If an old drive has been running for a long time and is switched of, we've known the bearings to stick (drive wont spin up at all)
The fix is to hold the drive between the palms of your hands (like praying... good analogy:-)) with the axis of the drive between the heals of your hands. Then violently flick your wrists downwards untill your fingertips point to the ground.
The idea is to spin the hard drive casing whilst causing the platters to stay still, so giving the bearings plenty of torque to free them off. It would often be enough to get this thing going again long enough to get the data off it.
But in this case, it sounds like drive mechanics.
Yes this does sound like heads hitting the disk. I've known people physicsly open the drive and poke at the heads (they had skipped off the disk somehow) and get it going long enough to recover data.
Anyway, if the dude has important stuff on this disk I suggest he takes it to a profesional companny who knows what they are doing. You do have backups, dont you?
a broken headbolt at 30,025 miles, 25 over warranty
Eh?
And you never thought to detach the speedo cable and attach it to an electric drill on reverse?
Bloody geeks these days:-)
(At the very least you could have drove in reverse or got a backwards tow to get it back to 29,999.9)
No law prevents putting an image in a HTML e-mail YTC !
The fact the image happens to be served from a server for which I have access to the logs is irelevent. Many people include a photo (as oposed to a 1x1 gif) in a job aplication mail. This image could easily be delivered from a remote server (under your controal) rather than be attached to the e-mail. After all, the remote machine requested that image! (since the user runs a HTML enabled mail client)
Internet Protocol Address Verifier? Is this Carnivore in action?"
That'll be a tiny 1x1 pixel gif embeded in a HTML e-mail called from the feds server.(AKA web bug... You cant turn off HTML in M$ LookOut and this dude dosent sound very clued up)
Presto, the feds know who opend the mail how long they looked at it etc etc etc.
A top tip (tm) is to embed a web bug in a job aplication e-mail. Its interseting to watch your aplication being pushed around various departments and see who actually reads it.
I have been going the paperless billing route for like 2 years now, and have never had a problem.
And there my friend, is the very issue
When it works (as it has with you for two years) everything is fine. Its only when things go wrong you realise having a paper trail is a very good idea.
FWIW I've had a problem with BT (British Telecom) internet billing a while back (yes I know, stay with me). Being able to whip out paper copies of all me dealings with them definately helpd resolve the problems I had.
The report is based on a randomized, national phone survey of 2,200 adults.
Now, I wonder why a survay carried out in this manner recorded an unusually high number of people responding to spam?
Maybe a truer responce would have been acheved if every time someone told them to fuck off and slammed the phone down they treated this as an 'I dont respond to spam' reply
> I wonder that a study made in January 2003 is
> only published in August!
Ummm
Peer review?
Eight months turnaround time is nothing excessive in academia.
Surely it should be a poster of a large black-moustachio'd man with the slogan "Big Brother Is Watching You" undreneath. A poster so constructed that the eyes follow you whearever you walked...
Its a site set up by fellow Goths discussing the best ways of addapting something of an alternative lifestyle (lots of peirced and tatted Goths out there) into looking respectable in the corporate bussness world. (We all need a job to fill the space between the nights, to pay for the drugs, the motorcycles and the pointy boots)
The site has many discussions you may find usefull.
My opinion?
If you refuse to employ/talk to me beause of the way I look, then quite frankly it was worth it.:-)
This still amounts to censorship FFS!
The fact remains that only US controaled media will be able to broadcast out of Iraq via sattelite. (I'm assuming land-lines will be taken out first). Censorship may or may not be intentional, but the fact is its happening.
ALL news will be censored since the pentegon have said unauthoriesd satellie broadcasts (including those from journalists) will be targets. Read this from Kate Adie. (Kate Adie is a BBC reporter who covered the last gulf war and is regared very highly in the UK)
If the US blocks all outside broardcasts we can only wait until after the war to see anything like the truth. Censorship sucks.
read about what really happened in the history books
Sorry dude
History books are written by the winners (and those who want to influance the young) and can be very biased.
eg Many history books fail to mention the staggering numbers of civilians killed when allies carpet bombed German cities in WW2.
