jaclaz

Random thoughts, but you could try using httpdisk (or curl or winhttp), see (only seemingly unrelated) here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156869-get-waik-tools-wo-downloading-the-huge-isos/ http://reboot.pro/topic/13049-extract-files-out-of-waik-without-downloading-whole-waik-first/ jaclaz

As a hypothetical comment : You must be using/buying pretty cheap olive oil (or rather smallish bottles of good quality extravirgin olive oil). jaclaz

DMDE: http://dmde.com/ though it is not an "automagic" tool, if you have the time and will to learn how to use it (the use is actually very easy but you need a somewhat "advanced" knowledge of NTFS structures) is an excellent tool. Consider how your "repair through XP attempt" possibly deleted the indexes to those folders (and/or files within them) beyond recovery so you might need to also use file based recovery tools (such as Photorec). jaclaz

Still lexical subtleties, if someone does not want to "guess" he/she needs to make a little "treasure hunt" on the forum or on your site to get "hints". If you were selling something you would publish a price list . Since you are accepting donations the amount is in the conscience of the donating party . Knowing how people tend to behave I would guess that the large majority of the donations are near the bare minimum you "hint" *somewhere*, of course I may be wrong but I doubt that you received many US$ 50 or $100 donations . jaclaz

JFYI, it is entirely possible that your MBR still contains (with overlapping addresses) both the entry for the FAT partition (the original .iso must have been a hybrid boot .iso) and the entry for the NTFS partition. Windows will not "see" a partition entry with partition ID 00, while Linux is likely to see it normally (the two OS have a different way to interpret partition ID, windows sees it as a "protective ID" and won't consider anything that is not 01,04,05,06,07,0b,0c,0e,0f or "+10", i.e. "hidden" variants or the "new" 27) while Linux will anyway attempt to interpret the volume filesystem, a now common trick to boot some Linux .iso's (not necessarily hybrid) is to create an entry for their extent in the MBR with a partition ID of 00 jaclaz

You are welcome. I am sure. The good thing about your misadventure is that very likely the .iso was a rather smaller file, either within the 700 mb or so size of a CD or the around 4 Gb of the DVD size, so that the $MFT was surely not affected by the overwrite. Even more than that the "copying on self" very likely ended up in only a partial copy of the original .iso (as at some point during the copy process the "target" voliume is likely to have "vanished" ), and thus very little was overwritten anyway. jaclaz

Yep , and as said before: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174520-optimal-page-file-setting/?p=1109062 the newish Windows NT 6 OS's allow to have a dedicated file for crashdumps (that can of course be set on a "slow" device). While I am at it, good luck to anyone that wishes to (or needs to) analyze a 16 or 48 Gb memory dump . jaclaz

Or maybe none willing to give you (or share publicly) the info "a pro" might be able to provide. Only shifting the accent from "incompetence" to "unwillingness" . jaclaz

It is IMHO there is only a base lexical issue. Once said that BigMuscle has all the rights in the world (+1) to do whatever he wants with the products of his abilities , and to sell accept donations in exchange for licenses for it in any way he likes (+1) and conversely to make sure that a proper license is on the PC through whatever technical means he finds suitable (+1) the whole business of "forced donation" and "free version" remains only "nagware" or "shareware" by another name and it smells as sweet or as rotten (smell is in the nose of the sniffer ) as the original "properly named" formula. The (nice ) twist about the guessing game about the minimal amount of donation that will be enough to obtain a license is only marginal IMHO. Still it is curious how *somehow* this particular product attracts so many people whining/criticizing/commenting about the licensing scheme . jaclaz

Seemingly a new kid on the block: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsofts-windows-10-privacy-nightmare-addressed-with-free-total-defense-privacy-shield-utility-300155431.html I wonder whether this kind of apps/tools are actually the "real thing" or they are just automating otherwise easily accessible "privacy settings", i.e. basically providing a "false" sense of security to less technically advanced (I guess representing the majority) Windows 10 users which actually care about th edata the good MS guys collect. jaclaz

...but on the other hand a computer case is usually bought because it looks cool... jaclaz

@NoelC It is not about confrontation of any kind, you are simply exposing your successes in piloting a F-14 Tomcat to people that own and fly Piper's and Cessna's, all interesting but rarely of practical use. I presume that your photoshop uses on astronomical images implies loading files that are a few zillion bytes, possibly much larger that what a "normal" professional photographer deals with daily. jaclaz

