Ubuntu Dual Boot

My adventure of creating a dual-boot machine for my laptop hit a few snags.

• Get Ready
• Mostly followed the Gcore process
• Downloaded Rufus make sure to use SourceForge - if you don't 27 other packages will try to download to your machine, Gcore links to raw rufus site that is a disaster
• Grabbed a new ISO image from Ubuntu
• Inserted a new USB and copied
• Had to play around a bit with how my machine could be told to 'boot from USB' but ultimately it worked
• Get Set
• Tried to install by letting Ubuntu - build beside existing OS
• Forgot to make a partition available
• Ubuntu was very unhappy that BitLocker was on
• Destroyed the BitLocker 
• That caused me to type in a 48 digit code to re-access my Windows
• Got Windows back
• Interestingly enough Windows 11 was able to shrink my 500GB drive into two partitions: 300 and 200 and I was eventually able to coax Ubuntu into building and loading onto the secondary partition
• Annoyance
• When flipping between Ubuntu and Windows
• Windows kept warping me to UTC
• Did some rummaging around and found this reddit thread
• Change the internal clock
• timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
• Apparently windows pushes 'local time' to the hardware clock on the machine and this thoroughly confuses Windows
• Go
• So now the machine boots automatically into Ubuntu if I just let it sit
• I can select to switch to Windows (from which I am writing this entry

Test from phone

Does this work? Could I keep track of things with this?

Does this thing actually work?

Haven't used it in over 10 years. Just a test to see if I can add things to it. Maybe I can use it again once I retire.

Kristie is home!

Kristie has returned from her trek. Back from Alaska, with a newly minted Master's Degree and ready to start whatever comes next. Welcome back, Kris!

New Hawk Camouflage

Was driving out today - stopped at a traffic light. I happened to browse up at the electric wires. I glanced at what appeared to be four standoffs where normally there are only three.

A closer look revealed a hawk hidden amongst the standoffs waiting for prey to appear.

PSAC Winter 2013

We went to Kellie's PSAC Winter 2013 meet yesterday. Here are the videos.

• Jump 1
• Jump 2
• Jump 3
• Jump 4
• Jump 5

Off to the tundra

For those who don't already know my daughter Kristie Bresz is heading to Alaska for the next 5 months.

I am putting this to help her blog get better scores in google search.

Her blog is here:

A Tundra of Fun

Good luck Kris.

F1 and Speed to split

This is upsetting news. I've been an ardent follower of Steve Matchett , David Hobbs and Bob Varsha. Their knowledge of the sport is wonderful, their teamwork is top notch and they have just enough sarcasm and wit sprinkled into the broadcast to keep it interesting without making it silly. I sincerely hope that whatever NBC does with the broadcasts we don't end up with an entire season of time shifted nonsense. Back a few years ago when Fox broadcast a few of the races in time shifted fashion they changed broadcast crews, and they were terrible.

mint.com - Hello and Goodbye in 24 hours - Ads gone wild

Yesterday I tried mint.com. Today I deleted my account. Quicken was asking that I upgrade to the 2013 version for $60, but mint.com was free to try and could be lower ongoing, with a better interface to iPad. My account is now deleted for the following reasons:

1. Unable to set goals - I loaded all my accounts, everything, including mortgage. When setting up the goal to payoff my mortgage the tool was unable to recognize that I had a loan. LOSE
2. Too many ads - Switched to the iPad to see if perhaps it was better. Unfortunately, all that happened was a boatload of ads.
   • I see you paid an ATM fee, here's a bank that doesn't charge those
   • I see you are a good saver, ING has a great rate I have an ING account so that is a pointless ad
   • Quicken loans has great rates on your mortgage, perhaps we can save you money

Goodbye!

Mutant Alien Butterfly

Yesterday we went downtown to eat at Station Square in Pittsburgh. After eating we were walking down the steps and saw what appeared to be an alien mutant butterfly.

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Note when looking from the side those bolts next to it are those heavy duty 1" bolts used to hold buildings together.

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I did some research and it appears to be a Royal Walnut Moth. I think my pictures look better!