On Friday 18 December 2009 04:28:32 walt wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 02:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > solar flares
> > cosmic rays
> > a quantum level event
> > leprechauns
> > tooth fairies
> > jubbjubb monsters
>
> Single malt, I hope? ;o)
>
Sadly, no. I come from a long line of fine single malt
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
>>
>>
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device D
On 12/17/2009 02:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
solar flares
cosmic rays
a quantum level event
leprechauns
tooth fairies
jubbjubb monsters
Single malt, I hope? ;o)
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:34:51 -0800 walt wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 01:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>>
>> I do have two InputDevice sections in xorg.conf about the mouse, but my
>> ServerLayout only mentions one. I attach both my log and xorg.conf
>> below.
>
> If you are using evdev (and you are)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:47:14PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
>> i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
>> ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot
>> find my usb hd, but i
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:30:32 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > > Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
> > > > used to contain this
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:14:48AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> ok. but it looks like the gmail web client encourage top post ;)
That doesn't make it easy to read. This is how we see it when you top-post:
A: Because you are doing it wrong.
> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon
> >> wro
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Steffen Loos wrote:
> Xi Shen schrieb:
>>
>> sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i install
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block
devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled
On 12/17/2009 08:42 PM, Denis wrote:
Hello folks,
Quick question.
My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
device forced to /dev/cdr
On 12/17/2009 12:14 PM, Denis wrote:
The default udev scripts should have been able to automatically create
symlinks for optical devices in /dev. Whether yours is broken, you can
find out by trying to ls -l /dev/cdrom :)
It appears the links /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/cdrw1 are tied to /dev/hda.
Is t
On 12/17/2009 01:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I do have two InputDevice sections in xorg.conf about the mouse, but my
ServerLayout only mentions one. I attach both my log and xorg.conf
below.
If you are using evdev (and you are) you should delete (or comment out)
anything to do with Input fr
From: Neil Bothwick
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Let's look at the obvious solution then:
> > remove the hard drive containing sensitive data, replace it with a new
> > one, sell laptop.
> > Ka-Ching! Problem solved.
> Unfortunately, the hard drive seller gets mo
On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:30:32 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
> > > used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
> > It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
> > drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block
> > devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module,
> > maybe you just need to m
On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:51:33 James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well I keep getting the same 32 files to rebuild
> even after running 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
> several times. Here is the list of files:
>
>
>
> ebuild R ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-r2
[snip]
ldd is your friend
run on
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:12:19 -0600, Dale wrote:
> You are both right. I tried installing a later version on the blockers
> but not the packages that depended on them. So, I added the following
> to my package.keyword and package.unmask files:
>
> =app-portage/eix-0.18.3
> =app-arch/libarchive
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:33 + (UTC), James wrote:
> Well I keep getting the same 32 files to rebuild
> even after running 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
> several times. Here is the list of files:
Where is the list of libraries causing the need for the rebuild?
This is given in the message tha
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Let's look at the obvious solution then:
>
> remove the hard drive containing sensitive data, replace it with a new
> one, sell laptop.
>
> Ka-Ching! Problem solved.
Unfortunately, the hard drive seller gets more Ka-Ching and the OP get
On 12/17/2009 10:42 AM, Denis wrote:
Hello folks,
Quick question.
My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
device forced to /dev/cdr
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:49:43 -0500 Albert Hopkins
wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 22:51 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> Right. Mine (MX 1000) has those plus others (I inherited the mouse).
>> My problem is that several of these send multiple events (i.e.
>> clicking
>> one physical button result
On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
devic
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:45:20 +0100, fei huang
wrote:
I've found the slim login manager will hang the computer if I enter
"exit"
or "console" in the panel,
blank screen and no response at all, had to push the reset button to
recover.
I did not test it under the previous xorg-server installa
Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Dale schrieb am 17.12.2009 16:55:
[blocks b ] kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]
("kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]" is blocking kde-base/kde-meta-)
[blocks B ] app-arch/lzma-utils ("app-arch/lzma-utils" is blocking
app-arch/xz-utils-)
[blocks B ] a
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:58 +0100 Michael Schreckenbauer
wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2009 16:07:46 schrieb walt:
>> That's why I was wondering if just a simple front-or-back turn of the
>> wheel also produces two different button events for each notch -- you
>> should see only button-4
> The default udev scripts should have been able to automatically create
> symlinks for optical devices in /dev. Whether yours is broken, you can
> find out by trying to ls -l /dev/cdrom :)
It appears the links /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/cdrw1 are tied to /dev/hda.
