the device inside the square brackets in the middle of the line. An example of what you could see: [ 4037.909898] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable diskThis shows that my device is [sde], so my USB stick device is /dev/sde and first partition of this device would be /dev/sde1 so be sure to know the difference between device and partition as this is important when following these steps. Learn How To Delete/Create Partitions using fdisk Now if you're familiar with using gparted, you can use that but since I don't have gparted installed I am going to show you how to do partitioning using fdisk which is also standard on Linux. Please remember to change /dev/sde or /dev/sde1 to your device/partition. So here goes the instructions: First you need to make sure it's not mounted: sudo umount /dev/sde1 Then run: sudo fdisk /dev/sde Then at the fdisk prompt, type p and hit Enter to display the partitions. Now depending on how many partitions are shown we want to remove them all so press d and hit Enter then the partition number you want to remove, if you only have 1 partition it will remove it without needing the number to be entered. Repeat this until all partitions are removed. We need to create a new partition now, so press n and hit Enter. The default partition type should be primary so just hit Enter to continue. The default partition number should 1 (one) so hit Enter to continue. The First sector and Last sector should be fine as they are default, so hit Enter pass these two and you should now have 1 partition created. Now we need to change the partition type, press t and enter than press c and Enter to change it to FAT 32 (LBA). After this is done. Hit wq then Enter to write changes and quit. Learn How To Format vfat/fat32 To format you USB device, you do mkfs.vfat -n "USBLabel" /dev/sde1 Change “USBLabel” to whatever name label you want to call your device. Learn How To Check That The Above Steps Worked If you followed the above fdisk and mkfs.vfat instructions then you should be fine to go ahead but just to be sure, lets check to make sure that our above steps worked. So do: sudo blkid /dev/sde1 And if your output has the label name you wanted and also the type is VFAT then everything is correct. If not, we can still continue with the writing to the USB stick but we need to clear the first 100MB blocks on the device. To do this we do: Warning: Incorrect partition can have damaging results, ensure your partition is correct change /dev/sde1 to your correct partition. This uses partition. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde1 bs=1M count=100 Learn How To Write To Your USB Stick Remember where you downloaded the Network Install CD or DVD? e.g. ~/Downloads Then do: Warning: Incorrect device can have damaging results, ensure your device is correct change /dev/sde to your correct device. This uses device. dd if=~/Downloads/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sde or dd if=~/Downloads/Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sde Once this is done, it's now time to reboot your computer and boot from your USB device. Now The Actual Installation Process With Screen Shots For the next steps I'll be using the DVD version, because I have already done this install I do not want to download the packages again but the instructions are pretty much the same. In this I am testing out gnome-boxes as a virtualisation manager, it's my first time but so far I'm impressed with it and will talk more about it in another tutorial. So Lets begin. 00 - Fedora 18 First Boot Screen by mastercomputers, on Flickr Select Install Fedora and press Enter 01 - Fedora 18 Language Selection by mastercomputers, on Flickr Choose your Language and hit Continue 02 - Fedora 18 Installation Summary by mastercomputers, on Flickr This is the installation Summary Screen, where you will do most of your configurations. If you need to change your Keyboard or Network, do it now as I do not change the default settings for this. 03 - Fedora 18 Date & Time by mastercomputers, on Flickr Select your Region and City, alternatively click where you live. You can also disable NTP and configure your time manually if you wish to do so, otherwise leave it enable so it will synchronise over the internet. Click Done to complete. 04 - Fedora 18 Software Selection Screen by mastercomputers, on Flickr Go to Software Selection Screen 05 - Fedora 18 Software Selection Minimal Install Selected by mastercomputers, on Flickr Scroll to the bottom of Environment and Select Minimal Install and then click Done. 06 - Fedora 18 Installation Destination by mastercomputers, on Flickr Go to Installation Destination, Select your Hard Drive you would like to do the installation on. 07 - Fedora 18 Installation Destination Selected Disk by mastercomputers, on Flickr This step can be skipped if you just want the default of the boot loader being installed. Click on Full disk summary, just to see how it is set up for booting, if you need a boot loader installed, this is where you can set it. Click on Close 08 - Fedora Installation Options Installation Destination by mastercomputers, on Flickr Click on Continue. 09 - Fedora 18 Expanded Partition Scheme Installation Options by mastercomputers, on Flickr Expand the Partition Scheme and choose your Partition type. 10 - Fedora 18 BTRFS Partition Type Selected by mastercomputers, on Flickr I chose BTRFS as it is newer than LVM/ext4 and has a lot of features worth having. You can also organise your partitions here in which I do not go into detail as this is a virtual hard drive, so it's got no partitions and all available space will be used. 11 - Fedora 18 Installation Summary, All Options Satisfied by mastercomputers, on Flickr Now we are ready to click Begin Installation as we have no warnings stopping us. 12 - Fedora 18 Configuration by mastercomputers, on Flickr While it's installing it wants us to Set a Root password, so click on that now. 13 - Fedora 18 Root Password by mastercomputers, on Flickr Type in your password. This will be the password for "root". Do not forget this as we will need it later. 14 - Fedora 18 Root Password Set by mastercomputers, on Flickr Now our password is set. 15 - Fedora 18 Installation Complete by mastercomputers, on Flickr When the installation is finished we can now reboot. 16 - Fedora 18 Grub Boot Menu by mastercomputers, on Flickr This is the grub boot menu, it'll automatically count down to start Fedora. Hit Enter to speed the process up. 17 - Fedora 18 Terminal (tty1) Login Screen by mastercomputers, on Flickr This is the Terminal tty1 Login Screen, type root press Enter and then type your root password that you set. 18 - Fedora 18 Logged in by mastercomputers, on Flickr Congratulations you have just finished the minimal install. What is left now is setting up your minimal installation, adding and configuring your users, installing software you will need etc. Stay tuned for my next tutorial in which I will show you how to add users, install software, including GNOME 3 to get us a GUI and then build from that only installing software that we want. Cheers, MC

