Recovering data from a broken NTFS hard drive

Today I want to tell you about my recent adventure in data recovery. A friend of mine had a broken USB disk that was no longer readable. The single 230 GB partition was formatted with NTFS and neither Windows nor Ubuntu (with the NTFS-3g driver, I assume) were willing to read it. This disk contained…

Tiling window managers talk

I just finished the english translation of the speaker notes for my talk about tiling window managers I gave at the C-Base for the Ubuntu Berlin user group last thursday. Here are the original notes in german and here’s the english translation. As for my last few talks, I took my notes down with org-mode,…