A few useful linux commands and their explanations.
Some useful linux commands
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Yorkshire Dales three peaks challenge!
Big thanks to everyone who contributed to my birthday present of a weekend away in the Yorkshire Dales to do the 3 peaks challenge. We had a lovely time and to spare me the pain of telling everyone about it individually I thought I’d write about it here instead.
We completed the gruelling 25 mile trek including 1,672 metres ascent in just under 9 hours. The target time is 12 hours so we did pretty well. If you can’t be bothered reading then scroll straight to the bottom for a gallery of our photos from the walk.
Tip: never flash a BIOS from within Windows!
This much I have learned: never, and I mean *never*, flash your computer’s BIOS from within Windows.
I’ve done it before and never had a problem, but my luck ran out when I recently tried to flash the BIOS of an Acer TravelMate 6410 using the “WinPhlash” tool downloaded from the Acer website. The tool ran, backed up and erased the old BIOS, then crashed at block 5 of 16 when flashing the new BIOS. Result: a computer that won’t even POST, nevermind boot.