things that suck

[denise]

* discovering that your laptop has suddenly decided to be a very expensive paperweight

(Almost positive that it just needs an OS reinstall, but nobody in the house has any OSX 10.4 install disks with them. Grarrrgh.)

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Been there. Done that ... twice in 3 weeks. [second time my backup tower ate it's HD and ended up doing the dreaded click*click*click of death.]

Still cleaning up the mess...and trying to wrap my head around Linux [Ubuntu] as I went for whole 'nother OS.

You have my sympathy.

+1

[zvi]

Yeah, if anyone has a spare CD-R, you can run a LiveCD of Linux until you can get back to your OS disks. Or, if there's a spare 8 gig flash drive lying around, (and somebody running ubuntu), you can run LiveUSB and have the ability to save things while you work. :)

Re: +1

[siliconshaman]

Me, I went with the second route...

[raynedanser]

How is it going with that? I've been running solely for a year now if you need help. ;-)

[siliconshaman]

I've pretty much got a handle on most of it... but I can't seem to get the network settings right...

I've a home wireless LAN, consisting of two routers, two 'nix machines and two windows boxes... and the linux machines not only won't talk to the windows machines, but they refuse to talk to each other, even via ethernet!

They see the routers ok, but no other machines, and talk to the internet... but not the LAN

I know I'm missing something, but fucked if I know what! so, yeah, a little help would be appreciated. I want to set up linpopup and file shares, plus connect to the wireless printer.

[raynedanser]

I haven't done it myself, but I've heard networking with Windows machines can be tricky. Have you checked the support forums? There's also linux4all and a Ubuntu comm on LJ, too. I'd love to know what you figure out as I would LOVE to network with our Windows desktop.

[siliconshaman]

Thanks, I'll be check those out today... if I find a solution I'll post it.

[raynedanser]

Can I add you? So that I'll see the solution? ;-) I hope you're able to figure something out.

[siliconshaman]

Sure go ahead!

[raynedanser]

Excellent. (also? Sounds like you and I would probably get along anyway *g*)

[siliconshaman]

There is that...