Today's laptop recovery brought to you by Windows Recovery Console. Thank you fixboot and fixmbr for making the stupidest problem the simplest to resolve.

Just found this guy the other day. Use 'sudo !!' to run the last command as sudo. So when I am just typing away and get that permissions error, that's an easy way to rerun the command without hitting up and then correcting the line, or retyping it. It does echo the newly formed line before asking for a password.

Labor day weekend, woo! Like I don't play enough already

Drives back, gaming computer up!

Terabyte drive in, backing up servers!

2 drives out for RMA, 2/3 storage servers haven't crashed and dad's laptop functional again. Promisingly, the Dell I donated to my parents keeps on chugging. Next: reinstalling Windows Vista and then 7 on top of that so I can have printer drivers(apparently windows 7 doesn't have printer drivers built in but vista does. HPs website says to use the driver that comes with windows and does not offer a download, Brilliant!). Backing up data from storage servers, trying to retrieve data from Video R

This has been a pretty bad week for me concerning technology and electronic devices at my household. First the RAID with videos/movies goes down, I get my 1TB drive a couple days too late to back it all up, WD Diagnostics now reports the TB drive has a faulty read head, then the RAID 5 in my main machine fails fantastically. My laptop has suffered video card wear and will only boot in VGA mode. So right now I'm enjoying a little music streaming in 640x480 goodness. At least my phone hasn't had a

Of the 2 kinds of people that exist when it comes to data loss; there's those who haven't lost any data, and those who backup religiously.
Up until last night, I've never lost any significant data that I was aware of. Sure I had the odd floppy go bad. An old school assignment, CD-Rs that have been laying around forever with a *nix distro I'd never think to install because it's so old. Or maybe files in an old digital backup that I had forgotten about and no longer needed or had any interest

It appears the default action in Windows 7 for automatic updates defaults to downloading and installing and restarting at 3am. I'm not sure what it was previously with Vista, or even XP at latest SP, but I know I don't like my computer to automatically restart (which is a stated result of installing updates) when I might still have programs open.

Not 'make configure' or ./config(ure)..... /facepalm

I installed Free BSD onto my Sparc after playing around with OpenSolaris for a while. After spending the weekend setting up virtual hosts in apache I decided to break ports by choosing an incorrect branch to follow. That was simple to fix since I simply had to choose a correct branch and update again (had not yet updated anything out of the broken ports). I've gotten FTP to jail sessions and sshd humming along. Maybe this week I'll try out mail services again and see if I can get mailman running