The 17" form factor has turned out to be slightly cumbersome to transport... not that I have a MBP. My laptop is not TOO much bigger though.
I have a 17" MBP yet I want a bigger one. Before I got it I saw a laptop in a Best Buy with a 21" LCD and almost started drooling. If Apple released a 21" MBP I'd be in line waiting to get one. And yes I take the one I have with me. I like hiking and if I can't carry the weight of my MBP then I'm in bad shape. The one thing that concerns me is the possibility of damaging it while carrying it. With padding though the possibility is reduced. Now I want to get a new backpack that's big enough to carry my laptop and my camera equipment, instead of carrying two bags.
The next day, I received an email from Apple letting me know that they were sending me the new 15GB model, not the 10GB I'd ordered.
Something like this happened to a friend a long, long tyme ago. Back then someone I knew bought a new PC from Zenith, yes they used to make PCs but then sold the devision to Group Bull in France. After he bought the PC Zenith dropped their prices and a couple of weeks later Zenith sent him a refund for the difference between what he paid and the new price.
I bought my mac desktop 5 years ago and they've upgraded it since then 3-4 times including changing processors AND operating systems on me, why shouldn't I get an upgrade discount on that?
I've had my MacBook Pro almost 2 years and when I can I'll order a new one. Then after I migrate my data I'll go ahead and list the old MBP on eBay. Right now there's one listed with a 2.33GHz CPU with the last bid at $1400, mine is 2.4GHz.
If you think OS X runs fine on a G4 _anything_ you're in no position to be criticising Vista's performance.
I offer evidence which you slam as a straw man but offer none yourself. The link you do provide only says the class action status was slapped down not the lawsuit itself. The "judge ruled that each PC buyer has to bring his or her own legal action in order to seek damages from Microsoft."
I stand by what I said. Now if you can provide a link saying Apple was also slapped with a lawsuit, I'll evaluate it in which case I may change my mind, unlike some I do change when I am convinced I was wrong. Do you?
The portable music player and smartphone markets weren't hot markets when Apple jumped into them.
As I just said in the post above yours, I worded my reply wrong. Apple looks at a market for something then refines the idea before releasing a hot item.
Usually Apple's initial offerings have fewer features than competitors, not more. They are good at making those features usable to normal people
I call taking a feature and making it more user friendly as adding a feature, user friendliness. And being able to rip a cd and transferring the music to an iPod a feature as well.
That's because they just took a MacBook and slapped a "Pro" sticker on it. It "only" costs $1200 because that's about how much it cost previously.
They did more than just that. There are now two 13" model lines. The regular one is the same as the old but it's price was dropped to $1000. The new 13" MacBook Pro line has a backlit keyboard and Firewire 800. And there are two different ones, one is 2.26GHz, 2GB RAM, 9400M graphics, 160GB hard drive, for $1,119; and the other is 2.53GHz, 4GB, 250GB hard drive model for $1,499.
Both lines were upgraded but the Pro line had more added.
And by "latest beefed up hardware", you mean a somewhat above-average PC
Yea, just like all those PCs that were billed as "Vista Ready" when they weren't, unless you wanted no access to some features. A number of lawsuits were filed over that and at least one gained class action status.
Leopard ran fine on old Macs though, it will run on a PowerPC G4.
With a definition of "run" like that, you have no authority whatsoever to be crticising Vista's performance.
Apple was not slapped with a class action lawsuit, so who has the authority to be criticizing, I certainly wouldn't say it's you.
I absolutely can't stand the glossy, and would have to think long and hard about a future computer that didn't have the matte option.
If you think about it and don't want a glossy screen you can get a film for the display to make it matte, however for those who want a glossy screen there's no way to make a matte screen glossy. Apple should offer a both though.
Can't Apple produce 15" or 13" laptops without that damn glossy display? These mirrors mounted on laptops get really annoying, and I'm not the only one who thinks that non-glossy displays are superior to their allegedly cheaper glossy displays.
