Yesternight, I called a friend up to see what he was doing. Not surprisingly, he was playing World of Warcraft. He asked me to come over and save him from himself. I came over, yet he did not stop playing. So I sketched out this idea, based on the idea of Demotives.

Today I found some time to put it in real digital form. I am posting it here for your enjoyment.

A Demotive

So,

I FINALLY got my computer all back up and running again!

So basically my processor died, and so I had to get a new one. Well, I decided to go with AMD this time, and so I had to get a new motherboard, and as it ended up, I had to pretty much reformat my main drive before I could get Windows to function correctly. Luckily, I had a spare 40 gb hard-drive that I installed XP on as well so that I could access all of my other files before I did the format. So, I got all of that, and then I went to hook up my other 120 gb hard-drive with all my pictures, application install files, music, docs, html, etc. and the partition tables were corrupted. So after much searching (and a stubborn desire not to dish out another $100 on a file recovery software package) I found Knoppix, a bootable linux system running directly from one cd (no hard-drive install!). Booting into this system gave me the ability to see all my drives including the 120 gb, except this was the only one I could not access the files off of. So, after days of searching and scouring, I found a program (Testdrive) that you run from the root console. After finding instructions on how to run the program, I figured out how to realign the partition table correctly, and wal-lah! My files were accessible! Then I restarted in XP, and wal-lah! My files were accessible in there as well.

Yes, Knoppix has saved my life, and it could save yours to. Download your copy today.

Charis,

Charis,

Ok, so some of you must be wondering what has been going on in my life. Well, here is the update, Matt style.

• Had like one of the best birthdays ever. Got quite a few presents, which is very unusual for me. Had a gumball machine cake. Had a great time with family and friends. (Thank you for all your hard work Beautiful!)
• The Tuesday after my birthday my computer crashed (again!) because of the intense humidity and heat during that week (the apartment had no A/C), along with the fact that my roommate was playing a game that made it run pretty hard. Motherboard fried. Luckily, it was under warrenty.
• ComputerWurks still has it though, they are waiting on the right I/O Shield (metal plate on the back that surrounds the main plugs) because the motherboard is slightly different
• Alli and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary last Friday. I sent her flowers at her work and took her out to eat and to the mall
• Alli had to fly up to WI a couple days ago to see her grandma before she passes away…be in prayer over that situation
• I had to take her to the airport at 4:30am…that day was torture
• I’ve been staying at the house and slowly moving out of the apartment because on Monday Bethany just about got run off the road in our neighborhood and she was pulled down into a ditch and ran into trees on the side. Essentially Dad’s car’s passenger side is all tore up with a missing mirror, so I have been having to drive him into work.
• Tomorrow is my last day of work
• Alli comes back Monday night
• I go back to school Wednesday

That’s it folks…

Charis,

Hey Guys,

I just implemented a new feature! You can listen to some of my favorite songs through the music player at the top of the sidebar.

Will be making more improvements soon, so be on the lookout!

Charis,