xGoat » fixing stuff http://xgoat.com/wp Robert Spanton's musings. Sat, 29 May 2010 12:45:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Scraping John’s Site… http://xgoat.com/wp/2007/08/06/scraping-johns-site/ http://xgoat.com/wp/2007/08/06/scraping-johns-site/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:48:15 +0000 Rob http://xgoat.com/wp/?p=86 Have just spent an hour or so setting up an RSS feed for John’s New Zealand adventures. Should update every half an hour.

Source used to generate it available here :-)

Edit: Something’s gone wrong with the ECS servers… I guess it’ll be back up soon…

Edit: Seems to be back up now.

]]> http://xgoat.com/wp/2007/08/06/scraping-johns-site/feed/ 0 Disks http://xgoat.com/wp/2007/04/17/disks/ http://xgoat.com/wp/2007/04/17/disks/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:06:50 +0000 Rob http://xgoat.com/wp/?p=61 Spent a fair chunk of today sorting out Phil’s hard disk. Mac OS X had impolitely destroyed his partition table for him. I used TestDisk to recover it. There were a couple of issues, which meant that it took a little longer than it was “supposed” to.

It located a couple of adjacent ext3 partitions (Phil’s Fedora and Ubuntu roots) and generated some overlapping numbers for them. I had to manually edit the partition table using sfdisk to get it right. I particularly enjoyed the rollback-like features that sfdisk has (using -O and -I). I had to tell sfdisk to use sector units because it defaults to cylinders.

Then Phil gave me food. Excellent. Technical support for food.

Got a couple of management textbooks out from the library earlier. They’re really boring. Seem to be stating the obvious. Joy.

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