While it would be better if Apple offered glossy as well as anti-glare displays some prefer the glossy displays. When I ordered mine I wanted the glossy display, and I had to specifically check it off, the anti-glare was the default when I ordered my MacBook Pro. I heard many say they'd prefer it be anti-glare but I haven't have a problem with the glossy screen. On the other hand if and when I get a larger external LCD monitor I'll probably get a hood for it as well.
However I looked in the Apple store and the 17" isn't even there, just the 13" and 15" are listed. I even searched the store and didn't find it.
Shows up fine for me. It's to the right of the 15"s when you click on MacBook Pro.
Oh, I see it now. Some menu is overlain in front of it. All that's shown is a "select" button, but when I clicked on it nothing happened. Maybe it's a problem with Firefox... Ah, it is. I just tried in Safari and it renders fine.
3) Perhaps they took out the express slot because not enough of their customers wanted it. I have a MacBook Pro and never saw the use for it.
While I don't use the slot in my MBP if I find a card that will drive a high resolution, more than 1920 X 1200, monitor I'd think about getting it. I've been looking for one but the only ones I've found use USB.
How often does a MacBook Pro user replace their battery?
I switch mine every couple of weeks, but perhaps that's because I got two.
You mean a company that gives a good customer experience on a 3" inch can't on a 8" or 10" inch screen? You know that the real reason is margins and bottomline. Not to mention cannibalizing the sales of higher margin Macbooks by people who want the Mac experience.
When did Apple ever release "me too!" products to jump into temporarily hot markets?
iPods and iPhones. However Apple does things differently than others, it takes a basic idea others came out with then adds enough extras to it for people to pay a higher price for it.
I love Apple, but must agree that the new OS X update really does not have any new incredible features I am dying for.
Though I had the Leopard disk I waited almost a year and a half before upgrading to it from Tiger. And the only reason I did was because I wanted to install Java 6, whereas Leopard supports it Tiger doesn't.
The place I think Apple is still blowing it is in the "netbook" space. I will not spend over $1,000 for an Air to just do email and surf the net.
I agree but Apple dropped the price of the 13" MacBook to $1000. They also upgraded one 13" model to MacBook Pro status and are selling it for $1200. It surprised me when Apple dropped $300 from the 17" MacBook Pro price.
They also took out an ExpressCard slot from their MacBook Pros,
While the ExpressCard was dropped from the 15" and there's not one in the new 13" MacBook Pro, the 17" model still has the slot. That new 13 MBP only costs $1200 too.
What was with the Windows-bashing? They didn't even give a reason. All they said was that it's built on top of Vista... well, duh? Snow Leopard is built on top of Leopard.
Whereas Leopard is a good OS Vista sucks. Vista uptake has been slow. When it came out Vista also required the latest beefed up hardware. Leopard ran fine on old Macs though, it will run on a PowerPC G4. While Snow Leopard will not run on PowerPC hardware it will run on 3 year old Intel Macs.
Too many of my friends were turned off by the unnecessary Windows-bashing; I guess if Apple was trying to win over the enterprise crowd, they did a good job of alienating them right from the start.
While Apple pours the Microsoft bashing, anyone who let's marketing and not capability influence them then I don't think their opinion matters much.
The $99 phone is the big news the rest of it is just nice. I like the voice controls, compass, and video but nothing is earth shattering.
I thought that upgrading the 13" MacBook to a MacBook Pro, and dropping the price, was great news. MacBook Pros are now as low as $1200. One article also said the price for the 17" MacBook Pro was dropped from $2800 to $2500 as well as being upgraded also. However I looked in the Apple store and the 17" isn't even there, just the 13" and 15" are listed. I even searched the store and didn't find it.
Whatever you do do not perform any write operations to the target (damaged, older) disk.
I haven't used the PC since I got it back. About all I did was boot it up once or twice. I didn't want to take the change that by using it I would irrevocably lose the data. What I'm thinking of doing is switching the old drive for the new one then booting up. If possible I don't know how to have 3 hard disk drives in the PC so I'd compleatly remove the old one. However I have a USB docking station for sata drives. It will allow me to use the disk as an external drive. Of course using USB will take a long tyme to recover data.
