Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 1420

happy_terd · 08-25-2010, 11:49 AM

Does the bus at least have a bathroom in it?

kindlekitten · 08-25-2010, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by beppe

it sounds like A MacCormac story. Where do you hide your iron?

do you mean as in sidearm? so illegal in Mexico (you'd never believe it though!) all I will carry in is a folding knife

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Originally Posted by happy_terd

Does the bus at least have a bathroom in it?

yeah actually they are pretty fancy busses!

DMcCunney · 08-25-2010, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by SneakySnake

Its only the photo's I can't retrieve. The rest I can get/do again if I can bothered. Lucky i put some pix of mr m on MR, now I have six of them back.

Take a look at PhotoRec, from Christopher Grenier.

PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, a free, open source disk recovery program.

TestDisk is cross platform, runs on a variety of things, and can handle any file system. It bypasses the OS file system and does direct low-level disk reads. It started out as a tool to recover lost partitions, but has grown rather beyond that.

PhotoRec grew out of TestDisk. It is intended to recover lost digital images. Like TestDisk, it does direct low level disk reads, examines disk sectors, and does a good job of figuring out what parts it sees are image files, and recovering them to another drive. (I've used it here.)

You'll need to examine, rename, and reclassify what it finds, but if it works at all you should get most of your pictures back.

See http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk for TestDisk, and http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec for PhotoRec.
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Dennis

kindlekitten · 08-25-2010, 12:35 PM

well ciao for now dudes and dudettes. I'll check in from various airports, bus stations, gang hide-outs...

thinkpad · 08-25-2010, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

well ciao for now dudes and dudettes

bjones6416 · 08-25-2010, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

well ciao for now dudes and dudettes. I'll check in from various airports, bus stations, gang hide-outs...

Good journey, and be safe!

badgoodDeb · 08-25-2010, 04:11 PM

Ta-ta, KK! Ooops. I mean: bubye! Have a nice trip & talk to us when you can.

Disks: sometimes (i am told) freezing a hard disk can make it work for a few more seconds. Perhaps long enough to get the data off. But keep the moisture out while you make it cold - in a zip lock bag, or something.

happy_terd · 08-25-2010, 04:12 PM

Be safe and don't drink the water.

badgoodDeb · 08-25-2010, 04:42 PM

"Don't drink the water, don't breathe the air".

Oops, wait -- that was Tom Lehrer.

poohbear_nc · 08-25-2010, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by SneakySnake

OMG

OMG

I NEED A TECH HEAD!

I HAVE JUST LOST A WHOLE DRIVE OF IRREPLACEABLE DATA.

OMG Quick I should recover any pictures of Mr M on MR as that will be all I can get back. Shit shit shit!

I was going nuts at work trying to convince folks to BACK UP their data - the company provided USB sticks even! But no.
I finally surrendered and set up a SugarSync account on every PC in the place! So much easier than continual arguing and the inevitable finger pointing after a crash!

SS - sign up for SugarSync, DropBox, whatever - it backs up automatically for you!

kennyc · 08-25-2010, 08:36 PM

Thinking about my son who just took off on a plane headed back to Alaska....wondering when I'll see him next.....

recluse · 08-25-2010, 08:46 PM

Well, if this Global Warming thing ever catches on, he could be washing up on the shores of Denver before you know it.

DMcCunney · 08-25-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I was going nuts at work trying to convince folks to BACK UP their data - the company provided USB sticks even! But no.
I finally surrendered and set up a SugarSync account on every PC in the place! So much easier than continual arguing and the inevitable finger pointing after a crash!

SS - sign up for SugarSync, DropBox, whatever - it backs up automatically for you!

At a previous employer, we took some pains to make sure data wasn't stored on local PCs. Email was all in Exchange Server, read through Outlook. Word documents, Excel spreadsheets et al lived in appropriate directories on servers. When the user sat down and logged in with a domain ID, the login process connected them to network shares, and the server directories containing the stuff they were working on appeared as mapped drives in Windows. The servers all got backed up every night.

People could and did store personal stuff locally, but if their PC crashed and burned it was their problem. Their work was safe elsewhere.
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Dennis

carld · 08-25-2010, 09:24 PM

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So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

Compulsively updating my Amazon Orders page in case they decide to ship my K3 early.

Sadly, that's only a partial exaggeration.

recluse · 08-25-2010, 09:43 PM

I used to worry about losing all my important data.
Then I remembered that it is highly unlikely my brain will crash.

08-25-2010, 11:49 AM	#21286
happy_terd Banned Posts: 13,045 Karma: 10105011 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Finally made it to Walmart. Device: PRS 420	Does the bus at least have a bathroom in it?

08-25-2010, 12:35 PM	#21289
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	well ciao for now dudes and dudettes. I'll check in from various airports, bus stations, gang hide-outs...

08-25-2010, 04:11 PM	#21292
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Ta-ta, KK! Ooops. I mean: bubye! Have a nice trip & talk to us when you can. Disks: sometimes (i am told) freezing a hard disk can make it work for a few more seconds. Perhaps long enough to get the data off. But keep the moisture out while you make it cold - in a zip lock bag, or something.

08-25-2010, 04:12 PM	#21293
happy_terd Banned Posts: 13,045 Karma: 10105011 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Finally made it to Walmart. Device: PRS 420	Be safe and don't drink the water.

08-25-2010, 04:42 PM	#21294
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	"Don't drink the water, don't breathe the air". Oops, wait -- that was Tom Lehrer.

08-25-2010, 08:36 PM	#21296
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	Thinking about my son who just took off on a plane headed back to Alaska....wondering when I'll see him next.....

08-25-2010, 08:46 PM	#21297
recluse Banned Posts: 3,724 Karma: 535488 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the Mortuary Device: Kindle 2	Well, if this Global Warming thing ever catches on, he could be washing up on the shores of Denver before you know it.

08-25-2010, 09:43 PM	#21300
recluse Banned Posts: 3,724 Karma: 535488 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the Mortuary Device: Kindle 2	I used to worry about losing all my important data. Then I remembered that it is highly unlikely my brain will crash.