While GRC's Spinrite is an awesome product (I've been using it for 15 years - since 1.0!) and it can also work on all types of removeable media and most all partition-types (Mac disks must be moved to a PC), I suspect that your disk's problem is more fundamental.
However, while we're on the topic of GRC, Steve Gubson does have a different utility to cure the click'o'death on Zip disks.
And while you're at it, you might even be able to get IOmega to replace it even if it's out of warranty!
(Speaking of replacing, basic troubleshooting steps would suggest trying it in another drive too...:)
The whole premise of this article is silly. They're assuming that A - those markings are the only signals and B - that they can reproduce them well enough to fool the other wasps.
Hello?!? McWasp?!? (Er, McFly!)
Argh, slashcode doesn't like my brackets and I didn't preview.:( if machines are going to then add code to a percentage Should read: if machines are going to [insert state with historically close results] then add code to a percentage
First, let me just say I agree with most of what you posted.
However, one phrase caught my eye: And no, they don't come "preloaded" with votes for Republican candidates
Why not? There's no technical reason why they couldn't.
Quite simple really, if machines are going to then add code to a percentage (all?) of them such that if the ratio of Republican to Democratic votes shows less than a 2% (or whatever) lead for Republicans then drop a few Democratic votes.
(Hmm, maybe that's how that Florida county gained so many voters, they added instead of dropping:).
I would actually be very interested in taking some of the machines in suspicious areas and testing them. But not in "demo mode" of course, load 'em like it was for real and see how the numbers come out...
Sort the list, look for dups of course.. code is left as an excercise for the reader..:)
This is so true! I have to laugh when people moan and bitch about the "ancient" languages that are used in university courses. Few understand that it's the concepts that are the key.
Syntax can always be looked up but the ideas/concepts behind the code need to be understood first.
Yep, and customers get pissy when somebody screws up.:) I'm sure in a few years when it's common knowledge that it gets left on and nobody's paying for it anymore then they'll start actually turning it off.
although I have to pay them anyway for the callerid
You'll still get it even if you don't pay for it because it's a PITA to truly turn it off in the switch and the telcos never bother.:)
Call 'em up, ask 'em what the caller-id charge is for, when they explain tell 'em you don't need it and please take it off and voila' - you'll still have it without having to pay...
I think the key part of his statement that you're missing is "If you've got four or five years..."
Not missed, I just didn't phrase my response very well.
I was simply demonstrating that in some cases "once an expert always an expert". I.e. given, say, one year per project in disparate technologies, one could actually be a bona fide expert in this, this, this and this
But yeah, when I see resume's like that I tend to ask a lot of hard questions (and they usually are bluffing.:)
True; I'm a better programmer than wordsmith. Actually, I was thinking of the kind of person who claims to be an expert COM+/ASP, J2EE,.Net, AND mainframe developer, with about four years experience. WTF???
If you've got four or five years, I might buy that you're exceptional at one, maybe two of the technologies, but ALL of them? How the hell would anyone keep all that crap in their head at the same time? It's bizarre that someone would even pretend to be able to do this.
It's not impossible. I've been in the industry one way or another for almost 20 years and I've been consulting for 15 on projects for hundreds of different companies/networks.
And even though I haven't had to touch 'em for years I still remember stupid stuff like printer ESC codes, Procomm scripting syntax, half a dozen different serial cable pinouts, default settings for different types of dumb terminals, workarounds for bugs that existed back in Access v1.x, appropriate patches for wierd Netware 3.x NLM conflicts etc. etc. ad nauseum!
So yeah, people like that exist!:)
And that eclectic background is why I get tend to get involved in bizarre projects nobody else would touch with a ten-foot pole so it's kind of a self perpetuating condition...
Best one I've heard was from a newly-minted and very pro-MS CIO who claimed (right after Win2K first came out) that Active Directory was a much better solution for their company network (thousands of employees and dozens of offices) than the existing Novell Netware/NDS.
They went through half a dozen consulting firms before firing the CIO and everyone else involved in the project...
That's awfully nice of the Slashdot editors. Lets Slashdot the living hell out of these important servers at the very point and time they are supposed to be used. Can you be any more inconsiderate?
Er, I hope that was mean to be funny...:)
If it wasn't then you might stop and consider the fact that come election day those servers are going to suffer a hell of a lot more than a mere slashdotting!!!
Personally I'd rather they crash and burn now with a couple days to fix the problems...
Speaking of which, y'know how they came up with the name "Canada", right?
Seems the early Europeans invaders, er, immigrants, were sitting around the campfire one night trying to come up with something easier to remember than all the funky names the locals used.
After some time arguing they finally decided the best thing to do would be just put a bunch of letters in a hat and see what they pulled out.
"C, ay?"
"N, ay?"
"D, ay?"
(I heard that from a Canadian! So put down the flamethrower, ay?:)
A lawyer will also point out a few other possibilities, like maybe the roommate in question didn't know about the camera either!
The story submitter needs to do some research (or at least post more info).
At the moment we don't know if that clock-radio (or whatever it is) might have been picked up at a garage sale or eBay or god-knows where.
