Spark KDE table pre-orders open

2012-02-17 Thread der.hans
moin moin, 7 tablet running KDE's Plasma Active, should be available in May. 7 Inch multi-touch capacitive screen 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor with Mali 400 GPU 512 MB DDR2 RAM 4 GB Nand Flash Disk Wireless Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g (3G via USB Extenal) 1.3 MP built-in front

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread Stephen
To muddy the water more from the windows side you can use cygwin to get the core Linux commands and use the same backup plan in place You could even use rsync... Linux has tons of ways to run backups... On Feb 17, 2012 12:05 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: cool after

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Mike, take a look at 'rsync'. ET Michael Havens writes: so wait a second could I put fsarchiver on the server and then: tar --ignore-failed-read [/mnt/sda1] -czf - | ssh remoteuser@remote.systemtar -xzf - | fsarchiver command so the tar command will create a tarball and the the

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
In order to ssh into a windoze box as user@host, you'll need to set up a SSH server in the windoze box and establish a shell to login into which will honor your commands (which all I have done in the past). Have you considered alcoholism? You may have a better shot... :) As a rule of thumb,

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
hm not working. I wonder why. Any ideas? bmike1@Michaels-Laptop ~ $ scp -r -o Compression yes -o CompressionLevel 9 -o HostName 192.168.0.3:mnt/sda1 fatherswithforeignbabies...@fatherswithforeignbabies.us:copies/2012-2-17 command-line line 0: Missing yes/no argument. lost connection

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Mike, look at the path after the colon: what that says is: 'copy whatever is inbound to a directory named mnt/sda1 located in my HOME directory' Is that what you want? Probably not... ET Michael Havens writes: hm not working. I wonder why. Any ideas? bmike1@Michaels-Laptop ~ $

Re: Spark KDE table pre-orders open

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
leave it to the europeans! i would think redhat or one of those other FOSS companies should have done that. but then again FOSS is softwaare and a tablet is hardware. did you know the train was invented by the europeans. I always thought the US invented the train. Then I watched a program on

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
hey. I figured out the username/hostid thing. the laptop is 'bmike1@Michaels-Laptop'. that was easy. you're right... that isn't what I want. I thought that: scp -r -o Compression yes -o CompressionLevel 9 -o HostName 192.168.0.3:mnt/sda1

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
How should I tell it to start from / rather than ~ ? Instead of 192.168.0.3:mnt/sda1 Do: 192.168.0.3:/mnt/sda1 The path-resolution rules apply unchanged after the ':' Do: man path_resolution 'Michaels-Laptop' will only resolve in 'Michaels-Laptop', unless you add that name/IP combo to

Re: ssh

2012-02-17 Thread Walter Mack
I never tried this, but what should work is this: tar --ignore-failed-read [/mnt/sda1] -czf - | ssh remoteuser@remote.system mailto:remoteuser@remote.system tar -xzf - | fsarchiver command You have to have the whole string that the remote shell is to execute into quotes, so it is important

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Boot your box with a live CD (I can place one in my server for you) type: cat /proc/partitions If you see your partition, then: mount -o ro /dev/{my partition} /mnt DO A BACKUP NOW!, your stuff will be in /mnt/{somewhere} After you backup, then: umount /mnt fsck /dev/{my partition} If

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Another (NON destructive) check you may to do: as root: dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other error than read beyond EOF (or something like that) ET Michael Havens writes: Yep I think I had a hard disk failure. I

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
hm I can't cut a break I tell ya! I started system rescue cd and see an option to 'Boot an exhisting Linux OS installed on the disk.' I select it and it says, 'Attempting to mount partition' (6 differant partitions) and then '!!!Cannot find a valid root filesystem' I'm running your

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Stephen
You can also check the disk with manufacturers tools for physical defect/damage. Back up your data first! Some of the tests are destructive. But they generally warn you first. On Feb 17, 2012 10:17 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Another (NON destructive) check you may