Is that the default behavior instead o
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Penguin Lover Denis squawked:
> My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
> only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
> Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
> device forced t
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
> The only floppy options I can find in the kernel relating to floppy drives
> in the kernel config are mac floppy, amiga floppy, and atari floppy, none
> of which apply to me. I believe I am using udev, and both the
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked:
> Willie Wong writes:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
> > squawked:
> > > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
> > > /dev/fd0 device is not there. In
On 17 Dec 2009, at 13:40, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote:
chicane ~ # shred test/
shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/
shred: /root/test/: failed to
Well,
I got the same problem in a recent past.
What I did to solve this problem was to remove sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs and to
install it again:
emerge -C e2fsprogs-libs
emerge -van1 e2fsprogs-libs
But I don't if it is good for your case.
Regards,
--
Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Control and Autom
Dale schrieb am 17.12.2009 16:55:
>
> [blocks b ] kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]
> ("kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]" is blocking kde-base/kde-meta-)
> [blocks B ] app-arch/lzma-utils ("app-arch/lzma-utils" is blocking
> app-arch/xz-utils-)
> [blocks B ] app-arch/xz-utils
Hello folks,
Quick question.
My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
device forced to /dev/cdrom in Audacious, unwittingly, before an
Am Donnerstag 17 Dezember 2009 19:32:54 schrieb Dale:
> I have tried a few things but just to make sure, I tried this just to be
> sure. I unmerged both blockers and emerged xz-utils again, same block
> as before.
>
> Ideas?
The solution is in the ebuilds (as always): eix 0.17.0 still depends
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:55:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
I didn't post the whole thing but the part about the Blocks with a
capital B. I have unmerged both lzma-utils and xz-utils but I still
get this error. How can they block it when they are not installed
yet? I'm missing s
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Dale wrote:
I'm trying to get KDE 4 where I can use it so I used the layman to get the
latest. Anyway, I seem to have ran into a Block, may not be related to KDE4
tho, that I just can't make sense of. This is the error I get:
[blocks b
On 12/17/2009 04:09 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
Hm. On my x86 and ~amd64 machines I have freeglut-2.4 and freeglut-2.6,
respectively, but no such
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:55:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
> I didn't post the whole thing but the part about the Blocks with a
> capital B. I have unmerged both lzma-utils and xz-utils but I still
> get this error. How can they block it when they are not installed
> yet? I'm missing something here. I j
Hello,
Well I keep getting the same 32 files to rebuild
even after running 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
several times. Here is the list of files:
ebuild R ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-r2
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/apr-1.3.9
[ebuild R ] sys-fs/cry
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
> > used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>
> nazgul ~ # locate XInput
Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 schrieb Bruce Hill:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
> > presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except
> > I don't use the latter as I h
On 12/17/2009 11:06 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0
device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device
corresponding to my floppy d
Willie Wong writes:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
> squawked:
> > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
> > /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
> > device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where i
On Thursday 17 December 2009 16:26:20 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:40 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
> > That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the
> > thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd...
>
> Doesn't that depend on the contents of the
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 22:51 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Right. Mine (MX 1000) has those plus others (I inherited the mouse).
> My problem is that several of these send multiple events (i.e.
> clicking
> one physical button results in two button-down events for different
> X11
> buttons and then
On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
> used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
>
> Thanks.
>
nazgul ~ # locate XInput.h
/usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput.h
na
On Thursday 17 December 2009 17:14:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Neil,
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:05:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting
> > > for VIDEO_CARDS in
yeah, that was a typo! =/ the file I want to mask (and that's the same
glsa-check wants to update) is really being masked when I run emerge.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Arttu V. wrote:
> On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana wrote:
> > it didn't work :( although I didn't know about the existence of
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Dale wrote:
> I'm trying to get KDE 4 where I can use it so I used the layman to get the
> latest. Anyway, I seem to have ran into a Block, may not be related to KDE4
> tho, that I just can't make sense of. This is the error I get:
>
> [blocks b ] kde-base/kd
On 12/16/2009 08:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Attached is the emerge log. I'm running 32 bit on an Intel Core Duo
(Dell D530) USE="-X -debug -gpm -svga". The last step of the gcc
upgrade is "emerge -eav world". dosemu 1.4.0 built under gcc 4.1.2 but
not under 4.3.4. I've added my report to
ht
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:14:48 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Neil,
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:05:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>> > I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting
>> > for VIDEO_CARDS in
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
> I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0
> device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device
> corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing wron
I'm trying to get KDE 4 where I can use it so I used the layman to get
the latest. Anyway, I seem to have ran into a Block, may not be related
to KDE4 tho, that I just can't make sense of. This is the error I get:
[blocks b ] kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]
("kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kde
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing
wrong?
