On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to all of you! You are my heros this evening!
Klaus Knopper and Linus Torvalds desrve some share of our collegtive
thanks for giving us the tools.
In addition to the excellent and intuitive Knoppix, there are other
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 20:13, Bill McGonigle wrote:
So, one thing I like to do is to create a disk image of the damaged
disk before trying anything else. That way you can go back if
'recovery' attempts do more damage than good. This is largely a
question of what your data is worth and
dd methods really don't work that well, at least not wth a suspect
drive.
dd generally works with healthy drives but I've not had great
luck with it when even one sector is bad, so I've been using
dd_rescue (Debian pkg is named ddrescue, RPM equiv unknown)
which has features intended for such
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 08:16 -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 20:13, Bill McGonigle wrote:
So, one thing I like to do is to create a disk image of the damaged
disk before trying anything else. That way you can go back if
'recovery' attempts do more damage than
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious if the voltage drops as the battery discharges or remains fairly
level.
I know that voltage does drop as a battery discharges, and that the
pattern of the voltage drop depends on the type of battery. I've
19.5v is only used for charging. The internal battery nominal voltage
is 14.4 (4 x 3.6v cells in series). Li, NiCd and NiMH batteries tend to
maintain a nearly constant voltage until they are almost fully
discharged at which point voltage drops rapidly. Lead acid battery
voltage tends to drop
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/myusbdisk/my_hosed_xp_disk.dd bs=8M
conv=noerror,sync
There's also a couple of tools that improve on this concept.
dd_rescue approaches the bad block problem more sophisticatedly,
varying block
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM, michael miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The internal battery nominal voltage is 14.4 (4 x 3.6v cells in series).
FYI and FWIW, two Dell laptops I just checked indicate 11.1 volts on
the battery label.
-- Ben
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That would be 3 Li cells in series. My Dell Inspiron 5150 has a battery
labeled 14.8v, 6450mAh with a charger specified as 19.5v 6.7A. It's a
pain in the butt and next time I'm looking at a new laptop I will check
the battery voltage before buying. I think that 11.1v is a more common
battery for
Good Morning.
My daughter has a Dell Inspiron (5100) and she dropped it. Consequently, the
LCD is cracked in a couple places.
I assume Dell sold a bazillion of these machines, so also, I assume parts are
available...
Where might I go in the Southern NH or Mass. areas, to
get this Laptop
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 09:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good Morning.
My daughter has a Dell Inspiron (5100) and she dropped it. Consequently, the
LCD is cracked in a couple places.
I assume Dell sold a bazillion of these machines, so also, I assume parts are
available...
Where
eBay is where I go when I have laptop problems. I just buy another laptop
that ideally is broken enough to be cheap, but has the parts I need in good
shape. eBay has lots of results right now if you search for Dell Inspiron
5100.
-N
On Thursday 21 August 2008 10:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are handy with a screwdriver and plastic butterknife and observe
static safety, you can replace it yourself in a few minutes. You can
easily find the a replacement LCD replacement on eBay or another
vendor. My experiences have been that the replacement will cost
anywhere from $120 to
On 8/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good Morning.
My daughter has a Dell Inspiron (5100) and she dropped it. Consequently, the
LCD is cracked in a couple places.
I assume Dell sold a bazillion of these machines, so also, I assume parts are
available...
Where might I go
I have a laptop LCD floating around my junk bin that... I have no idea
anymore what sort of laptop it came from, but if it's the right sort it's
yours. I've had dells before, so it could be correct.
--DTVZ
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:04 AM, H. Kurth Bemis [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
If you are
There's this site out there, and my google-fu isn't what it should be
this early in the morning :^), but I have used a site that listed most
models of major brands and provided step by step instructions for
replacing the LCDs. Maybe someone else knows of the site, or is a
GoogleMaster.
~k
Here's the site. I found it about 30 seconds after sending.
http://repair4laptop.org/notebook_lcd_display.html
Upon closer review they have a lot of information, but not for EVERY
laptop, but a lot of them. Most of the time the manfs use the same old
tricks with each model, so you might be
Paul,
My friend Andy Demers did a great job when my four-year-old son knocked my
laptop off a precarious perch and cracked the screen. It makes some pretty
amazing colors and patterns when you poke it, doesn't it?
You can reach him via [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I had him replace the keyboard
(which
paul.cour1 writes:
My daughter has a Dell Inspiron (5100) and she dropped it. Consequently, the
LCD is cracked in a couple places.
I assume Dell sold a bazillion of these machines, so also, I assume parts are
available...
Where might I go in the Southern NH or Mass. areas, to
get this
-Original Message-
I get a bunch of rules for EST / EDT, so I think I have US/Eastern properly
selected. I did md5sum it, and then I md5summed the files
in /usr/share/zoneinfo, and there's no match, which is interesting.
Googling the md5sum of my /etc/localtime I see other people
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill McGonigle
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:47 PM
To: Greater NH Linux User Group
Subject: Re: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)
So, to the original point of demo'ing linux in the field
This just got posted on our internal jabber server - thought folks here
might be amused by it.
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/
--
Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Code Energy
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On Aug 21, 2008, at 14:06, Michael Pelletier wrote:
The main drawback
to this approach is that you need a Windows system on which to run
PowerChute.
So, it's a one-time configuration? I haz a vmware.
-Bill
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Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440
BFC Computing, LLC
Yep, apparently the APC units have a little firmware chip in there, so it's
a persistent configuration.
I have about half a dozen of them around the house (TV, wireless router, two
computer desks, VoIP adapter cordless phone plus the weather station
console, cable modem in the basement) and
Hey,
I've searched the main exim docs to see if it implements RFC 3463 and
I can't find any such reference. I know there are some exim fans here.
Does exim not support that RFC?
--
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA
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Bill McGonigle wrote:
So, it's a one-time configuration? I haz a vmware.
I think it's just an EEPROM setting. APCUPSD used to be able to
reprogram the EEPROM directly. They moved the code out of there and into
the apctest module. Details here:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... must cut speaker wire!
For most of the APC Smart-UPS line, pressing the On button briefly
will silence the On Battery alarm (but not the Low Battery alarm).
For the ones with only a single On/Off button, I think
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Michael Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The main drawback to this approach is that you need a Windows
system on which to run PowerChute.
PowerChute is/was available for Linux.
I think I've also seen a third-party utility (possibly part of the
NUT or
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I once lucked out and found a YouTube video showing a tech
disassembling exactly the laptop model I was working on,
including all the secret/hidden catches and fasteners that
you normally only find out about *after*
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
To move a partition from one disk to another, I was using dd (and sometimes
just cat) with bzip2 and netcat to rip an image from one disk and dump it to
another disk in another laptop in realtime. I found that while most of the
filesystem arrived at its
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