Alhamdulillaah, through some diligent searching and more than a few unnecessary steps, I was able to get my not-bottom-of-the-line ATi Radeon x1600 AGP video card working reasonably well on Fedora Core 6. Sadly, this series of discoveries happened after I had decided to resort to a complete wipe/reinstallation. However, the decision to hose the old…
Month: November 2006
Fedora Core 6 running at work
I just got through installing Fedora Core 6 (x86-64 of course!) at work, and alhamdulillaah, the installation went through without a hitch. However, as my workplace is primarily a Microsoft shop, I couldn’t just hose my old WinXP installation, so I needed to do a dual-boot setup. So, while yumex is running in the background,…
phpBB 3.0 Beta3 released!!!
Alhamdulillaah, the final release of phpBB3 approaches ever nearer with the release of Beta3. I’ve always been an avid phpBB fan, and although I was the friendly admin of a vBulletin 3-powered forum for well over a year, phpBB has always been my choice when it came to deploying my own bulletin board sites for…
The heroic story of the recovery of a crashed laptop with a corrupted hard drive
A close friend of mine contacted me about a week ago regarding a problem with his laptop. He has an HP tablet PC, and he had inadvertently allowed the laptop to run the battery down completely. When he tried to turn it back on, he was greeted with a message of doom: NTLDR is Missing…