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Well it is not looking so great for that school server these days. 🙁 The server now has 4 unrecoverable sectors and will not likely have that hard drive back in it after this has program has been finished. Mind you there are 2 hdd in the server so I have to see if the…

Since yesterday when I started to use spinrite 6.0 on the school server and since then have left it alone for over 20 hours, I have come back this morning to find 2 unrecoverable sections as I would guess you would call them (comment here if you know they are not as my mind is…

Today I felt well enough to go back to school. During the previous week I had found that the hard drive on a school learning server was crashing. Today I decided I needed to run SpinRite 6.0 to get this one server back up and running. So far it is still on the first of…

I am going to get them pulled out today so I may not have a post for tomorrow. It depends on how I am feeling. Ryan Orser

This is part 2 of my series on how to remaster Ubuntu. See yesterday’s post for part 1. After remastersys is installed you need to open your terminal. Run the next command as root, I’ll do this using sudo: sudo remastersys-gui After closing all your windows (which is what I did following the advice in…

I found an interesting article in the newest edition (issue 16) of the Full Circle Magazine about remastering an Ubuntu disk. I decided to try it for myself. I wanted to see if I could make presents for my family (I give each member of my family Ubuntu CDs every year in December and for…

This weekend I am going to write a Two (2) Part Post about how to remaster the Ubuntu Distribution and distribute it to others. Hopefully this doesn’t take to long to do. Ryan Orser.

IMPlus is an instant messenger client for the ipod touch and iPhone. I do not believe that the effort put into this project has really worked out as I fail to see how easy it is to use. Sure the logging in is easy enough, but having to jump through a few hoops to get…

Well, I decided you may want to give some input into what I write. So I decided to put out a poll that will help me understand what it is readers want to read. Here are the basics: You can vote for 1 or 2 options in the poll. If you have more answers you…