Have your destination drive ready in the chassis. It should be formatted, mounted etc etc so that you can write files to it. There are two schools of thought here, write the damaged drive out as a file (my choice) or as a partition. Go for the file option, it will be simpler for the time being. You will need to use the mount or df command to establish which *device* are present, say as root do
You and others have said to use dd to image the old drive then use the image. Does dd or df format disks or require them to be formated? Quickly googling I see OS X Leopard can use both the dd and df commands in terminal so perhaps I can use my Mac to work on the drive. There's also a Mac version of TestDisk I may also be able to use. However I wonder if using these commands and TestDisk on my Mac will work with ReiserFS partitions on an external drive.
Put the target drive (sata, I'm guessing) on an internal interface for speed - usb will be too slow and may try to auto mount the fs on the drive. Restart the machine.
Oh, I see you suggest not to use USB but to install it internally. I'd have to do more research to see how to install a third disk if it's possible. I imagine it is because Apple sells Mac Pros with up to 4 hard disks. I imagine I'd have to edit fstab before installing it though so Linux doesn't automatically try to mount the drive. If I use the docking station hooked to my Mac though I can tell it to not mount or dismount the disk.
I'd encourage you to go for broke and see if you can replay the old journal
I'd like that. Unfortunately I'll probably have a problem with the next part:
sure you won't have any file names - just unattached inodes
A lot of the data and files I have on the disk are webpages I saved on my disks. Though I don't do research as much as I used to when I come across info I want to keep I'll save it. For instance I read in the IEEE's magazine "Spectrum" and article "A Broadband Utopia" about how a group of cities in northeastern Utah joined together to build a broadband infrastructure. I found the article online, you have to be a member or buy it in order to read it online now but it used to be free, so I saved it.
Because of this if the file names are not recovered it would take a long tyme to rebuild the documents, webpages. Others I saved were how people in various locations, whether Central America or Africa, were able to pottery to decontaminate and kill pathogens in water so it was potable. Being webpages it's likely there will be a number of different files, css, html, and photos among others. That makes for a lot of documents, so I'd like to recover document names. But the big thing is that the docs are recovered, over a period of tyme I could then rebuild them.
Why should we tax consumption as opposed to income or wealth? You claim it's more "fair," but I don't see any particular reason that's the case.
A sales tax is fairer than an income tax because you're taxing consumption not work. And the more you spend the more you pay in taxes. However not all spending should be taxed. Though I didn't say it in this thread before, though I have elsewhere, I would not tax all spending. I wouldn't tax food for instance, or clothes, or medicine. What I would tax is that big 50+inch TV. So those who spend more, usually those with higher income, who pay more in tax while lower income people won't pay as much. Then as I said elsewhere I'd also have use fees or taxes and a pollution tax. For instance the tax on fuel for transportation should pay for roads.
There are three issues here: first, how much does each person "cost" the government? Second, how much should each person pay for that unit of cost, and third, how should we scale that payment?
These may be issues for you but they aren't for me. As far as government is concerned the BIGGEST issue to me is whether or not the government operates within the limits put on it by the Constitution and that it respects Rights. Neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party would have the government stay within it's limits. Democrats would rob Peter to pay Paul, actually so would the Republicans. Democrats focus on social welfare though while Republicans focus on big military and law enforcement as well as telling people what they can do in private even though they aren't harming anyone.
Good filesystem to recover from, I have successfully recovered data from a drive formatted over ReiserFS. For all his quirks, it's a great filesystem. What did they format over it, NTFS I'm guessing?
The reformat was ReiserFS also. The tech allowed the CD install disk to run automatically and use the defaults, and the default format was ReiserFS. So I'm hoping, though I don't know, that the table was only rewritten.
I had more than 500GB on it so I've been looking for something to unformat it and recover the data.
1. get a bigger drive say 1TB.
I now have 2 1.5 TB drives, an internal one I'll use to replace the older drive and an external drive for backups. Back when this happened I couldn't afford an external drive, I still went out on a limb to buy these two drives.
