Re:iBook Clamshells are quite durable as well.
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Um -- but there is nothing holding them closed, which is largely the point, especially coupled with the fact that I have been told (by Apple support) that the most common reported failure in the iBook is the keyboard (because it is removable? they didn't go into details).
I would agree with you if they:
included a latch
had a useful place to attach a shoulder or other strap
I think that a lot of the laptop manufacturers (the VAIO comes strongly to mind here) have gone far in the direction of "cool lookin' toy", and have lost a lot of the utility of a portable in doing so . . .
I done the following to solve this problem in the past (not actually with ext2, but the solution works for all fs's)
If you know "keywords" in the data (i.e.; you have some means of recognizing your data from context), then you ccan pretty easily do the following (in a shell script -- you will want to tinker a bit):
use 'dd' to read the data off of the raw partition (i.e.; don't mount it, just use
/dev/fd<A><N>
or
/dev/sd<A><N>
-- wherever your disk is. If the partition table is also hosed, you can just use omit the partition id, and you will get the whole disk
set the blocksize (e.g. bs=4k) to be the blocksize of the fs you created (if you rememeber it)
pipe into "split" to divvy the result into blocksize (or other handy size) chunks
if you are looking only for text (by far the easiest to recover) you can get rid of the extra info usings strings -a. You can do this either before or after the split, but be aware that after using "strings", the blocksize will have no relation to the blocks you are getting from "split"
use "grep" to determine if any of your keywords are in a block. I usually built a list of occurances, so that after this step I can rank the blocks as most likely to be part of the file(s) I want.
This should give you a set of blocks which you can stick together in files. I have used this method to recover a couple of things; most notably a novel my sister was in the process of writing (without a backup -- she knows better now).
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I would agree with you if they:
I think that a lot of the laptop manufacturers (the VAIO comes strongly to mind here) have gone far in the direction of "cool lookin' toy", and have lost a lot of the utility of a portable in doing so . . .
I done the following to solve this problem in the past (not actually with ext2, but the solution works for all fs's)
If you know "keywords" in the data (i.e.; you have some means of recognizing your data from context), then you ccan pretty easily do the following (in a shell script -- you will want to tinker a bit):
- /dev/fd<A><N>
or - /dev/sd<A><N>
-- wherever your disk is. If the partition table is also hosed, you can just use omit the partition id, and you will get the whole diskThis should give you a set of blocks which you can stick together in files. I have used this method to recover a couple of things; most notably a novel my sister was in the process of writing (without a backup -- she knows better now).