Author: Alexander Mamchenkov

Flickr uploads

Thanks to my brother I now have a pro account with flickr which allows 2GB of uploads per months. I have started uploading some more photos, but the internet speed at home is a bit slow so it takes some time to upload. I hope that I will manage to move the majority of my photos to flickr soon.

Win XP Install after Linux

Although I do not like doing it, sometimes I have to install Windows XP on machines which have Linux installed on them. Mostly when I have an option to give a newer machine to Linux, I do so and an older machine often gets Windows XP installed to be given out to a user.

For the past couple of times I have noticed that it is not so easy to install Win XP and to replace FC5. If going the normal way and booting from Win XP SP2 CD, it gets up to the point where it tells you \”Inspecting Hardware Configurations\” (which is right at the begging of install), then it shows just black screen and freezes there. I\’ve been fighting with this problem for long time trying to disable different devices from BIOS (I though I had problems with devices if install freezes right after hardware detection stage), but nothing helps. The solution to the problem was to remove all linux partitions from the drive and then everything works! I really hate this!