Installation

I needed to install Windows and downloaded the 4.7GB Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft's website. Since I only had Linux machines at my disposal (and no DVD drives), I had to look to install the ISO on a pen drive. While the purists advocated that I use dd to accomplish this, I found that getting the USB to be bootable was something of a chore. So I looked for a friendlier solution and this is what I found for Kubuntu:

So, here I was writing a script that would automate the installation of a package in Ubuntu 14.04 and all was going swimmingly. Until I ran it. You know how some apt-get installs sometimes involve a technicolor pop-up that asks you for stuff? Well, those pop-ups interrupted my script which didn't proceed further. After much digging, I found that there are a couple of solutions for this:

I ran into a hitch while trying to install the latest version of TortoiseSVN on my XP 64-bit Windows installation. Apparently, the entire world has forgotten about the existence of this variety of Windows. There's absolutely no mention of it anywhere on TortoiseSVN's installer page. The MSI installer failed stating that the version of Windows Installer that I was using was dated and that I needed to update my version of XP (x86) to SP3 or some other drivel like that. TortoiseSVN has no manual install option either. I did the whole Windows Update thing as well, to no avail.

Unlike Top, its newer sibling - Htop is better in every way. It provides more detailed information, supports colours and is more configurable. Htop is available in the repositories of most distros. However, CentOS (and therefore, RHEL) is not one of them. While it it apparently available in the EPEL repositories, I could not find it for CentOS 4.9. In any event, what we have below are the (simple) steps to install it from the source packages:

This is something of a personal reminder of the stuff I do after a fresh installation of Kubuntu:

• Install the following apps:
  1. synaptic
  2. firefox
  3. pidgin
  4. whois
  5. traceroute
  6. sun-javaX-jre
  7. sun-javaX-plugin
  8. sun-javaX-fonts
  9. vlc
  10. mplayer
  11. vim
  12. vim-gtk
  13. msttcorefonts
  14. qcomicbook
  15. flashplugin-nonfree
  16. unrar
  17. unace

If you ever run into an error along the lines of 1155 instmsi30.exe not found specifying a directory, usually your CD-ROM drive, you need to update your Windows installer.