From god.000 at gmail.com Mon Jan 1 00:02:19 2007 From: god.000 at gmail.com (Almighty Tallest Cataboligne) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 07:02:19 +0000 Subject: [conquest] happy happy joy joy Message-ID: A happy new year? the jury is out on this one so far. last week for no discernable reason the root and data partition under _linux_ on my new 320G sata hard drive went read-only! I'm 99.9% certain it was a hardware fault, but have not found any clues as to why. I recovered the data partition but had to reboot to recover the root...really screwed up quite a few files. I have a recent root (/) backup, but sheesh. some good came of this - I finally found a workaround for the big debian apt-get upgrade thats been piling up since xfwm4 fucking refuses to uninstall so the upgrade can proceed. if this wasnt enough, at ~11:00pm 12.31.6 I was trying to install XP and it wiped the partition table and put some junk in there!! this must still be done because apparently dvdrecord on linux cant be bothered to burn dvdr-DL on the drive I got just to backup some stuff for a friend. now whilst I have all critical data backed up most of the time, a 320G drive has just got too much stuff to keep everything backed up most of the time. heck even part of the time. needless to say this would have severly hurt conquest devel if I were stuck restoring all files, configs, environments, etc. luckily I stumbled across this while steaming along under knoppix: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk damn thing works like a charm - every partition restored in all its glory...so if you ever accidentally (or perhaps intentionally on winblows part, those rotten bastards) wipe a partition table - keep a copy of that available on some bootable media. (it is a command line app, so no need for win) looks like I'll be spending the year doing backups. -Cataboligne -- ---------------------------------------------- 3 4 | 2 \|/ 5--*----> 1 Thing is facing this direction /|\ 6 | 8 7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From god.000 at gmail.com Tue Jan 16 00:15:30 2007 From: god.000 at gmail.com (Almighty Tallest Cataboligne) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:30 +0000 Subject: [conquest] fun stuff Message-ID: A link to some cool hand made clocks. http://www.timeguy.com/cradek/clocks -Cataboligne -- ---------------------------------------------- 3 4 | 2 \|/ 5--*----> 1 Thing is facing this direction /|\ 6 | 8 7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwpayne at gravitic.com Tue Jan 16 12:53:22 2007 From: dwpayne at gravitic.com (David W. Payne) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:53:22 -0700 Subject: [conquest] fun stuff In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45AD2D32.7010703@gravitic.com> very cool ;) Almighty Tallest Cataboligne wrote: > A link to some cool hand made clocks. > > http://www.timeguy.com/cradek/clocks > > -Cataboligne > -- > ---------------------------------------------- > 3 > 4 | 2 > \|/ > 5--*----> 1 Thing is facing this direction > /|\ > 6 | 8 > 7 -- #include "No Kill I", said the Horta to the Fly.... The way to make a small fortune in the stock market is to start with a large one. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts Alfalfa sprouts and feta cheese contain bacteria that could be harmful to small children and pregnant women. Almonds are members of the peach family. Children grow faster in the springtime.