Installing Windows 7 on a Modbook / Macbook

My Modbook from OCW took less than five days to arrive. Less than five days after receiving it, it also saw a ~USD100 price drop. Lol! Can’t win ‘em all. So anyway, one of the priorities was to get Windows working on this machine. Since the Modbook has 4GB on it, I elected to install [...]

Setting up Slackware on a VPS (Part 2, using installpkg and getting packages)

The most basic thing one needs to learn when setting up Slackware (on a VPS, especially) is how to get various packages and install them. This is most easily done via the wget and installpkg commands. http://slackware.com/getslack has a list of mirrors where you can get slackware packages. Packages will be found within a directory [...]

Setting up Slackware – Server OS Field Stripping (Part 1, intro)

On VPS hosting, using an administration panel (e.g. cPanel, Plesk, Interworx, DirectAdmin, etc…) together with a distro such as CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu is the popular choice. This is the conservative decision, but sometimes this just hampers flexibility to an unacceptable degree. You are often tightly constrained regarding the versions of software you can use. In my present [...]

Archive for June, 2009

Installing Windows 7 on a Modbook / Macbook

Setting up Slackware on a VPS (Part 2, using installpkg and getting packages)

Setting up Slackware – Server OS Field Stripping (Part 1, intro)