I like using SSH over FTP, it gives you more control. Xisto use to offer SSH, I am not sure if they do now though.I have never used emacs because you will usually find vi is installed by default with most Linux distributions. I find no reason to add another editor to the system.grep is a great tool, I use it for all sorts of searching.Eventually I will get round to writing guides on using vi(m) and grep since if you want to be a terminal user, understanding these two programs will help. I will also write how to setup an SSH server and how to connect to it but it's just like having remote terminal to your system over a secure connection, so explaining how to use it won't be necessary if you already can work terminal.Cheers,MC

This is quite weird why you would see two entries when obviously you only have 1 entry going by the how many are listed in the operating system section. The problem is the switch, as you don't put switches used in the boot loader section. I don't recall being able to put switches in this line so it's quite strange that it shows up there. Not only that, it's repetitive of what is already being used in the operating system section. Since this is solved, I'll just explain what those switches do: /noexecute=optin This option usually only affects 32-bit operating systems. This switch actually suggests whether Data Execution Protection (DEP) should be applied or not to programs that requests it. the other values you can have is alwayson which is what 64bit will always use, optout which is similar to optin except this gives the program the ability to get out of it, if it wants to and alwaysoff which does not use DEP at all. /fastdetect basically means that ntdetect.com will skip the detection for serial devices, like serial mice, or any device on the communication (COM) ports. You can even specify which com port/number to skip if you wanted to. /usepmtimer is usually used for AMD processors, it's a method of getting precision timing when you have multiple processors (and possibly cores). If you get the hal.dll error, it could be related to this. PM_Timer would be used over Time Stamp Counter (TSC), as with TSC it is hard to synchronise the time between multiple processors, which is why PM_Timer gets used. Intel does not seem to suffer from this issue. Whether you need this option or not is hard to say, if it works with it, then keep it, if not, remove it. Cheers, MC

You look great in short hair! I get the urge every couple of years to go short then hate my life for like a year. I just don't have the fetraues for it. My faves are Feb, May (cute shot) and now. You look great as a blonde and a redhead. It's no fair!

