What did you do today?

[PStechPaul]

Today (Wednesday) I spread some gravel on my muddy driveway. Then I had a dental appointment. On the way back I stopped at a local computer repair store, where he agreed that the symptoms I described indicated HDD failure. Back home, I decided to play with the Toshiba laptop a bit more, and I was able to access the Toshiba service utility where I selected erase HDD. I expected it to report problems with the drive, but it proceeded to do the erase, showing up to 5% done and about 3 hours to go. It was on battery, and when I plugged it in, it shut down. I restarted, and it reported no bootable media. I accessed the BIOS setup (F12) and set boot order to CD/DVD first, and tried an UBUNTU 14.04.3 disc. Surprise - it came up with a selection menu, and I chose to install it, expecting it to choke on the failed HDD. But it went through the process, reported "no OS detected", and it erased the disc and went through the complete install. It seems to work fine, although it experienced an error when trying to update to newest version.

So, WTF happened with Win 10? Did one of the updates trash the disc? Is it now fixed, or just a time bomb? There must be a CHKDSK utility in Linux. I was able to sort of connect my Win8 computer via the WiFi network but it is not showing the shared files (it did once), and my Win8 computer asks for a password but then says network path not found. I detest networking!

[Cenedd]

There is a chkdsk in Linux, it's fsck. Try this except if it finds bad blocks you want to be replacing the disk as it generally signals the beginning of the end.
If you know the brand of the hard disk, some manufacturers make some diagnostic tools available free. You can usually burn a bootable CD and then start the laptop off that to check out the disk.
What are you trying to connect the Win8 computer to? If it's Windows networking (Linux would have to have Samba installed and configured to take part in this) without a server, the machine acting as server has to have a local user set up with a username and password that matches the computer trying to access it. (Or the client specifies one that does exist).

[PStechPaul]

I remember installing Samba when I first tried to access the network from the Ubuntu machine. It found the Win8 computer (PES-DELL15) and I was able to access some of the folders and files therein. Similarly, the Win8 machine finds the Toshiba laptop (PAUL-SATELLITE-?), but the Windows Network Security pop-up asked for a user name and network password. I tried several combinations, and what was accepted was (IIRC) "paul" and my WiFi password. But now it complains that "The network path was not found".

Meanwhile, I found a system check on the Ubuntu machine, and it went through various diagnostics. When it got to the screen brightness test, I tried the function keys (F2/F3) for that, but I may have tapped the wrong key, and it said "disconnecting from network" (IIRC), and showed just a blinking cursor. I used the power button to shut down, an upon restart, I got the Ubuntu log-in screen, but when I logged in, the blinking cursor re-appeared. I clicked on the keys that I may have pressed, one of which (F4) looks like a switch between internal and external monitor. At one point the cursor disappeared, but came back when I pressed a key.

I used thethree-finger salute (alt-ctrl-del), and got an Ubuntu screen indicating it found a disk error in \tmp. I clicked "F" and it went through some more checking and now I am trying to update to 16.04, but it says "The required dependency 'apt(>=1.0.1ubuntu2.13)' is not installed. I used the "files" explorer and chose "Browse Network", where I got the pop-up for pes-dell15 user="paul", domain="WORKGROUP". I entered the "Homegroup" password, and connected, but I get "permission denied" for some folders. From the Win8 machine I am getting the prompt for user name and network password, but so far nothing is being accepted.

Progress?

[Cenedd]

....Progress?

Replied by private message Paul. Probably a bit too off topic for most.
Gareth

[plastikosmd]

More trail work while weather holds. Dug out one boulder, found 2, who needs a thumb? (Tho I would like to add one)

[3 Phase Lightbulb]

Found a good place for my Huot drill index storage drawers and added more storage bins on top for TBD stuff. The bottom three Huot units are full of bits and the top three are empty. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to keep the top three here or maybe put them in my wood shop. Also added the hydraulic adapter kit and 10T cylinder on the JD2 Model 32 bender. The pump should arrive tomorrow.

[softtail]

New York!

[vpt]

Found a good place for my Huot drill index storage drawers and added more storage bins on top for TBD stuff. The bottom three Huot units are full of bits and the top three are empty. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to keep the top three here or maybe put them in my wood shop. Also added the hydraulic adapter kit and 10T cylinder on the JD2 Model 32 bender. The pump should arrive tomorrow.

You have entirely to much stuff! You should send half of it to me so some of it can be used.

[3 Phase Lightbulb]

I've been cleaning up my shelving and removing everything that doesn't belong in my machine shop and found a few HF tools I bought back in 2005/2006 but never used in my old shop and finally set them up in my new shop. Better late than never A HF taping jig, and a small press.

[754]

Keep the 2 on the right tapper and arbor press.
Those type tappers can be pretty good , I like the weight idea, we did not have that on the one I used..

[3 Phase Lightbulb]

Keep the 2 on the right tapper and arbor press.
Those type tappers can be pretty good , I like the weight idea, we did not have that on the one I used..

It was a Harbor Freight tapper. Looks like they don't sell it anymore.

[Tungsten dipper]

Took the play out of the Harbor Freight 20 ton press. Had these ball bearings lying around and they work very well.



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[3 Phase Lightbulb]

Took the play out of the Harbor Freight 20 ton press.

A day without play is just work. Work is no fun without some play

[Tungsten dipper]

LOL! I used "play" because I couldn't remember how to spell "slop"!

[jdedmon91]

I recently made another slitting saw arbor. Just posted the video https://youtu.be/43pNvhRltXw


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