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Resurrect NTFS partition after Win XP reinstall

Posted by akiko on June 9, 2010 at 9:19 pm

The system was missing my partition E, or my Storage partition. It was wiped out. Storage manager denoted it as unallocated space. A quick reboot into Ubuntu ended up with same knowledge: Unallocated space.

No space for panic. Google comes, google helps. I found a marvelous little command line tool which was able to revamp my Storage NTFS partition in about 10 seconds. It’s called testdisk.

Grep intelligence – grep lines that DO NOT MATCH an expression

Posted by akiko on May 13, 2010 at 11:24 am

I have an apache access log that I need to monitor frequently while users do funny things, but the problem is 99% of the logged calls are some trivial ajax get requests which do stuff, like ‘check new messages’ which, when coming in from each user who has opened the page each second, tend to [...]

Setting up AROS in VirtualBox @ Ubuntu

Posted by akiko on April 21, 2010 at 11:40 pm

Yesterday I finally layed my hands on Aros. It has been talked about quite a lot in AMIGA waters, and me, being a sincere AMIGA fan, decided to finally install the latest version in Virtual Box and give it a try. Why? Well, I have Ubuntu 9.10, and E-UAE is nowhere near WinUAE, so alternatives were quite welcome.