What version of Windows? What version of Internet Explorer? What's your specs on your laptop? cpu, memory, free space, graphics, etcExplain this freeze, does it just hang for a minute or so then comes back or does it completely lock up forcing to shutdown/reboot. Does this only happen when using IE? How often can you reproduce this freeze? Do you know how to check your CPU level, if so, put it up and open IE and see if it takes 100% CPU, this would mean something IE is doing is using all available CPU to load some things which is why if would feel like it's frozen. This means you need to stop whatever it is that is blocking.My first thoughts is if it's only IE causing this, you need to ensure that you're free from viruses and malware/spyware, do you have tools to check/clean your system? If another program can cause it as well, what program is it? Have you got the latest updates incase it's been fixed. If still no improvement, a reinstall/repair of IE might be needed.Cheers,MC

You will need to look over the license of any chat script to see if you can turn it into a pay to chat. However, you would need a niche market for this to work.There should be quite a few chat scripts floating about. I haven't looked into chat systems for a while now, there are far better ways to improve social networking now, which usually means integrating your chat system into something else.Cheers,MC

The GIMP does not export GIF animations with more than 256 colors. For more colors and better looking GIF animations, I use gifsicle instead. Here's my workflow: Save each frame of the animation as separate JPEG or PNG files. Use the convert command from ImageMagick to convert each of the files to GIF files: convert <fileX>.png <fileX>.gif Use gifsicle to put the gif files together with the appropriate frame rate: gifsicle --delay 50 --loopcount=forever file*.gif > animation.gif (the delay option specifies the number of hundredths of a second between frames, and the loopcount option specifies the number of times to loop the animation).

PC to old TV, more information on the TV, although should not be a problem, resolution could affect it.What ports are free on you MSI HD7850 graphics card? DVI and the DP?The combination I would try is:DVI to VGA then VGA to S-Video RCAThe price for all this, should be around NZ$10.Whether this would work, I am unsure, but price wise it's worth the trial.Cheers,MC

It maybe the refresh rate that's too high, not the resolution. Usually if you resolution goes up, the refresh rate has to come down.Although, you should look at getting that BIOS updated so that you can boot from USB.Cheers,MC

You've lost me manuleka,You say BIOS shows, Windows Boot screen shows.Can you get into the F8 menu before the Windows Boot screen?You said safe mode doesn't work, in what way? Is it the same symptons, is it that you can't get to safe mode. A lot of people say it doesn't work but never explains how.Did you try VGA mode from that menu, does it result the same?Have you tried switching monitors?Cheers,MC

Hey manuleka,Does your ASUS board have a boot menu, like press F12 to change boot or something. If you have the USB plugged in when you restart, try that option, you could then select the USB device. If not, then you'll need to look in the BIOS and maybe enable legacy USB and also put Removable Drive higher in the boot order. If they do have other USB options, try those before Hard Drive, etc.Cheers,MC

You mean users don't know how to operate their systems blindfolded yet? Actually strange thing is, I've been working on trying to improve a website to be screen reader friendly which means I have to switch my monitor off and listen to my computer talk to me. Blind users navigate websites a lot differently and each have their own ways of getting through the site quickly. Definitely a lot faster than I could. I'm still listening to each and everything, but I'll eventually get to skipping all that jabber and get to the point. When I feel I've met the goals.What I meant with the above, was if he does enable VGA mode through the F8 menu, this should allow him to normally log in just with a dull looking resolution. I think his problem is related to either Windows being too high res or refresh rate too high. It can also be the driver that is being used is incorrect or set incorrectly. He gets through the POST and also to the Windows loading screen, it seems to cut off when Windows takes over from the bios video, with it's own video driver which brings up the OSD error that the monitor cannot display resolution in which after a while, the monitor will put itself to sleep, which I assume is the blank he's talking about or maybe it does not sleep and still goes blank.If none of this works, Linux is definitely a far better replacement for Windows XP.

