Re: Never a Doh! moment.

2007-12-16 Thread Alex Esplin
What filesystem was your Vista partition using? -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Never a Doh! moment.

2007-12-16 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 16 Dec 2007, at 18:42, Steve wrote: And what program is that? Argh, I hate it when I do that: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Never a Doh! moment.

2007-12-16 Thread Steve
And what program is that? On Dec 16, 2007 6:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 16 Dec 2007, at 15:19, Steve wrote: > > > It was bound to happen and it finally did, while attempting reformat > > an external drive I entered a typo and wiped my Vista partition. > > The command

Re: Never a Doh! moment.

2007-12-16 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 16 Dec 2007, at 15:19, Steve wrote: It was bound to happen and it finally did, while attempting reformat an external drive I entered a typo and wiped my Vista partition. The command I used was sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 Should have been sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 So ummm, anyone have any ideas

Never a Doh! moment.

2007-12-16 Thread Steve
Howdy folks, It was bound to happen and it finally did, while attempting reformat an external drive I entered a typo and wiped my Vista partition. The command I used was sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 Should have been sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 So ummm, anyone have any ideas on if data recovery would be

Re: Cast not your Perl before swine?

2007-12-16 Thread Layne R. Sunderlin
Then there's http://xkcd.com/353/ Be sure to read the mouse over. Ray. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka !' (I found it !) but " That's funny..." -Isaac Asimov- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net U

Re: Myth trade

2007-12-16 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Brandon Beattie wrote: > Redline AN-80i, 15ms latency, 50 miles, 90Mb ethernet speed (140 > wireless speed), 5.4Ghz band. I've used other Redline equipment in the > past and it's pretty reliable. > > --Brandon I am curious, how much would a pair cost? All of the sites I visited either said "ca

Re: SuSE updates not sticking?

2007-12-16 Thread Jared Ottley
For 10.2 I have always used smart as the package management tool. In 10.3, the suse developed package management is a lot better. Jared On Dec 16, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Steve wrote: I'm not sure. Looks more like yet another yast problem. Zypper does report that all updates are now applied prope

Re: SuSE updates not sticking?

2007-12-16 Thread Christer Edwards
On Dec 16, 2007 1:00 AM, Matthew Frederico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know SuSE to well - could it be an aggressive selinux policy? SUSE uses AppArmour instead of SELinux so that won't be it. I agree that its a YAST shortcoming (for some reason). I think YAST stands for "you absolutely s

Re: SuSE updates not sticking?

2007-12-16 Thread Steve
I'm not sure. Looks more like yet another yast problem. Zypper does report that all updates are now applied properly, and this survived a reboot just to be sure. Yast on the other hand claims all the patches need to be applied. Starting to think that Yast stands for "Yeah! Another Sysadmin to Trou

Re: SuSE updates not sticking?

2007-12-16 Thread Matthew Frederico
> > Now here I am updating again and the exact same updates are there > > waiting for install. > > It's like they aren't sticking for some reason. > Don't know SuSE to well - could it be an aggressive selinux policy? -- -- -- Matthew Frederico /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.ne