You are so immensely full of shit...
To prove that you CAN edit files in/etc using the TextWrangler downloaded from the Mac App Store I have recorded a video of me doing JUST THAT! I even opened TextWrangler using sudo to show that I can write to a config file. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAKQjJWJvk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvULnO52RY0
I suspect that you didn't notice the Enable: All TextWrangler Documents drop down menu. Don't ask me why that's necessary, but changing it to everything made all the.conf files selectable. So yeah, you're full of shit and yet you've been modded +5 insightful...
That's a serious problem. The requirement of explaining to people running all kinds of different hardware with all kinds of different UEFI setup screens is adding a massive hurdle to Linux adoption.
My CompSci teacher in high school routinely set up Linux dual-boots on the basic Windows machines so he could actually teach his class. Of course he routinely butted heads with the district's asinine IT department. The BIOSes on the school machines are always password locked and they head administrator refused to give him access. If those machines were replaced with systems running UEFI secure boot, I can guarantee he wouldn't be able to run Linux anymore. He wouldn't even be able to boot the systems every morning with a LiveCD like he did for an entire year when he was forbidden to install anything to the hard drives.
By that logic, it's inevitable that in every industry one business will eradicate all other competition and become a de-facto monopoly. A business like that most certainly has absolute power in the ability to grossly inflate prices. Without external control there is what can best be described as a competitive business entropy.
You don't need to use brute force to deprive people of their freedoms. In the "Walmart town" the Evil Big Business(TM) is using economic force in the form of predatory pricing to destroy local competition.
I'm slightly confused as well. In my high school AP calculus-based physics class we did projectile motion with air resistance and gravity at the beginning of the year. In fact, my teacher used that particular topic to "weed out" the students that probably wouldn't be able to handle the remainder of the course. He taught the material way above the actual AP requirement and make the topic exam so hard that a few kids switched into the lower-level physics course afterward.
Hah, I wish! I'm still designing pages that are compatible with IE5.5+ which means accounting for all sorts of annoying css render bugs. Even recent versions of IE exhibit things like the float overflow drop bugs. The IE developers seem to have this terrible notion that no matter what the CSS standard actually says, web designers and other web browsers are supposed to follow their lead as to how certain properties behave. That's what it seems like at least, considering the number of layout bugs that have been in every IE since around 5 to the latest versions.
I would imagine that they've received significant pressure from the cable companies precisely to not do that. There might even be some terms in their contracts with the cable companies that somehow prohibit them offering subscriptions themselves.
Personally I think HBO is actually the most forward-thinking of the cable-related services. HBOGo has their entire library available for streaming. Sure it's a bummer that you have to have a cable subscription with one of a few providers to use it, but I'm sure if they could sell cable-less HBO subscriptions they would. As it is I'm sure the actual cable companies are kicking and screaming about HBOGo. I don't even pay for the subscription, I'm using a friend's cable account (with permission) to log into it. I don't have cable TV myself because there's virtually nothing I ever want to watch on TV that's not on HBO (or another premium service).
I definitely think email is better then sending letters and sometimes better then calling on the phone, yet idiotic chain-mail and the like still really annoys me. No matter the communication medium, there's always a subset of people using it in an entirely trivial and unnecessary (often annoying) way. Granted those annoying people are going to send more annoying communications with a method that is easier to use. Sending chain-mail to your entire address book is a bit harder with the postal service than with email.
Personally I'm not a fan of the social atmosphere that seems to permeate things like Facebook. On the rare occasions I log into my account I feel as if am bombarded with a torrent of a rough equivalent to annoying chain emails.
TotalFinder and TotalTerminal are two of my favorite Mac OS X "hack" apps. One of these days I'm planning on trying out TotalSpaces, as Lion's removal of grid spaces really annoyed me. Mac OS X's UI is certainly not perfect but in my dual-boot setup I most definitely prefer to be using the Finder over Explorer any day.
I just so happen to have a couple alternate web browsers installed on my iPad. I had a problem with how Safari was rendering a page with a frame-embedded PDF, so I found one that didn't use the iOS UIWebView backend.
As it happens, the Hackintosh community as a whole was very pissed off at Psystar because Psystar had stolen some of the open source emulator/decrypter driver code that our members created and sold it closed-source (violated the copyright) and without attribution.
My family has used Macs for ages. I built a couple Hackintoshes for myself and I love them. I can run regular software updates on them and they're totally stable. However when my mother wants a new Mac I will not build her one.
