If you ever find that some partitions are missing on your Windows PC, try using Active Partition Recovery. It saved my ass two times already.
Today I booted my bloody windows box and 3 partitions were missing, and I had a pretty bad Virus infection. Booting windows in safe mode i could remove the entries made to my system from the trojan and scan the systems folders for more trojans with ClamWin open source anti-virus software.
Problem 2 was a bit easier as I had already dealt with ‘deleted’ partitions before. Booting from the floppy and searching for the missing partitions was not too hard.
After two hours of misery, the machine is working again. I swear this is the last Windows box I’ll ever buy. I’ll probably replace it with a MacMini when the new version comes out.
John Underkoffler, a technical advisor for Minority Report, worked on the 3D computersystem for the 2002 Spielberg movie. Today he is the head researcher for Oblong Industries, a company that develops a “spacial operating environment” named g-speak. Take a look for yourself:
(click on the full screen button on the lower right of the movie player)
If this is how future user interfaces will look like, i want one!
I recently had a hard drive crash on my home Linux NAS box. The important files were on a software raid 5 array, but the root filesystem (with the majority of the OS) were on a separate IDE hard drive.
Only the IDE drive crashed so my important files were safe, but I needed to remount the raid array. It took me quite a while before I got that right, so I’ll share my knowledge here for you. Here are the commands needed to reconstruct / remount a raid array with a Gentoo live cd: Continue reading ‘Mounting a Linux software raid array with lvm’
If you -like me- are wondering why CERN build the Large Hadron Collider and what they will use it for, I found this presentation by Brian Cox very fascinating and informative.
The only problem I have with my 13″ MacBook is the tiny harddrive. 60GB really isn’t enough these days. So today I bought a new hard drive, a Seagate Momentus 160GB 7200rpm.
The installation went easier than I thought. Except, as you might have guessed from this post’s title, something did go wrong with the fonts.
