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Laptop is not booting up
From today morning my Dell Latitude D630 is not booting. Called service center , the guy asked me to press different kind of key combos for troubleshoot. Then he asaked me to open the keyboard which is a real bad idea as I can damage the system. After a big argument on this finally they agreed to send an engineer with required parts.
Asking a user to work/open the hardware is not at all a good practice, don’t know why they keep asking the same.
Meanwhile view this (less than 1MB), I hope that code is safe in my broken box :)
Summer training 2009
You can find the wiki page here. This year we want to make groups such that there are two students in a group and make them work on any upstream project or a new project. They should start the work of finding the project ideas within first two weeks of the program. Comments/suggestions are welcome.
We have added a few buzz words in the poster to attract students. Generally students prefer to go to different small institutions to do summer project where most of the times they pay a good amount to get a certificate. Trying to change the situation slowly.
Thanks to Nicu for the poster.
Yet another accident
This time I am ok, but my 400GB external HDD is gone and along with it I lost all the photographs that I took in the last two year and the videos including meetthegimp and inkscape and bijra related videos. I somehow managed to kick it while it was connected to the system. It fell from 1 and half feet above the ground.
From /var/log/messages
Mar 1 15:02:15 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 17
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: scsi19 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0d49, idProduct=3200
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: Product: Maxtor 3200
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Maxtor Corporation
Mar 1 15:02:17 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 2CAHFJJP
Mar 1 15:02:28 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
Mar 1 15:02:33 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Mar 1 15:02:43 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
Mar 1 15:02:59 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
Mar 1 15:02:59 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
Mar 1 15:03:10 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
Mar 1 15:03:10 localhost kernel: scsi 19:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
Right now I am singing in joy(?). Is there any chance that I can recover the data ?