Booting LInux from external HDD on Eee Pc

Sometimes, it's necessary to be able to boot from external HDD on Laptop eg: Asus Eee Pc 701 or other brands. Most laptops today have more than enough capacity if you just want to browse the Internet, write documents, listen to audios and anything else.
But occassionaly, sometimes we want a little more. The smallest laptop eg the EeePC has at least 4GB, a capacity that was enough to strip down Linux, eg: Fedora.
But if we do so, it will reduce the hard disk capacity. and that's a little bit irritating. As a tricks, you can install Linux Fedora on an external drive instead, and use your fedora from the HDD. With Linux, that's an easy thing.

If you want to know how to install fedora as usual, you may find it here.

For this tutorial, i use:

• Asus Eee Pc 701.
• Fedora 10 on DVD, if you download the ISO, please burn it first on DVD.
• External HDD
• External DVD reader

These are the steps:

1. Prepare the Fedora DVD.
2. Connect external HDD and external DVD reader to Eee Pc
   
3. Boot from the Fedora 10 DVD.
4. Click thorugh the setting until you see
5. You should customize the partition table. Your partition setup should look like this:
   

sda - Eee Pc internal memory

[directory] - [file system] - [size]

/boot - ext3 - 4GB [min 100MB]

sdb - external HDD

[directory] - [file system] - [size]

/ - ext3 - 10GB

/home - ext3 - [allocate as large as you want]

swap - swap - 1GB

1. You have to remember to force sda to be the primary partition.
2. Continue with the installation 
3. Okay, everything should be fine.
   

NHibernate, Hibernate and Java

Hibernate is a library on java programming language. The function is as a framework top maps data bases on program's classes. So, the classes that will handles the CRUD (create, update and delete) functions and other transactional database functions.

While NHibernate is totally different with Hibernate. Prefix N shows that this platform was build and specifically designed for Microsoft's Net framework.

Although it's for Net framework, but this library is free and open source. The latest version of NHibernate while i write this post is 1.2, a version that already contains almost all features in Hibernate 3 for Java.

To know the details (eg how to use and utilize and also some tools to support NHibernate, just click these links:

http://www.nhibernate.org/
http://nhforge.org/

First time blogging using FLock

Although flock is already released some times ago. But today is my first try on it. Some of my initial impression about flock is:

1. Superb WYSIWYG capabilities.
2. Great Web 2.0 support.
3. ALmost all well known social networks services are available from this.
4. Free and open source.
5. Light.

I recommend this software to be used daily by professionals or home bloggers.