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How to Test Your Hard Drive with Smartmontools
Gentle intro to smartmontools
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If there is still reason for worry, and a couple of hours to do something else while the long test runs, then:
sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda
HP Compaq nx6125 Notebook PC - Product specifications - HP Business Support Center
Despite the page name, this list actually includes several manuals for the nx6125
Applelinks.com Charles Moore Reviews Drive Genius 1.1.5 Disk/System Diagnostic, Repair, and Management Tools Suite
didn't read this review yet
DiskWarrior vs Data Rescue II - MacNN Forums
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it's a goner anyway, and I'd go with Data Rescue II, especially since it has a demo that will let you know whether it's going to work before you buy it. Let
An Improbable, Yet Successful MacBook Hard Disk Fix - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
great tips
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There are two rubber "shims" that are glued into the drive bay on the left and right sides of the drive. The glue is pretty bad and the shims can come lose.
macosxhints.com - Recover a dead hard drive using dd
important to know that dd can skip errors too
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dd mode as noerror -- which just slides over the hard stops, and to add the mode sync, which fills the image with nulls at that point.
TidBITS - Internal Drive Reports Failing SMART Tests
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How come S.M.A.R.T. status isn't "permanent." Does anyone know?
PC World - Windows Eee PC Will Outsell Linux Version, Says Asus
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The version of XP running on the Eee PC is not the one being designed in conjunction with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation,
WE ARE *NIXED!: You only know good when you've seen bad...
this will make you laugh or cry
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One thing I specifically didn't do was install Wine, or even mention it existed. Given their amazing ability to attract malware, I think it is just too dangerous.
ED494ET#ABU HP 65W Smart AC Adaptor for HP nc2400, nc4400, nc6320, nc6400, nx631 Stuff-UK.net
Bought one of these last year for Alex's laptop.
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Nc2400, Nc4400, Nc6320, Nc6400, Nx6310, Nx6325, Nx7400, Tc4400
Features: HP 65W Smart AC Adaptor
Crypto-Gram: February 15, 2008
Schneier of BT attacks security officials that want to take our privacy, and security devices for computers that allow the software vendor to lock us in to a commercial relationship with them.
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Security and privacy are not opposite ends of a seesaw; you don't have to accept less of one to get more of the other. Think of a door lock, a burglar alarm and a tall fence. Think of guns, anti-counterfeiting measures on currency and that dumb liquid ban at airports. Security affects privacy only when it's based on identity, and there are limitations to that sort of approach.
Cool Solutions: Compressed Drive Imaging over a Network
Michael Farrel uses bzip2 rather than dd and gzip. This might be a bit heavy on older processors, but if you have a narrow network pipe, go for it.
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netcat -l -p 12345 |bzip2 -d | dd of=/dev/hda
The -l switch tells netcat that you are listening for an incoming connection. The -p switch specifies which port you are listening on which is left to your discretion. The network input, when received is then piped into the bzip2 decompressor which in turn sends its data to the dd imaging utility and thus, the hard drive itself. The compression is used to save network bandwidth and is entirely optional. Additionally, you are welcome to use gzip in place of bzip2 if bzip2 is either unavailable or undesired.
A graphical overview of the receive pipeline can be seen on the right.
Setting up the host machine
Now that the destination machine is ready, its time to send the drive over the network to it from the host machine. This is done via the one-liner below
bzip2 -c /dev/sda | netcat 192.168.2.4 12345
Create reliable system images with dd | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com
Ghost - over a network cable - without messing about with licenses and GUIs
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On Server B (receiving):
# nc �l �p 1010 | dd of=/tmp/image.dd
This will now sit and wait for incoming data and write it to the image file.
On Server A, you need to start sending that data:
# dd if=/dev/sda | nc 192.168.0.1 1010
How 'disappearing ink' can cut waste paper - October 2007 - Times Online
Sounds like a great invention!
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reduce the trillion pages put in the recycling bin – or worse, thrown out – soon after being printed each year.
Man wields soldering iron, welds eight new devices into Eee PC | Reg Hardware
Amazing, if not entirely in the spirit of the thing. I wonder what he would do to a MacBook Air when he got his hands on one.
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Ivan's fitted a USB hub, a GPS receiver with its antenna, a Bluetooth module, a second SDHC card slot, a Flash drive, a power switch, an FM transmitter and a modem.
List of Bristol Computer Stores
Not quite up to date, but an interesting cross-section of experiences. Novatech of Portishead aren't listed.
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All comments are the opinions of the person named as making them, and not necessarily of the BBLUG itself.
Msquared Computers - Bristol - Suppliers of all computer components, systems and media.
Another computer shop in the area with an online catalog, that sells barebones systems. No references for them yet.
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M2 Bristol Limited
218 Gloucester Road
Bishopston
Electrical Specification for MIDI? - Proper Design of Joystick/MIDI Adapters
Refer to this when choosing or building a connector
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We were able to locate six different such cables, all of which violate the MIDI hardware specification by grounding both MIDI connectors (MIDI IN and MIDI OUT). ALL of these cables will cause ground loops, and generate hum and other unnecessary noise.
Linux MIDI-HOWTO
I haven't read this. The date (2004) is a couple of years newer than the 'official' copy at TLDP. It is by the author of DMIDI, Linux software for network transports, but covers the broad spectrum of MIDI on Linux applications.
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Configuration
Software
MIDI Dev.
MIDI &
Softsynths
RTP MIDI: An RTP Payload Format for MIDI
Portal for the RTP MIDI technology, a 2006 IETF RFC adopted by Apple to put MIDI over an IP network (such as the Internet or or a LAN). As of 2008, it is a standards track proposed standard at the IETF.
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Implementors should refer to RFC 4695 and RFC 4696 for the final version of RTP MIDI.
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