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Ha, ha, puny earthlings! TinoMNYY24 writes "The Independent broke the story of SpaceShipOne leaving the Earth's atmosphere. The headline of the story is "'SpaceShipOne' becomes first privately funded vehicle to break through earth's atmosphere." One more step towards the X-Prize."
A data recovery success story - please send more. bigdog1 writes "I also had the IBM 75GXP data loss problem reported on slashdot. Like the guy in this article, I was not able to pay someone to do my data recovery. However, I eventually was able to get almost all of my data back using a free program, NTFS Reader. The only problem was that the file names were not in the long format. From now on I am buying an extra hard drive, but has anyone else had success stories recovering their data? Long file names?"
Too little, too late. An anonymous reader writes "I recently e-mailed paypals's public relations department and urged them to restore Freenet's paypal account. Their reply indicates that they have reexamined Freenet's account and decided not to terminate it after all. No news on the freenet project page, but here's paypal's reply:
'I apologize that your concerns were not addressed in the previous email. Our Compliance Department has reviewed The Freenet Project account in question and the service has been fully restored. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Andrew
PayPal Account Manager'"
ultranova writes "Because PayPal has offered no explanation or apology, the project does not intend to continue advocating its usage, and has migrated to Amazon Honor System."
'Adventure Capitalist' is a much better motorcycle story anyhow. malign writes "Mary Mycio notes that the 'Ghost town' photo essay is probably faked, and notes her reasons. There go my fantasies! :(" Rumors and grumblings to this effect have been around for quite a while, but this seems the most straightforward debunking I've seen of the trip a Ukrainian woman named Elena claimed to have taken through the Chernobyl area.
(We posted two stories about the alleged trip in March.)
Corporate machinations meet the mounties. los furtive writes "The CBC is reporting that HP has agreed to pay back the Canadian Government $146 million that had been defrauded from the Department of National Defense (previously mentioned here). HP claims it was the victim of 'a complex scheme designed to exploit both parties through contracts inherited through HP's merger with Compaq Computer Corp.' In the end they decided it was more appropriate to take action against those responsible and not engage in protracted litigation with the government."
I got MOST of my data back. Here is a step by step that I posted:
b[RESTORE YOUR LOST DATA]b - If your Deskstar drive is doing a click-click-pause, you can get your data back!
I have 2 IBM Deskstar 60GB drives, about 1.5 years old. A month ago, I was backing up data from one of them, and it froze. I rebooted, and WinXP took 10mins too boot, and the drive in question never showed up. So I ripped the case off, and to my gut renching surpise, the drive was giving me the r[click of death]r . So I spent the next few weeks trying to find a solution, as I am not going to RMA a drive with all my data on it. I *NEED* that data. So after trying just about every method I could find, I finally found a combination that worked.
Things to note:
- Freezing the drive had no effect, but try to keep the drive cool throughout the restore process. I had a fan blowing over the drive in question constantly
- Putting the drive in different positions (i.e. on it's side, end, etc) had no effect. Lay it flat.
- From what I can tell, the data is not lost. The drive seems to make sectors as 'bad' in certain sections of the drive, and thus 'can't read them'.
What you will need:
- 2 Drives of equal or greater size that are working
- A copy of "Media Tools Professional" [FULL] http://www.atl-datarecovery.com/mtl.htm (I had version 3.3)
- A copy of "Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional 6" [FULL] http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
- A floppy diskette
[For these instructions, the BAD drive will be called Drive-B, and the good drive will be Drive-A. Drive-C is where the data will be restored (This CAN be an FTP site)]
1 - Hook up Drive-B and Drive-A onto your mainboards IDE controller (NOT any onboard HPT, RAID, etc)
2 - Boot off the floppy containing Media Tools Pro
3 - Select the Drive-B and choose Clone, Drive-to-Drive
4 - Select the Drive-A as the destination, and press Ctrl-S to bring up the options screen
5 - Change the rety attepts to '1', and click off the 'disable error control codes on last attempt'
6 - Choose to 'Invert' the clone (the last check box on the options screen)
7 - Start this process and wait for days (my 60GB drive took 49 hours) You will hear ALOT of clicking and it will the remaining time will bounce around from 200,000 hours down to 2 seconds. This is normal, but be prepared for a LONG wait.
--After clone is done--
8 - Reboot into WindowsXP, with Drive-A connected (disconnect Drive-B)
9 - Open up Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro 6 and do an advanced recovery
10 - Choose Drive-A and select the Advanced Options
11 - Choose Advanced scan, and 'Disable MFT'
12 - Start the scan (this took 1.2 hours). Then it will present you with a file list of what it files it found.
