Shawn Mariani

I wanted to put all these videos in once place.  Spend a little bit of time and watch all six:

THE DECLINE OF A ONCE-GREAT CITY: EPISODE 1

FIX THE SCHOOLS: EPISODE 2

PRIVATIZE IT: EPISODE 3

TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS: EPISODE 4

ENCOURAGE BOTTOM-UP REDEVELOPMENT: EPISODE 5

BRING BACK THE PEOPLE: EPISODE 6

I’ve always been a big fan of Drew Carey.  He’s had a great career to date and still continues to host The Price is Right.  He’s always been a loyal Clevelander and I think does a lot for the city.

For his latest project, he’s teamed up with the folks at Reason TV to make a mini-series on “fixing” Cleveland; the first episode launched today and a new episode will be released each day this week!

Episode 1: The Decline of a Once-Great City (March 15)

Trailer #1

Recently I installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) as the main OS on my HP Mini 1000.  With no optical drive, I was forced to boot from a flash drive, something I hadn’t done before.  The .IMG file was too large for my old 2GB SanDisk Cruzer Titanium, so I picked up a new 8 GB SanDisk Micro for $14.99.

Using Windows XP, the following procedure outlines how to extract an .img file and create a bootable USB drive with a few simple commands:

1. Download the latest daily release of UNR 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope:  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-netbook-remix/daily-live/current/
2. To prep the drive, perform a Quick Format on the flash drive, use FAT32 as the file system.
3. Download flashnul: http://shounen.ru/soft/flashnul/
4. Run flashnul with a -p flag (take note of the number of the recently formatted flash drive):
5. In this case, my 8GB flash drive was number 2.
6. Next, run flashnul with the -L flag followed by the path to the downloaded UNR .img file:
7. Enter the word ‘yes’ to begin the process:
8. The extract and transfer should complete in under 5 minutes.  Press Enter to exit:
9. Note – the extracted files won’t display in a Windows environment.  In fact, it won’t even display the proper drive capacity:
10. This drive is now ready to go!  Remove it from your windows machine, connect to your netbook and select it from the boot menu while starting up.  Most modern machines will display the USB drive if bootable.  Enjoy UNR!