2. dd the raw image of the target drive onto the new drive *do not attempt data recovery off the original disk*, all data recovery is conducted from the dd image.
DD? Does it clone drives or what? Guess I'll look into it.
3. Do you have the original partition information, this can be handy as if you can get these original figure you can use some of the Reiser tools to restore the journal and recover the data
I don't know what the "original partition information" is. Or how to copy it.
4. if you can't use 3, you will need to use a tool (magic rescue comes to mind) to recover files from the drive image based on file types in sweeps.
Reviews for TestDisk say it can restore partition tables, which may make the data accessible. I may use an external drive to copy it to and I imagine it'd take hours to do. Which would be okay if it works.
Fortunately for you you picked reiserFS which is more forgiving that other filesystems. You have lost data, but I rate you chances as pretty high even if some dolt has formatted right over your file systems. It takes a lot of time to do the recoveries so I usually set them up to run in batches over night.
ReiserFS was the default format used by the distro. I imagine it'd take me days to recover my data if I am able to. But I have a lot of tyme and I want the data back so it doesn't matter too much how long it takes.
When you hand over the equipment to be repaired, also hand them a contract to sign saying they will be liable for any costs associated with loss of data or recovery of said data. This contract should specify that it overrides any conflicting "We're not responsible for loss of data" clauses in their standard terms and conditions. PS: Make sure you put **AA inflated values on your data and time. BTW: IANAL but would be interested in one's view on this approach.
I have two problems with this. The first is that the computer was still under warranty. Not only did I not know what was wrong but I would have had to pay for any repairs, and I couldn't afford to. Secondly I didn't then and still don't know of anybody who could repair it. When I bought the PC I also bought a second HDD, the original one was only 40 GB and the one I bought was 750 GB. The store has a repair shop right there and I asked them if they could install the HDD as a second drive and make it the home directory. Not one person there had any experience with Linux and didn't know how to do it. So I tried to install it myself. I got it installed but Linux did not recognize it. I went online and found out Linux had problems with Maxtor drives, which is what it was. So I removed it and returned the drive. I then found another 750 GB drive at Best Buy, the store I bought the PC from was Microcenter. I figured that since the Geek Squad did the computer work at, and was owned by, Best Buy they could install the drive and set it up so it was the home directory for users. Like Microcenter Best Buy didn't have anyone who worked on Linux. So I asked someone that could and was given an address for a Geek Squad. There I was told they would not touch a Linux PC. Back at the Best Buy a tech said he could research it and try to do the install but that I would have to sign a release from damages. An hour later I was headed home with my PC working how I wanted.
While I had to run around to have a second drive installed in a Linux PC, I now know enough to be able to do the research myself. I know it's the fstab file that needs to be edited to tell the OS where to look for the home directory.
The U.S. is becoming increasingly hostile toward business.
After the US gives hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to businesses this must be a jest.
does not attack them with anti-trust
Guess who was the big Trust Buster in US history... Republican Theodore Roosevelt . And guess who gave trusts and monopolies a huge hand... Democrat FDR.
It will only be cheaper in Arizona until the water runs out. AZ gets a lot of it's water from the Colorado River. However the water levels in the reservoirs created by the damming of the river such as Lake Powell and Lake Mead are dropping. Of course because southern CA also gets water from the Colorado River when water prices rise in AZ they will in Southern CA too. All of the water being withdrawn from the river by all 8 states making up the Colorado River Compact is unsustainable.
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The 17" form factor has turned out to be slightly cumbersome to transport... not that I have a MBP. My laptop is not TOO much bigger though.
I have a 17" MBP yet I want a bigger one. Before I got it I saw a laptop in a Best Buy with a 21" LCD and almost started drooling. If Apple released a 21" MBP I'd be in line waiting to get one. And yes I take the one I have with me. I like hiking and if I can't carry the weight of my MBP then I'm in bad shape. The one thing that concerns me is the possibility of damaging it while carrying it. With padding though the possibility is reduced. Now I want to get a new backpack that's big enough to carry my laptop and my camera equipment, instead of carrying two bags.
