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Dual-Boot your Computer! – *The Video*

February 25th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

OK, so everybody here can download my new fully-released step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot your computer. It’s about half an hour long, and it’s a bit lengthy, so you may want to skip some parts that you already understand, but it’s great for beginners who have no idea what they’re doing too.

It follows the same basic instructions as my “Dual-Boot your Computer!” post, so you can follow along the video with that post.

The video is available for download in a BitTorrent file, because I didn’t feel like uploading such a hefty file to a server. In case you’re wondering, BitTorrent is a protocol for downloading files, and to download files through BitTorrent, you need a Torrent client, and I feel that uTorrent does this job wonderfully, so download that and install it, and you’re all set.

After installing uTorrent, or if you’re using your already-installed uTorrent or some other Torrent client like the one that LimeWire has built in, you can use the *.torrent file that you’re about to download, and open it up in one of those programs, and then set a place to download the file into, and then start downloading. Once you’re done downloading, please leave uTorrent or Limewire or whatever torrent client you’re using open, so that other people can download the files too – once you’re done downloading, your bittorrent client should automatically begin ‘seeding’ the file, or, in other words, uploading it to the other peers who are downloading it too.

Download the *.Torrent file now!

Please notify me if the link becomes broken!

I hope you enjoy my video!

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Dual-Boot your Computer!

February 19th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 14 Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Are you ever tired of Windows Vista’s “Antics”??? Well, here’s what you should do if you have a spare windows XP cd, or your friend had an old one that he never used.

I’ve been researching this quite a bit, and I was asking this question on PCWorld.com forums. My thread’s here: http://forums.pcworld.com/thread/27512?tstart=0. Here’s what you need to do based on the wonderful directions at apcmag: http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp.

  1. First, we have to create a place for you to install XP, so in Vista, click on Start, and right click on Computer, and click on Manage.  Remember, you must be an administrator to do this.  
  2. Click on continue if an User Account Control dialog box pops up, and the Computer Management window will appear.  
  3. Under the Storage Category in the left panel of the window (there is three panels), click on the Disk Management icon.  
  4. Right-click on either your C: drive or your D: drive (which ever has more free space) in the middle panel of the window, and in the menu that pops up, click on `shrink volume`.
  5. In the dialog box that pops up, leave all the settings alone (unless you know what you`re doing – in that case, you can decrease the amount you shrink your volume by, so as to leave some free space for more stuff), and then click Shrink.  Now you will have a new partition available to install XP on.
  6. Since you have the XP disks, install XP into the unpartitioned space you just created.  
  7. Obviously now you can’t boot into the Windows Vista Partition, or in human terms, section of the hard drive that is devoted to one filesystem or another, that you originally wanted to boot into.  After XP`s installed, boot into it!
  8. Now, download this iso file: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ and burn it with a program like MagicISO or Roxio, and then reboot with the disk in your drive and select the recovery option, and repair Vista’s Master Boot Record (click on startup repair).
  9. Now you can boot into vista. now for the dualboot part of this: download easybcd. Then to the following steps after installing:
  10. Launch the app and go to Add/Remove Entries.
  11. Under “Add an Entry” and under the Windows tab and select in the Version drop-down list “Windows NT/2k/XP/2k3”.
  12. Change the Drive to E:\ and the name to “Windows XP”, then click “Add Entry” and “Save”.

Now when you restart you should see both Vista and XP in your OS List.


I REALLY hope this helps, and me finding all this information out is all because of ages and ages of searching online and doing research and because of apcmag.com’s dual-booting guides!

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Thanks to APCMAG.COM for the images!

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Austin Comes

February 11th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

I am Here!
The AustinChicken has moved into “I Love This Blog. If you want to go to my blog go to:
http://www.austin-chickeninfo.blogspot.com
Enjoy I am going to be posting.

-AustinChicken

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Cool Work, Austin!

February 9th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 8 Comments | Filed in Uncategorized


My brother Austin drew a wonderful photo of Queen Nefertiti as a thank-you card to someone.
Craig and I will be posting on this blog, and soon, we will be posting along with Austin, Connor’s brother, and Kenneth, Craig’s brother.

The picture is also available below in tiff format, since blogger’s wasn’t uploading properly earlier, as Craig noted. http://images.cdmazika.com/files/ym2tmzld0jnvke12ajnz.tif

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Club Penguin — A Review

February 8th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized
I have heard a lot of pizzaz (yes, pizzaz) going around about online multi-player games. Most of these include blood and gore, killing, stealing, and many other of these things that parents wouldn’t want their kids getting into.
But there is one that is different. It is called Club Penguin! It is completely kid and parent-friendly, and it even has pages for parents to look on, that explains this new interactive site.
On Club Penguin, everyone can create an account, choose a penguin that they would like to be, choose a color, and a username and password, and then BAM! you’re in! You can set up accounts that are Ultimate Safe Chat meaning it doesn’t allow you to chat with the other penguins, or a Standard Safe Chat account meaning, that there is moderation in which words you can type, but it lets you converse with the other penguins waddling all over club penguin.
There are many, many places! So many rooms that you can explore, and find hidden secrets just about every week! Also, there are games that you can play to earn you Coins, and these coins can be used to purchase clothing and cool items for your penguin!
It is a very safe, fun place to just have fun!
Below are some screenshots of what Club Penguin looks like. Visit http://www.clubpenguin.com/ to find out more!

Ok sorry I cannot add screenshots right now because Blogger is being a pain. Oh well just visit www.clubpenguin.com and see it for yourself! …Maybe I can get Connor to upload the shots…
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My Story Operation

February 5th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 4 Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Hello fellow scholars! How are we today? I just stopped in from the HEALTH MARKET!!! WEEEEEEE! I was wondering what is the KING OF TOWNS shoe doing in my LEMONADE!!!!!!

Sorry about that. The people reponsible have been sacked. And now back to your fellow bloggist…or blogger…or something beginning with blog and ending with usually something that’s 3 letters long, Craig.

Hi everyone! It’s me Craig again. I thought I’d post about the story I’m writing.
Well right now I am working on a novel called Universal Malfunction (I am also working on a few side stories…but I’ll post about them later…maybe.)

In Universal Malfunction, there is this hacking club, where all the top hackers meet and get to hacking to see what they can dig up. It’s a big hobby really. The hacker club is called: SYNAPSE, which stands for Symetrical Yonder Not Aware Put South East…which doesn’t make sense right now because I just made that up. I’m still working on what they’re called. Any ideas?

So anyways, this hacker team is “contacted” (thrown into the trunk of an unmarked black van and drove around in circles to on of their hide-outs in the USA, and they threaten to do very bad evil things if they do not work for them.) So the hacker team is now working for the Russian Mob. And the russian mob wants all the info they can get from NASA, so they have the hacker’s try and get all the info. One of them (the main character) (possibly called Nick) stumbles upon an Anti-Gravity device that the USA govenment and NASA are working on secretly.

Man I’ve given away a lot of the story already.
I guess you’ll just have to wait for me to finish writing it, and then read it!

(Oh I feel the suspense.)

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Whoa! Work!

February 5th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Been a real ‘crunch time’ at school these days. Sorry about the lack of posts.

Stay faithful to the blog though!

Connor

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