Category Archive for "Tips"



IT & Tips & linux marky on 06 May 2010

Boot From USB Drive (pre-bios supported)

This was taken from How-To-Geek and I have it here just for archival purposes.  This is by far one of the most helpful tools when dealing with legacy servers!!!

I am not sure who wrote it but if I knew I would give him huge props, not to mention credit for this article as well.

Boot From a USB Drive Even if your BIOS Won’t Let You

You’ve always got a trusty bootable USB flash drive with you to solve computer problems, but what if a PC’s BIOS won’t let you boot from USB? We’ll show you how to Continue Reading »

Tips marky on 15 Oct 2009

Fractions in my blog

On my cooking site elkif.com, I post recipes that require fractions. Often I want to make it readable but HTML/Wordpress don’t make any allowance for that. So here is what I use for my fractions;

  • ¼ = ¼
  • ½ = ½
  • ¾ = ¾

There is more if you want different fractions by using ⁄ with a number in front and in back.  An example of fraction slash is 3⁄8 which equals 3⁄8.