A film from 1998 about the reign of Elisabeth the first. It has historical backdrop of the Spanish Armada, but most of the film focuses around Elisabeth her lack of marriage and court intrigue.
It makes for a good film overall, a few liberties with history as always with Hollywood - you want to believe the speech delivered on horseback to rouse the troops was authentic, but surely not...
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Film: Rush directed by Ron Howard
When I first heard of this film about the 1976 Formula 1 championship battle between Hunt and Lauda I knew I would be interested in seeing in, then when I heard it was directed by Ron Howard I knew it was essential viewing.
I was not disappointed, despite being relatively low budget this portrays life in Formula 1, the danger, the glamour, and the two very different characters of playboy Hunt and technocrat Lauda.
Despite all the horrific things concerning Lauda's near death the film still has plenty of room of humour and describing the world title that year. Hunt is portrayed somewhat one dimensionally to contrast well with Lauda - but that can be forgiven as it is film and not documentary.
I was not disappointed, despite being relatively low budget this portrays life in Formula 1, the danger, the glamour, and the two very different characters of playboy Hunt and technocrat Lauda.
Despite all the horrific things concerning Lauda's near death the film still has plenty of room of humour and describing the world title that year. Hunt is portrayed somewhat one dimensionally to contrast well with Lauda - but that can be forgiven as it is film and not documentary.
Book read: A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
A really compact account of English history that does a good job of linking up the various ages of history and listing the main leaders and historical figures.
This is the kind of history that would be good at school to give such a general understanding and try to give some relevance and echoes of the history today.
This is the kind of history that would be good at school to give such a general understanding and try to give some relevance and echoes of the history today.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Linux: Install ISO image from DVD (CentOS5)
This is for CentOS5, creating a bootable USB image that can install the .iso images:
Summarised from the following:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
1. Use fdisk to setup partitions (about 60M for the boot partition, "a" makes bootable):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 124927 61440 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2 124928 15638479 7756776 83 Linux
2. Create filesystems:
mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdc1
mkfs.ext2 -m 0 -b 4096 -L DATA /dev/sdc2
3. Remount the USB drive, and copy iso image
mkdir /media/DATA/centos
; copy .iso images
4. Configure syslinux boot on the FAT32 partition
syslinux -s /dev/sdc1
dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
mount the .iso image locally using -o loop
cp -rv /tmp/image/isolinux/ /media/BOOT/syslinux
cd /media/BOOT
mv syslinux/isolinux.cfg syslinux/syslinux.cfg
rm -f syslinux/isolinux.bin
5. Edit syslinux.cfg on the append statements add:
method=hd:sda2:/centos
Summarised from the following:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
1. Use fdisk to setup partitions (about 60M for the boot partition, "a" makes bootable):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 124927 61440 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2 124928 15638479 7756776 83 Linux
2. Create filesystems:
mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdc1
mkfs.ext2 -m 0 -b 4096 -L DATA /dev/sdc2
3. Remount the USB drive, and copy iso image
mkdir /media/DATA/centos
; copy .iso images
4. Configure syslinux boot on the FAT32 partition
syslinux -s /dev/sdc1
dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
mount the .iso image locally using -o loop
cp -rv /tmp/image/isolinux/ /media/BOOT/syslinux
cd /media/BOOT
mv syslinux/isolinux.cfg syslinux/syslinux.cfg
rm -f syslinux/isolinux.bin
5. Edit syslinux.cfg on the append statements add:
method=hd:sda2:/centos
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