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News in General
Red Hat Announces Fourth Annual Innovation Awards
Novell and LPI Partner on Linux Training and Certification
Conferences and Events
Distro News
RHEL 5.5 Beta Available
SimplyMEPIS 8.5 Beta5
Tiny Core Releases V2.8
FreeBSD 7.3 Expected March 2010
Software and Product News
Ksplice “Abolishes the Reboot”
MariaDB Augments MySQL 5.1
Moonlight 3.0 Preview Now Available
OpenOffice.org 3.2 Faster, More Secure
New Release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g
GWOS Monitor Enterprise Release 6.1 Adds Ubuntu Support

When I accidentally dropped an old Windows Mobile PocketPC onto the floor at the exact moment it was writing to a memory card, the memory card’s master FAT was corrupted and several directories disappeared from the root directory. Since it had not been backed up for some time, I connected the memory card to a Linux system for investigation. (At this point it is important not to actually mount the card. If you have an automounter, turn it off before connecting. You have to access it as a device, for example /dev/sdb1. To see which device it is, you can do ls /dev/sd* both before and after connecting it and see what appears. The following tools read from the device directly, or from an image of it copied using the dd command.)