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The next day, I received an email from Apple letting me know that they were sending me the new 15GB model, not the 10GB I'd ordered.
Something like this happened to a friend a long, long tyme ago. Back then someone I knew bought a new PC from Zenith, yes they used to make PCs but then sold the devision to Group Bull in France. After he bought the PC Zenith dropped their prices and a couple of weeks later Zenith sent him a refund for the difference between what he paid and the new price.
Falcon
I bought my mac desktop 5 years ago and they've upgraded it since then 3-4 times including changing processors AND operating systems on me, why shouldn't I get an upgrade discount on that?
I've had my MacBook Pro almost 2 years and when I can I'll order a new one. Then after I migrate my data I'll go ahead and list the old MBP on eBay. Right now there's one listed with a 2.33GHz CPU with the last bid at $1400, mine is 2.4GHz.
Falcon
If you think OS X runs fine on a G4 _anything_ you're in no position to be criticising Vista's performance.
I offer evidence which you slam as a straw man but offer none yourself. The link you do provide only says the class action status was slapped down not the lawsuit itself. The "judge ruled that each PC buyer has to bring his or her own legal action in order to seek damages from Microsoft."
I stand by what I said. Now if you can provide a link saying Apple was also slapped with a lawsuit, I'll evaluate it in which case I may change my mind, unlike some I do change when I am convinced I was wrong. Do you?
Falcon
The portable music player and smartphone markets weren't hot markets when Apple jumped into them.
As I just said in the post above yours, I worded my reply wrong. Apple looks at a market for something then refines the idea before releasing a hot item.
Usually Apple's initial offerings have fewer features than competitors, not more. They are good at making those features usable to normal people
I call taking a feature and making it more user friendly as adding a feature, user friendliness. And being able to rip a cd and transferring the music to an iPod a feature as well.
Falcon
Apple waits and thinks things out so that it's a good product (iPod) instead of just jumping in with a bullet list of features (Zune).
Perhaps I worded it badly. What I meant was that Apple takes an idea and refines it before releasing a product. Those products then become hot.
Falcon
I guess you didn't notice I gave a link to an article saying they could offer netbooks but I didn't say they should.
Falcon
That's because they just took a MacBook and slapped a "Pro" sticker on it. It "only" costs $1200 because that's about how much it cost previously.
They did more than just that. There are now two 13" model lines. The regular one is the same as the old but it's price was dropped to $1000. The new 13" MacBook Pro line has a backlit keyboard and Firewire 800. And there are two different ones, one is 2.26GHz, 2GB RAM, 9400M graphics, 160GB hard drive, for $1,119; and the other is 2.53GHz, 4GB, 250GB hard drive model for $1,499.
Both lines were upgraded but the Pro line had more added.
And by "latest beefed up hardware", you mean a somewhat above-average PC
Yea, just like all those PCs that were billed as "Vista Ready" when they weren't, unless you wanted no access to some features. A number of lawsuits were filed over that and at least one gained class action status.
Leopard ran fine on old Macs though, it will run on a PowerPC G4.
With a definition of "run" like that, you have no authority whatsoever to be crticising Vista's performance.
Apple was not slapped with a class action lawsuit, so who has the authority to be criticizing, I certainly wouldn't say it's you.
Falcon
I absolutely can't stand the glossy, and would have to think long and hard about a future computer that didn't have the matte option.
If you think about it and don't want a glossy screen you can get a film for the display to make it matte, however for those who want a glossy screen there's no way to make a matte screen glossy. Apple should offer a both though.
Falcon
Can't Apple produce 15" or 13" laptops without that damn glossy display? These mirrors mounted on laptops get really annoying, and I'm not the only one who thinks that non-glossy displays are superior to their allegedly cheaper glossy displays.
