yay for linux

I had somebody call me today needing some work done on their computer. Her xp installation was corrupted beyond repair, and it was a really old machine so i opted to recover the data and do a reinstall. It didn't have a dvd drive, so the disks that i had being all dvds were useless. The only iso i had was netbook remix ubuntu 9.1 from when i installed it on my sisters computer. i burned the image to a cd and attempted to boot it in her machine. It booted up to a point, then the launcher application crashed but the enviornment was still there. Being clever i used a keyboard shortcut to bring up the launcher and then launch nautilus, the ubuntu file manager. from there i was able to copy the files over to my external.