Sorry, I wasn't meant to recommend safe mode, there should be an option for Low Resolution Video, or Enable VGA Mode. This should hopefully get you in so you can change resolution/refresh rate. If that does not work, maybe uninstalling the video driver and restarting might work. That just means going into system properties and removing/uninstalling it. This will mean windows will reinstall it next boot if it has the drivers, if not, it'll just be in a low res mode and you'll need to locate drivers for your video card.Cheers,MC

For a 17" monitor, that's a slightly high resolution, which doesn't sound right but possible, it might however be the refresh rate.Model of that monitor would allow you to check this from Dell.Do you have a monitor that does work with it? If so, switch to that, and see what the resolution is set at. If needs be you might have to decrease the resolution if it's high, and/or decrease refresh rate. A medium resolution that should work on it would be 1024x768. Also keep the refresh rate around 60-70Hz, once you're inside a higher refresh rate would be better so you don't get fatigue.If you don't have another monitor, when the Windows boot screen is happening, keep pressing F8 till you get the menu and boot into safe mode and when inside adjust the resolution, although safe mode may not give you the ability to change the resolution due to low-level video being used. So the above method is preferred.Even if it's blank, you could possibly try to log in, if it's just simply pressing enter and typing your password.Cheers,MC

I need more information.What's the monitor, and when you say can't display Windows, does the BIOS POST show up? Is it only blank when it's trying to load Windows. Is there anything the monitor is saying with the monitor being out of range or something?Cheers,MC

Negative reviews don't really do any good. If they had concerns, why not direct it to the developers and get heard. I don't think developers have time to compile a list of reviews to figure out where they are going wrong. Send them some things to improve and you may just get what you asked for. It's always nice being heard.Cheers,MC

My experience with installing Fedora 18 shows that they are working towards touch screen interfaces. I believe the design could have been ten folds better and in all honesty, I preferred the previous installer as I felt like I was in more control and had a better understanding of it (maybe through many encounters of it throughout Fedora). This was one of the reasons why I stuck with Red Hat/Fedora through these times. Even the DVD version is no better, because you can't customise every little thing you want to install but at least it's got a minimal installation which means after the install I can customise it how I want but what a waste of time downloading over 4GB just to do a 700MB install, this was due to not knowing what to expect from the new installer but now that I know I won't make that mistake twice. Have a look at picture 08, Selecting the hard drive. Imagine if I had more than one hard drive or in this case more virtual drives. If they are all the same size, same brand/model you would have the same issue I had. Which drive is which? There is nothing to say which drive is first and which is last. Logically I would have thought the first drive would be the first in that list. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS, because it can actually be the last drive and be in reverse order (from trial and error). This is by far the worse problem and by far the most dangerous which the developers seem to have opt for a russian roulette style of partitioning. I hope in next releases more attention gets given to this area more than any other areas because I really don't care how awkward the install is, my main concern is whether I'm destroying my data or not. To elaborate more on the situation, Do you even know the brand/model of all your hard drives? Inside an actual operating system, I fully understand the drives, I've got labels I've identified them with, I even know which is first and last drive. In this installer... umm... yea. Well it's not that bad, I know the models etc by working in the BIOS a lot but don't expect novices to know this. I think Fedora has lost users to this installation because even I was thinking against doing this tutorial because I felt I could not recommend it because of the issues in the installation. However I still recommend it, even after the installation, it's still a good operating system. Although GNOME 3 may not be pleasant to look at, I've found it's forced me to be more effecient which actually has improved the way I do things. Not for everyone's liking, especially mouse users. So if I was going to recommend Fedora 18, I would say you need to have to be more than a novice but no need to be an expert. Cheers, MC