Also, the DMCA was passed in 1998. Psystar appeared on the scene in around 2008. So no, they were not doing this before the DMCA was enacted. In fact, Macs have only been Intel since around 2005.
As a matter of fact, Psystar WAS emulating a modern mac in that one of the "Hackintosh" drivers they were using emulates the firmware of a modern mac. Either that or they were using a decrypter driver. Some of the core Mac OS X binaries (e.g. Finder) are encrypted and can only be decrypted by a kernel extension (Don't Steal Mac OS.kext) that does a bunch of hardware checks to determine if the system is really running on Apple hardware. The two options are to either use a decrypter kext and violate the DMCA or use fakesmc.kext and emulate a Mac model. Presently the best option is actually fakesmc (it's also more legal, supposedly). My Sandy Bridge Hackintosh emulates an iMac 12,2 and it runs beautifully.
I remember at least one graphic design studio client (they never seem to catch a break) that was forced to upgrade because of precisely this problem. They were dealing with either other studios or their own clients and were having file compatibility problems between CS4 and 5.
The situation surrounding Adobe software upgrades is pretty ridiculous. I work for a large independent Apple retailer that happens to do a lot of "pro services" business with things like video production companies and recording studios. Just about the only time a customer upgrades their Adobe CS is when they've bought new hardware that comes with a new OS version that their existing Creative Suite won't run on. Graphic designers tell me that everything they do in Photoshop CS6 they've been doing the same way since Photoshop 7.0. As far as I can tell the only real reason anyone buys CS upgrades is Adobe generally doesn't release compatibility patches. If the just-released Mac OS breaks the then-current CS, Adobe bumps the major version and tells everyone to upgrade. Hell, I don't even understand why Adobe software has broken so often with Mac OS version bumps. Their stuff is by far the worst, and "Pro" software in general is known to be finicky.
Doesn't MBR have a 2TB size limit? I know you formatted it as GPT but GPT is designed to look like MBR in the case of software that can't recognize GPT. Maybe chkdsk thought it was an MBR disk or somesuch. I'm not very familiar with Windows disk management but in my experience, Windows operates under some very annoying assumptions about your disk layout.
Jesus, something similar happened to me back when I was dual-booting Vista and OS X on my MacBook Pro. One day when I booted Windows it declared that it had to run chkdsk, churned for the longest time and reported tons of errors. After it rebooted I was surprised to see Windows start up fine. Then I got an unreadable disk dialog box and saw that my Mac OS X drive (D: normally mounted by MacDrive) wasn't being mounted. Of course then when I reboot again I get a nice cheerful blinking question mark. Disk Utility on the Mac install dvd couldn't even recognize the formerly HFS+ partition.
I had been using MacDrive before trying out Paragon. The version of MD I had (8 I think?) no longer worked when I upgraded Windows on one of my computers so I looked around for something else before buying the MacDrive upgrade. I saw Paragon had a promotion where you'd get a discount on a new copy of HFS+ for Windows if you proved you were switching from a competing driver (making it cheaper than the MD upgrade) so that's when I installed the evil trial.
It's only been a couple weeks since the disaster so I haven't yet had the confidence to install any new drivers yet. I'm planning on going back to MacDrive after I buy the upgrade. In the years I've used it (pretty much since Bootcamp) I haven't had any problems with it, I went looking for alternatives simply out of curiosity. If ain't broke, eh?
Looking back at your particular problem I've got a couple thoughts. First of all, some of the common compressed media formats like JPG and MP3 can be crudely verified by some sort of utility that attempts to inflate the compressed structure. This guy has a suggestion for JPGs and I think I saw someone else post a recommendation for MP3s. I suspect that files like PDFs generally won't open at all if there is any corruption in the format, you could try using Spotlight to find all PDFs and then open them all at once. Preview has always given me error messages if I try to open a corrupted PDF. I've also noticed that corrupted MOV files tend not to open, but I can't guarantee that this is a rule.
I might also try looking at some known corrupted files with a HEX editor. In the past I've encountered disk corruption that manifested as the binary contents of parts of files being entirely zeros. If there is some discernible pattern it may be possible to hack together some way to scan your files.
Although it may be moot now, from what I've read online Paragon HFS creates all sorts of issues with the HFS+ filesystem journal. It's indeed possible that it left your disk in a state where it was vulnerable to further problems. I'm also curious what package and version you were/are using in Ubuntu. It wouldn't surprise me if that driver is nowhere near as robust as it should be.
