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Ok, I was caught while being on inapprobriate site. So parents put shit ass Picblock on my computer. Don’t have the pw and I’m limitted user. They even put pw on bios, so I can’t boot with linux live cd. But I really have to go on facebook, youtube etc. Is there anybody who can give advice how 2 circumvent this crappy software. It blocks all: pictures bad content on sites. I even can’t go on the homesite of horrible picblock. Believe me I tried all..

OK, so here’s the deal. I have a laptop that has crashed. Since I do not have the recovery disks anymore I was just going to install Linux onto it. Thing is ,I go to select the partitions and there isn’t one there. I went to Gparted on the Linux live disk,but says no hardware found. Is there a way to pull up a CMD prompt to make a new partition from scratch? I believe my hard drive has failed,but oddly still pulls up the live CD. I don’t see how the computer can still go onto the live disk if the hard drive doesn’t work. So I am still confused if it’s the hard drive its self.Can there be another issue?

Be kind in what you say,or you will be reported.
Forgot to mention that the laptop is a Windows XP

Here’s the situation. I installed BackTrack linux (Based on ubuntu i think, linux newbie) then once that was installed on partition A of my hard drive, I installed windows XP. Might have been in reverse order. Basically it was set up with Grub to choose between the two and grub was automatically set up. Well now that I had to reinstall windows on its partition, it doesnt go to the GRUB menu anymore. Its still windows XP. How can I change this so it goes back to GRUB menu and not straight to windows. I know that the Linux partition is still there I just cant boot into it. If I need to edit anything on the linux part I can always just use a live CD to get to it but I dont know what im suppose to do exactly. Any Ideas?

Linux Journal December 2009 – Issue #188

If last month’s Infrastrucuture issue was too “big” for you then try on this month’s Embedded issue. Find out how to use Player for programming mobile robots, build a humidity controller for your root cellar, find out how to reduce the boot time of your embedded system, and if you’re new to embedded systems find out the basics that go into one. You can also read about the Beagle Board, the Mesh Potato and a spate of other interestingly named items. And along with our regular columns don’t miss our new monthly column: Economy Size Geek.
Features

* Playing with the Player Project by Kevin Sikorski
Programming mobile robots to interface with sensors, actuators and robots.
* Introduction: a Typical Embedded System by Johan Thelin
The common parts that go into an embedded Linux system.
* Controlling the Humidity with an Embedded Linux System by Jeffrey Ramsey
It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity.
* Reducing Boot Time in Embedded Linux Systems by Christopher Hallinan
The years fly, but the seconds can drag on forever.

Indepth

* The Mesh Potato by David Rowe
Everybody loves a good Spud!
* Isolated Multisession Workstations by Jorge Salgado
Access Ubuntu, Windows, Mac OS and Citrix from the same workstation.

Columns

* Reuven M. Lerner’s At the Forge 2009 Book Roundup
* Dave Taylor’s Work the Shell Calculating the Distance between Two Latitude/Longitude Points
* Kyle Rankin’s Hack and / Message for You Sir
* Dirk Elmendorf’s Economy Size Geek A Pico-Sized Platform with Potential
* Doc Searls’ EOF Is “Open Phone” an Oxymoron?

Review

* The Goggles, They Do Something by Kyle Rankin

In Every Issue

* Current_Issue.tar.gz
* Letters
* upFRONT
* New Products
* New Projects

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i upgraded to windows 7 about a year ago and i like it a lot.much better than crap vista.but i have been playing around with some linux live cds of late.i tried ubuntu and passed on that.tried fedora 12 and liked very much.but my favorite linux distro i have looked at is pclinuxos 2010 .it blew me away.if it wasn’t for windows 7 i would dump windows all together and go pure linux.my problem is i like windows 7 and pclinuxos a lot.what little i find on the net says windows 7 and pclinuxos 2010 don’t get along.can i dual boot 7 and pclinuxos 2010 or do i have to make a choice.would love to have them both.thanks to anyone who can give me a straight answer.