Cause everything can be justified with a pie chart.......right?

 So, a week ago today i got a call from my fiance while I was at work. She had tried to turn my computer on and like every other electronic thing she touches it said no. I got home and preceded to spend the next 6 hours with my roommate(also a tech weenie) trying to recover any data that could be salvaged.  At that point I gave up hope on getting info off and tryed to do a new install. It was then that we discovered that there were too many bad sectors on the hardrive to format it much less install II, wine, and wow. So I RMAed it back to segate due to the holiday they only recieved it today and began processing it. I had went ahead and bought a new hard drive (western digital caviar black) and that arrived today. Between the start of school this week and work I may not get a chance to get wow installed and up to date till this weekend. Just thought i would up date you all on the situation. 

for those who are curious of such things I believe the error was something to the effect of " one of your partitions crosses the 1024 threshhold

I decided to post something a little more useful than my previous forum posts or blog entries.  I recently decided to jump over to Linux and so far I'm loving it. 

There have been quite a few times however that I just sat at my computer screen looking at the monitor trying to figure out what to do and do it withoutscrewing anything up.  I've found a few links I'd like to share to help anyone else who might be as new to this as I am.  Now, some of this might not apply to a lot of you since I'm running an AMD/ATI system with Linux....which apparently isn't the easiest thing to tackle.

Where I decided to start learning was the terminal, this guide helped me quite a bit:

http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal

It shows the basics of the terminal and goes into some commands (not all of them).

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With my system, I had an unusual/rare graphics issue.  My minimap was causing graphics flickering, I had to X out of my minimap immediately on load in or I'd have to exit game completely and try again.  I eventually found a mod called "MoveAnything!" to turn off my minimap completely, which was really weird for me at first but I'm getting used to it.  I haven't had a problem since!

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This is a work in progress, as I find useful links that would apply to most Linux users, I plan on posting them here to help others.  If anyone else has a neat guide or whatever to share, please comment.  I have yet to scratch the surface I'm sure and would appreciate it greatly.  Hopefully this will take out some of the tedious searching I've already done.