As someone who used to share many disks between Linux, Windows and Mac OS X I previously had come to the conclusion that the easiest solution was to use Ext3 formatting on disks that I wanted write access to from all three operating systems. Early on I had a minor filesystem problem with the HFS+ package I was using in Linux when writing files and from then on I mounted HFS disks in read-only mode. Now I very rarely use Linux to access the external disks I share between a Win/OSX dual-boot (gigabit network FTW). For Mac OS X I have a very good NTFS driver called Tuxera NTFS. I still occasionally mount Ext3/4 disks in Windows using Ext2Fsd (ignore the implications of the name). The Ext driver I was using in Mac OS X didn't have write capabilities for Ext4 last I checked, but I can't remember what it was called.
whew! Anyway the pain I went through after that software very nearly ruined my life was so great, I don't want it to happen to anyone else. According to their own website 9.0 has this awful bug but they fixed it in 9.0.1. Evidently the trial download on the main page is still for version 9.0 and still has the disk destroying bug! Any software company that releases a filesystem driver with this terrible a bug (not to mention the numerous reports of BSODs and other relatively minor problems) clearly has terrible quality assurance and simply can't be trusted.
I was very active in my high school's FRC team. We were always complaining about how we got zero support from the school and had to raise thousands of dollars for fees and materials ourselves.
Writing the C code that drove our robots was one of my first real "production" programming projects and the whole experience was incredibly educational. FIRST robotics was hands down the most fun thing I did in high school.
Why do you have to spend extra time fending off malware with a pirated copy? Non-genuine Windows runs Windows Update and Windows Defender just as well as the "genuine" version. Hell I'm running pirated Windows that's recognized as genuine as well as a pirated copy of Nod32 (AV) on my desktop.
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There were locks on the cases and the BIOS was secured but CD booting was not disabled.
You are so immensely full of shit... /etc using the TextWrangler downloaded from the Mac App Store I have recorded a video of me doing JUST THAT! I even opened TextWrangler using sudo to show that I can write to a config file. .conf files selectable. So yeah, you're full of shit and yet you've been modded +5 insightful...
To prove that you CAN edit files in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAKQjJWJvk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvULnO52RY0
I suspect that you didn't notice the Enable: All TextWrangler Documents drop down menu. Don't ask me why that's necessary, but changing it to everything made all the
That's a serious problem. The requirement of explaining to people running all kinds of different hardware with all kinds of different UEFI setup screens is adding a massive hurdle to Linux adoption.
My CompSci teacher in high school routinely set up Linux dual-boots on the basic Windows machines so he could actually teach his class. Of course he routinely butted heads with the district's asinine IT department. The BIOSes on the school machines are always password locked and they head administrator refused to give him access. If those machines were replaced with systems running UEFI secure boot, I can guarantee he wouldn't be able to run Linux anymore. He wouldn't even be able to boot the systems every morning with a LiveCD like he did for an entire year when he was forbidden to install anything to the hard drives.
By that logic, it's inevitable that in every industry one business will eradicate all other competition and become a de-facto monopoly. A business like that most certainly has absolute power in the ability to grossly inflate prices. Without external control there is what can best be described as a competitive business entropy.
You don't need to use brute force to deprive people of their freedoms. In the "Walmart town" the Evil Big Business(TM) is using economic force in the form of predatory pricing to destroy local competition.
I'm slightly confused as well. In my high school AP calculus-based physics class we did projectile motion with air resistance and gravity at the beginning of the year. In fact, my teacher used that particular topic to "weed out" the students that probably wouldn't be able to handle the remainder of the course. He taught the material way above the actual AP requirement and make the topic exam so hard that a few kids switched into the lower-level physics course afterward.
Hah, I wish! I'm still designing pages that are compatible with IE5.5+ which means accounting for all sorts of annoying css render bugs. Even recent versions of IE exhibit things like the float overflow drop bugs. The IE developers seem to have this terrible notion that no matter what the CSS standard actually says, web designers and other web browsers are supposed to follow their lead as to how certain properties behave. That's what it seems like at least, considering the number of layout bugs that have been in every IE since around 5 to the latest versions.
I would imagine that they've received significant pressure from the cable companies precisely to not do that. There might even be some terms in their contracts with the cable companies that somehow prohibit them offering subscriptions themselves.
Personally I think HBO is actually the most forward-thinking of the cable-related services. HBOGo has their entire library available for streaming. Sure it's a bummer that you have to have a cable subscription with one of a few providers to use it, but I'm sure if they could sell cable-less HBO subscriptions they would. As it is I'm sure the actual cable companies are kicking and screaming about HBOGo. I don't even pay for the subscription, I'm using a friend's cable account (with permission) to log into it. I don't have cable TV myself because there's virtually nothing I ever want to watch on TV that's not on HBO (or another premium service).