While it would be better if Apple offered glossy as well as anti-glare displays some prefer the glossy displays. When I ordered mine I wanted the glossy display, and I had to specifically check it off, the anti-glare was the default when I ordered my MacBook Pro. I heard many say they'd prefer it be anti-glare but I haven't have a problem with the glossy screen. On the other hand if and when I get a larger external LCD monitor I'll probably get a hood for it as well.
Falcon
However I looked in the Apple store and the 17" isn't even there, just the 13" and 15" are listed. I even searched the store and didn't find it.
Shows up fine for me. It's to the right of the 15"s when you click on MacBook Pro.
Oh, I see it now. Some menu is overlain in front of it. All that's shown is a "select" button, but when I clicked on it nothing happened. Maybe it's a problem with Firefox... Ah, it is. I just tried in Safari and it renders fine.
Falcon
3) Perhaps they took out the express slot because not enough of their customers wanted it. I have a MacBook Pro and never saw the use for it.
While I don't use the slot in my MBP if I find a card that will drive a high resolution, more than 1920 X 1200, monitor I'd think about getting it. I've been looking for one but the only ones I've found use USB.
How often does a MacBook Pro user replace their battery?
I switch mine every couple of weeks, but perhaps that's because I got two.
Falcon
You mean a company that gives a good customer experience on a 3" inch can't on a 8" or 10" inch screen? You know that the real reason is margins and bottomline. Not to mention cannibalizing the sales of higher margin Macbooks by people who want the Mac experience.
ComputerWorld has an article that goes over this:
"Apple can make money on $599 netbook, says analyst".
Falcon
When did Apple ever release "me too!" products to jump into temporarily hot markets?
iPods and iPhones. However Apple does things differently than others, it takes a basic idea others came out with then adds enough extras to it for people to pay a higher price for it.
Falcon
I love Apple, but must agree that the new OS X update really does not have any new incredible features I am dying for.
Though I had the Leopard disk I waited almost a year and a half before upgrading to it from Tiger. And the only reason I did was because I wanted to install Java 6, whereas Leopard supports it Tiger doesn't.
The place I think Apple is still blowing it is in the "netbook" space. I will not spend over $1,000 for an Air to just do email and surf the net.
I agree but Apple dropped the price of the 13" MacBook to $1000. They also upgraded one 13" model to MacBook Pro status and are selling it for $1200. It surprised me when Apple dropped $300 from the 17" MacBook Pro price.
Falcon
They also took out an ExpressCard slot from their MacBook Pros,
While the ExpressCard was dropped from the 15" and there's not one in the new 13" MacBook Pro, the 17" model still has the slot. That new 13 MBP only costs $1200 too.
What was with the Windows-bashing? They didn't even give a reason. All they said was that it's built on top of Vista... well, duh? Snow Leopard is built on top of Leopard.
Whereas Leopard is a good OS Vista sucks. Vista uptake has been slow. When it came out Vista also required the latest beefed up hardware. Leopard ran fine on old Macs though, it will run on a PowerPC G4. While Snow Leopard will not run on PowerPC hardware it will run on 3 year old Intel Macs.
Too many of my friends were turned off by the unnecessary Windows-bashing; I guess if Apple was trying to win over the enterprise crowd, they did a good job of alienating them right from the start.
While Apple pours the Microsoft bashing, anyone who let's marketing and not capability influence them then I don't think their opinion matters much.
Falcon
The $99 phone is the big news the rest of it is just nice. I like the voice controls, compass, and video but nothing is earth shattering.
I thought that upgrading the 13" MacBook to a MacBook Pro, and dropping the price, was great news. MacBook Pros are now as low as $1200. One article also said the price for the 17" MacBook Pro was dropped from $2800 to $2500 as well as being upgraded also. However I looked in the Apple store and the 17" isn't even there, just the 13" and 15" are listed. I even searched the store and didn't find it.
Falcon
Though your dig against Apple for their slow to come Java updates is not unfounded
It took way too long for Java 6 to be available for Macs, and it requires Leopard. Apple also made it hard to find the download.
Falcon
Whatever you do do not perform any write operations to the target (damaged, older) disk.
