My brother has a really fucked up computer. It has an AMD AthlonXP 2600+, but due to motherboard or cooling problems, will only run at 2000+. The back panel covering the area around the ports was never installed. I think the motherboard wasn't even mounted in the case properly.
It also has this really nasty problem, where after you use the computer for a while, especially a high CPU usage program (such as Youtube), the computer dies. It completely freezes, displays a black screen, then starts continuously playing tones through the PC speaker. (128Hz, 256Hz, each tone 1 second long). Only way to get it to stop making the tones is to pull the power cord, then the tones continue for another 2 seconds as the capacitors discharge. It must be related to overhearing or something, no clue as to what exactly is causing the problem.
There are two hard drives in the box, one is an old 20GB hard drive (which originally came preloaded with Windows ME), the other is a 200GB hard drive. Well, the 20GB hard drive started developing bad sectors, and it gives a Blue Screen of Death when I try to boot Windows. My plan is to copy the 20GB partition onto a new partition on the 200GB hard drive.
I can't do the data transfer on that computer, because of that crash problem. Also, there are no other desktop computers in the house that will support a hard drive greater than 128GB. So I stick the 200GB drive into a drive enclosure, and plug it into a laptop.
There's something about disks with bad sectors that prevent them from working in a disk enclosure. You must take it out, and pop it into a desktop computer. I stick the bad 20GB drive into another desktop machine, make it the primary slave drive, then try to boot windows. The craziest thing happens. Windows thinks the newly inserted drive is drive C, and this is after the primary master drive boots.
Then windows did something I've never seen happen before. After displaying the Logging On... dialog box, it immediately displays the "Saving your settings..." logoff dialog box, then started playing the Windows Startup sound repeatedly and endlessly. I've never seen windows 2000 get into a login/logout endless loop before.

So I stick Knoppix into the drive, boot it up, mount the 200GB drive connected to the lappy via "smbmount", and start up dd_rescue to copy a disk image.

Then I get this:
"File too large"
The disk image file is 1.99GB in size. Yes, apparently smbmount has a fucking 2GB file size limit! What kind of series of dumbass engineering decisions could have possibly led to such retardedness?

Here's the clincher: mount.cifs works perfectly and has no 2GB file size limit. Transfers faster too.

Now I feel like some Samba developer is actively mocking me. "Ha ha ha! Dumbass baka gaijin n00b used smbmount! You fucking retarded monkey fish frog! I won't let you make files greater than 2GB in size! You are a total dumbass for not using mount.cifs!"

I fucking hate Linux.

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