Recovering Corrupt ext3 Superblocks

Fixing an ext3 partition that has corrupt superblocks and won't mount because the kernel thinks its ext4.

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Posted 26th June 2009 in Computer, with 1 comment

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Hi! I’m Martin Smith an avid cyclist and I’m a third-year undergraduate computer scientist at St John’s College, Oxford. When I’m not at university, I live in Middle Rasen near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England.

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SIP Intercom

Why settle for a doorbell when you could make a SIP-enabled intercom?

Posted 1st May 2009 in Computer, with 1 comment

Images Rendering in Firefox but not IE

What do you do with images that render in Firefox fine, but appear as a red cross in Internet Explorer 6 & 7?

Posted 19th March 2009 in Computer, with 0 comments

Fujitsu Siemens Repairs

As many of you may know, My laptop's motherboard broke and I had to get it repaired. Here's my review of Fujitsu Siemens' in-warranty repair service.

Posted 10th March 2009 in Computer, with 0 comments

Oxford Date Panel Applet

Do you find the GNOME date/time panel applet virtually useless during Oxford termtime? I've written one that displays the Oxford date instead. It's based on Andrew Godwin's oxdate python module, which is inspired by Dom's Oxford Dates perl module.

Posted 6th February 2009 in Computer, with 0 comments

Lighttpd Book Review

Packt Publishing have released the first book devoted solely to Lighttpd that I have come across. With chapters covering compiling, configuring, virtual hosting, CGI, streaming, logging, SSL, optimizing, migrating from Apache, Lua and even writing your own lighttpd modules, Andre Bogus has attempted to cover everything you will need to know. In this post, I will discuss what I think are the good and bad points about this book.

Posted 18th January 2009 in Computer, with 0 comments