Tarraguña's Blog

Since it has been over 6 months since I had installed a windows os on my HP 2133, problems started showing up clueing me into the fact that it was time to wipe the drive, reinstall the os and start all over.  My previous set up on my HP 2133 was a tri boot of Windows Vista, Windows 7 (release candidate only), and Ubuntu 8.04.

Windows

Once all of the service packs were installed Vista actaully worked quite well.  Although maybe I think that because there was so much negative said about Vista.  I really only use Windows for those few websites that my work or my husband’s work require IE and Windows OS to access.  And I also use it to run Skype as the video conferencing does not always seem to work right on many of the Linux distros I have tried.  Damn the man you can’t ever fully get away from Windows.  I don’t want to install it on my Mac, YUCK.  I did like testing Windows 7 but not enough to run out and buy it for over 100 dollars.

Linux; Ubuntu 8.04

I loved running Ubuntu on my HP2133.  The built in wireless card and web camera worked wonderfully.  You have to love it when all you have to do is install from the live CD and practically all of the hardware works without having to search for how to set it up and use the terminal and search for drivers.  The only drawback was that Skype did not work too well.  Well the IM function worked great but video calls did not.  Ubuntu is a great Linux distro to start using if you are new to using Linux or if you just want to get going after an install.  In my case there even was already a wiki on how to install Ubuntu on my particular netbook.

Linux; OpenSUSE 11.0 KDE

Because Skype was the only app that did not work quite right in Ubuntu I kept searching for a good Linux distro for my HP 2133.  I discovered some posts about OpenSUSE 11.0 KDE running well on the HP 2133.  Reading the directions and notes associated with these posts of successful installation would have made things way too easy.  I downloaded the iso, burned it to a CD and installed in on my HP 2133.  I did not even re partition the hard drive.  I just wanted to see how it would work.  I like OpenSUSE.  I used to have it installed on an old Dell laptop.  Sadly the wireless card and web cam did not work right after installation.  So this will take some tweaking.  The last resort; I guess I will go back and read some documentation.

If you have not already heard of SquareSpace, it is a publishing/ CMS (content management system) tool that you can use for your website.  It is like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.  Like the other three as similar inthe same genus etc etc.  I have been using wordpress for a while.  Before that I used only CSS, HTML and PHP hand coded stuff, which I still love to do.  For someone who does not know any web programming langauges SquareSpace is great.  It is very user / WISIWIG friendly.  For someone like me who knows CSS, HTML and PHP sometimes I got frusterated because looking for how to do something in SquareSpace took longer than acuatlly hand coding it.  I will try it out for the full two weeks and hold my judgement until the end.  But I think I may be entering with some bias as I a) already have a very reasonable awsome hosting plan and b) the price seems high as compared to other hosting options.  That is squarespace’s selling point though, that you don’t have to know anything or tweak andy geeky computer code in order to get a cool looking website up.  I may not be the person they are catering too.  Below are screenshots of what I have done so far.

and the current view can be seen at www.tarraguna.squarespace.com.

I downloaded the Drupal 6.10 from here and unzipped the file and then uploaded it to my server.  I first attempted to install it at http://www.tarraguna.com/prueba/drupal but Drupal by default is set to be at the main domain.  As I yet don’t know how to tweak the settings, I just used the www.anochezca.com domain for testing.  So I uploaded the files onto www.anochezca.com in the main folder.  It was really easy to install after that.  You will need to know the informatin about your database.  The pictures should tell the story.

and that is that it was installed.  Now I need to learn about all the settings and how to change everything.  I did add a new template.  I downloaded it from a website and FTP it at www.domainname/themes.  You can see it at www.anochezca.com.

Testing…1 ..2 ..3

I have loved my new HP 2133 Mini Note computer for the last couple of months.  So much so that I have failed to post anything about it.  If you would like to install any version (distro) of linux I would suggest searching over the internet to see if someone else has already wrote up some instructions, tips and tricks on how to do it.  More than likely someone has unless you are getting hardware or the new distro early.  I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and used the wiki at ubuntu’s site.  Here is the link for installing the latest 8.10 Ubuntu.

I received my HP 2133 Mini Note on September 26th 2008.  The picture below is not the best quality but in my hast to rush open the packaging I would not sit still for a picture or allow for any appropriate lighting settings. 

(arrival of my new HP 2133)

It came with XP and Vista.  My plans for this computer was to put all kinds of operating systems on it and have some fun.  Since it does not have a CD drive and I also did not have any external drives I had to go to Fry’s and buy one.  It did not cost too much.  I remember when they cost quite a bit.  So I proceeded to load up XP and Vista.  It came with XP installed but in order to do it correctly I had to wipe it, partition it and then install XP and Vista.  I got both running well but who cares.  Linux was what I was after.
(running Vista and killing the CPU)

I eventually got all three; XP, Vista, and Ubuntu Linux running on my HP and I LOVE IT!!!!!!

Above are my Mac PowerBook G4 running OS X and Ubuntu 6.04 (the last distro that supported Power PC architecture) and my HP 2133 Mini Note running XP, Vista, and Ubuntu Linux 8.04.

And I just have to show off a little bit of my home recording studio below.

I will have to add the guitars and such at a later time.