shanenin

Thanks guys :-)

That is part of my reasoning. Prepared or not, as a February I will be published in the yellow pages as a computer service company. I was thing a laptop WOULD come in very handy.

its just a toy, so you probably do not need it, better to save your money :-). I do not need it either, but...... It has been while since i bought a toy. I can't wait to get it, format it, and reinstall windows(make room to dual boot linux) then start building gentoo on it.

is it best to run adaware and spybotin safemode? Is their any reason you do not want to run them in safemode?

The wallmart ad I saw said that same laptop was just $378, not $398. I definately getting one. I have been wnating one for a while, but could not talk self into spending the money(until now).

I made a couple of changes to the original. There was a bug I never noticed before. If you used the absolute path instead of the relative path, it would error out, which in now fixed. Before you were unable to run the program remotely using ssh. I think that was because the program depends on mplayer, since I do not have x11 forwarding it would freeze up at the mplayer command. I changed the video output to this, it seemed to solve the problem mplayer -vo null here is the revised version #!/usr/bin/env python # # cropit-0.2.1 # # author shane lindberg # import os, sys, getopt, commands #

cool :-) Just a thought. the location of your / partition is probably not /dev/hdb1, it is more likely /dev/hdb2, or /dev/hdb3 . An easy way to check would be with the fdisk command, it will show your partition table, your biggest partition will be the one you probably need to mount. fdisk -l /dev/hdb

with your linux distro you reinstalled on the master drive, are you able to access your slave drive using the method I gave above?

are you able to mount the drive? if the files are on your slave(second ide drive), you should be able to mount them like this mkdir /mnt/recovery mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/recovery you second drives first partition should be available at the location /mnt/recovery. hdb1 is the first partition, hdb2 is the second partition. Is it giving you problems or errors when you try to mount it?

is the following true. You have both linux and windows installed on the master hardddrive. Now you are trying to access files on the second harddrive? Are any of your linux distros booting?

If it was me, I would start a new post for a different question. Then again maybe my forum ettiquete is not correct :-) On another forum I visit, they posted the rules of ettiquete, they seemed crazy. I must have been crabby that day, because I was being obstinant. here is a link to the rules, and my dumb and immature comments http://distrotalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=1160

I got it for a present, it is nice to get away from the computer and read. For a dollar, it is a lot of entertainment.

did you try your knoppix cd?

you need to choose "burn as an image" , or something similar with your burning software.

that would work great. If you can run your computer with knoppix that pretty much rules out cpu, PSU, or bad memory as the problem.

If you have seperate ram sticks, try one at a time in each of the different slots. if you have a live linux cd, boot that. If it runs well, you can eliminate any hardware(cpu or ram) problems.

to add to what the Terrorist_75 said, if it is burned correctly you will see a bunch of individual files,, not just one big iso file.

it is a reasonably fast system, XP should run great on it. A little more ram would be great, but it could do fine with what its got. Do you have any questions in particular?

sorry, I have a horrible problem of not reading the WHOLE POST. I did not read that it was cracked.

I would still think it is under warranty. I would check into that.

feels good when your code works :-)

have you come up with any code(ideas) yet, show us what you got :-)

I have nothing to useful to add, if you want to combine the two steps into one. this is called command substitution. the output of the command "uname -r" is substitituted in the following two commands. This is a feature of bash. You can do command substitution using backtics(not reccomended anymore) `command here` or like this $(command here) sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` or, they both do the same thing sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

good point, the braces just complicate it.

you could also have done it manually, one file at a time cat conf1.txt > new_file.txt cat conf2.txt >> new_file.txt cat conf3.txt >> new_file.txt using one '>' will cause the info for cat conf1.txt to erase and start a new file. using two '>>' will cause the file to be ammened to the end.