I haven't used the PC since I got it back. About all I did was boot it up once or twice. I didn't want to take the change that by using it I would irrevocably lose the data. What I'm thinking of doing is switching the old drive for the new one then booting up. If possible I don't know how to have 3 hard disk drives in the PC so I'd compleatly remove the old one. However I have a USB docking station for sata drives. It will allow me to use the disk as an external drive. Of course using USB will take a long tyme to recover data.
Have your destination drive ready in the chassis. It should be formatted, mounted etc etc so that you can write files to it. There are two schools of thought here, write the damaged drive out as a file (my choice) or as a partition. Go for the file option, it will be simpler for the time being. You will need to use the mount or df command to establish which *device* are present, say as root do
You and others have said to use dd to image the old drive then use the image. Does dd or df format disks or require them to be formated? Quickly googling I see OS X Leopard can use both the dd and df commands in terminal so perhaps I can use my Mac to work on the drive. There's also a Mac version of TestDisk I may also be able to use. However I wonder if using these commands and TestDisk on my Mac will work with ReiserFS partitions on an external drive.
Put the target drive (sata, I'm guessing) on an internal interface for speed - usb will be too slow and may try to auto mount the fs on the drive. Restart the machine.
Oh, I see you suggest not to use USB but to install it internally. I'd have to do more research to see how to install a third disk if it's possible. I imagine it is because Apple sells Mac Pros with up to 4 hard disks. I imagine I'd have to edit fstab before installing it though so Linux doesn't automatically try to mount the drive. If I use the docking station hooked to my Mac though I can tell it to not mount or dismount the disk.
I'd encourage you to go for broke and see if you can replay the old journal
I'd like that. Unfortunately I'll probably have a problem with the next part:
sure you won't have any file names - just unattached inodes
A lot of the data and files I have on the disk are webpages I saved on my disks. Though I don't do research as much as I used to when I come across info I want to keep I'll save it. For instance I read in the IEEE's magazine "Spectrum" and article "A Broadband Utopia" about how a group of cities in northeastern Utah joined together to build a broadband infrastructure. I found the article online, you have to be a member or buy it in order to read it online now but it used to be free, so I saved it.
Because of this if the file names are not recovered it would take a long tyme to rebuild the documents, webpages. Others I saved were how people in various locations, whether Central America or Africa, were able to pottery to decontaminate and kill pathogens in water so it was potable. Being webpages it's likely there will be a number of different files, css, html, and photos among others. That makes for a lot of documents, so I'd like to recover document names. But the big thing is that the docs are recovered, over a period of tyme I could then rebuild them.
Falcon
Nowhere have you justified your point either.
Falcon
Why should we tax consumption as opposed to income or wealth? You claim it's more "fair," but I don't see any particular reason that's the case.
A sales tax is fairer than an income tax because you're taxing consumption not work. And the more you spend the more you pay in taxes. However not all spending should be taxed. Though I didn't say it in this thread before, though I have elsewhere, I would not tax all spending. I wouldn't tax food for instance, or clothes, or medicine. What I would tax is that big 50+inch TV. So those who spend more, usually those with higher income, who pay more in tax while lower income people won't pay as much. Then as I said elsewhere I'd also have use fees or taxes and a pollution tax. For instance the tax on fuel for transportation should pay for roads.
There are three issues here: first, how much does each person "cost" the government? Second, how much should each person pay for that unit of cost, and third, how should we scale that payment?
These may be issues for you but they aren't for me. As far as government is concerned the BIGGEST issue to me is whether or not the government operates within the limits put on it by the Constitution and that it respects Rights. Neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party would have the government stay within it's limits. Democrats would rob Peter to pay Paul, actually so would the Republicans. Democrats focus on social welfare though while Republicans focus on big military and law enforcement as well as telling people what they can do in private even though they aren't harming anyone.
Falcon
ReiserFS,
Good filesystem to recover from, I have successfully recovered data from a drive formatted over ReiserFS. For all his quirks, it's a great filesystem. What did they format over it, NTFS I'm guessing?