Marcus
Joshua Murphy writes:
> A) To fill the drive with zeros:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/
Should be enough for practical purposes.
> B) And, to make it at least questionable whether you wiped it or
> merely had it encrypted:
>dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/
Similar method, but faster: badblocks -t
On 12/16/2009 11:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Attached is the emerge log. I'm running 32 bit on an Intel Core Duo
(Dell D530) USE="-X -debug -gpm -svga". The last step of the gcc
upgrade is "emerge -eav world". dosemu 1.4.0 built under gcc 4.1.2 but
not under 4.3.4. I've added my report to
ht
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote:
>> dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the
>> disk.
>>
>
> And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
>
> Trivially easy to recover the data
Am Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2009 16:07:46 schrieb walt:
> That's why I was wondering if just a simple front-or-back turn of the
> wheel also produces two different button events for each notch -- you
> should see only button-4 events for forward and only button-5 events for
> backward. (I actually
On 17/12/09 15:12, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Well, OK, not quite: a single bit whose
> precise location is known can in fact be correctly reconstructed with
> 56 per cent probability (in one of the quoted examples)
So a thing with a 50:50 change of being in a given state, can be
identified, a lit
What file system did you use on the USB drive? Did you compile support
for that file system in the kernel? It can't be a module, it has to be
compiled into the kernel itself.
Dale
P. S. Top posted because he did. Please don't shoot the messenger.
Xi Shen wrote:
sorry, could you be mor
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote:
> > dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on
> > the disk.
>
> And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
>
> Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you d
On 12/16/2009 07:51 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:36:45 -0500 Albert Hopkins
wrote:
FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except
I don't use the latter as I haven't found any pur
Hi, Neil,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:05:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting
> > for VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to
> > rebuild only those
I've found the slim login manager will hang the computer if I enter "exit"
or "console" in the panel,
blank screen and no response at all, had to push the reset button to
recover.
I did not test it under the previous xorg-server installation, anybody has
got the same issue?
I've tried to recompile
Xi Shen schrieb:
sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
ata drivers into the kernel. but w
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:40 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
> That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the
> thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd...
Doesn't that depend on the contents of the disk? I don't see what's wrong
with booting a DBAN disk and letting
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:47:14PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
> i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
> ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot
> find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed?
I don't comp
On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana wrote:
> it didn't work :( although I didn't know about the existence of that file!
> :)
Ouch, too bad. I realized the same as I was reading portage man page
about that file. It requires explicit versions for the provided
packages, and that makes my suggestion a non-wo
On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote:
chicane ~ # shred test/
shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/
shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
shred
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:42 +, Mick wrote:
> shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may need to point it to the
> files in
> question for it to work. I suspect that if you point it to a device
> alone it
> just shreds the file representing the device on the Linux fs in
> question.
No. Thi
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
Thanks.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
cov...@ccs.covici.
it didn't work :( although I didn't know about the existence of that file!
:)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Arttu V. wrote:
> On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there's one
> > specific package I can't update, bec
On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote:
> chicane ~ # shred test/
> shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
> chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/
> shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
>
shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may
On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana wrote:
> hi,
>
> I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there's one
> specific package I can't update, because it's a C library someone is using
> and the 'secure' version is causing segmentation fault on her program, so I
> added it to packages.m
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:24:51 Marcus Wanner wrote:
> On 12/16/2009 2:24 PM, Mick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
> >> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
> >> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
>> ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot
>> dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the
>> disk.
>>
>
> And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
>
> Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd
>
> Why? Data on-disk is not a binary cell like ram. It is a magnetic p
On Thursday 17 December 2009 00:25:43 Dale wrote:
> >> Hearing they use old code is not to surprising actually. Look at air
> >> traffic control. Every time they try to upgrade, it crashes. I guess
> >> the cheapest bidder is not always the best. o_O
> >>
> >
> > Every such crash after a
On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote:
> dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the
> disk.
>
And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd
Why? Data on-disk is n
On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
> ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot
> find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed?
>
You missed the filesy
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