Fedora 18, AKA Spherical Cow was released on 15 January 2013. Are you having problems installing Fedora 18? This guide is to help you install Fedora 18 on your computer. Screen shots have been provided to help you through the installation process and to familiarise yourself with the install screens you may encounter during the initial setup. It is specifically tailored for those who want to completely replace their current operating system or to install on a clean hard drive. If you require a different setup, the steps are still quite similar but you will need to adjust your choices to suit how you want to configure your system. The installation wizard can help you with those choices. What is Fedora For those of you who still do not know what Fedora is, it is a fast, stable and powerful Linux based Operating System. It is developed by people all around the world that contribute to this community supported Fedora Project which is also owned by Red Hat. The main package format for this operating system is RPM-based. Fedora provides you with a set of programs distributed under a free and open source license to run your computer and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. This is what sets Fedora apart from other operating systems. It is an alternative to running MS Windows TM and Mac OS X, as well as other numerous operating systems out there. How To Get Fedora Fedora is 100% free of charge and free, as in it allows you the freedom to enjoy it and share it. This means it is not going to cost you anything. If you want to download it from their website, no problem. If you want to give it away to friends and family so they too can enjoy it, again no problem. You are quite flexible to do what you like with it. Just be sure to read the license so you understand your rights. The Fedora Project distributes releases of Fedora as a ISO (9660 file system) image format. These ISO images can easily be downloaded from the internet. You can transfer, or burn, these ISO image files to a blank DVD or other bootable media like USB sticks and then use this disc or USB stick to boot off and install Fedora onto your computer. Follow this link to get Fedora from The Fedora Projects download page. There are many choices to make when choosing which provided format to download. Is your system 32-bit or 64-bit (quite modern computers would select this one), Do you want Installable Live Media or a DVD that provides more software than Live media. Usually by default the Installable Live media has been chosen for you and all you need to do is hit the “Download Now!' button to start downloading it right away. I prefer downloading the Fedora 18 DVD as you have better customisation at install time and can select what GUI you would like to run. In my case, I prefer a minimal installation and only install packages that I would actually use after I get Fedora 18 up and running. This gives me a very space efficient install but it does requires more work to get it up to your preferences that you like. For this guide I am going to run through the Live Media Installation, which is built for the general user and does not have the full customisation options like the DVD. Once you have downloaded it, you need to either write Fedora to a USB stick or burn Fedora onto a blank DVD. There are other methods too but these are the main two to pick from. This guide does not go into creating the bootable media but The Fedora Project has provided easy steps for making USB media or making an installation DVD. Lets Begin Installing Insert your bootable media into your computer and boot from it. If at any stage you are having problems with these procedures be sure to check out the Fedora 18 documentation which is more in depth than what this guide covers. If you still are having problems, then feel free to post your questions here and I will try to help you out. 01 - F18 First Boot Screen by mastercomputers, on Flickr This is the Fedora 18 First Boot Screen that you will encounter. It is by default set to 'Start Fedora 18' in 10 seconds or you can speed the process up by hitting 'Enter'. 02 - F18 Login Screen by mastercomputers, on Flickr When you Start Fedora 18 you are taken to the log in screen where you pick the Live System User to log into. It has no password and will automatically log itself in when you chose it. 03 - F18 Try Fedora or Install Fedora by mastercomputers, on Flickr We are now presented with an option to Try Fedora out or to Install to Hard Drive. Since this guide is about installing Fedora 18, we are going to Install Fedora to Hard Drive. 04 - F18 Select your Language by mastercomputers, on Flickr The first screen of the installation process is to pick which language you would like to install in. Select whichever is your native tongue or what you find easier to use, mine is English. 05 - F18 Installation Summary by mastercomputers, on Flickr At the installation summary screen we have options to change our date and time, the keyboard and also where to install it. This screen differs from the DVD version of the installation. 