You certainly wont find a US history book that mentions Regans bombing of Tripolli in the 80's nor will kids be tought about the US embarasment in Somallia. Simerly, here in Britain very little is tought to children about the history of Northen Irelend and the problems there. "History as we know it is a lie"
I think my.sig says it all
if anything happens she can sell the ring and live for a month
Very wrong unfortunately.
Diamonds have absoulutely no resale value worth speeking of. Have a look at this slashdot story
Yes a diamond could be used as a bribe, but you certainly can't live for a month on one.
Gold might be slightly better. Most jewlers will readily give money for 'scrap gold'. Althouh most survivalists will tell you how useless gold Kruger rands/soverigns etc are. Most banks wont accept them and jewlers will often just give 'scrap gold' value.
If you want jewlry as an emergency money source, try a necklace made of gold segments (or heavy gold chain) The segments can be broken off individually and sold / used for bribes.
At my university the main campus network isn't behind a firewall and is wide open to the net (at least, not any firewall worth speaking of).
However, the accomodation network (dorms / halls whatever you call 'em) is behind the great firewall of doom.
The idea being the private machines in the acomodation network are the only machines in the entire university that the sysadmins have no controal over (and are likely to be lusers unpatched windows boxes). Thus only these are firewalled.
Admitedly, my university takes this policy to extreams. In the accomodation network only ports 80 and 22 arn't blocked. Anyone wanting e-mail access or access to there home directorys has to SSH/SFTP to a unix box on the main campus network. This isn't as difficult as it sounds for windows using newbies. Many use graphical SFTP clients to get files and know how to SSH to a unix box to run pine.
A lot of infrared (IR) lasers (common examples are Nd:YAG or Ti:sapphire) operate in the near infrared
Yep, you are right. Some near IR wavelengths will be let through the cornea, and you wont have the blink reflex to protect your eye. However, this is slightly misleeding as the vast majority of IR (at wavelenghts a little further from the visable) is safe. Especially at the power levels discussed here.
The only time it decomes dangerous is when the IR light is strong enough to heat the cornea!
For example, at 1.55 microns (wavelength most suited to optical fibre) the British Standard guidelines state the maximum permisable exposure to the eye at this wavelength is the same as skin. In simple laymans terms, it has to be strong enough to burn flesh (skin or eye) before it will damage the eye!
Of couse, the real bastard lasers are UV. A fairly dangerous wavelength (suntan anyone) that you cant see. Not good for your eyes either!
A very important point is that Infra Red light is absorbed by the cornia (outside) of the eye and dosnt penatrate to the retina where it can cause real damage. Visable light does penetrate (obviously) to the retina and WILL fuck your eyes up. I've worked with IR lasers for a few years, they are much safer than visable light devices.
Also saying use of visable light avoids licencing isues is a bit misleading.
As to my knowlage, no country regulates visable, IR or even UV unless in lasers (or other sources) where they may get to the powers likey to cause physical danger (not very relavent here, less so with IR rather than visable light).
Put your hand up if you need a licence for your IR TV remote controal!
Anyway, a practical solution would be to use lasers of differnet wavelengths and swich to the correct one depending on weatehr conditions. EG fog attenuates some wavlengths strongly, rain scatters a differnt set of wavelengths more readily, etc (As a crude example, consider the different wavelenghs reaching your eyes from the sun in these different weather conditions)
This technique of swithing to the most aproprate wavelength for the conditions is used in army laser range finders.
Like the man says CYA, and let the PHB's know you are not happy with doing this
However, if all else fails and you are forced to go ahead, give your PHB a writen statement saying why you are unhappy and that you will refuse to go ahead unless s/he signs a wavier absolving you of responsability if it all goes tits-up.
This is SERIOUSLY nessesary!
Reason being you could be open to legal action for negligence if personal data gets out. Your reputation as sysadmin would be in tatters (good referece huh). Having a bit of paper signed saying you were told to act against your profesional judgement will cover you.
Just asking the PHB for this and saying how concerned will be enough for them to sit up and pay attention. (Before anyone says the boss wont like it, in my experiance it has been enough to make them sit up and act on you are saying so no sig was nessisary. It's something I recommend and have done when I've had no alternative)
UK: How to keep your right to silence. What to say
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Keep this script in your head for when stoped by the police in the UK.
Police: I am arresting you for XYZ. You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention now, anything you later rely on in court. Anything you do say will be given in evidence
You: Exactly what have I been stopped for and how serious is this?
Police: You are being arrested for XYZ, you will be taken to the station and XXXX, you could face YYYY, you are in deep shit sunshine. (they will try to make you nervous)
[Police will then start asking questions]
You: Based on what you have just told me and how serious this is, I belive I shouldn't say anything untill I have spoken to a lawyer
By saying this (getting the copper to say you are in trouble and its serious) and then saying you are sufficiently worried to need legal representation, the police/courts will have a VERY difficult task in being able in infer anything from your silence.
It'll give you a bit of time to see a lawyer and think up excuses!
No, of course not, but showing a DL makes you somewhat accountable
I take it then, the policy of showing a driving licence (What if I don't drive?) has drasticly reduced the theft of pork pies and people punching each other in the dinner line?
(Some people need to get a life and stop invading others privacy for there own power games)
Slashdot Mirror
If an old drive has been running for a long time and is switched of, we've known the bearings to stick (drive wont spin up at all)
The fix is to hold the drive between the palms of your hands (like praying... good analogy :-)) with the axis of the drive between the heals of your hands. Then violently flick your wrists downwards untill your fingertips point to the ground.
The idea is to spin the hard drive casing whilst causing the platters to stay still, so giving the bearings plenty of torque to free them off. It would often be enough to get this thing going again long enough to get the data off it.
But in this case, it sounds like drive mechanics.
Yes this does sound like heads hitting the disk. I've known people physicsly open the drive and poke at the heads (they had skipped off the disk somehow) and get it going long enough to recover data.
Anyway, if the dude has important stuff on this disk I suggest he takes it to a profesional companny who knows what they are doing. You do have backups, dont you?
a broken headbolt at 30,025 miles, 25 over warranty
Eh? :-)
And you never thought to detach the speedo cable and attach it to an electric drill on reverse?
Bloody geeks these days
(At the very least you could have drove in reverse or got a backwards tow to get it back to 29,999.9)
No law prevents putting an image in a HTML e-mail YTC !
The fact the image happens to be served from a server for which I have access to the logs is irelevent. Many people include a photo (as oposed to a 1x1 gif) in a job aplication mail. This image could easily be delivered from a remote server (under your controal) rather than be attached to the e-mail. After all, the remote machine requested that image! (since the user runs a HTML enabled mail client)
Please think before posting !
Internet Protocol Address Verifier? Is this Carnivore in action?"
That'll be a tiny 1x1 pixel gif embeded in a HTML e-mail called from the feds server.(AKA web bug... You cant turn off HTML in M$ LookOut and this dude dosent sound very clued up)
Presto, the feds know who opend the mail how long they looked at it etc etc etc.
A top tip (tm) is to embed a web bug in a job aplication e-mail. Its interseting to watch your aplication being pushed around various departments and see who actually reads it.
I have been going the paperless billing route for like 2 years now, and have never had a problem.
And there my friend, is the very issue
When it works (as it has with you for two years) everything is fine. Its only when things go wrong you realise having a paper trail is a very good idea.
FWIW I've had a problem with BT (British Telecom) internet billing a while back (yes I know, stay with me). Being able to whip out paper copies of all me dealings with them definately helpd resolve the problems I had.
I'm not a ludite, Its just a case of CYA
Are there any jobs in an IT field where I can travel?
Learn to speak Urdu / Hindi.
Plenty of techies are needed to leaise (sp) and the food is bloody excellent.
Anyway, whats wrong with droping out and bumming your way around the world on a motorbike.
And dont give me that 'I cant' crap. Life is not a rehersal
Newham council has always been a bit controvercial with regards to technology.
A few years ago they caused a big stink by installing a face recognition CCTV system all over the town. See here
It's that kind of flawed logic that produces these bunk survey results in the first place.
You sir, are right.
I humbly stand corrected
The report is based on a randomized, national phone survey of 2,200 adults.
Now, I wonder why a survay carried out in this manner recorded an unusually high number of people responding to spam?
Maybe a truer responce would have been acheved if every time someone told them to fuck off and slammed the phone down they treated this as an 'I dont respond to spam' reply
> I wonder that a study made in January 2003 is > only published in August! Ummm Peer review? Eight months turnaround time is nothing excessive in academia.
I cant beleive I'm the first one to suggest this
Surely it should be a poster of a large black-moustachio'd man with the slogan "Big Brother Is Watching You" undreneath. A poster so constructed that the eyes follow you whearever you walked...
(1984 anyone?)
Try the Corporate Goth website.
Its a site set up by fellow Goths discussing the best ways of addapting something of an alternative lifestyle (lots of peirced and tatted Goths out there) into looking respectable in the corporate bussness world. (We all need a job to fill the space between the nights, to pay for the drugs, the motorcycles and the pointy boots)
The site has many discussions you may find usefull.
My opinion? :-)
If you refuse to employ/talk to me beause of the way I look, then quite frankly it was worth it.
Heh
In the UK we call that square thingy a hash
Do you think C hash has done well here :-P
Will F hash do any better?
(Or does "making a hash of it" get lost in the translation?)
Even if there sole purpose is to stop the muppet next to you with a walkman singing "Whats a glove got to do with it"
Again, it was not a threat, it was a warning
This still amounts to censorship FFS!
The fact remains that only US controaled media will be able to broadcast out of Iraq via sattelite. (I'm assuming land-lines will be taken out first). Censorship may or may not be intentional, but the fact is its happening.
ALL news will be censored since the pentegon have said unauthoriesd satellie broadcasts (including those from journalists) will be targets. Read this from Kate Adie. (Kate Adie is a BBC reporter who covered the last gulf war and is regared very highly in the UK)
If the US blocks all outside broardcasts we can only wait until after the war to see anything like the truth. Censorship sucks.
I have actually heard a high placed member of the Bush administration threaten to attack 'un-authorized' satelite links.
Yes this is true. :-) But they do link in to the transcripts.
First quote I have found is here
Not that the regester is known for unbiased reporting
read about what really happened in the history books
Sorry dude .sig says it all
History books are written by the winners (and those who want to influance the young) and can be very biased.
eg Many history books fail to mention the staggering numbers of civilians killed when allies carpet bombed German cities in WW2.
You certainly wont find a US history book that mentions Regans bombing of Tripolli in the 80's nor will kids be tought about the US embarasment in Somallia. Simerly, here in Britain very little is tought to children about the history of Northen Irelend and the problems there. "History as we know it is a lie"
I think my
if anything happens she can sell the ring and live for a month
Very wrong unfortunately.
Diamonds have absoulutely no resale value worth speeking of. Have a look at this slashdot story
Yes a diamond could be used as a bribe, but you certainly can't live for a month on one.
Gold might be slightly better. Most jewlers will readily give money for 'scrap gold'. Althouh most survivalists will tell you how useless gold Kruger rands /soverigns etc are. Most banks wont accept them and jewlers will often just give 'scrap gold' value.
If you want jewlry as an emergency money source, try a necklace made of gold segments (or heavy gold chain) The segments can be broken off individually and sold / used for bribes.
At my university the main campus network isn't behind a firewall and is wide open to the net (at least, not any firewall worth speaking of).
However, the accomodation network (dorms / halls whatever you call 'em) is behind the great firewall of doom.
The idea being the private machines in the acomodation network are the only machines in the entire university that the sysadmins have no controal over (and are likely to be lusers unpatched windows boxes). Thus only these are firewalled.
Admitedly, my university takes this policy to extreams. In the accomodation network only ports 80 and 22 arn't blocked. Anyone wanting e-mail access or access to there home directorys has to SSH/SFTP to a unix box on the main campus network. This isn't as difficult as it sounds for windows using newbies. Many use graphical SFTP clients to get files and know how to SSH to a unix box to run pine.
A lot of infrared (IR) lasers (common examples are Nd:YAG or Ti:sapphire) operate in the near infrared
Yep, you are right. Some near IR wavelengths will be let through the cornea, and you wont have the blink reflex to protect your eye. However, this is slightly misleeding as the vast majority of IR (at wavelenghts a little further from the visable) is safe. Especially at the power levels discussed here.
The only time it decomes dangerous is when the IR light is strong enough to heat the cornea!
For example, at 1.55 microns (wavelength most suited to optical fibre) the British Standard guidelines state the maximum permisable exposure to the eye at this wavelength is the same as skin. In simple laymans terms, it has to be strong enough to burn flesh (skin or eye) before it will damage the eye!
Of couse, the real bastard lasers are UV. A fairly dangerous wavelength (suntan anyone) that you cant see. Not good for your eyes either!
A very important point is that Infra Red light is absorbed by the cornia (outside) of the eye and dosnt penatrate to the retina where it can cause real damage. Visable light does penetrate (obviously) to the retina and WILL fuck your eyes up. I've worked with IR lasers for a few years, they are much safer than visable light devices.
Also saying use of visable light avoids licencing isues is a bit misleading.
As to my knowlage, no country regulates visable, IR or even UV unless in lasers (or other sources) where they may get to the powers likey to cause physical danger (not very relavent here, less so with IR rather than visable light).
Put your hand up if you need a licence for your IR TV remote controal!
Anyway, a practical solution would be to use lasers of differnet wavelengths and swich to the correct one depending on weatehr conditions. EG fog attenuates some wavlengths strongly, rain scatters a differnt set of wavelengths more readily, etc (As a crude example, consider the different wavelenghs reaching your eyes from the sun in these different weather conditions)
This technique of swithing to the most aproprate wavelength for the conditions is used in army laser range finders.
Like the man says CYA, and let the PHB's know you are not happy with doing this
However, if all else fails and you are forced to go ahead, give your PHB a writen statement saying why you are unhappy and that you will refuse to go ahead unless s/he signs a wavier absolving you of responsability if it all goes tits-up.
This is SERIOUSLY nessesary!
Reason being you could be open to legal action for negligence if personal data gets out. Your reputation as sysadmin would be in tatters (good referece huh). Having a bit of paper signed saying you were told to act against your profesional judgement will cover you.
Just asking the PHB for this and saying how concerned will be enough for them to sit up and pay attention. (Before anyone says the boss wont like it, in my experiance it has been enough to make them sit up and act on you are saying so no sig was nessisary. It's something I recommend and have done when I've had no alternative)
Keep this script in your head for when stoped by the police in the UK.
Police: I am arresting you for XYZ. You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention now, anything you later rely on in court. Anything you do say will be given in evidence
You: Exactly what have I been stopped for and how serious is this?
Police: You are being arrested for XYZ, you will be taken to the station and XXXX, you could face YYYY, you are in deep shit sunshine. (they will try to make you nervous)
[Police will then start asking questions]
You: Based on what you have just told me and how serious this is, I belive I shouldn't say anything untill I have spoken to a lawyer
By saying this (getting the copper to say you are in trouble and its serious) and then saying you are sufficiently worried to need legal representation, the police/courts will have a VERY difficult task in being able in infer anything from your silence.
It'll give you a bit of time to see a lawyer and think up excuses!
No, of course not, but showing a DL makes you somewhat accountable
I take it then, the policy of showing a driving licence (What if I don't drive?) has drasticly reduced the theft of pork pies and people punching each other in the dinner line?
(Some people need to get a life and stop invading others privacy for there own power games)