Any one know what size hard drive this thing will use? If it is a standard 3.5", they could drastically shrink it if they went with those Toshiba hard drives that are 0.85". Would also decrease power consumption too.
I see a market for these as portable testing tools. Like a FLUKE or something similar. Especially if they add a laptop battery to it.
Two ways to recover data from an 'Unbootable Drive'.
#1 Install it as a secondary drive on a computer that has a bootable drive. Asuming the File Alocation Tables have not been overwriten, you can read the data as usuall. Also assuming that the windows permisions let you do this. I have known some NTFS drives that won't let you, but that is fixable with a software program I think.
#2 Same way you recover information after a hard drive crash. Take it to the people that do the pro recovery.
Since it has been said that it only overwrites the first few sectors, sounds like only the boot sector is affected. If the it is running a FAT file system, the FAT tables may get overwritten, bu the data is still recoverable (try using the 'scandisk/F' command I think it is for recovery). From what I understand of NTFS, the FAT table is spread over the drive, so it shouldn't be affected by it as much. Still, everything should be recoverable easily (relatively speaking). It's not as if the data was overwritten.
Indeed, Baldazo said, one of the freelancers whose work is being cut lives in India, which is certainly a perfect piece of irony to use as the ending to this story, is it not?
I hate to spoil the endint, but I think that quote pretty much debunks his claim it isn't about money.
What RF? This is all Electro Magnetism. No radio waves to speak of at all from this stuff. If he built a full size replica of the original tesla coil, that still wouldn't do much to a human. (FYI, I have seen that one in action people. The faraday cage is to protect the computers from rebooting.) About the only thing I would be woried about is my watch going caput. Or my computers rebooting on me.
Step 1) Place all votes for each person in their own pile.
Step 2) Bundle all votes (ruber bands) in stacks of 10 or 20 or some small number.
Step 3) Bundle the bundles from Step 2 in sucesively larger bundles until it is easy to count.
Am I the only one young enough to remember those blocks in elementary where they teach you how to count? The 1's brick, the 10's stick, the 100's square. That is similar to how they count money at banks. Bundle 100 bills together, easier to count.
As I recall, there was a Presidential Election in which the news, reporting on the election, declared a winner with several hours left to go in the process. (Dewey vs. Truman?). And there was a result of people not voting. Enough that the election could have gone the other way. By the way, if those are the right names, the news said Dewey won, and Truman did.
Microsoft's not that stupid. They'd likely shutter the MSN Messenger operation and transition its userbase over to AIM.
We are talking a company that took 6 years to get rid of a setting in Outlook that automatically opened any file attachments. And you couldn't disable it.
More likely, they would rename MSN instant messange to AOL instant messenger. And the next "Upgrade" would be MSN in AIM clothing. At best.
But I wonder how long the time lag will be between the probe finding life, and a leak in the radioactive heater wiping all of it out."
If we can make a reactor that can go up on a rocket, have the rocket explode half way up, and be able to recover the nuclear material from the reactor INTACT without having any of it spread around the world, then we can make a heater that WILL NOT LEAK.
FirstWare Vault also creates a hidden partition on the hard drive.
I wonder if it is possible to delete the partition if someone actually wanted to? I guess not from what it says. Also, Can Linux be run on these with out a hacked BIOS?
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Mechanics (Dealer or not), are not always able to diagnos a problem easily. My dad had a problem with a Maverick way back in '83 or '84. My dad had toaken the maverick to the mechanics I don't know how many times. Now, my grandfather and uncle (uncle not related), take a look under the hood. My grandfather is trying to figure out what is going on, and he has problems, and he was qutite good with cars. My uncle (who is not mechanically inclined in ANY WAY whatso ever, and in fact has a worse time than most) takes a look in the car and says "Is that wire supposed to be loose?" (Problem Solved).
I highly doubt the maverick had a computer in it.
The computers have just made the mechanics rely more on what they say, rather than what their eyes tell them. They need to ignore the computers, and just take a look around the car. Kind of like debuging a computer program that won't do what you want it to do.
With the codes to your DVD, you can make unlimited copies, and do anything and everything with them.
I don't need the codes to copy the DVD. If I copy it bit for bit while it is still encrypted, and put the copy in a computer or DVD palyer, the computer or DVD player won't be able to tell the difference. Hence, the encryption isn't even copy protection. Just playback protection (control).
Maybe we will get lucky and only have a small asteroid strike. You know, like one that will only kill everyone in New York City? Maybe then people might listen without have killed too many people and caused too much damage.
