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Computing / Laptop frustrations....
« on: February 05, 2013, 12:58:55 AM »
Hi guys, this place looks like a ghost town : [


My laptop recently took a fall from my bed (about 2.5 feet) onto the carpet and the battery has not been able to charge since. My first inclination was that the dc connector got broken, as this is a very common problem. So, I ordered the replacement part and installed it. Turns out, it still won't charge. I pulled out the battery and it turns out it runs fine on AC power. If I plug the battery back in, windows stops acknowledging the AC connection and uses the battery. So, my laptop now functions one of either two ways-- uncharging on battery, or on AC with the battery unplugged.

I called HP and they told me that it could be a broken voltage converter on the motherboard (wtf?) or a windows problem. The tech suggested reinstalling windows first to see if it wasn't hardware. Sigh. Actually, now that I think about this I'm just going to try a ubuntu live cd. I'll post back later when I've tested this. >.>     <.<    >.>

edit:

So it turns out ubuntu recognizes that both are attached, but suffers from the same problem. I doubt that the battery is bad, since the computer is barely over a year old and I've put less than 30 charge cycles on it.

Iaaaaaaannnnnnnnn

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Computing / GRUB is being a grub, indeed.
« on: May 20, 2009, 10:23:20 PM »
Background:

I have a dual boot of Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows XP. The Ubuntu installation was actually an installation from Wubi, and I decided to make a swap partition and Ext3 partition for the upgrade. I used LVPM to transfer the drive contents onto the new ext3 partition, and LVPM installed GRUB.

The problem is that GRUB won't boot the new partition. I'm not sure which partition it needs, but when I fiddle with the (hdX,Y) for it I'll either get an error saying its unable to mount the partition or it just goes back to the menu. How can I know specifically what to specify for (hdX,Y) and are there other parameters I would need to specify as well? I'm also considering that the partitions aren't set up correctly, (possible formatting error, bad order of the partitions on the disk?)

5/21 update:

Fuck it. I've already learned to not store important crap on the same partition as my operating system. I'm just going to wipe it and start legit. If anyone stumbles across this page from a search engine and has problems with booting an new partition from Wubi, trade the headache for a little hassle. After all, how many hours will it take trying to fix it when you could have just done it right from scratch in less time? (remember your windows partition is in /host)

Thankies

Edit:
Any useful reference (and a note for myself):
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grub.htm
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml

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/ peace
« on: September 16, 2008, 12:27:54 AM »
out.

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/ OMG IT WORKS
« on: August 13, 2008, 05:52:22 AM »
PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR%uFEFF LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE.? HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 POSTS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS OVER TO 5 POSTSS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS

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Creation Station / Swerve, a file serv. (for mIRC)
« on: August 02, 2008, 09:21:20 AM »
First release! Or rather, a release of a release candidate... >.>

Get the current version at http://www.zakamiro.net/swerve/swerve.zip

If you can't dcc send/chat, forward 1024-5000, TCP.

If still no luck, it could be any of these: 59 (tcp/udp), 113 (tcp/udp), 6660-6669 (tcp), 7000 (tcp).

It was inspired by sneaky, and he didn't ask for a lot of features, just a minimal type design. Looking back on it, I should have included more documentation. Oh well.

I'm actively sharing on the IRC channel and to start the session, type "!list nickname". Commands are:

cd, ls, dir, get, pwd. Feedback really appreciated. I'd probably hold off until the "actual release". :] Right now is just the minimal amount I'm willing to let loose into public hands. hahaha.

Oh, and spec, if this thread needs a better home, feel free to move it.

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Media / The Dark Knight
« on: July 26, 2008, 05:51:15 PM »
You know it's that time.

I found it a good movie, except for:


SPOILERS


1) brucie went to hong kong, in the name of Gotham. Kwhat.
2) batman's voice in comparison to brucie's. (you can do it, brucie! [and holy shit, he at the whole chocolate cake, even with cookie's sweat and blood])
3) the change of the origin of two face (gasoline, not acid bath)
4) how gasoline/oil managed to do that much damage to his face. (gasoline evaporates quickly, could have been smothered out) Really, if your face has gasoline on it and catches fire, I highly doubt you'll be losing your cheek.
5) The cell phone sonar thing. I really don't think my phone's firmware can be easily hacked to allow for sonar, let alone create an entire 3D live map of gotham.
6) the lack of clarity given when the joker had switched the locations of rachel and harvey he told batman. They had gone to pick up rachel, but instead found harvey. Part of joker's scheming, etc.


Heath ledger's acting was in-fucking-credible though. yeaaaaaaaaaaa boiiiiiiiiii

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/ If you view this thread, you must post.
« on: July 24, 2008, 05:41:32 AM »
DONT YOU FUCKING RUIN IT.

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/ only zakamiros and vladgds allowed
« on: July 24, 2008, 05:16:26 AM »
"puts up no girls allowed sign"

so vladgd, want to have gay sex?

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Gaming / Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2
« on: July 19, 2008, 02:28:00 PM »
UbiSoft has long been against No-CD patches. Referring to them on their forums would get you warned or banned. But now, they have just officially released a patch for Rainbow 6: Vegas 2, which, when opened in a hex editor, can easily be identified as coming from the RELOADED scene group, not from UbiSoft programmers. A picture of hex analysis is shown in the story. See? Piracy isn't that bad! It saves you from having to code fixes for your own games! (Watch the drama on the Ubi Forums before it gets scrubbed clean.)

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Random Chat / What do you like about s.net?
« on: July 11, 2008, 08:50:39 AM »
I'm just curious as to what like s.net for, and why you come (ir)regularly and post. I guess you may also feel free to just add something you like as time goes on.


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Media / [NSFW] "Oh, BILL!" [NSFW]
« on: July 10, 2008, 06:58:47 PM »
obvious nsfw, suggested 18+

http://www.youporn.com/watch/65778

Watch or at least listen to the entire thing.

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/ Guess what?
« on: July 09, 2008, 06:21:44 AM »
Nobody cares.

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Media / Share a Link!
« on: July 03, 2008, 03:30:07 AM »
Come on, share us a cool link! ;]

(Like youtube/lame replies. Titling links would be nice)

Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/07/02/worms.do.calculus.find.meals.or.avoid.unpleasantness

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/ Life's A Trip. Every Day.
« on: June 20, 2008, 07:04:34 AM »

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Computing / Hello, C++.
« on: June 14, 2008, 09:26:29 AM »
Okay, here we go. Every day I'm going to spend at least an hour reading and practice what I learn from my book. And then I'll post up here what I learned, and how to do it. Comments are more than welcome. So, I guess it's more like my journal of my education of C++.

(edits to follow here within two hours of now)

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