13 - Select the files/directories you want to restore and then select Drive-C as your destination
14 - As it starts to restore, it will prompt you to 'Overwrite' files. DO NOT OVERWRITE ANYTHING. Most of the files are cross-linked, and you will end up with garbage. You need to either 'RENAME' each one, OR, wait for it prompt you to rename, then in an explorer window, delete the files that it restored, and then click overwrite. Here is an example:
- You have selected the dir 'mp3'
- It starts restoring by putting all your *.mp3 files in there (ex: e:\mp3\*.mp3)
- After it restores all the files in that dir, it will restore the same files, with different data.
- At this point, it will ask you if you want to overwrite or rename
- Open Explorer, and delete all the files in e:\mp3\
- Then click 'Rename' in the dialogue box
- It will then write out the GOOD data
AND THANKS TO THE GRACE OF GOD, YOUR DATA IS BACK! I got %99 of my data restored, using this workflow.
The ONLY thing I didn't mention was that I updated the drives BIOS before I did this. I have NO clue if that made any d
$146 million CDN =
$107 million US
or
89 million Euros
or
60 million UK Pounds
...that it's *not* a private matter. Freenet, as the account holder, has all the say in what's private. If they say that their account is frozen, and they want an explination, then paypal can't say it's private matter.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
A very brief summary in English:
- it's been 18 years since reactor 4 exploded and that lead to the greatest ecological disaster man has accomplished - so far
- the reason for the disaster was human error
- some irrelevant stuff about what opinions Swedish politicians have about prolonging the use of atomic energy in this country (not stated in the article: a decision has been made to eventually dismantle it)
- a quite respectable (not stated in the article, but that's the opinion of most people here), Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, has published the images from Elena's site
- the story is fantastic but a hoax
- Elena's father is not a nuclear scientist and she doesn't drive around in the dead zone
- she and her husband, Igor, have taken the pictures during one visit with the supervision of the zone administration
- the page has had millions of visitors
- an Ukrainian friend of the reporter tells from Kiev that the zone administration has gotten many inquiries from motorcyclists interested in riding in the dead zone so in that sense the page is a commercial grip on the disaster
Karma. Moderation. Is my
EFF's solution has been to quietly accept e-gold since 1999. Freenet takes e-gold, too.
http://102948-USD10.e-gold.com would give a gram to EFF (they had it working before, and now they've somehow managed to bust it! Sigh...).
http://767764-USD20.e-gold.com
donates $20 worth to Freenet (or you can use their page at donate )
We may not have the hype or marketing-budget of other systems, but we've been around since 1996 (and, frankly, Slashdot should have taken e-gold since at least a year ago, it's not like sci.e-gold.com is all that hard to use!). (And yes, I'll still click anyone from Slashdot a bit of e-gold to play with if you send me an account number!)
JMR
Speaking ONLY for Jim Ray, the Barbarous Relic of the e-gold system!
Try e-gold - (contact me). I'm NOT e-
(But I'm biased, since I was lucky enough to be present at that launch.)
What body decides what marks the boundary of space? I see all sorts of references to "officially defined" but no one says by whom.
Here is a link to Elena's updated website.
"Thank you suckers, I'll laugh at you all the way to the bank."
The handwritten way gets you way way way MORE noticed than just a quick email. It tells them that you were actually concerned enough to write a letter and not just 'fire something off'.
Form letters tend to hold less weight. As it is a group just sending the same message over and over. 'Mr senator you got 3000 of this' and the clerk hands over 1 copy of the letter. But 'Mr senator 3000 people sent in letters about this issue' and the clerk hands over several letters.
Also even IF you dont like the person who is representing you, even if you didnt vote for them. Remember they are representing *YOU*. You can still talk to them... It is after all why they get the big bucks...
"[HP] said it was the victim of a scheme run by an employee of Defence and others.
One employee of Defence was fired and is now living in the Turks and Caicos.
The article and its predecessor state that HP claims that it was acting as the programme manager for a number of subcontractors, one or more of whom allegedly colluded with a civil servant to submit fraudulent invoices, which HP then passed on to the Ottawa government.
HP is not going after its own employees, as it claims that none of them profited from the scam.
Corporate immunity is something of a given, BTW. If a corporate officer is sued for their actions in their corporate capacity, the corporation tends to foot the bill through its liability insurance - you won't get a penny from the individual themselves.
- Sig files: contemptibly familiar the second time around.
But for NTFS recovery, use GetDataBack.
Calling atheism and agnosticism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
Hydrogen explosion? What hydrogen explosion? There was no hydrogen explosion at TMI. There was a release of hydrogen gas due to the hot zirconium fuel rod cladding reacting with the water, but it was noticed, understood, contained, and dealt with. It didn't explode.
From a summary:
I also remember reading that the reactor core was just 500 degrees (not sure Celsius of Fahrenheit) below the meltdown temperature.
Incorrect. If that were the case, 60% of the core would not have melted.