(Now if the submitter knows for a fact that it was purchased new then it's a different story...:)
You seem to know your share of spy satellites technology. *roll eyes*
It does help that I used to work on the ground systems for some of those satellites...:)
Granted what's described above isn't technically the whole story, but it's close enough and it is what's no longer classified.
If you know of changed classifications for any of the other systems please post! I haven't worked with any of that stuff for a good ten years so I'd be curious to know what else is no longer considered EFIs.
But yes, I do find the spontaneous creation of non-existent visual data rather amusing as well.
I wonder if it would let you see through the particles that many dresses consist of.
It would. The technology has actually been around for a long time in spy satellites.
It's devilishly simple. Take pictures/video along a number of wavelengths (e.g. IR through X-ray) along with the fact that they each reflect/refract at different angles of incidence and add some majorly intensive computation and you can "subtract" virtually any sort of dynamic occlusion, including the shifting fabric of a dress. If a woman were walking it would only take a few steps to get a remarkably clear image of what she looked like underneath.
Of course spy satellites (or, rather, some huge rendering farms down below) use it to remove distortion caused by clouds and shifting layers of air but it's all the same process, really.
People doubt that spy satellites can read the time off your watch but if you think about it there's not much you can't see if you've got good enough optics and distortions are no longer an issue.
Now getting all that computation into a camera would be very cool! Although, unless quantum computing makes a giant leap it'll be an analog computer rather than digital...
Totally agree.
What I'm wondering is if this $150 version is setup to preserve the FLASH? I.e. is there some RAM on board for temp files and the like? Or does it die in a couple years of use because it's been written too many times?
Or does it depend entirely on workstation RAM? (In which case I wonder how much is really needed for decent performance?)
In any case, probably any CD distro would already be setup to not try to write to the boot media so that might be a useful approach as well. (I.e. just dump the CD distro into a FLASH device).
Anybody done anything like this before...?
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Not a great idea-- the click of death can be contagious.
Yeah, but if you look at the write-up on Gibson's utility you'll see that it can also be repaired.
While GRC's Spinrite is an awesome product (I've been using it for 15 years - since 1.0!) and it can also work on all types of removeable media and most all partition-types (Mac disks must be moved to a PC), I suspect that your disk's problem is more fundamental. :)
However, while we're on the topic of GRC, Steve Gubson does have a different utility to cure the click'o'death on Zip disks.
And while you're at it, you might even be able to get IOmega to replace it even if it's out of warranty!
(Speaking of replacing, basic troubleshooting steps would suggest trying it in another drive too...
Hrm, I suppose I should have said "experiment" rather than "article" :)
The whole premise of this article is silly. They're assuming that A - those markings are the only signals and B - that they can reproduce them well enough to fool the other wasps.
Hello?!? McWasp?!? (Er, McFly!)
Argh, slashcode doesn't like my brackets and I didn't preview. :(
if machines are going to then add code to a percentage
Should read:
if machines are going to [insert state with historically close results] then add code to a percentage
First, let me just say I agree with most of what you posted.
:).
However, one phrase caught my eye:
And no, they don't come "preloaded" with votes for Republican candidates
Why not? There's no technical reason why they couldn't.
Quite simple really, if machines are going to then add code to a percentage (all?) of them such that if the ratio of Republican to Democratic votes shows less than a 2% (or whatever) lead for Republicans then drop a few Democratic votes.
(Hmm, maybe that's how that Florida county gained so many voters, they added instead of dropping
I would actually be very interested in taking some of the machines in suspicious areas and testing them. But not in "demo mode" of course, load 'em like it was for real and see how the numbers come out...
The grammer-nazi, proudly trolling since the dawn of time.
:)
Hey, my grammer can kick your grammer's ass any time!
Sort the list, look for dups of course.. code is left as an excercise for the reader.. :)
This is so true! I have to laugh when people moan and bitch about the "ancient" languages that are used in university courses. Few understand that it's the concepts that are the key.
Syntax can always be looked up but the ideas/concepts behind the code need to be understood first.
...which in return will cause people to run red lights.
:)
Oh yeah, they never do that now...
At that time, it does get messier
:) I'm sure in a few years when it's common knowledge that it gets left on and nobody's paying for it anymore then they'll start actually turning it off.
Yep, and customers get pissy when somebody screws up.
Your experience will no longer be relevant anyway, and just like that, you're a rookie again.
Not really. 90% of the original learning curve will still be in place, you just need to pick up the new/changed bits.
although I have to pay them anyway for the callerid
:)
You'll still get it even if you don't pay for it because it's a PITA to truly turn it off in the switch and the telcos never bother.
Call 'em up, ask 'em what the caller-id charge is for, when they explain tell 'em you don't need it and please take it off and voila' - you'll still have it without having to pay...
I think the key part of his statement that you're missing is "If you've got four or five years..."
:)
Not missed, I just didn't phrase my response very well.
I was simply demonstrating that in some cases "once an expert always an expert". I.e. given, say, one year per project in disparate technologies, one could actually be a bona fide expert in this, this, this and this
But yeah, when I see resume's like that I tend to ask a lot of hard questions (and they usually are bluffing.
