Repair SD card

Friends. I get the "Card Error" in my Aiptec Digital Camera. How to repair the card? I dont want any data from that. Thanks, T.Shrinivasan. -- My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com

how to mount an encrypted usb pen drive?

Friends. My friend encrypted a usb pen drive (ScanDisk) using windows and gave me.. he told the password to me. That drive has got some inbuilt software for encryption. All normal usb drives are automatically mounted in my debian box. My usb device is /dev/sda1. But, this pen drive can not be

Import gmail contacts to Thunderbird

Friends. I wish to use Thunderbird mail client so that it gives calendering,contact,birthday reminder etc. I configured gmail on this. I need to import the contacts into the thunderbird. I exported gmail contacts into CSV file. While importing this itnto thunderbird, It is not importing prope

adding multimedia on debian etch testing

Friends. I got the debian etch testing 25 cds and converted them into 3 DVDs. Installed debian etch testing using those DVDs. and I wished to update all the multimedia stuff. so added the debian-multimedia.org repository. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this. -