Dead or Alive?

I transfered a lot of data from my PC last days... something like 300GB since Sunday.
I finished the transportation and made shutdown.
I come back home and my MBP don't restart. Only tha apple logo screen and the waiting icon moving.
I tried ALL apple manual suggestions (all keyboard combinations, PRAM reset, etc) but NOTHING to do...
Then decided to put Mac OSX test.
The test can't find any problem.
Decided to reinstall Mac OS and started with the CD...
Now that's the strange part: the HITACHI HD was found but I can't erase it... the system reply me something like: "An error ocurred on erase process"
OK, I suppose my HD was dead................
Second strange issue: I never ejected CD from eject button, it was unusable BUT it did when I boot again.........................
..........................................AND
here I AM!!!! MY MBP IS ALIVE!!!!
I was totally annoyed now...
The first thing appeared: "do you authorize mDNSresponder to access network?"
The second question: "do you authorize nmbd to access network"?
Date and Time was reseted to 2001 0h00 and the system alert me that I need to set...

Mac OSX Disk Utility answered my HD is OK

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Been a long time since I've had anything to do with Toshiba boards..in fact I haven't been on CompuServe where these boards once stood in some four years.
Hi, Nate. Good to hear from you again! Thanks for chiming in with that info.
CompuServe's Laptop Computing Forum is still alive - but barely populated these days.
For old times sake, I've attached a couple of messages from many years ago.
-Jerry
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"Click." (silence/darkness fills the room)
***!! Mini just shut down.Why? Who knows.
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"Click." (silence/darkness fills the room again)
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I zapped pRA and this restored the startup chime.
But when the mini's desktop appeared there were NO ICONs then a few seconds
later..."Click." (silence/darkness fills the room)
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move my cursor onto the ...
"Click." (silence/darkness fills the room)
Reboot and try to open a Finder window and while I'm
"Click." (silence/darkness fills the room)
The machine shuts down within 5 to 8 sec after
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Oh and,yeah,it would be heartwarming as well
if Mr Happy feels inspired by the sudden tragic
loss of my mini and wishes to cart wheel, snoopy
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with dark redlipstick and sing"Cry Me A River".
Its all good.:b
Thanks,guys!
Scott

Scott,
It's good to see you bearing up in times of great adversity. Sadly I don't know whether to be happy or sad because I can't work out for sure whether your system is dead or alive!
I do think that a deep breath, followed by putting away the isopropyl might be a good place to start once you've carried out the SMC reset to ensure your system can count all it's various parts. After that, I can't wait for chapter two, though a brief synopsis might help in the event there's a question embedded in it somewhere.
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Hello,
Please comment and explain each liner of the script.
@echo off
if exist d:\tools\computers.txt goto Label1
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echo Cannot find d:\tools\computers.txt
echo.
Pause
goto :eof
:Label1
echo PingTest executed on %date% at %time% > d:\tools\z.txt
echo ================================================= >> d:\tools\z.txt
for /f %%i in (d:\tools\computers.txt do call :Sub %%i
notepad d:\tools\z.txt
goto :eof
:Sub
echo Testing %1
set state=alive
ping -n 1 %1 | find /i "bytes=" || set state=dead
echo %1 is %state% >> d:\tools\z.txt

@echo off
Don't echo these batch file commands to the screen. Using the @ sign means including the current line.
if exist d:\tools\computers.txt goto Label1
If there is a file called d:\tools\computers.txt then jump to the section of the batch file called :Label1
echo.
Type a dot to the screen.
echo Cannot find d:\tools\computers.txt
As the file called d:\tools\computers.txt was not found then type "Cannot find Etc." to the screen. This file must exist in the location specified. It presumably contains a list of machine names or IP addresses; one per line.
Pause
Put a prompt on the screen which says "Press any key to continue..." and then wait until a key is pressed.
goto :eof
Go to the end of the batch file (i.e. terminate)
:Label1
Now there is a subsection called Label
echo PingTest executed on %date% at %time% > d:\tools\z.txt
Type the words "PingTest executed on " along with the current date and time " but instead of typing them to the screen, pass them (using the > symbol) to a file called d:\tools\z.txt
for /f %%i in (d:\tools\computers.txt do call :Sub %%i
There's actually a bracket missing from this, so the correct line should read:
for /f %%i in (d:\tools\computers.txt) do call :Sub %%i
Loop through each line of the file d:\tools\computers.txt which presumably contains a list of machine names or IP addresses. Call a subroutine called :Sub passing it the line that's just been read. For example this file might look like:
    193.1.1.1
    193.1.1.2
    193.1.1.200
notepad d:\tools\z.txt
The file d:\tools\z.txt is a log produced by the batch file. This line will launch NotePad with this file so you can view it.
goto :eof
Go to the end of the batch file (i.e. terminate)
:Sub
This is the subsection call Sub which gets called by the For loop.
echo Testing %1
Type to the screen the line that has been passed to this subsection. For example, "Testing 193.1.1.1"
set state=alive
Create a temporary value called "state" which is set to "alive"
ping -n 1 %1 | find /i "bytes=" || set state=dead
Call the PING executable. If you want to know more about this command then type PING /? from the command line. The output from this is then "piped" to the FIND executable which is set to ignore case (/i). Essentially it's looking for the PING command to be returning the text "bytes=" meaning that the IP address or machine name is responding to the ping. If the text is not found (so the find command failed) then the "state" value is changed from "alive" to "dead".
echo %1 is %state% >> d:\tools\z.txt
Type the IP address and the state value (dead or alive) to the file d:\tools\z.txt . The presence of the two > characters means append rather than overwrite.
There is some very clever batch file stuff in here, especially the use of the FOR command calling the subroutine and passing it a line at a time read from the text file, and then in the subroutine the use of the output piped from the PING command into the FIND command and then setting the state value if the find fails.
Very underrated things batch files.

I want to have a 2 dimentional array

i need a 2 d array or list that i can change size during runtime or at least be able to grow larger but i have no idea exactly what im loking for or how to use it
im going to make a program that each cell is either dead or alive and has health a algorthim controls weather or not more are born or die so if i start with 10 and more are born my array cant be set in stone from the init method
i know i could just make a array of 1000 say but what if i let it run for a few days and it hits 1001 eventually its going to be a ai learning program that each generation of cells gets smarter but
i dont want to get a exeption if it goes over a set number of elements in a regular array

ok this works but when i put it into a html page it cant be instantantiated
so my question is if i just want to make a dynamic 2 d array can i do something like this
int myarray[][];
int temparray[][];
myarray = new int[currentsize_x][currentsize_y];
then later copy all the contents with a pair of for loops into
temparray = new int[i][j];
then make the original array biger and later copy the values back into
myarray = new int[the_new_size][the_new_size];
the use a for loop add in the old values
myarray = new int[i][j];
the code below cant be used because ie needs the html converter and i dont want to use it at this pointin time
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.util.*;
public class test_arraylist2 extends Applet
int i = 10 ;
int j = 1 ;
int anumber = 5 ;
int dummyvar = 1 ;
ArrayList myarrayB = new ArrayList();
public void init(){
for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++){
myarrayB.add(new ArrayList()); // add will automatically increment myarrayB
for(int j = 0; j < 20; j++) {
((ArrayList)myarrayB.get(10)).add( new Integer(anumber)); //auto inc the sublist
     public void paint(Graphics g){
     i = 1;
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ArrayList subList = (ArrayList)myarrayB.get(10);
Integer elt = (Integer) subList.get(i); //then get that element out of the sublist
int dummyvar = elt.intValue(); //then get the primitive value out of the element
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