Stupid solution for Grub error 17

Posted At : June 16, 2008 12:00 AM | Posted By : Adrian J. Moreno
Related Categories: WTF, Linux

I've got a Dell that shipped with Vista. I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on a 2nd hard drive and had it install Grub so I could boot between the two. After playing games on Vista, I rebooted to do some work in Ubuntu. The machine wouldn't boot due to Grub error 17, but after doing something stupid it booted just fine.

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Life imitates Penny Arcade (Twitter)

Posted At : May 12, 2008 7:48 PM | Posted By : Adrian J. Moreno
Related Categories: WTF, Social Networks

Ok, I'm officially hooked on Twitter. However, I am glad to say that I'm not this hooked.

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Word of warning when installing a Western Digital SATA drive on a Dell

Posted At : April 28, 2008 12:40 AM | Posted By : Adrian J. Moreno
Related Categories: WTF

My parents don't much care for Vista, so after I got their XP machine up and running, they gave me the Dell Dimension E520 they'd bought and were hardly using. I added 2Gb of RAM and a new video card to it with no problems, but when I tried to add a second hard drive for ubuntu, I ran into a snag.

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How NOT to code a CFLOOP

Posted At : April 15, 2008 12:28 PM | Posted By : Adrian J. Moreno
Related Categories: WTF, ColdFusion

I've been chasing down a CFLOOP timeout error in one of our apps that escaped our rewrite project. After searching through code for 3 weeks, var scoping a bunch of CFCs and wading through a ton of business logic I think I found the culprit.

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