No, it's true! As a forensic specialist, give me a disk that has been overwritten with zeros, and I can recover approximately 50% of the bits that were on the disk before it was wiped.
Yeah, the zero bits. But the good stuff is in the zeros and ones.
Speaking of liking only one version of the JVM, I worked for a CLEC (a small phone company) that had to interface with the RBOC (The Phone Company - SBC/AT&T) via a Java applicaton for provisioning phone numbers and the like. The application ran on a specific version of Java 1.4.2 (like j2re_1.4.2_01 or something), and the JVM had to patched by SBC software so that the application would run. The name escapes me... Oddly enough, I think LENS (Bell South's Java interface application) used the exact same version of the JVM. And this was before there was even talk of them merging.
GNU ddrescue can do what you are looking for. Even works for USB floppies. With tricks you can even get the m-tools to see the USB floppies as drive-letter-a and so on. Now all you have to find is a working floppy drive.
FYI - copy protected sectors still have to be read by hand. Sorry, you're Ultima V disk isn't (directly) copyable. You'll have to use Neverlock or some other 'helper' software to play it without the disk in DOSBox.
However, I'm open to suggestions about the above...
I can second that. I've actually seen a Btrieve database and Nomad, the newspaper circulation software that uses it, run in quite well in DOSBox on Windows XP.
In fact, the printer worked also. The setup involved a network printer share that was recaptured and direct to lpt1. Only thing that didn't work were test prints, oddly enough. I thought that was odd because all the DOSBox documentation (at the time) said that it was impossible to get printers to work.
No no no. Chernobyl happened because operators were instructed to disable their protective mechanism, to test an untested protective mechanism. [see wikipedia]. Then (as part of their test) the were instructed (and proceeded) to pull nearly every control rod off the bottom of the reactor resulting in a prompt critical reaction (exponential neutron growth). During the whole course of their experiment, neutron level (the primary power indicator) was undetectable until the end. I think we calculated the time in college, and they had about four tenths of a second to respond (or four seconds, I forget).
Couple that with the fact they really had no containment for the plant (a steel barn), and the reactor core blew the top and sent glowing radioactive rocks every which way. I don't know if they shut down the other plants during this casualty or not, but I think their all shutdown now.
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Same here. We need to tag this article oss4rocks.
So long as you build KITT and not KARR.
No, but it insures those that try to get first end up last.
No, it's true! As a forensic specialist, give me a disk that has been overwritten with zeros, and I can recover approximately 50% of the bits that were on the disk before it was wiped.
Yeah, the zero bits. But the good stuff is in the zeros and ones.
Unfortunately, not for some poorer sections of the central US, especially those near a college town.
Umm, maybe renting?
Is a vial criminal one that steals test tubes?
No no no, you have to pay $10US per post to be an Apple shill.
Tongue firmly in cheek for the humor impaired.
Speaking of liking only one version of the JVM, I worked for a CLEC (a small phone company) that had to interface with the RBOC (The Phone Company - SBC/AT&T) via a Java applicaton for provisioning phone numbers and the like. The application ran on a specific version of Java 1.4.2 (like j2re_1.4.2_01 or something), and the JVM had to patched by SBC software so that the application would run. The name escapes me... Oddly enough, I think LENS (Bell South's Java interface application) used the exact same version of the JVM. And this was before there was even talk of them merging.
FYI - copy protected sectors still have to be read by hand. Sorry, you're Ultima V disk isn't (directly) copyable. You'll have to use Neverlock or some other 'helper' software to play it without the disk in DOSBox.
However, I'm open to suggestions about the above...
I can second that. I've actually seen a Btrieve database and Nomad, the newspaper circulation software that uses it, run in quite well in DOSBox on Windows XP. In fact, the printer worked also. The setup involved a network printer share that was recaptured and direct to lpt1. Only thing that didn't work were test prints, oddly enough. I thought that was odd because all the DOSBox documentation (at the time) said that it was impossible to get printers to work.
No no no. Chernobyl happened because operators were instructed to disable their protective mechanism, to test an untested protective mechanism. [see wikipedia]. Then (as part of their test) the were instructed (and proceeded) to pull nearly every control rod off the bottom of the reactor resulting in a prompt critical reaction (exponential neutron growth). During the whole course of their experiment, neutron level (the primary power indicator) was undetectable until the end. I think we calculated the time in college, and they had about four tenths of a second to respond (or four seconds, I forget). Couple that with the fact they really had no containment for the plant (a steel barn), and the reactor core blew the top and sent glowing radioactive rocks every which way. I don't know if they shut down the other plants during this casualty or not, but I think their all shutdown now.
Its peanut butty jelly time!
Oops, That was supposed to be a funny mod not Redudandant. Oh well.