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Created on Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:17 am with 25 blog postsThe official Frihost Blog. About Frihost, my life, the internet and everything else interesting.
The new Politics forum in Frihost Official with 8 comments on Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:52 am
I added a Politics forum since a lot of people have been asking for it. It can be quite useful to discuss the upcoming US elections.
FS 25 May in Frihost Daily with 3 comments on Sun May 25, 2008 4:14 pm
I finally restored my code repository on my computer this week since it was broken for months, which caused very few changes to be made to the Frihost code for the last few months. I now use a local svn repository instead of a manual directory system. This has a lot of advantages, but I'll have to get used to it a bit more, although it's not that hard and there is a lot of information available online.
This already made it possible for me to fix quite some bugs, mostly staff-related stuff though, so most of you won't notice them.
I went to see Indiana Jones this week and I absolutely loved it.
Since I'm quite busy lately (exams coming) I won't be doing/changing much until July. I will however try to work on the servers, remain active on the forums, make account creation easier and remove some very inactive accounts (haven't done so in a long while).
Please also check out some ways to help Frihost.
This already made it possible for me to fix quite some bugs, mostly staff-related stuff though, so most of you won't notice them.
I went to see Indiana Jones this week and I absolutely loved it.
Since I'm quite busy lately (exams coming) I won't be doing/changing much until July. I will however try to work on the servers, remain active on the forums, make account creation easier and remove some very inactive accounts (haven't done so in a long while).
Please also check out some ways to help Frihost.
System battery voltage is low in Personal with 2 comments on Sun May 25, 2008 3:34 pm
My main computer at home (a Dell with Windows) was complaining at startup about System battery voltage is low and then I had to press F1 to continue. After pressing F1, it always worked fine. Lazy as I am, I let this go on for months without buying a new battery (which doesn't cost much).
Then one day I think the voltage became too low and I guess the bios settings got errased. The problem was that after running the setup and starting Windows, I now got a blue screen of death with the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error.
The problem was that my internet connection went through a modem connected to that computer and didn't work on Linux (at least not out of the box), so I couldn't even solve it with a Google search.
First of all, I went to the repair shop for watches, which is pretty close (my watch needed a new bracelet too) and got a new battery. The battery was easily replaced on the motherboard. It looks like a coin and is easily removed in a few seconds. The same for putting it back.
Of course the battery only solved the low voltage problem and I still got the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error.
I tried it with a few Linux cd's (Mandriva and Ubuntu) and those could see the files and partition just fine. I backed up some files I would like to keep and already planned to install Windows again.
Then I tried with the Windows cd to reinstall Windows. During the install I noticed that it detected the current partition as broken/damaged. I figured out that I could maybe repair the partition to make it work again.
So I plugged in my Gparted Live CD and booted from it. I tried to resize the partition by removing a few Megabytes from it. Unfortunately it somehow figured out it should move the whole partition a few MB further (which takes very long) instead of removing some from the end. I aborted the thing and it luckily hadn't touched anything yet. I tried again and this time it actually did what I wanted it to do, I mean removing a few MB from the end.
Anyway, after resizing it, I rebooted again into Windows. It started without the blue screen and fixed some files with the disk recovery util (or whatever it's called) and then it ran completely fine. The issue was fixed thanks to Linux.
Now that I have access to the internet, I found out the correct command to do it with Windows from the Windows CD. At the command prompt from the recovery console you need to type chkdsk /r.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185
Then one day I think the voltage became too low and I guess the bios settings got errased. The problem was that after running the setup and starting Windows, I now got a blue screen of death with the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error.
The problem was that my internet connection went through a modem connected to that computer and didn't work on Linux (at least not out of the box), so I couldn't even solve it with a Google search.
First of all, I went to the repair shop for watches, which is pretty close (my watch needed a new bracelet too) and got a new battery. The battery was easily replaced on the motherboard. It looks like a coin and is easily removed in a few seconds. The same for putting it back.
Of course the battery only solved the low voltage problem and I still got the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error.
I tried it with a few Linux cd's (Mandriva and Ubuntu) and those could see the files and partition just fine. I backed up some files I would like to keep and already planned to install Windows again.
Then I tried with the Windows cd to reinstall Windows. During the install I noticed that it detected the current partition as broken/damaged. I figured out that I could maybe repair the partition to make it work again.
So I plugged in my Gparted Live CD and booted from it. I tried to resize the partition by removing a few Megabytes from it. Unfortunately it somehow figured out it should move the whole partition a few MB further (which takes very long) instead of removing some from the end. I aborted the thing and it luckily hadn't touched anything yet. I tried again and this time it actually did what I wanted it to do, I mean removing a few MB from the end.
Anyway, after resizing it, I rebooted again into Windows. It started without the blue screen and fixed some files with the disk recovery util (or whatever it's called) and then it ran completely fine. The issue was fixed thanks to Linux.
Now that I have access to the internet, I found out the correct command to do it with Windows from the Windows CD. At the command prompt from the recovery console you need to type chkdsk /r.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185
FS 12 May in Frihost Daily with 0 comments on Mon May 12, 2008 3:03 pm
I've paid a visit to the Belgian sea this weekend, enjoying the great weather here in Belgium.
VPS 1 also needed some work. The dns problems should normally be fixed permanently now. I also updated cPanel and php/apache. This should have fixed the memory problem that some people encountered on their websites. It was probably a bug or configuration problem with php and cPanel. I'm not sure if it fixed all the mail issues, though.
VPS 1 also needed some work. The dns problems should normally be fixed permanently now. I also updated cPanel and php/apache. This should have fixed the memory problem that some people encountered on their websites. It was probably a bug or configuration problem with php and cPanel. I'm not sure if it fixed all the mail issues, though.