Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

[Ben Paley]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:24, Nick Withers wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:58 +0000
>
> Ben Paley <ben at spooty.net> wrote:
> > Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the
> > hardware? It's a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I really don't have the
> > foggiest idea what to look for or what to check - I've never had any
> > problems with it before.
>
> You might want to have a gander at Memtest86
> (http://www.memtest86.com/, /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest86) for
> memory testing, I reckon this should be your first port of call.

Thanks a lot for the advice. Unfortunately I can't run it as I have no floppy 
drive (unless there's another way? I seem to remember it's possible to make a 
bootable usb flash drive...). I ran sysutils/memtest with no errors, for 
whatever that's worth.

Cheers,
Ben