User:Damunzy

-- Hi! My name is Derek A. Muenzel, Sr. Contact Info: email: damunzy@gmail.com AIM - damunzy Y! - damunzy MSN - damunzy@gmail.com ICQ - 263491654 XMPP/Google Talk - damunzy@gmail.com Facebook: damunzy LinkedIn: damunzy@gmail.com


 * By vocation I am a Systems Administrator (Linux/UNIX/Windows). I am currently self employed or unemployed- depends on how you look at it. :p
 * I enjoy just about anything to do with computers (games, learning programming, games [this is why I still have XP loaded on my box], tinkering).
 * I am a big proponent of Free and Open Source Software but I also can see the value in Proprietary software too (but I definitely lean towards FOSS when given a choice).
 * I have helped edit an inner-company wiki at a past job and also was a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for document reviews at the same company. I am not a wiki expert but I know enough to get into trouble. ;D
 * I have been blamed for using way too many smileys. :(
 * I am a BIG proponent of International Standard ISO 8601 for dates and times. I got this way because (BTW, I am American) when I was growing up I naturally leaned to the European way of doing dates (DD-MM-YY) but eventually I was trained to use the American date format (MM-DD-YY). After getting on the Interwebtubes way back in '95 (oh, AOL, how I loved and loathed you) I began to get some European friends and dates would get confusing when talking with them. To add more fuel to the fire, I joined the US Army in '96 and guess what? Yep, the Army (don't know about the other services) has their own date format! I believe it was DD MMM YY, where DD and YY were two digit numbers and MMM was the first three letters in the month. Anywho, I found using computers that when dating files in the file name it is much easier to sort if you do it by YYYY-MM-DD which so happens to be ISO 8601 standard. So, now I have an International Standards Organization to back me up on why this format is the best. Wow, talk about going off on a tangent.


 * My current (as of 2008-09-24) main box is a MS Windows XP SP3 system. Don't boo me, I know, I know. But, on this system I have Virtual Box installed with VMs of Fedora Core 9, CentOS 5, Ubuntu 8.04.1 Server, and more installed. The Fedora 9 is constantly running and it is my main test bed. I also have an old system in the middle of a Gentoo load and my girlfriend's laptop has MS Vista Premium on it. :(
 * I am currently trying to load Fedora 9 on the kid's computer (BTW, I have 6 of them with my girlfriend- hers, mine, and ours) but I keep getting an anaconda error (see below) and that is how I came across the Fedora Documentation Project.
 * I am waiting to get Fedora 9 installed on the kid's box successfully before I turn mine into a dual boot system. I have already used the gparted live USB to free up some space to do this. I will then do a USB install of a Fedora netinstall and install the packages over FTP.
 * I have currently moved over to all open source software except for my music player- WinAmp 2.95 and games. Anyone know of an FOSS music program that supports most music formats (at least OGG and MP3) AND **will scroll the song title in the taskbar** AND shuffle mode should allow going back and forth between previously played songs.

Fedora Core 9 Installation issue: Title: Error Body:

Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated.

Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda-Fedora-200805072150.i386. Please verify its path and try again.

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