The reformat was ReiserFS also. The tech allowed the CD install disk to run automatically and use the defaults, and the default format was ReiserFS. So I'm hoping, though I don't know, that the table was only rewritten.
I had more than 500GB on it so I've been looking for something to unformat it and recover the data.
1. get a bigger drive say 1TB.
I now have 2 1.5 TB drives, an internal one I'll use to replace the older drive and an external drive for backups. Back when this happened I couldn't afford an external drive, I still went out on a limb to buy these two drives.
2. dd the raw image of the target drive onto the new drive *do not attempt data recovery off the original disk*, all data recovery is conducted from the dd image.
DD? Does it clone drives or what? Guess I'll look into it.
3. Do you have the original partition information, this can be handy as if you can get these original figure you can use some of the Reiser tools to restore the journal and recover the data
I don't know what the "original partition information" is. Or how to copy it.
4. if you can't use 3, you will need to use a tool (magic rescue comes to mind) to recover files from the drive image based on file types in sweeps.
Reviews for TestDisk say it can restore partition tables, which may make the data accessible. I may use an external drive to copy it to and I imagine it'd take hours to do. Which would be okay if it works.
Fortunately for you you picked reiserFS which is more forgiving that other filesystems. You have lost data, but I rate you chances as pretty high even if some dolt has formatted right over your file systems. It takes a lot of time to do the recoveries so I usually set them up to run in batches over night.
ReiserFS was the default format used by the distro. I imagine it'd take me days to recover my data if I am able to. But I have a lot of tyme and I want the data back so it doesn't matter too much how long it takes.
Good Luck!!!!!
Thanks!
Falcon
When you hand over the equipment to be repaired, also hand them a contract to sign saying they will be liable for any costs associated with loss of data or recovery of said data. This contract should specify that it overrides any conflicting "We're not responsible for loss of data" clauses in their standard terms and conditions. PS: Make sure you put **AA inflated values on your data and time. BTW: IANAL but would be interested in one's view on this approach.
I have two problems with this. The first is that the computer was still under warranty. Not only did I not know what was wrong but I would have had to pay for any repairs, and I couldn't afford to. Secondly I didn't then and still don't know of anybody who could repair it. When I bought the PC I also bought a second HDD, the original one was only 40 GB and the one I bought was 750 GB. The store has a repair shop right there and I asked them if they could install the HDD as a second drive and make it the home directory. Not one person there had any experience with Linux and didn't know how to do it. So I tried to install it myself. I got it installed but Linux did not recognize it. I went online and found out Linux had problems with Maxtor drives, which is what it was. So I removed it and returned the drive. I then found another 750 GB drive at Best Buy, the store I bought the PC from was Microcenter. I figured that since the Geek Squad did the computer work at, and was owned by, Best Buy they could install the drive and set it up so it was the home directory for users. Like Microcenter Best Buy didn't have anyone who worked on Linux. So I asked someone that could and was given an address for a Geek Squad. There I was told they would not touch a Linux PC. Back at the Best Buy a tech said he could research it and try to do the install but that I would have to sign a release from damages. An hour later I was headed home with my PC working how I wanted.
While I had to run around to have a second drive installed in a Linux PC, I now know enough to be able to do the research myself. I know it's the fstab file that needs to be edited to tell the OS where to look for the home directory.
Falcon
The U.S. is becoming increasingly hostile toward business.
After the US gives hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to businesses this must be a jest.
does not attack them with anti-trust
Guess who was the big Trust Buster in US history... Republican Theodore Roosevelt . And guess who gave trusts and monopolies a huge hand... Democrat FDR.
Falcon
they decided to move to a cheaper state.
It will only be cheaper in Arizona until the water runs out. AZ gets a lot of it's water from the Colorado River. However the water levels in the reservoirs created by the damming of the river such as Lake Powell and Lake Mead are dropping. Of course because southern CA also gets water from the Colorado River when water prices rise in AZ they will in Southern CA too. All of the water being withdrawn from the river by all 8 states making up the Colorado River Compact is unsustainable.
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