Keep it up HBO!
I definitely think email is better then sending letters and sometimes better then calling on the phone, yet idiotic chain-mail and the like still really annoys me. No matter the communication medium, there's always a subset of people using it in an entirely trivial and unnecessary (often annoying) way. Granted those annoying people are going to send more annoying communications with a method that is easier to use. Sending chain-mail to your entire address book is a bit harder with the postal service than with email.
Personally I'm not a fan of the social atmosphere that seems to permeate things like Facebook. On the rare occasions I log into my account I feel as if am bombarded with a torrent of a rough equivalent to annoying chain emails.
TotalFinder and TotalTerminal are two of my favorite Mac OS X "hack" apps. One of these days I'm planning on trying out TotalSpaces, as Lion's removal of grid spaces really annoyed me. Mac OS X's UI is certainly not perfect but in my dual-boot setup I most definitely prefer to be using the Finder over Explorer any day.
The one that worked for me is Opera Mini, so I suppose it probably is offloading rendering to a server.
I just so happen to have a couple alternate web browsers installed on my iPad. I had a problem with how Safari was rendering a page with a frame-embedded PDF, so I found one that didn't use the iOS UIWebView backend.
As it happens, the Hackintosh community as a whole was very pissed off at Psystar because Psystar had stolen some of the open source emulator/decrypter driver code that our members created and sold it closed-source (violated the copyright) and without attribution.
My family has used Macs for ages. I built a couple Hackintoshes for myself and I love them. I can run regular software updates on them and they're totally stable. However when my mother wants a new Mac I will not build her one.
Also, the DMCA was passed in 1998. Psystar appeared on the scene in around 2008. So no, they were not doing this before the DMCA was enacted. In fact, Macs have only been Intel since around 2005.
As a matter of fact, Psystar WAS emulating a modern mac in that one of the "Hackintosh" drivers they were using emulates the firmware of a modern mac. Either that or they were using a decrypter driver. Some of the core Mac OS X binaries (e.g. Finder) are encrypted and can only be decrypted by a kernel extension (Don't Steal Mac OS.kext) that does a bunch of hardware checks to determine if the system is really running on Apple hardware. The two options are to either use a decrypter kext and violate the DMCA or use fakesmc.kext and emulate a Mac model. Presently the best option is actually fakesmc (it's also more legal, supposedly). My Sandy Bridge Hackintosh emulates an iMac 12,2 and it runs beautifully.
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I remember at least one graphic design studio client (they never seem to catch a break) that was forced to upgrade because of precisely this problem. They were dealing with either other studios or their own clients and were having file compatibility problems between CS4 and 5.
The situation surrounding Adobe software upgrades is pretty ridiculous. I work for a large independent Apple retailer that happens to do a lot of "pro services" business with things like video production companies and recording studios. Just about the only time a customer upgrades their Adobe CS is when they've bought new hardware that comes with a new OS version that their existing Creative Suite won't run on. Graphic designers tell me that everything they do in Photoshop CS6 they've been doing the same way since Photoshop 7.0. As far as I can tell the only real reason anyone buys CS upgrades is Adobe generally doesn't release compatibility patches. If the just-released Mac OS breaks the then-current CS, Adobe bumps the major version and tells everyone to upgrade. Hell, I don't even understand why Adobe software has broken so often with Mac OS version bumps. Their stuff is by far the worst, and "Pro" software in general is known to be finicky.
Doesn't MBR have a 2TB size limit? I know you formatted it as GPT but GPT is designed to look like MBR in the case of software that can't recognize GPT. Maybe chkdsk thought it was an MBR disk or somesuch. I'm not very familiar with Windows disk management but in my experience, Windows operates under some very annoying assumptions about your disk layout.
Jesus, something similar happened to me back when I was dual-booting Vista and OS X on my MacBook Pro. One day when I booted Windows it declared that it had to run chkdsk, churned for the longest time and reported tons of errors. After it rebooted I was surprised to see Windows start up fine. Then I got an unreadable disk dialog box and saw that my Mac OS X drive (D: normally mounted by MacDrive) wasn't being mounted. Of course then when I reboot again I get a nice cheerful blinking question mark. Disk Utility on the Mac install dvd couldn't even recognize the formerly HFS+ partition.
