Monthly Archives: November 2006

Warhol's "You Are the One" to Premiere at the Detroit MoNA

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If you are in or near Detroit on November 12th 2006, you will have the chance to a attend what might be the only screening of a long lost Andy Warhol short digital film, created in the mid-80’s using Amiga computers, at the Museum of New Art.

Until its 2001 discovery, what had only been hinted at and rumored is that Warhol had actually created a short digital film on one such computer, probably the first such digital creation by any important artist. Titled YOU ARE THE ONE, the digital stills were discovered on a floppy diskz among thousands in Warhol’s estate. […] However, due to threatened legal action tied to estate disputes and to its pending seizure, the museum will only be allowed a one day screening of the film.

Passive House Platform

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Browsing through Leonardo Energy, I found a post pointing to a very interesting webcast on a European standard geared toward ultra-low energy building, referred to as passive houses.

The term passive house refers to a specific construction standard for residential buildings with good comfort conditions during winter and summer, without traditional heating systems and without active cooling. Typically this includes very good insulation levels, very good airtightness of the building, whilst a good indoor air quality is guaranteed by a mechanical ventilation system with highly efficient heat recovery.

Related links:

Googly Googly Goo

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If I was Glen Quagmire, the title of this post is probably what I’d be saying right now. See, we just received a new toy at work today! Namely, a Google Search Appliance (GB-1001).

Google Search Appliance

I’ll of course try to post my impressions shortly, but here is some reading material I combed through recently:

Now, to not let it shoot down my productivity on the other stuff I need to get done…

Fedora Core 6 VM Image for VMWare

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As previously mentioned, I have prepared a VMWare equivalent to the Fedora Core 6 image I am distributing for Parallels Desktop.

You can find the details below:

FC6_Basic_For_VMWare_5.5.x-Install_Screenshots.tar.gz:
http download (12.1MB)
This package contains 76 PNG screenshots of the installation procedure. They show the complete process, from setting up the VMWare image to shutting down a freshly installed and updated copy of Fedora Core 6. Please feel free to produce and distribute a screencast using these very images, if so inclined, as I do not have the time to do so myself right now. (update: I did after all).

FC6_Basic_For_VMWare_5.5.x-20061105.tar.gz:
http download (733.4MB)
This is outcome of the install process shown in the above screenshots. It is fully ready to go, as long as you already have VMWare installed (free player or other).

Here is a SHA1SUM of the above files.

Current hosting is generously provided by the McGill Linux Users Group, so please feel free to mirror, or create a torrent, and redistribute all of the present files. Until we have a new site for the McLUG, you can post your mirror addresses and/or torrent file download info right here, as comments. I will compile a list and add it to this file as (and if) they become available.

The VM package includes:

  • Fedora Core 6 – Basic: VMWare virtual machine folder
  • README.txt: helpful info, support terms (ie: zero, nada, ziltch :)
  • Fedora Core 6 – Basic – Install Screenshots: originally installed on an P4 1.65GHz
  • Fedora Mirrors.html: copy of the official Fedora mirror list
  • boot.iso: fedora boot disk used in original http install process

The install was completed on a Pentium 4 tower (1.65GHz, 1.5GB RAM) running VMWare Workstation 5.5.2 in Fedora core 6, and was also tested on a custom P4 3GHz system running Windows XP SP2 (player), as well as another P4 1.65GHz, but running Fedora Core 5 (workstation).

Once you have VMWare installed, simply double-click or open “Fedora Core 6 – Basic/Fedora Core 6 – Basic.vmx” to get going.

VMWare will most likely prompt you for a few things to adapt the image to your environment:

  • Prompts to create a VM unique identifier: choose yes
  • Prompts to map the virtual floppy drive to match yours: choose yes
  • Warns that the VMWare Tools are not installed: I did not bundle them as I’m unsure if VMWare would let me distribute the image freely once installed in the VM.

Important: The root password is changeme, and the default user is setup as tempuser, with a password of changeme also.

This virtual machine is currently configured to use 512MB RAM. The VM’s default screen resolution is set to 800×600. You can change any and all of its settings to your heart’s contempt.

Please note that this work is provided without support, and on a “works-for-me” basis only at this time.

So there you have it. Enjoy!

Update 1: Here is another source of ready-built VMWare images.

Update 2: 2006-11-29: Related post: Screencast: Fedora Core 6 Install in VMWare Workstation

Update 3: 2006-12-22: This VM will also run as is in the new VMWare Fusion Beta for Mac.

Queue the hold music: ta dadada, tada, tadada…

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I’m currently installing Fedora Core 6 in VMWare Workstation 5.5.2-29772 to provide an equivalent VM image to the one I’m distributing for Parallels Desktop for Mac.

Check back soon to see how it all pans out.

Update: It’s all done, but I’m going to test it on a few machines before I post it, most likely tomorrow.