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>> Philip,
>>
>> do you realise that you were directly responsible for me spending my
>> entire afternoon looking up the Wikipedia entries for Erasure, Depeche
>> Mode, Shamen, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Beth Orton, William
>> Orbit, house, acid house, trance, rave, and two dozen other articles?!
>
> I'm just a little ray of sunshine bringing hours of time-wasting fun to
> the world.
TY. :-P
> At the moment I have the Ting Tings, Chris Isaak, and TATU
> competing in my head; but can you guess the songs? :-P
Waaaah??
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:33:05 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null>
wrote:
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>> At the moment I have the Ting Tings, Chris Isaak, and TATU
>> competing in my head; but can you guess the songs? :-P
>
>Waaaah??
Get your own back by thinking about "The dambusters march"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uq_V3dOnhc
:-)
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Stephen
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Phillip, do you realise that you were directly responsible for me
> spending my entire afternoon looking up the Wikipedia entries for
> Erasure, Depeche Mode, Shamen, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Beth
> Orton, William Orbit, house, acid house, trance, rave, and two dozen
> other articles?!
...and I just received this in an email:
http://www.native-instruments.de/index.php?id=vinceclarke&L=1&ftu=478893cd98b030d
Were it not for the above readings, I would have *no idea* who this guy
is...
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:45:38 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>> Uh... like, WTF?
>>
>> I mean, sure, if you take the drive apart and crawl over it with a
>> microscope, you can recover data. But who the **** is going to bother?
>> It's not like you could recover any particularly valuable data.
>
> There are some very good forensic tools available to the general public
> that make it possible to recover a fair amount of data from a wiped drive.
>
I concur. A while back I was looking up info about wiping drives and
found something freely available that purported to pull data from wiped
drives. Alas, it was not my goal to recover anything so I didn't keep
the link.
Tom
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:15:06 -0400, Tom Austin wrote:
> I concur. A while back I was looking up info about wiping drives and
> found something freely available that purported to pull data from wiped
> drives. Alas, it was not my goal to recover anything so I didn't keep
> the link.
Are you maybe thinking of Spinrite? I'd used that in the past (and had
since forgotten about it). If I hadn't cooked the electronics on the USB
interface for the drive I have that just croaked, I might be inclined to
give that a try...
But apparently the USB interface is toast as well. <sigh>
I do recall using Spinrite in the past and it actually was able to
recover things that I thought were unrecoverable. I wonder what it would
do with a zeroed drive.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I do recall using Spinrite in the past and it actually was able to
> recover things that I thought were unrecoverable.
I had understood spinrite was for recovering/fixing/testing drives that
had failures on them, like lost formatting or flakey electronics. I
wouldn't think if the drive was working then you could get much out of
it other than what you last wrote (without opening it up). I mean,
pretty much, isn't that how a drive is *supposed* to work? Give you back
reliably what you most recently wrote to a sector?
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:29 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I do recall using Spinrite in the past and it actually was able to
>> recover things that I thought were unrecoverable.
>
> I had understood spinrite was for recovering/fixing/testing drives that
> had failures on them, like lost formatting or flakey electronics. I
> wouldn't think if the drive was working then you could get much out of
> it other than what you last wrote (without opening it up). I mean,
> pretty much, isn't that how a drive is *supposed* to work? Give you back
> reliably what you most recently wrote to a sector?
I don't know - I've not looked at it in 10 years. Version 6 has been out
for a while, but I haven't looked at it in depth.
Zeroing a drive could conceivably be seen as just not completely erasing
the magnetic fields, though, so in that specific case, even the older
version might find something.
Jim
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:26:53 +0300, Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethis zbxt net invalid>
wrote:
>Note to self: never try to put your hand in there.
... and don't wear a tie while operating the machine.
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Kyle wrote:
>
> This is sad:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQs5hchKCAM
>
Indeed.... :(
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:39:02 -0400, Kyle wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:26:53 +0300, Eero Ahonen
> <aer### [at] removethis zbxt net invalid> wrote:
>
>>Note to self: never try to put your hand in there.
>
> ... and don't wear a tie while operating the machine.
Ha! You just reminded me of a VP at a company I worked at years ago who
got a very nice silk tie caught in a paper shredder....and yes, he was
wearing the tie at the time, and it was a bit of a struggle to shut the
machine off while it was eating his tie, apparently.
Jim
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