Water Impact:
An ateroid hit the (Pacific/Atlantic, your choice) today causing 1,000 foor (300 meter) tidal waves along the coastlines of all the continents (unless it was in the atlantic, in which Australia is safe). Millions of people were drowned as the water went 10's (100's?) of miles inland causing flooding and destruction of everything in it's path. Need I go on about what a 30' (10 meter) Tsunami can do? Much less one 30 times taller, occuring all over the ocean at once? Entire Islands would go under, possibly entire contries (Carribean, New Zealand, Japan, etc...). The only place that would be safe would be the mountains (Like the Rockies the Andes,and the Alps). Plus what all that water vapor would do.
Actually, the CS department is moving over to Java. But the Engineering is still in C. Mostly, this is because all the tools that are written use C (and in some cases a little C++).
Obviously this guy has never been in an Engineering College lately. We are still learning C. Not C++, Not C#, Not Java, C. As in where you have to declare all your variables at the very beginning and can't declare them anywhere else. It's how we program microprocessors (among other things) in something other than assembly. And I highly doubt they will make a Java compiler for PICs, Motorolla HC11 and HC12's and various other devices any time soon. Besides, I here places are still looking for COBOL and FORTRAN programmers. Seeing as how those two are still here, C still has a long way to go before the white lillies come around.
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Any one know what size hard drive this thing will use? If it is a standard 3.5", they could drastically shrink it if they went with those Toshiba hard drives that are 0.85". Would also decrease power consumption too.
I see a market for these as portable testing tools. Like a FLUKE or something similar. Especially if they add a laptop battery to it.
Boot sector+ (possibly) File Allocation Tables
Two ways to recover data from an 'Unbootable Drive'.
/F' command I think it is for recovery). From what I understand of NTFS, the FAT table is spread over the drive, so it shouldn't be affected by it as much. Still, everything should be recoverable easily (relatively speaking). It's not as if the data was overwritten.
#1 Install it as a secondary drive on a computer that has a bootable drive. Asuming the File Alocation Tables have not been overwriten, you can read the data as usuall. Also assuming that the windows permisions let you do this. I have known some NTFS drives that won't let you, but that is fixable with a software program I think.
#2 Same way you recover information after a hard drive crash. Take it to the people that do the pro recovery.
Since it has been said that it only overwrites the first few sectors, sounds like only the boot sector is affected. If the it is running a FAT file system, the FAT tables may get overwritten, bu the data is still recoverable (try using the 'scandisk
Indeed, Baldazo said, one of the freelancers whose work is being cut lives in India, which is certainly a perfect piece of irony to use as the ending to this story, is it not?
I hate to spoil the endint, but I think that quote pretty much debunks his claim it isn't about money.
Here is a link to a site on Tesla Coils, since so many of you seem to be interested in them.
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/
Link on the RFID Cash Original: http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode. html
Sequel:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/180304_RFID_article.ht ml
What RF? This is all Electro Magnetism. No radio waves to speak of at all from this stuff. If he built a full size replica of the original tesla coil, that still wouldn't do much to a human. (FYI, I have seen that one in action people. The faraday cage is to protect the computers from rebooting.) About the only thing I would be woried about is my watch going caput. Or my computers rebooting on me.
Step 1) Place all votes for each person in their own pile.
Step 2) Bundle all votes (ruber bands) in stacks of 10 or 20 or some small number.
Step 3) Bundle the bundles from Step 2 in sucesively larger bundles until it is easy to count.
Am I the only one young enough to remember those blocks in elementary where they teach you how to count? The 1's brick, the 10's stick, the 100's square. That is similar to how they count money at banks. Bundle 100 bills together, easier to count.
As I recall, there was a Presidential Election in which the news, reporting on the election, declared a winner with several hours left to go in the process. (Dewey vs. Truman?). And there was a result of people not voting. Enough that the election could have gone the other way. By the way, if those are the right names, the news said Dewey won, and Truman did.
Yet another reason why I want space colonization to begin so I can get off this mud ball.
Microsoft's not that stupid. They'd likely shutter the MSN Messenger operation and transition its userbase over to AIM.
We are talking a company that took 6 years to get rid of a setting in Outlook that automatically opened any file attachments. And you couldn't disable it.
More likely, they would rename MSN instant messange to AOL instant messenger. And the next "Upgrade" would be MSN in AIM clothing. At best.
Hook politicians up to this during a debate. See what they are really thinking when they are not speaking.
VNC will do the job. I can look at my computer from home, while it is at school. 500 miles away.
