So, I’ve got a box here at home that is running a dual boot of Win XP and Debian.

I’ve got about 6/7 partitions on the disk. where Debian is somewhere around hda5/6 around and I’ve got a windows data partition on hda3(if I remember correctly).

Okay, so my linux partition is getting just abit full, and I do not want to have all my data on the FAT partition as linux mounts is not very “lekker” etc. So I need to remove the Windows partition and then create a new EXT2/3 partition for my data.

Okay, so first to find a partition manager - I used GParted LiveCD to delte and create the new partition - all nice and dandy… but when I boot up, I get a “Error 17″ from the MBR system… aaah - seems like the linux boot drive reference has change, where it was hda6 is is not hda 5 as a result of the partition preceeding it has been deleted….

This is the first time I’ve ran into this problem, previously I would only install linux with the help of an automated installer.

Okay, so the GRUB info on the MBR is wrong. So next I downloaded the GRUB bootup CD, entered a few “random“(just figured out whats what) commands to load the new config(GRUB on the ‘new’ partition reference) into the MBR.

and voila - now we’re back in business with my spanking new ext partition added and mounted.

written by Arné

Thats the way I feel about BlogMad .

I’ve been using BlogMad for the last couple of months since they started back in the day(actually a few months ago).

I was one of their first initial Beta Testers.

I’ve also posted about them here .

After a hickup here and there they are now full in swing and taking over the Blog Scene piece-by-piece.

For the few months they’ve been online and going they already have something like 2700 blogs registered on their site and more than 5400 users registered.

One advantage about BlogMad is that they have 1:1 ratio when browsing Blogs. So for every blog you visit, you get one visit back - fair deal - no strings attached.

They also hold special double point days or timeframes where if one browses blogs you get double credits etc.

I can’t wait for them to accept payments to buy credits etc..

If you guys wanna join BlogMad, please use this link so I can get some credits.

Gr8 stuff!!!

written by Arné

As I realized yesterday there is much more to Google search then meets the eye.

Usually I just type in what I wanna search and voila, I get it, but there are much more feature to Google Search then the standard search, like the Calculator function etc.

Here are a few examples:

Finding Pages:

Calculator:
For this type in any arithmic calculation and see it calculate the answer for you.

Look at these examples:
12 + 34 - 56 * 7 / 8
45% of 39

Some nice conversion tools too
120 lbs in kg ,
300 Euros in USD

There is alot of features like stock price index etc. thats built into Google Search, but head on over to the help section to find out even MORE .

Google Search Help

written by Arné