Minix3 Installation 1. Download Vmware Player 2.0 from this location ... 2. Download the Minix Virtual machine from this location ...or install Minix using this CD from the book ... 3. Install Vmware Player/Workstation and open the Minix virtual machine using the file menu ... 4. Create a virtual floppy drive for this machine using the options in Edit Virtual Machine Settings menu. Make sure that an image is created for this image drive in '.img' format. 5. Boot the machine using 'Start this virtual machine option' 6. Make all the required changes, do 'make world' 7. Make sure that the Minix VM either has the floppy drive mapped to the actual floppy drive or an .img file on the Host machine. 8. then goto /usr/src/tools run 'make fdboot', when it asks for the floppy drive give fd0 which has a blank image created for writing the boot image. 9. If .img file is used as floppy drive, Burn the fd image to CD from windows using any CD writing software or Mag...
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JOKE: Good one from my buddies mail ... At training program for the top management. A well-known motivational speaker gathering the entire crowd's attention, said, "The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife !" The crowd was shocked! He followed up by saying, "That woman was my mother!" The crowd burst into laughter and he gave his speech, which was well received. About a week later, one of the top managers who had the training decided to use that joke at his house. He tried to rehearse the joke in his head. It was a bit foggy to him. He said loudly, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my wife!" Naturally, his wife was shell shocked, murmuring. After standing there for almost 10 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, the manager finally blurted out "... and I can't remember who she was !" As expected, he got thrashing of his life time.... Mora...
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It seems the world is more oriented towards frontend ? What's this frontend ? Maybe User Interface in the IT field Maybe Soft Skills in the Interview Maybe The Skin in the Marriage Everyone is getting more oriented in getting the things done, than thinking will it work or does it have a better way of doing it? Yes, if the orientation is towards the betterness than the readiness, there would be less failures and better products, than many products with many modifications that might not work. That seems to be the reasons for many lawsuits, divorces, firings being seen all around the world. One day, I would like to see a world which balances the importance of Cook N Cleaner Application N System Programmer Skin N Heart Presentation N Matter Money N Value Am I generalizing it a lot, hope you got the actual point?