Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.

'Bushwhacked'


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le nubian - Feb 05, 2011 6:39:57 am PST #16027 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

oh, that is an interesting technique. thank you for suggesting it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 05, 2011 12:16:03 pm PST #16028 of 25501
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Can anyone recommend good affordable data recovery software for the Mac platform? It turns out what I thought was a problem with my old laptop was instead the death rattle of my Firelite external HD, and the standard Apple Disk Utility can't repair it or pull the files I want to salvage out of it.


-t - Feb 05, 2011 12:33:59 pm PST #16029 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I've used DiskWarrior [link] in similar situations with some success.


le nubian - Feb 05, 2011 1:06:33 pm PST #16030 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

try double bagging it in ziplock bags (with as much air as possible out of the bags) and put it in the freezer for 1 hour. Take it out and see if disk utility can deal with it.


DCJensen - Feb 05, 2011 1:46:02 pm PST #16031 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I have a similar problem, Matt.

I have two external HDD, same brand, with similar symptoms. When I get a chance, I'm going to take them out of their cases (Seagate over packaging) and try them directly in my computer or in another external adapter.

Argh.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 05, 2011 1:50:01 pm PST #16032 of 25501
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Thanks gang!


DCJensen - Feb 06, 2011 4:52:51 am PST #16033 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

$150 Wall-plug Linux PC: [link]

- 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva CPU
- 512MB RAM
- 1 MicroSD slot
- 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 2 USB ports
- 1 eSATA port
- Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
- Wi-Fi (802.11b and g)
- 48K/44.1 KHz audio (in and out)
- 16-bit DAC port
- 1 headphone jack
- 1 S/PDIF optical port

All in the size of a 5 port hub.

Another write up: [link]


Theodosia - Feb 06, 2011 7:03:22 am PST #16034 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

After a week or so, my Carbonite backup is at 84%. Those last 100 files or so seem to be going very slowly!


DCJensen - Feb 06, 2011 8:44:54 pm PST #16035 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Should I be thinking about a DSL router that handles IPv6?


amych - Feb 07, 2011 5:27:40 am PST #16036 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Should I be thinking about a DSL router that handles IPv6?

Not in a "you must switch on this day or you go dead" way like with digital TV, no. Thinking about it henever you would normally upgrade otherwise, yes, but since just about everything you can buy now can handle both v4 and v6, it shouldn't be something you'd even have to worry about at that point.

The major issue is for ISPs and major sites connecting to the backbone, not end users connecting to their own ISPs -- if your DSL provider is assigning IPv4 from their existing pool of addresses, they'll keep doing that, and handle the address translation at the upstream end once they actually have to in some months (if they aren't doing that already).

I wouldn't be too surprised if ISPs started saying "hey, we're going to swap out your existing box" kind of like cable companies did. But since you have a DSL provider (and therefore aren't running your own internet node on pre-2000 hardware, in which case I'd be awed but also a little confused!), it'll be pretty invisible on your end for a while yet.