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December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation because a normal human being cannot comprehend more than ten concepts in a meeting—and venture capitalists are very normal. (The only difference between you and venture capitalist is that he is getting paid to gamble with someone else’s money). If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business. The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:
1. Problem
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action
Presentation Zen: “And speaking of Edward Tufte, what a treat it is to be able to hear an NPR interview about Tufte’s new book. (The name of the book is Beautiful Evidence.) There is a short video clip of Tufte presenting at Cal Tech available there as well.
Beyond Bullets: “Looking for a few good BBP consultants Wanted_1Lately I’ve been receiving more requests from companies and individuals who would like to hire consultants and/or designers who are proficient in the BBP approach. I’m in the process of putting together BBP training and certification programs, but in the meantime, I’m glad to make referrals if I can find a match. Here’s an example of what a very large software and services company is looking for
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Assume you installed xp on one primary partition.
Assume you created as second primary partition the same size as the first.
Assume you made an image of the first xp and copied it to the second primary partition.
Open the first xp on the first primary partition (it would do so naturally)
Look in the root of c:\ for the boot.ini file.
Right click on the boot.ini file and select properties.
Take off the check mark next to “read only”
Open the boot.ini file (double click to open in notepad)
It will look something like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
The line under [operating systems] is all one line even though it may look like two lines.
Copy the line under [operating systems]
Past the copied line direclty under the last line
Change the “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\” to “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\”
That will direct windows to the second partition as a boot option.
Save and Close the boot.ini file
Look in the root of c:\ for the boot.ini file.
Right click on the boot.ini file and select properties.
Take put a check mark next to “read only”
Now open the root of the second partition (that might be d:\)
Do the same with the boot.ini file you find there are you did with the first one.
Open the boot.ini file
Change the “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\” to “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\”
Change the line under [boot loader] to indicate the second parition:
change from: default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
to: default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
Now when you reboot you will be given a 30 second option to choose the
second partition’s operating system.
Note that you can change the descriptions of the different operating systems:
WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” could be
WINDOWS=”XP1″The name change would show up in the boot manager window that appears for 30 seconds.
Note also that you can change the 30 second time to anything you want.
Save and close the boot.ini file on the second partition
Look in the root of d:\ (or whatever your second partition is) for the boot.ini file.
Right click on the boot.ini file and select properties.
Take put a check mark next to “read only”
Close windows
Reboot
Select the secondary partition’s operating system (the new one)
BE CAREFUL, be sure you are in the new operating system not the original one
Now, very important, go to “start” then “run” and type
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then click Rename
Rename it to an unused drive letter “\DosDevices\Z:
This frees up drive letter C.
Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for “\DosDevices\D:”.
Right-click \DosDevices\D:, and then click Rename.
Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter “\DosDevices\C:”.
Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and then name it back to “\DosDevices\D:”.
Those last lines were copied from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/Â
Here’s instruction on chaining the default OS loaded at boot:
herman@red:~$ sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup
That command makes a copy of ‘menu.lst’, and names it ‘menu.lst_backup’. You only need to make one back-up copy of your menu.lst file, just the first time, after this you can just leave that there for as long as you like unless you need it someday. Now type, (or copy and paste) the command code:
herman@red:~$ sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lstagain, and now, at last, we can have some fun customizing our GRUB menu… (shown below)
Customising your Grub Menu By editing your /boot/grub/menu.lst
# menu.lst – See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify ‘saved’ instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command ‘savedefault’.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to ‘saved’ or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0
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