Month: January 2008

  • Upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha (Virtualbox)

    This is a step by step upgrade. This is a very simple guide and we here at ryanorser.com are not responsible for any damages, data loss or any other weird and wacky things that could happen on your computer, this is why we run it in a VIRTUAL MACHINE. As I cannot have the time…

  • Site downtime

    I am sorry that the site has been down for the last 24 hours. It is now back up and running.

  • Last day of the Semester.

    Hello folks, it is the last day of the semester. Yahoo! I am so glad that it is almost over. No more programming and plus it will be the best day so far this year. How much fun it will be to be in the last year of your grade school life and have that…

  • How to get root access in recovery mode if sudo is broken (Ubuntu)

    Have you ever needed to use sudo but cannot? have you been stuck with no root user? That is the thing of the past. These are the easy steps to get your root account activated. Step 1: Turn on computer. Step 2: When it says the bootloader click the “esc” key on your keyboard. Step…

  • How to Destroy Windows! and get a better OS.

    Here is how to destroy windows then get a better OS (Operating System.) Step 1: Download  Ubuntu Step 2: Burn the ISO as an image to a CD-ROM Step 3: Put CD into the CD Drive Step 4: Restart Step 5: Let it boot from CD Step 6: Click Start and Install Step 7: When…

  • The New Forum:

    There is now a new forum. It has all sorts of forums like Linux, Gaming, Apple, Microsoft, and a general topic board. If you are at all interested to be in the different groups of the forum please apply where necessary and you may be able to be in a Linux, or Cisco Groups. Please…

  • New Server!

    Welcome to the First Post on the new server! Yes this has been up and running from 5:04 PM January 19th, 2008! Along with the change in servers I thought about getting a new theme and now it is up also. Thanks for all that have stuck with me. Ryan Orser

  • Ryan Orsers’ Review of Hardy Heron Alpha 3

    I installed the new Hardy Heron Alpha 3 in Virtual Box. I thought how hard could it be to use an alpha Operating System? All I knew was I wasn’t installing Hardy Heron on my laptop until it is in beta. I thought it should be easy to use. Easy to update, well I was…

  • More Good News and Bad News

    The good news is that the new server should be here Friday January 18th, 2008. Though the bad news is that I may not have wordpress running so I may switch to Joomla! instead. Its been fun using wordpress and all But I would like to try out some other software too and so I have…

  • Good and Bad News

    Well the “Good news” is that the new server is being shipped…. The bad news I will have to setup everything again on the new server which will take some time. There is no news on when it will be here but I hope its’ sooner then later.