Here are some diagnostics and logfiles for my Biltema webcam – it obviously doesn’t look like the photo when you get it from Biltema, this one has been warranty liberated and slightly modified.. I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 and Cheese as a webcam application.
A really interesting laptop fell in my hands the other day, it miserably failed to start XP properly – neither normal boot or safe mode worked. Normal boot crashed to a BSOD (blue screen of death) and stated:
“Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry Cannot Load The Hive (File): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software Error”
Safe mode just hung at loading mup.sys. Recovery console didn’t work, cause it wouldn’t accept empty as an administrator password (hey – it’s not my laptop, I actually do use a password on my admin account) and booting the XP install cd to do a repair installation was also useless – the installation procedure didn’t even find the older XP installation. Google, Microsoft and random nerds over the net suggested only one thing: Reinstallation.
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Managed to do something incredibly silly (not to unusual) – got a warning that my /dev/sdf2 was unmountable due to some fsck error – recommended course of action was manually fsck.ext3 testing.
Fsck testing is something always shrouded in dark magic – “may cause massive data loss”, always seems far more dangerous than text messaging on my mobile while driving intoxicated through rush hour traffic.
Anyway – I ran fdisk (I was slightly drunk) to find out which partition was messing around and was told that something was confused about the partition table – do a write to correct fdisk so cunnigly tricked me.
Fdisk and “w” caused an empy partition table to be written to /dev/sdf – thank you oh so very much.
500gb of precious, precious internet material (no pr0n, promise, promise) all gone into binary heaven.
Just a little write-up from the old page, lest I forget….
 Opened up |
 Mounted on top |
Music is good for you. Emilie Autumn is good for you.
check every file in a directory if it’s not actuallly a jpg, if so rename it to the same name.jpg
| for fil in $(file * | grep JPEG | awk ‘{print $1}’ | sed s/://); do mv $fil $fil.jpg; done; |
simple wget loop – nice for leeching stuff..
| for ((i=1;i<100;i++)); do wget www.archive.net/$i -r -l2; done; |
ping a server to find out if the internetconnection is still around
(takes an ip as argument,should be placed a file I suppose)
| #!/bin/bash ping -c 2 $1 1>/dev/null if [ "$?" = 1 ] then echo “`date` : Network down” >>/home/kitty/ping-log else echo “`date` : Network is still up” >>/home/kitty/ping-log fi |
batch rename of files – this example replaces spaces with “-”. Can be used to replace other stuff in filenames
| for filnamn in *; do mv “$filnamn” “`echo $filnamn|sed -e ‘s/\ /-/’`”; done |
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