06 - F18 Date and Time by mastercomputers, on Flickr In the date and time configuration, select your region and city. You can easily do this by clicking on your country. If you want to configure your time manually you will need to turn off Network Time otherwise your time will be automatically synchronised via the internet each time you boot. 07 - F18 Keyboard Layout by mastercomputers, on Flickr The only reason you would enter the keyboard config screen is because you use a different keyboard layout. The default suits me fine which means I did not need to enter this screen. Your usage may differ. 08 - F18 Storage Installation Destination by mastercomputers, on Flickr I am installing Fedora 18 on a clean Local Standard Disk, in reality it is actually a Virtual Drive as I am running the install process through VirtualBox which is a virtualisation manager that allows me to install operating systems within my main operating system so that I can provide these guides to you without affecting anything but the space on my hard drive. Select the hard drive you wish to install, my hard drive was selected by default. 09 - F18 Full Disk Summary and Options by mastercomputers, on Flickr Just being curious I wanted to see what the Full Disk Summary link at the bottom showed. This lets you set whether you want the drive to be bootable as well as gives you other information about the drives you may have installed on your system. 10 - F18 Installations Options after Continuing by mastercomputers, on Flickr When you hit continue you are shown your Installation Options. This lets you know if you have enough available disk space to install Fedora 18. You can also customise the file system to use as well as customising how the drive is partitioned. You can leave everything as default but I was tempted to try BtrFS which has some major advantageous over ext4 but this guide is not going to touch those areas so if you want to know more check out BtrFS on Wikipedia. 11 - F18 Configuration User Settings by mastercomputers, on Flickr While the installation is taking place, you are now required to set your root password. 12 - F18 Set Root Password by mastercomputers, on Flickr Set your root password, be sure not to forget it as some people do after the installation as you don't actually log in as root with this install process, only if you configured your installation differently with the DVD version install process. This is the password you will use to log into the administrator user called 'root' but it is disabled by default. Just ensure you remember this password somehow incase a use for it does arrive. 13 - FC18 Installation Complete by mastercomputers, on Flickr If you see this screen you have completely finished the installation process. This is really where this guide should end but I have decided to walk you through the Welcome screen as well. What happens after the installation Once you have finished, you are still running the Live Media and can test out Fedora 18 if you like. 14 - FC18 After Installation Time To Reboot by mastercomputers, on Flickr To reboot your system, click on the Live System User menu on the top right and select Power Off. 15 - FC18 Power Off Optioins by mastercomputers, on Flickr Now choose to restart your computer. 16 - FC18 Grub Boot Loader by mastercomputers, on Flickr When you computer restarts and gets pass the BIOS POST you will be presented with the Grub Boot Loader menu, which will automatically boot into Fedora 18. Press 'Enter' to speed the process up. 17 - FC18 Welcome Screen by mastercomputers, on Flickr Because this is your first time booting, you are given a Welcome Screen to do some extra steps to get your system ready for use. 18 - FC18 License Information by mastercomputers, on Flickr You have the legal license information, which you should read and understand so you know what rights and restrictions you have. 19 - FC18 Create User by mastercomputers, on Flickr Now this is where you can create a user. Fill in all the fields. I suggest that you create this user as the administrator user by checking Add to Administrators Group. You can add more users at this screen by clicking on Advanced... or you can set new users up afterwards. It's up to you, as long as you create the first user and make them an administrator. 20 - FC18 Date and Time by mastercomputers, on Flickr Now the last step is to configure how you want your date and time to appear for your system, and how it will get it's time. Once you have finished this, that is all there is. Log in with your user you created and begin exploring and enjoying Fedora 18. I hope that this guide has helped you overcome this hurdle of installing Fedora 18 and that the screen shots provided helped you with understanding what to do at certain situations. If you still require more help. Please do not be afraid to ask as I really did speed through this and may have overlooked some things. Cheers, MC