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Another (NON destructive) check you may to do: as root: dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other error than read beyond EOF (or something

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Pls type here the dd command you are running... ET Michael Havens writes: hm I can't cut a break I tell ya! I started system rescue cd and see an option to 'Boot an exhisting Linux OS installed on the disk.' I select it and it says, 'Attempting to mount partition' (6 differant

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
So far so good. Make sure you ran dd against the WHOLE drive: dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null ET Michael Havens writes: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Another (NON destructive) check you may to do: as root: dd if=/dev/{your

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Kevin Fries
is this a 30GB disk? if so... This looks perfect. Otherwise, I hope your block size was something other than the default 512 bytes. Kevin On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 11:07 -0700, Michael Havens wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
30 gigs is what it was that might be bad. I ran it against one partition rather than the whole disk so it should be smaller... shouldn't it be? another thing I tried to mount sda1 abd it tells me that I need to specify the file type so I try with ext4, 3, and 2 but they all returned with

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
which means bad disk. Right? Wrong... It means Bad operator, don't blame the tools... :) What does: tune2fs -l /dev/sdaN says? ET Michael Havens writes: 30 gigs is what it was that might be bad. I ran it against one partition rather than the whole disk so it should be smaller...

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
That's right ET! I am very bad! I need to be punished. NOt by you though. Find me a cute Asian chick to o... I need to get my mind out of the gutter! Anyways: tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 says Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 out of curiosity I decided to run this

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Nathan England
It greatly saddens me, Michael, that you feel so familiar with the members of the Phoenix Linux Users Group public email list that you are comfortable making such a disgusting comment. I joined this public mailing list to learn about linux many years ago, to contribute to the group as a

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
sorry to offend anyone I meant no offense. I have no desire for what I said to actually take place. It was an off-handed comment meant for humour. Again I do appologize for offending anyone. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.orgwrote: ** It greatly

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 says Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 out of curiosity I decided to run this with my other partitions and all of them returned the bad magic number error except sda3 (that is my clones drive. sda2 is swap. And I ran this command: dd

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
I just ran gparted on /dev/sda and it lists sda1 as an unknown filesystem. It is 27Gigs /dev/sda3 is about 10 gigs and then the swap is 1 gig. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 says Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open

Re: I need opinions.

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
I modified the text of the ad. http://fatherswithforeignbabies.us/work.htmlNow I'm just asking for what they think is fair. I also took the link from the main website off until I make it look better. I'm dealing with hard drive issue on the other computer right now so CSS (cascading style sheets?)

Re: I need opinions.

2012-02-17 Thread Sam Kreimeyer
Maybe this is a silly question, but why the secrecy about the link? Also, here's a good link to CSS. I mostly used this book http://www.amazon.com/HTML-CSS-Complete-Reference-Fifth/dp/0071496297 to learn about it. With a little searching you can find it for free, if you don't want to go through

Re: I need opinions.

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
No secrecy at all. I just don't have a link to the page from my site. But why do I care I'm sure no one knows about it besides the people on this list and a few people I know. I'll put it back on in fact. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Sam Kreimeyer skrei...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe this is

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Technomage Hawke
you can load a live DVD into the system and then try one of the many HDD test tools (badblocks with no options is a safe bet and will tell you almost immediately if there are any problems). I know there is another command line tool that can test drive throughput and read the SMART tables on the

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
thanks Eric! I don't think the drive is bad because I can still access sda3. unfortunately sda1 is where the operating system is . On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Technomage Hawke technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote: you can load a live DVD into the system and then try one of the many HDD test

wordpress

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Havens
I'm trying to get it going. I'm following the instructions herehttp://www.linoob.com/2011/04/starting-wordpress-development-in-ubuntu-10-10-in-10-minutes-part-2-%E2%80%93-installing-wordpress/. The stupid thing won't accept my password. I go to menu - phpMyadmin and enter my password and password