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winter in p-ville







The forecast for the past week has been snow, to some not a big deal, but out here were not use to snow the last set of photo was last Sunday it now Wednesday. now the sow is roughly 2 feet or so. no one has seen this for a least a decade or so.












This is my buddies pumpkin, she and some of friends of her hacked some pumpkins to little bit and peices.

Linux to save the day!!!

My gaming rig was down, what to do? I have a raid setup, can't copy in the in xp
to back up my data. I tried many boot cd's but nothing, I was too lazy to hookup a floppy drive to get the raid working. So I put my Ubuntu live CD into the drive a booted it up.

first thing i did, I started up the terminal and then installed NTFS configuration tool by installing using apt-get. I made a directory for the drive that was going to mount. and tried to mount it, and i received this error "root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount /dev/sda1 /home/ubuntu/nt_drive/
$MFT has invalid magic.
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for the details."
I thought nice, what now, on prob i can get over this and i noticed "dmraid " I've never played that driver before. So once again installed it by using apt-get
and tried to mount it and once more failure nothing nota goose egg. I figure out that my device setting were not correct , and with use with the tab i quickly found out witch the command is "root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount /dev/mapper/nvidia_bdddedej1 /home/ubuntu/nt_drive/" and volla, the drive was mounted .. and i can backup my data.