Matt

Here our my load cycles before the fix was applied: Day 1: 39834 Day 2: 39935 As you can see, in one day my hard drive spin up reached over 100 in a day. Then, I applied the fix. Day 3: 39958 After the fix was applied, my load cycles dropped to 23 that day. Looks like this did its job.

The :5000 just tells the browser to connect to their port 5000 rather than the standard port 80. It is likely that this is just someone's home site (as they don't have a domain name) and their ISP blocks traffic on port 80. So to get around this, they have their web server running on port 5000. I went to the site, didn't see anything concerning.

I installed smartctl to monitor my hard drive load cycle count. It was over 100 a day, so it looks like I was experiencing this issue. I did the following: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/a...695/comments/14 According to the bug report, it should be fixed. I will report back tomorrow with an update.

Heh, a bit confident in a service are we? What?? When you do a credit card transaction over the internet, your security doesn't rest in the hands of your firewall, it rests in the site's encryption. If you do insecure credit card or banking online, anyone who sits en route between you and the site can pick up your information, regardless of a firewall. Anyway... Yes, a firewall is one of the most important security measures you can take. Hardware or software, windows or third-party, you just need one. Otherwise, you're sitting open for an attack. As for malware scanning software: I don'

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on an Inspiron 600m. How can I find out if this laptop suffers from the "bug" that exerts excessive amounts of strain on the hard drive, and how can I correct this issue?

Installed a new theme today. I really like it.

Spyware Removal Information Step #1 Please download ATF Cleaner by Atribune. Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program. Under Main choose: Select All Click the Empty Selected button. If you use Firefox browser Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All Click the Empty Selected button. NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt. If you use Opera browser Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All Click the Empty Selected button. NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt. Click Exit on the Main menu t

Now that's not very secure... Ya, only 12 numbers. Heck that will only take a couple of weeks to figure out... Let's see 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 Am I getting close yet. Tools which use rainbow tables are frighteningly quick. One specific tool cracked Fgpyyih804423 in 160 seconds. Thats Upper and Lower case, and numbers.. and it's 13 characters. While the likelihood of getting hit with a rainbow-table email crack is very low, something being out there that can do it is almost certain.

Now that's not very secure...

Try changing to your root directory: cd C:\ And execute the commands from there

Vista. With SP1 now out, things run a lot better than before. My experiences and every experience I've heard of have been positive about Vista with SP1. Also, you get longevity with Vista. While XP is still great, you can't stick with it forever. (yes I know a lot of people had 98 for ten years) Also, you've got a pretty strong system there. It can certainly handle Vista.

Fixed: Uninstalled and Reinstalled the Internet Gateway Device Discovery and Control Client Service (Whew what a name)

A while ago, I formatted my step-dad's laptop and reloaded XP (Home) on it. Since then, we've been having issues with plug-n-play devices. To put it bluntly: they don't work. I assumed that this was because after the reinstall, we didn't install whatever Windows needed for plug-n-play. We went into Add/Remove Windows Components -> Network -> Universal Plug-N-Play and installed that from the disc. Then, we went into Adminstrative Tools -> Services and set Plug-N-Play and Universal Plug-N-Play to Automatic. Still, whenever we try using a device, it either asks for an installation d

Why do you think this? Software? Do you have a firewall? Are you concerned about viruses/spyware? For assistance with malware, please read How To Post a Correct HijackThis Log in the Malware Removal Forum.

My thoughts exactly.

Brian, It used to be an internal Western Digital IDE hard drive. When I got my last PC, the motherboard only supported SATA connections, so I just had it lying around. I decided to buy an external case so I could connect it via USB. It is now formatted to NTFS (so linux and windows machines can see it) and Ubuntu now recognizes it and mounts it automatically when plugged in.

I booted back into Vista and reformatted the drive. Ubuntu saw it immediately, at it's full size. *Matt shrugs

So I just bought a case to put my old hard drive in, it's USB. Installed everything fine, Vista saw it immediately, but Ubuntu did not. Here's was I was given: Is this because when I removed it in Vista, I didn't do "Safely Remove Hardware" ? I got it mounted with mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/ExtHDD-80 -o force But it returned fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/ExtHDD-80: No such file or directory Also, strangely enough, it's an 80gb HDD, but Ubuntu describes it as ~24gb. What's going on? Thanks

Two of my friends are AMAZING at guitar. If you like speed/shred music, you'll love this. They play Buckethead's Jordan. You'll probably want to start at 1:20

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=717326 Haha, I smell a troll...

For those of you who don't frequent of Jeff's radio show, here's a segment he did about his recent Macbook's Hard Drive failure. Apparently, the issue isn't all that uncommon! Main Download: http://www.besttechie.net/live/radio/macbookhddfail.mp3 Alternate (slower): http://www.myfreegig.com/uploads/TPGwUFfxH7jYQ.mp3

I'm looking into buying a new laptop soon (not just yet, but soon) and I wanted some comments/suggestions on a system I've put together from Lenovo. I don't game, and I'll probably put Ubuntu on it. See attachment

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that it states that since this is all being done early on in the bootup, the memory would still be intact. That's how I read it at least

Creating a programming/scripting language is not something that any kiddie could hack up on his own. It take a lot of skill and knowledge. Things that teams of developers have to take into consideration included (but certainly not limited to): * Compiler structure * Lexical analysis (including regular expressions and finite automata) * Syntax analysis (including context-free grammars, LL parsers, bottom-up parsers, and LR parsers) * Syntax directed translation * Type checking (including type conversions and polymorphism) * Run-time environment (including parameter pas

Here's a pretty cool tutorial on how a guy patched WINE to run COD4. http://www.fsckin.com/2008/02/21/how-to-ru...ombat-in-linux/ And here's the video: