Andrej, Jessica, Kaiya, Tobi and Eli » Tech

New Photo Gallery

Andrej — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:01:46 +0000

You might have noticed that we moved our pictures to a new photo gallery. The one we’ve used until now has worked ok, but adding new pictures was a very time consuming process where it could easily take over an hour to add 40 pictures. With this new gallery, adding new pictures should be an easy process so you should see new pictures posted more frequently.

I wanted to ask that if you see something not work correctly that you let us know either by email, the contact form up at the top or just by commenting to this post. Thanks!

Experiment

Andrej — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:04:26 +0000

About two weeks ago I decided to start an experiment. I noticed that I get asked certain questions about computers more than once so I started putting answers to those questions on a separate blog (I didn’t want to talk much about computers on this family blog). It is mainly for my friends that I have previously helped with computer stuff but since it’s on the Internet, it can benefit whoever happens to stumble upon it. So we’ll see how it goes. Oh yeah, the address is www.andrejciho.com.

Guest-Speaking

Andrej — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:37:18 +0000

Last night, I had the opportunity to guest-speak at Topher’s Linux class at Cornerstone University about installing Linux along side MS Windows without messing up the Windows. I also talked about some other fun things (keep reading). My whole motivation to come to the class was that I wanted to help those students avoid mistakes I made in the past when I “hosed” my work laptop AND home computer (on several occasions). I offered coming to the class about 2 weeks ago and Topher agreed that it would be a good idea…

Teaching and interacting with the students for 2 hours was a very new experience for me. While it was very exciting to talk about the stuff I’m passionate about, I don’t think that at this point it will influence my career decision-making. Or will it?

I was nervous all morning. One thing that helped me as the class started was the professor’s introduction. He said, “This is Andrej and he’s going to show you some pretty crazy stuff that I’ve never tried…” But enough of bragging (sorry if I was, I’m just very excited)
Here’s a list of what we covered:

How to make Windows’ boot.ini load either Windows or Linux at the start-up (without messing with the MBR) and the workings of the tools I used (grub, dd, explore2fs)
Brief summary of what makes Gentoo Linux different from other distributions
How Opearting System zealotry is NOT cool, whichever side of it you might be on. (I wish I would have spent even more time on this)
Importance of keeping a backup of your important files (and MBR)

So that’s it. I don’t know if it was as cool of an experience for anybody else in the class, but I surely enjoyed it.

Kaiya’s First Hands-on Computer Experience

Andrej — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:13:14 +0000

(Imported from itsourfamily.blogspot.com)