True; I'm a better programmer than wordsmith. Actually, I was thinking of the kind of person who claims to be an expert COM+/ASP, J2EE, .Net, AND mainframe developer, with about four years experience. WTF???
:)
If you've got four or five years, I might buy that you're exceptional at one, maybe two of the technologies, but ALL of them? How the hell would anyone keep all that crap in their head at the same time? It's bizarre that someone would even pretend to be able to do this.
It's not impossible. I've been in the industry one way or another for almost 20 years and I've been consulting for 15 on projects for hundreds of different companies/networks.
And even though I haven't had to touch 'em for years I still remember stupid stuff like printer ESC codes, Procomm scripting syntax, half a dozen different serial cable pinouts, default settings for different types of dumb terminals, workarounds for bugs that existed back in Access v1.x, appropriate patches for wierd Netware 3.x NLM conflicts etc. etc. ad nauseum!
So yeah, people like that exist!
And that eclectic background is why I get tend to get involved in bizarre projects nobody else would touch with a ten-foot pole so it's kind of a self perpetuating condition...
The Type X is an arcade game circuit board running Windows XP Embedded
So, um, do you get bonus points for causing a BSOD?
Best one I've heard was from a newly-minted and very pro-MS CIO who claimed (right after Win2K first came out) that Active Directory was a much better solution for their company network (thousands of employees and dozens of offices) than the existing Novell Netware/NDS.
They went through half a dozen consulting firms before firing the CIO and everyone else involved in the project...
There's a Bush game out now?!?
:]
Oh, wait, never mind, I thought the headline said President Evil...
That's awfully nice of the Slashdot editors. Lets Slashdot the living hell out of these important servers at the very point and time they are supposed to be used. Can you be any more inconsiderate?
:)
Er, I hope that was mean to be funny...
If it wasn't then you might stop and consider the fact that come election day those servers are going to suffer a hell of a lot more than a mere slashdotting!!!
Personally I'd rather they crash and burn now with a couple days to fix the problems...
(Canada - duh!)
:)
:)
Er, shouldn't that be "Cana-duh!"...?
Speaking of which, y'know how they came up with the name "Canada", right?
Seems the early Europeans invaders, er, immigrants, were sitting around the campfire one night trying to come up with something easier to remember than all the funky names the locals used.
After some time arguing they finally decided the best thing to do would be just put a bunch of letters in a hat and see what they pulled out.
"C, ay?"
"N, ay?"
"D, ay?"
(I heard that from a Canadian! So put down the flamethrower, ay?
A lawyer will also point out a few other possibilities, like maybe the roommate in question didn't know about the camera either!
:)
The story submitter needs to do some research (or at least post more info).
At the moment we don't know if that clock-radio (or whatever it is) might have been picked up at a garage sale or eBay or god-knows where.
(Now if the submitter knows for a fact that it was purchased new then it's a different story...
Sig: *Scratch here to reveal prize.*
:)
I scratched and scratched and all I did was fsck up my monitor. Thanks a lot a-hole!
(Moderators: this is a humorous response to a humorous sig. Appropriate moderation would be Funny, Offtopic or Normal.)
Damn! Wish I hadn't used my mod points in another article.
Mod parent "+1 Has a Clue!"
You seem to know your share of spy satellites technology. *roll eyes*
:)
It does help that I used to work on the ground systems for some of those satellites...
Granted what's described above isn't technically the whole story, but it's close enough and it is what's no longer classified.
If you know of changed classifications for any of the other systems please post! I haven't worked with any of that stuff for a good ten years so I'd be curious to know what else is no longer considered EFIs.
But yes, I do find the spontaneous creation of non-existent visual data rather amusing as well.
I wonder if it would let you see through the particles that many dresses consist of.
It would. The technology has actually been around for a long time in spy satellites.
It's devilishly simple. Take pictures/video along a number of wavelengths (e.g. IR through X-ray) along with the fact that they each reflect/refract at different angles of incidence and add some majorly intensive computation and you can "subtract" virtually any sort of dynamic occlusion, including the shifting fabric of a dress. If a woman were walking it would only take a few steps to get a remarkably clear image of what she looked like underneath.
Of course spy satellites (or, rather, some huge rendering farms down below) use it to remove distortion caused by clouds and shifting layers of air but it's all the same process, really.
People doubt that spy satellites can read the time off your watch but if you think about it there's not much you can't see if you've got good enough optics and distortions are no longer an issue.
Now getting all that computation into a camera would be very cool! Although, unless quantum computing makes a giant leap it'll be an analog computer rather than digital...
Price for the hardware seems high.
Totally agree.
What I'm wondering is if this $150 version is setup to preserve the FLASH? I.e. is there some RAM on board for temp files and the like? Or does it die in a couple years of use because it's been written too many times?
Or does it depend entirely on workstation RAM? (In which case I wonder how much is really needed for decent performance?)
In any case, probably any CD distro would already be setup to not try to write to the boot media so that might be a useful approach as well. (I.e. just dump the CD distro into a FLASH device).
Anybody done anything like this before...?