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The question is, is there really a need to use shortnames? People can call their program whatever they like, they don't even need to call it the same as the name of the program. They could say it's Word but the running process is called Writer, why you would do this is beyond me but it's possible. Calling programs by acronyms aren't too bad as long as they stand for what they intentionally are. NTVDM is fine with me, not many will know what it is, it would be better if they called it NTVDM but it could expand on what it's name really means. Because of the issues with spaces being a fault of command prompt, why should everyone be stuck in it's limitation? Same with 8 character limitation on file names. These problems should have been fixed at the source, not for people to be forced to do it like that, because once too many people start doing this, it becomes problematic to fix while trying to keep backwards compatible. Eventually that's when they draw the line and cut it off completely and tell everyone tough luck. Linux can also have problems with spaces too, but you either quote it or you escape the spaces. I prefer quoting and I believe Windows does it the same way. It's not hard to create launchers/shortcuts that handle spaces for your program which is probably how most user friendly installs should go with instead of giving them the full executable in which they have the chance of deleting, renaming, etc this can cause more problems if the user thinks they're working with the shortcut. 8 character limitation is their backwards compatibility, and that some of the programs that they continued to use, actually were back from dos and remained the same name to avoid confusion since too many were already use to that name. The biggest downside for Linux are the leaders with goals in mind, it's usually the differences of their goals that causes the offshoots. Instead of being reasonable, maybe having more alternatives, etc they could have worked together. Biggest issue however has always been proprietary issues which really no one wants to go down but some will make it easier for them to. Just keep sticking at it and you'll become a pro keyboard user. I am just going to add ways to navigate your GUI programs (terminal is just too easy) in Linux which may be similar to your distribution but I run Fedora 18 with GNOME 3 so these tips may help you put the mouse down but you'll need to maybe learn alternative ways to do it in your distribution. Hitting Windows Key brings up the Activities menu which also puts you into a search box by default, typing any name of a program will automatically select it so that you can open it straight away. You can use the programs actual name, or it's shortcut name or even just part of the name so you can select through a list of programs with those characters in it's name if you don't know what the program is called. An example that I did to get here, I hit Windows key or alternatively you can press Alt+F1, typed firefox followed by enter and then typed Xisto's url and that was it since the default entry is the location bar I didn't have to tab to get into it. If I did press tab however, I enter the search box, so I can search for something if I needed to with my default search engine. A more indepth GUI to navigate is maybe your file manager. So hit the Windows key and type files followed by Enter and you will have your file manager, mine is actually Nemo but Nautilus was installed by default. Once in your file manager, you should be at your home directory, if you want to work with a directory or a file in it, just start typing it and it will be selected. Press Space if you want to just select it. You might want to press the Context Menu key (between the right Windows key and right Ctrl key, this is like pushing the right mouse button on this file) and you can then use your arrow keys to navigate to what you want to do, etc. Or if you know the shortcut command you can press that, e.g. F2 to rename If you press Enter instead on the file, it'll run it's default program associated with it's open action. If you need to change the directory altogether, press Ctrl+L to bring up the location bar and type which directory you want to be in, and then do the steps above again for selecting what you want. Well, that's pretty much some of the basics there's plenty more ways to do things but this should get you started. Learning this you should be able to navigate your system pretty well. But don't be afraid to pick up the mouse, it doesn't bite and sometimes it can be relaxing to do something different that typing all the time. That's one of my biggest concerns if I keep typing continuously so always try to take breaks every now and again. I guess next you would ask, where to find all these shortcut keys. Most programs have a help menu which may contain their shortcut keys or even a settings where you can set up your keys to navigate with. It would be too hard to tell you what they are so you would need to find them out yourself. Although most programs keep to consistency, so that some key combo you do in one program may actually be the same key combo for another program. Cheers, MC