This thing is a game changer for the PC Industry. A single board computer for general purpose applications, due out next month. It is the size of a credit card, has tons of applications, and has unmistakable geek cred. This will run off of AA batteries or 5 volt wall wart. Has HDMI video, audio, USB, SD card slot, and Ethernet. Cost 35 bucks. Boots in about 25 seconds. Read more here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/. 

There is a YouTube video of the boot up and some video demos here.

Ultra low power and very compact, the Raspberry Pi is expected to ship next month, and has a wide range of applications, including media server, Linux desktop, applications development, router/firewall, and multi- blade servers. This little guy could change the world. Manufacter web site is here:http://www.raspberrypi.org/

ClearOS

ClearOS is a powerful network and gateway server designed for small organizations and distributed environments.  Though ClearOS comes with an extensive list of features  and integrated services (see sidebar), the solution is easy to configure thanks to the intuitive web-based interface.   The open source revolution in the software industry has made it possible to provide ClearOS at no cost.  Among other features, antivirus, antispam, VPN and content filtering are built right into the software -- no need for expensive third party add-ons. With ClearOS, you can avoid costly vendor lock-in and proprietary formats; instead, you can embrace open standards and protocols. Along with online documentation, you will find an active community ready to help find your way.  Open source is great, but where do you go for help with installation, support, consulting and professional services?  Let me introduce you to ClearCenter.  Not only will you find 24x7 ClearCARE support from ClearCenter, but also a growing army of ClearCenter partners to help with installation, onsite support, professional services and that all important ongoing maintenance. Integrated LDAP for User and Group Management User Security Certificate Manager Multi-WAN VPN - PPTP, IPsec, OpenVPN DMZ and 1-to-1 NAT Stateful Firewall Local DHCP and DNS Servers Antimalware - Antivirus, Antiphishing, Antispyware Antispam Bandwidth Management Intrusion Protection, Intrusion Prevention, Intrusion Detection Protocol Filtering including Peer-to-Peer Detection Content Filter Web Proxy Access Control Windows Networking with PDC Support File and Print Services Flexshares Groupware with Outlook Connector Mail Server - POP, IMAP, SMTP, Webmail, Retrieval Mail Filtering - Antispam, Antimalware, Greylisting, Quarantine Mail Archiving Database with MySQL Web Server with PHP Support

A new Blog for Tech jobs in the Los Angeles Area.

I created a new Blog for Tech jobs in the Los Angeles  Area.

I know that Craig's List is a tremendous resource, but it is a pain to look at all of the different ads when looking for a tech job. This is designed to put it all on one page. Enjoy..

http://losangelestechjobs.blogspot.com

My Favorite Linux Distro so far is PCLinuxOS - effective, and drop-dead simple.

My Favorite Linux Distro so far is PCLinuxOS - effective, and drop-dead simple.

Main page is here: http://pclinuxos.com

 The online magazine is here: http://pclosmag.com

Back issues of the online magazine can be found here:

http://pclosmag.com/html/enter.html

I use this on a 4 Gb USB stick for a varity of data rescue jobs on Mac and PC platforms. I hope it helps out some other support people out there. Post any comments or questions here if you like.

Data Recovery Links

Through the following links, you may find something that better fits your needs, gives better results or help going :

