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About Blender Fox

Recreational road-runner, blender/CG rookie, linux user (LE-1, LPIC-1, SUSE CLA 11, SUSE 11 Tech Spec), programmer, avid tinkerer (I'm always breaking things), self-confessed anime & manga otaku & japanophile

Britain Detains Partner Of Journalist Who Exposed NSA Spying. Are They Crazy Or Stupid? | TechCrunch

I would say both.

Britain Detains Partner Of Journalist Who Exposed NSA Spying. Are They Crazy Or Stupid? | TechCrunch.

Unetbootin

I’ve found out that unetbootin, which is the tool of choice for most usb stick generation, does have it’s problems. I’ve just tried to setup a network install usb stick for Fedora and Debian, and both were fine setting up via unetbootin, but did not boot successfully into the installer (although the splash screen did start.) For both, the initialisation seems to want something in the cdrom drive, but even after putting a disc in there, it doesn’t boot. This also happens when using the netbootcd boot usb.

The solution? Surprisingly simple, actually. To use dd or dcfldd:

dd if=debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst of=/dev/sdb
dcfldd if=Fedora-19-i386-netinst of=/dev/sdb

This wipes the contents of the stick, but does ensure that its an extract copy of the iso, without getting rebuilt by unetbootin

NetbootCD (blenderfox.com)

Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg’s wall — RT News

Evidently, unfriending people on Facebook won’t stop them posting on your timeline, as this article proves. And the surprising thing (or unsurprising, depending on your perspective), is that Facebook refused to acknowledge it was a bug, so the whitehat went all the way to the top and posted on Zuckerberg’s wall.

Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg’s wall — RT News.

10K Training – Side Run #2

Tracks: ZR, Endomondo

Side run — not on my training schedule, but felt like I could use it.

2.86 km — 6:25 min/km

15 Reasons to Run

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NetbootCD

This is a very useful boot disk – it allows you to download the latest network installer from the relevant site and boot it, without having to burn or create another stick. It supports the major distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, Scientific Linux, CentOS and Slackware.

Be warned, though, Network Installers by nature can be heavily console-based.

NetbootCD.

10K Training – Day 12: Getting Faster – Day 8

Tracks: ZR (Beta track here), Endomondo

Target: 5km 5:40 – 5:48 min/km. Completion time: 28:20 – 29:00 min

Achieved: 5.15 km 5:56 min/km. Over my target range so need to practise my pacing better.

Next run: Monday — 5km 7:45 min/km. Completion time: 38:45 min

10K Training – Day 11: Getting Faster – Day 7 (blenderfox.com)
10K Training – Day 10: Getting Faster – Day 6 (blenderfox.com)
10K Training – Day 9: Getting Faster – Day 5 (blenderfox.com)

10K Training – Day 11: Getting Faster – Day 7

Tracks: ZR (Beta track here), Endomondo

Target: 3 km Intervals 5:24 – 5:48 min/km. Completion time: 16:12 – 17:24 min

Achieved: 2.68 km, 5:30 min/km. Interesting run. This is the first time I’ve seriously tried to use the Zombie Chases option inside the Zombies, Run! app. The first chase happened at 0.47 km into the run. Easily evaded since I was pretty fresh into the run. The second chase happened 2.44 km into the run. I got caught this time. :-(. Interestingly fun, though.

Chases require you to go around 15% faster than your current speed, and can go up to a minute in sprinting. If you put enough distance between yourself and the zombie, you evade them. If you last more than a minute, you evade them. The chase started at 100m and I managed to get 110m between myself and the first zombie.

When the second chase happened, I hadn’t fully recovered from the first chase, so I got caught. But still, it helps push my training. I’m going to keep using this. Maybe I can throw it in during my long runs to help put some variety in my training.

Next run: Saturday — 5km 5:40 – 5:48 min/km. Completion time: 28:20 – 29:00 min