3 posts tagged “geek”

I accidentally unplugged my laptop while I was adjusting my desk and without the battery inside it shut off.  This has happened many times before without a problem.  However, when I plugged it back in it wouldn't boot.  I used one of my Ubuntu LiveCDs to boot into an OS so I could complain on the internet and verify that this was a boot record thing and not a hard drive thing.  There is now a Windows partition sitting where my root Ubuntu partition used to be. 

You've got to be FUCKING me.

My only guess is that I accidenatlly hit the "media direct" button and the ghost image that Dell installs at the factory decided to overwrite it.  I had intentionally wiped this in the Fall of '07 so I have no clue how this happened.  Fortunately I have my important data in its own paritions so this shouldn't cost me more than a few hours of reinstalling Linux and hopefully not breaking anything worse. 

Does anyone out there know the UML spec.?
If so can you tell me if its worth learning?

One of these.
and I guess a compass would be nice, but if I have wireless I'm pretty much set as far as directions go.