I don't see any actual "discussion" here. We all know how your settings, hardware and tuned OS's are perfect for your uses (which is a good thing). The fact that a system with 48 Gb (i.e. some 24 - twentyfour - times the minimum requirements for the OS) runs smoothly is not particularly surprising. Let's take the old (maximum) 3x suggestion for the pagefile (though as seen current recommendations are much lower, more in the range of 0.5-1.1x). On a 2 Gb machine that would be 2 Gb+6Gb=8Gb (RAM+pagefile) On a 4 Gb machine that would be 4 Gb+12Gb=16Gb (RAM+pagefile) On a 8 Gb machine that would be 8 Gb+24 Gb=32 Gb (RAM+pagefile) So you have (all in RAM) 1.5 to 6 times the maximum amount of memory available on -say - 89.37% of running non-server machines in the world. OT, but anecdotally, when in the 80's people transplanted Volkswagen Porsche 914 2 liter motors on Fiat 500's they were unanimous in reporting that the car became much faster and ran a lot smoother. jaclaz

Some media is noticing the trend : http://www.pcworld.com/article/2988223/windows/windows-10-adoption-has-slowed-down-considerably.html http://insights.dice.com/2015/10/02/windows-10-adoption-leveling-off/ jaclaz

--JorgeA Hmmm , I still find it more like Araman at the end of "The Dead Past": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past The goldfish bowl concept is the one that IMHO better describes the future of our digital lives. Well, no . You also need a new tablet/phablet or similar, without a touch enabled something you won't likely go further than - say - level 25 or so, there is simply no way to use a mouse effectively for that . As a side note, and OT as often happens, an IMNSHO interesting comparison between current privacy issues and nuclear power: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm is data going to become unmanaged waste? jaclaz

Alternatively good tools are SIW (now Commercial, but last freeware versions are still available): https://www.gtopala.com/index.php http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/siw_portable and SIV: http://rh-software.com/ jaclaz

Yep and BTW there is an unwritten "standard" by watchmakers along which photos of watches and clocks (for advertisements, catalogs, etc) are always taken with the hands on ten minutes past ten. jaclaz

The good thing about different points of view is all in this . All I can see is a L (does it stand for "Loser"? ) inside a circle (not properly centered/aligned, but this is I believe pretty much normal with Windows fonts and rendering ). jaclaz

Usually I open the window and appreciate the outside temperature through my factory built-in (thanks mom/dad ) sensors, it takes only a few milliseconds using fuzzy logic , ultimately classifying the climate along human readable tags, you know,something like, windy, cold, warm, hot, freezing, etc. and in case of need getting an analog accessory (such as a jacket or a raincoat) with me BEFORE going for the walk outside. Surprisingly to do all the above I don't really need an internet connection, nor being connected to mains, and not even a battery. jaclaz

A visit to weather.com seems to do it for me. More traditionally, I just look outside the window . It's raining right now and I need not to send to some unknown server on the internet my approximate geolocation to have back a lousy picture of a cloud with some drops and possibly a lightning, I can observe those instantly, in real time and in a 1:1 scale. jaclaz

Yep , but on simple setup (and as well on extremely complex one) you can well simply format the volume before or however MANUALLY select it. More or less it is a generic point about "responsability", if you manually select a "wrong" disk or volume, it's your fault, while if - for any reason, even in an extremely rare or "queer" setup - the program automatically chooses a "wrong" disk or volume everyone will be after JFX. jaclaz

Sure , what could possibly go wrong on a multi-disk and/or multi-partitioned system? jaclaz

Well, graphs are nice , but what really counts is comments about them . It is clear that for the first time on 27 th September Windows 10 (briefly) surpassed XP in use. It cannot be underestimated the relevance of this information , it tells us how great this success is , in only two months the new, groundbreaking modern OS has managed to overtake the deprecated, unsupported since 1 and a half years, OS that MS attempted to kill in every possible way (+1) and all this through only gently pushing to every 7 and 8/8.1 user the new OS for free. jaclaz

I like the concept of "vague dread of a malicious world" : http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rinesi20150925 The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world jaclaz

As a side note, what could go wrong with automatic updates? Of course nothing, as the updates are carefully managed and pushed/made available to Windows Update by the good MS guys, there is no way that could become an issue. Or maybe not http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-accidentally-issued-a-test-windows-update-patch/ And - to be fair - it is impossible that someone apart the good Google guys can legitimately buy and possess the google.com domain, even if for a minute only, right? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/guy-bought-google-com-google-230510405.html Given that a mistake can be made by anyone, and apart from (possible but most probably unfounded) suspects of "evil" intentions, would you really trust these guys with all your personal data? jaclaz