Monday, February 26, 2007

Learn to Throw Chi Balls

I found this very interesting article on how to learn to throw chi balls like in Street Fighter. I think those who’ve played the game or love martial arts would appreciate it.


http://meditation-energy.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-to-throw-chi-balls-like-ryu-in.html

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

GRUB Bootloader Mistake Correction

I have discovered this correction empirically, having accidentally set up GRUB incorrectly, causing my Windows partition not booting up and returning to the GRUB boot loader screen.


The Mistake


I made the mistake while setting up GRUB.


my partition layout is this:


/dev/sda1 - windows
/dev/sda2 - /boot
/dev/sda3 - /


when i set up GRUB, I typed this:


grub > root (hd0,1) <- sets the root drive to /boot
grub > setup (hd0,0) <- sets up grub on my windows partition
grup > quit <- quits grub


The mistake was the ’setup (hd0,0)’ command I ran, which should have been only ’setup (hd0)’.


This caused GRUB to write the MBR into the Windows partition, so when I booted up, I could only boot to Linux.

The Solution


To fix the problem, I ran a simple ’mount’ command:


mount -o errors=recover /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows


The result allowed me to mount to /mnt/windows with no errors. I was able to look through every directory and read from desired text files as well as write to the text files.


Conclusion


I’m surprised that GRUB even followed through and wrote to my Windows partition. But, for all those who run in to this problem, I give you the solution.

-- Cheers

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Post2Blog Test

To sort of make life easier, I downloaded Post2Blog - a desktop blogging client for Windows. It is really easy to use and it obviously works with Blogspot as well as other blogging communities.


I recommend using this if you don’t want to spend time opening a browser, getting to your blog page, logging in, adding a new post, typing a new post, and then publishing it.


-- Cheers :-)