• Tutorials / testimonials / advices :
  • Data Recovery Myths might be a good start
  • ReiserFS undelete/data recovery HOWTO .
  • How a Corrupted USB Drive Was Saved by GNU/Linux
  • Why Recovering a Deleted Ext3 File Is Difficult... by Brian Carrier
  • How a Linux Distro Saved Hard Disk Data
  • Hackaday Hard drive resurrection
  • Some Data Recovery Tips
  • EaseUs Data Recovery eBook: online and PDF
  • Google Study: Failure Trends in a Large Disk Population (or a local copy).
  • A review report of, mostly, Windows data recovery software.
• Disk imager (for Linux):
  • recoverdm : again, a ‘dd‘ like tool. Seems that it had a special mode for CDROM.
  • myrescue : a sort of ‘dd‘ like tool, but specialized in harddisk data copy (better handle of damaged areas).
  • dcfldd : dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security, and AIR the GUI front-end to dd/dcfldd.
  • safecopy : safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, harddisk partitions, CDs, ..., where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors.
  • badblock-guess : badblock-guess will recover all readable sectors of the disk in minimal time while trying to prevent disk read retrying head recalibrations.
  • dd_rescue and ddrescue
  • dd_rhelp : dd_rhelp is a bash script that uses dd_rescue.
• Disk imager (for Windows):
  • WinImage
  • Rawrite and related (floppy) disk imaging programs.
• Partition tools :
  • gpart : primary partition table "guesser" tool.
  • TestDisk : check and undelete partition (a lot of partition types are recognized).
• Filesystem tools :
  • e2salvage
  • e2extract
  • e2undel
  • fatback : FAT recovering tool (available from the Biatchux bootable CD project for forensic/analysis/data recovery/virus scanning/...
  • FScat : FSCat is a utility for dumping filesystems offline.
  • Ext2 Installable File System For Windows provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access).
  • ReiserDriver is an installable File System Driver that allows ReiserFS partitions to be accessed under Windows
  • FFS File System Driver for Windows 2000/XP/2003, allows you to get a read access to FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD FFS(UFS) partitions.
  • ElcomSoft's Advanced EFS Data Recovery and its online documentation.
• File tools (identification, recovery, degraded mode read, consistency check, ...) :
  • file : the famous file Unix command
  • foremost : recover files based on their headers and footers (work on raw data files from dd for example).
  • gzip recovery tookit : self explanatory...
  • photorec : PhotoRec is a little tool to recover pictures from digital camera memory (you could also check my gepj-fat utility to recover JPEG files from FAT12/FAT16 filesystems).
• Various tools :
  • Hex editors and viewers : hexdump from util-linux, KDE's khexedit, hexedit
  • Hachoir is a library written in Python which allows to see and edit a binary files (or any binary stream) field per field. It can be used to extract some informations (eg. metadatas), edit some fields...
• Forensic suites :
  • The Sleuth Kit & Autopsy : Forensic tools for Linux and other Unixes (check the excellent Links part).
  • TCT (The Coroner's Toolkit), and don't miss from Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer Forensic Discovery" online version book.
• Linux distributions / Live CD / NAS :
  • NASLite : single floppy disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating Systems designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated file server.
  • SMART : SMART data forensic suite and CDROM from ASR Data.
  • System Rescue CD : is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash.
  • Helix : Knoppix based forensic Live CD.
  • RIP : Recovery Is Possible Linux rescue system.
  • PLD RescueCD
  • Ultimate Boot CD : a bootable CD containing many floppy based utilities for hard drives, partitions, filesystems, antivirus, mainboard...
  • KNOPPIX, Ubuntu Live, SLAX,...
• Free Microsoft Windows software :
  • Handy Recovery 1.0 at the bottom of the page.
  • PC INSPECTOR.
  • Linux Recovery and Linux Reader for ext2/ext3 filesystems, from DiskInternals.
• Commercial Microsoft Windows software :
  • R-Studio Data Recovery is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software..
  • GetDataBack : do-it-yourself data recovery software.
  • Easy Recovery : data recovering tool for Microsoft Windows filesystems.
  • Active@ Partition Recovery : MBR and partition recovery tool.
• Hardware :
  • PC-3000 : from ACE Data Recovery Engineering, developp software and hardware solutions for harddrive data recovery.
  • A BIG forum forum about Data Recovery and Hard Drive Repair.
  • Anatomy of a Hard Disk Drive
  • HDD Firmware Center.
  • Actionfront Recovering Unrecoverable Data whitepaper that focus on their SignalTrace technologie. Hardware oriented but very interesting.
  • Head Stack Replacement: Questions and Answers
  • Seagate RS-232 adapter schematic (don't know what it could really be used for)
• Hardrive password unlocker:
  • HDD Unlock Wizard is a user-friendly application which allows you to easily unlock IDE and SATA Hard disk drives.
  • HDD password removal
  • AFF Repair Station is data recovery software which allows you to diagnose and repair system area problems of hard disk drives, and to remove passwords from drives locked with an ATA-password.
• Wipe and Erase data :
  • Can Intelligence Agencies Read Overwritten Data? an answer to the famous Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory Gutmann's paper.
    There's also Dan Kamiski Thoughs on Secure Deletion part 1 and part 2
  • DBAN : Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.
  • CMRR Protocols for Disk Drive Secure Erase (and the paper).
  • Protecting Sensitive Data : Researchers Develop Fail-Safe Techniques for Erasing Magnetic Storage Media.
• Prevention :
  • dvdisaster : dvdisaster provides a margin of safety against data loss on CD and DVD media caused by aging or scratches.
  • Clonezilla is a sort of Norton Ghost (much more like Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition), that is able to massively clone many computers simutaneously.
  • parchive : a great archive tool with special file format that allows easy recovery by adding self protection in case of corruption in missing parts.
  • And naturally... backups !
• Documentation on filesystems internals and file formats :
  • The structure of the Reiser file system
• Various :
  • Bad Sector Blues : The Dreaded "error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }"
  • FileDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP that uses one or more files to emulate physical disks ().
  • Mount Image Pro Computer Forensics software to mount EnCase, DD and SMART evidence files as virtual drives on your file system.
  • DFTT : Digital Forensics Tool Testing Images
  • Recovery Tools section at Freshmeat.
  • Data Recovery : a lot of links related to data recovery at dmoz directory.
  • Wikipedia Data recovery article.
  • An interesting paper that "clear up misconception prominent in the storage community" about SCSI and ATA.
  • A compilation of filesystem documentation
  • Something you shouldn't have to care about.
  • Hard Drive Recovery blog (doesn't seem active since june 2005).
  • National Software Reference Library (NSRL) provide a collection of file hashes from numerous commercial softwares.

See also

e2retrieve an ext2 data recovery utility
gepj-fat a small JPEG recovery for FAT16 filesystem links

xen cd

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD

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XpGnome - Make Linux Look like Windows XP

XpGnome - Make Linux Look like Windows XP

Make Gnome look like XP by running this simple script:.

Link is here: http://ubuntu.online02.com/files/XpGnome.tar.gz

YouTube video directions are Here:

This is funny as hell. And should make the M$ VP's shit.

I am going to install this on PCLinuxOS and try it out.