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Use loop devices for your drives:

http://blog.mybox.ro/2010/11/03/how-to-use-a-raw-disk-image-file-in-virtualbox/

Then you can use "dd" as root to send random data into the disk, or you can...

These instructions no longer lead to the drivers. The website does not seems to have what is described.

I found drivers for the printer, but nothing for the scanner. The "Image scan!" drivers do...

I was trying to remove the physical volume from an old drive. So I opened gparted and told it to rewrite the partition table. The only problem is I targeted the wrong volume, I wiped the partition...

Yes, when you figure these things out please post how so the rest of us can do it as well.

Thank you very much for the solution to this problem. I tore down the old system and rebuild it from backup a few weeks back but perhaps this information will save other people the trouble.

I just upgraded Ubuntu Server Jaunty to Karmic and now I cannot boot.

I am having the same issue described above:



Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... ...

Thanks white hat this allowed me to watch 1080p mkv files that I could not watch before. That is very helpful.

Though I assume you meant:

sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer mencoder

Thank you very much kamaaina. That is just what I needed.

Oh, I have a question. How to I put a dollar sign($) in conky output??

I made a little script for myself to monitor stocks in conky.

This is hard coded for the way I like it, but it would not be difficult to change. You will need to install the Cache::FileCache...

I could not get it working as it seems to need boost 1.36 and only boost 1.35 is available for ibex right now. Anyone know the best way to get boost 1.36 working?

I would also like the know this. What is the point of a raid array if I cannot rebuild?