I had been using MacDrive before trying out Paragon. The version of MD I had (8 I think?) no longer worked when I upgraded Windows on one of my computers so I looked around for something else before buying the MacDrive upgrade. I saw Paragon had a promotion where you'd get a discount on a new copy of HFS+ for Windows if you proved you were switching from a competing driver (making it cheaper than the MD upgrade) so that's when I installed the evil trial.
It's only been a couple weeks since the disaster so I haven't yet had the confidence to install any new drivers yet. I'm planning on going back to MacDrive after I buy the upgrade. In the years I've used it (pretty much since Bootcamp) I haven't had any problems with it, I went looking for alternatives simply out of curiosity. If ain't broke, eh?
Looking back at your particular problem I've got a couple thoughts. First of all, some of the common compressed media formats like JPG and MP3 can be crudely verified by some sort of utility that attempts to inflate the compressed structure. This guy has a suggestion for JPGs and I think I saw someone else post a recommendation for MP3s. I suspect that files like PDFs generally won't open at all if there is any corruption in the format, you could try using Spotlight to find all PDFs and then open them all at once. Preview has always given me error messages if I try to open a corrupted PDF. I've also noticed that corrupted MOV files tend not to open, but I can't guarantee that this is a rule.
I might also try looking at some known corrupted files with a HEX editor. In the past I've encountered disk corruption that manifested as the binary contents of parts of files being entirely zeros. If there is some discernible pattern it may be possible to hack together some way to scan your files.
Although it may be moot now, from what I've read online Paragon HFS creates all sorts of issues with the HFS+ filesystem journal. It's indeed possible that it left your disk in a state where it was vulnerable to further problems. I'm also curious what package and version you were/are using in Ubuntu. It wouldn't surprise me if that driver is nowhere near as robust as it should be.
As someone who used to share many disks between Linux, Windows and Mac OS X I previously had come to the conclusion that the easiest solution was to use Ext3 formatting on disks that I wanted write access to from all three operating systems. Early on I had a minor filesystem problem with the HFS+ package I was using in Linux when writing files and from then on I mounted HFS disks in read-only mode. Now I very rarely use Linux to access the external disks I share between a Win/OSX dual-boot (gigabit network FTW). For Mac OS X I have a very good NTFS driver called Tuxera NTFS. I still occasionally mount Ext3/4 disks in Windows using Ext2Fsd (ignore the implications of the name). The Ext driver I was using in Mac OS X didn't have write capabilities for Ext4 last I checked, but I can't remember what it was called.
I hope at least some of this is helpful. Cheers.
Alright now I'm afraid I can't help with your verify problem but I do have one piece of solid advice: get rid of Paragon HFS immediately!
It is a truly shoddy piece of software that as of version 9.0 has a terrible bug that will cause it to destroy HFS+ filesystems. Google "paragon hfs corruption" and you will see many many horror stories from people who just plugged a Mac OS X disk into a Windows machine w/ Paragon HFS and then discovered the entire filesystem was hosed. In my dual-boot win/mac setup I replaced my copy of MacDrive with a trial version of Paragon HFS 9.0 from their website and every single one of the six HFS+ disks I had connected internally were damaged. Disk Utility couldn't do a thing and I had to buy a program called Diskwarrior to even begin to recover data. I ended up losing two disks worth of files anyway.
http://www.mac-help.com/t12137-opened-hfs-drive-win7-paragon-hfs-now-wont-boot.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=299306
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1677099
http://www.avforums.com/forums/apple-mac/1509344-hfs-super-block-not-found.html
whew! Anyway the pain I went through after that software very nearly ruined my life was so great, I don't want it to happen to anyone else. According to their own website 9.0 has this awful bug but they fixed it in 9.0.1. Evidently the trial download on the main page is still for version 9.0 and still has the disk destroying bug! Any software company that releases a filesystem driver with this terrible a bug (not to mention the numerous reports of BSODs and other relatively minor problems) clearly has terrible quality assurance and simply can't be trusted.
I was very active in my high school's FRC team. We were always complaining about how we got zero support from the school and had to raise thousands of dollars for fees and materials ourselves.
Writing the C code that drove our robots was one of my first real "production" programming projects and the whole experience was incredibly educational. FIRST robotics was hands down the most fun thing I did in high school.
Why do you have to spend extra time fending off malware with a pirated copy? Non-genuine Windows runs Windows Update and Windows Defender just as well as the "genuine" version. Hell I'm running pirated Windows that's recognized as genuine as well as a pirated copy of Nod32 (AV) on my desktop.