But I wonder how long the time lag will be between the probe finding life, and a leak in the radioactive heater wiping all of it out."
If we can make a reactor that can go up on a rocket, have the rocket explode half way up, and be able to recover the nuclear material from the reactor INTACT without having any of it spread around the world, then we can make a heater that WILL NOT LEAK.
FirstWare Vault also creates a hidden partition on the hard drive.
I wonder if it is possible to delete the partition if someone actually wanted to? I guess not from what it says. Also, Can Linux be run on these with out a hacked BIOS?
Pens, Pencils, Erasers, Skotch Tape, Duct Ta[e, Books, Lights, Batteries, Paper, NoteBooks, Chairs, Tables, Sofas, Rugs, Houses, Shovels, Wheelbarrows, Yard Equipments, Food, Plants, Pets, Cups, Silverware, Blenders, Refridgerator, Plates, Lugage, Clothing (imagine a piece of clothing with an auto-remove command that can be used remotely, and someone got the root password), Bicycles, Beds, Binders, I'm quitting nw since I'm getting bored of listing this stuff.
Mechanics (Dealer or not), are not always able to diagnos a problem easily. My dad had a problem with a Maverick way back in '83 or '84. My dad had toaken the maverick to the mechanics I don't know how many times. Now, my grandfather and uncle (uncle not related), take a look under the hood. My grandfather is trying to figure out what is going on, and he has problems, and he was qutite good with cars. My uncle (who is not mechanically inclined in ANY WAY whatso ever, and in fact has a worse time than most) takes a look in the car and says "Is that wire supposed to be loose?" (Problem Solved).
I highly doubt the maverick had a computer in it.
The computers have just made the mechanics rely more on what they say, rather than what their eyes tell them. They need to ignore the computers, and just take a look around the car. Kind of like debuging a computer program that won't do what you want it to do.
With the codes to your DVD, you can make unlimited copies, and do anything and everything with them.
I don't need the codes to copy the DVD. If I copy it bit for bit while it is still encrypted, and put the copy in a computer or DVD palyer, the computer or DVD player won't be able to tell the difference. Hence, the encryption isn't even copy protection. Just playback protection (control).
So when does C++++ (or C+4,C4+ come out?).
Maybe we will get lucky and only have a small asteroid strike. You know, like one that will only kill everyone in New York City? Maybe then people might listen without have killed too many people and caused too much damage.
News Flash:
An asteroid has just hit Affrica and wiped out 90% of it's population. (There goes famine.) The impact has also spewed massive ammounts of dust into the atmosphere and Global Tempertures are dropping (so much for global warming) and we are expecting winter to last for several years. () We are expecting most plantlife on the planet to die off due to lack of sunlight from the dust, and a mass extinction of animals from starvation after that. (ah well, no more animals, no more animal rights activists.) Humanity is expected to follow suit being unable to feed enough of it's population due to not being able to grow anything. Wars develope over the remaining food supplies and total anihaltion results, or some survive and we are back in the stone age.
Water Impact:
An ateroid hit the (Pacific/Atlantic, your choice) today causing 1,000 foor (300 meter) tidal waves along the coastlines of all the continents (unless it was in the atlantic, in which Australia is safe). Millions of people were drowned as the water went 10's (100's?) of miles inland causing flooding and destruction of everything in it's path. Need I go on about what a 30' (10 meter) Tsunami can do? Much less one 30 times taller, occuring all over the ocean at once? Entire Islands would go under, possibly entire contries (Carribean, New Zealand, Japan, etc...). The only place that would be safe would be the mountains (Like the Rockies the Andes,and the Alps). Plus what all that water vapor would do.
It wasn't the teacher that told me I couldn't do that, it was the compiler/assembler. Ever try arguing with one of those?
Actually, the CS department is moving over to Java. But the Engineering is still in C. Mostly, this is because all the tools that are written use C (and in some cases a little C++).
Obviously this guy has never been in an Engineering College lately. We are still learning C. Not C++, Not C#, Not Java, C. As in where you have to declare all your variables at the very beginning and can't declare them anywhere else. It's how we program microprocessors (among other things) in something other than assembly. And I highly doubt they will make a Java compiler for PICs, Motorolla HC11 and HC12's and various other devices any time soon. Besides, I here places are still looking for COBOL and FORTRAN programmers. Seeing as how those two are still here, C still has a long way to go before the white lillies come around.
Considering 34%+19%+10%=63%, who controls the other 37%? And mind you that unacounted for percentage is larger than the Windows Media Player share.