Today is total #$%ed up at work. New PC’s got to get setup, old ones swopped, printers installed. Mail lost due to yesterdays harddrive failure. The week just seems to get worse. But there is hope. Friday is not that far away 
got the a fujitsu laptop. The hd decided to fail today… what a way to start the week.
UPDATE:
not even with a Live CD does it detect the hd…well then it is into the externel usb drive and recovery software. we’ll how that goes.
I seem to make the same mistake time and again.
Just a not to restore htm/l files back to permissions, chmod 644, so that apache can actually serve them.
For some reason when i run dos2unix and files it removes the permission, yet to find out how to retain the permissions, when converting the file. perhpas ‘man dos2unix’ might help 
when they are not working they do anyway!. I really don’t like fixing laptops. What auth to be a 20 min job turns out to be a 2 hour job. Something always goes wrong… Still i would like one of my own. But I sure as hell not gonna fix it when it goes crazy. Software is fine, but the hardware is crap to check/fix.
What seemed as a dark future, now has hope. There is a dim light, very dim. But it is there.
I have a couple of Wyse 3025 terminals to look after, which have been giving me some trouble, keeping the config off limits to curious minds.
First off i tried hiding the configuration from the menu. Logging in as admin everytime, that can easily be changed, so that didnt’ help much. Then I created a new user on the terminal itself, with nothing being shown when you enter the control panel. And also activated auto login.
The end result is the terminal starts up, automatically logins the restricted user and the user can’t change anything in the control panel. So hopefully no more changing the display from 800*600 to 1024*768 causing the old monitors not to display anything. No more changing the mouse speed to a crawl.
Only probelm might be to get logged in again as admin, since auto login is set for user. But then Crtl+G fixes that, well breaks it actually. Resets the terminal to factory defaults
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