[lug] Diagnostic Testing

[Nate Duehr]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:38:53AM -0600, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> >From what I remember, Memtest86 doesn't need any other OS.  It runs stand
> alone on the machine so you don't have to mess with installation or
> anything.  It just fits on a diskette and runs from it.

In researching mondo (a CD-R/CD-RW backup tool) I found a CD ISO on
their website somewhere that had memtest86 and some CPU pounding tools
for pushing hardware to the limits on a "test your hardware" CD they put
out.  

Making a bootable CD with memtest86 is infinitely "do-able", but finding
one pre-built was kinda a nice surprise the other day... it joined the
other "Don't Leave Home Without It" CD's in my backpack for system
recovery/repair/testing.  :-)

Unfortunately I think the link is in the bookmarks of another machine...
which brings me to a new topic: 

Anyone found anything that works *perfectly* to sync bookmarks across
multiple machines and multiple platforms.  (Perfect being a relative
term, the requirements would hopefully include NOT installing any
software on the target machine... something that you could run on a
webserver that would dig the bookmarks out of the browsers with your
permission or at least let you upload various bookmark file formats and
would then merge them into something that looked semi-decent on a web
page would work...)

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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>