Does anyone know anything about SalvageData Recovery Lab Inc. or Drive Savers Data Recovery or have another rec for data salvage? I've got and ancient Mac Color Classic that I honestly don't remember why I wanted the data off of it but 20th-century-me thought it was important and now i've got this dead-to-dying external harddrive that has some data I don't need but would like to get back if it isn't too expensive so I might try to get both recovered. I've been given to understand that it's pricey, but ihave no sense of what order of magnitude that is. Can someone enlighten me so I don't have to do the talking to strangers thing?

And if anyone knows why Stellar Phoenix would crash as soon as I ask it to scan the logical drive it has found (which is on the dead-to-dying hard drive), that would be good to know.

why on earth are you fooling around with Vista? It is utter, utter, utter crap! If you want to fool around with a new OS, try Ubuntu 8.04. Seriously.

Came on the box. I need a Windows OS for work to maintain compatibility with things up to and including Remote Desktop. I am also using Ubuntu, but that's in a more casual way.

Which reminds me...Gud? Remember the network name issues I was having where I couldn't get the Ubuntu box out of MSHOME? Rebooted the other day and panicked when the OS X box couldn't find Ubuntu. That's because it came up in the right network.

Not sure why restarting Samba only did things like update shares and not reset this.

I would think restarting samba would fix that too. Windows workgroup networking can be a little weird though.

Came on the box. I need a Windows OS for work to maintain compatibility with things up to and including Remote Desktop.

Ugh. I feel your pain. I've been doing work as the part-time computer technician at Moonlit's school. It's mostly low-end stuff and the computers are all currently using XP Pro and Server 2003 but administration staff have just got new computers and they'll be running Vista Business Basic. The specialist technician has to set them up but I'll be the one who has to help them with the day-to-day running of the computers. Considering they still have trouble using XP, I'm not looking forward to them and Vista.

I liked Windows 2000 and made peace with XP. I have a blistering hate-on for Vista. I feel like it's getting in the way of what I have to do, instead of facilitating it, or even making it pleasant.

I have a blistering hate-on for Vista. I feel like it's getting in the way of what I have to do, instead of facilitating it, or even making it pleasant.

Hell yeah. My mate doesn't seem to mind it but I feel very much the way you do. In many ways, a task that was simple in XP, has now become a pain in Vista, and for no apparent good reason.

I have a blistering hate-on for Vista. I feel like it's getting in the way of what I have to do, instead of facilitating it, or even making it pleasant.

yes. this is why I switched to a mac.

This is quite possibly the most inane question I have ever asked in here. Is there a widget I could install (on either site) that will synch my Facebook status and Twitter feed? (I know there's a Twitter app for Facebook, but that just puts a Twitter box in my profile, it doesn't update my status.)

Because, you know, there are so many people missing out on what I'm doing right now!

Use Twitter to update FB status: [link]

Use FB to update Twitter status: [link]

(disclaimer: haven't used either one, as don't use facebook (gasp!!) -- but the goog was kind enough to cough up one for each direction first thing)

Awesome, I'll check those out. There's an app on FB called (conveniently enough) Twittersync, but Twitter's server issues have currently rendered it not working.