jaclaz

It's all a matter of the amount of "power" you have (when compared to the amount of "power" the site owner and the demented kid professional team of web designers he hired has) and more than that on how many people (like you and me) are on our side. As an example, if you write a nice letter to (say) a small hotel in the country telling them how you were not able to read much of their site because it uses a stupid *whatever* setup (including but not limited to webfonts) and that you regret having decided to book for the weekend some other hotel nearby because their site was at least §@ç#ing readable, and the hotel owner receives just 1 (one) other similar letter, you might obtain (not a benefit to you, but as a benefit for all the following customers) a decent, normal site. Now, if you try the same with (say) Mega.co.nz that insists that my Opera is "a bit outdated" (and "Please update to the latest version or switch to a recommended browser:") while a newer Opera is "supported" and that either Firefox (I believe very latish versions only) or Chrome are "Recommended!" (while Safari and IE are "partial support" -sic!) you should know that you (and myself) have no chances whatsoever . jaclaz

OS trends: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=11&qpcustomb=0&qpsp=189&qpnp=5&qptimeframe=M&qpstick=1 A cyberarcheologist from future might only read the above data as follows: In November 2014 1/4th of all XP users worldwide decided to upgrade to either Windows 7 or 8.1. Those that upgraded to 7 stayed with it, while those that upgraded to 8.1 immediately (in December 2014) returned to XP, often convincing friends and relatives who were already on 8 or 8.1 to go back to either Windows XP or 7. From October 2014 to February 2015 the combination of XP+7 grew from around 70% to more than 75% whilst at the same time the combination of 8+8.1 was reduced from almost 17% to around 14%, while Mac OSx users tripled in number and a lot of people usng "other" OS migrated from them (to either XP or Mac OSx or 7). jaclaz

Really? Are you saying that unexpectedly adding any number of largely useless processes and have them running at all times does not speed things up? I will then also surprise you with the fact that (generally speaking) the less bytes you juggle around (from disk to RAM, from RAM to disk, etc.) the faster the overall performance of the system is , no matter the speed of the involved subsystems, smaller is faster (whether this will be noticeable in every day use, outside a benchmark test, is another thing). "They" (the good guys at MS, but also many of the OEM's and hardware makers) are trying their best to make this kind of fair (same hardware different OS) comparisons more difficult, by removing (or not providing) suitable drivers for the actually faster/better hardware. As a matter of fact software development has since a long time leveraged on the ever increasing performance of hardware to produce more bloated and insanely slower software when compared to a previous version of the same program. And yes , most people are either opinionated when they report of a new (more bloated) OS being faster than the previous ones (for the same activities) or they make the comparison on incomparable different hardware or between their (half botched) "old" install vs a fresh, new, pristine install, or they are simply plainly wrong (i.e. they fail in making correct tests). @bphlpt The point is - I guess - on the "meets the user's needs", given as established that a newer, more bloated, OS with a zillion added processes is slower than a previous, leaner one, we need to define the "user's needs", even if some of them make no sense whatever these added processes and stuff have the scope to offer to the user "added features". Now, which of these features (the ones that make sense) are actually a "need" and which are just "cool" or are just "what everyone else is usng then I must have it as well"? There is not I believe a one-size-fits-all answer, even because some of the "needs" may arise by stupid or senseless choices of third parties, like (say) sites refusing to work on your not-the -latest-version of a browser, or someone sending you a document in a needlessly changed/updated file format (as an example AutoDesk has been known to change the Autocad file format every year or so for several years). jaclaz

Actually on a properly configured dual boot there are NO issues whatever for a dual boot between 2K and XP, and as well there are none with any of 2k or XP with Vista or 7 (or even 8...), by "properly configured" dual boot I mean one in which there is a "boot" partition/volume (what the good MS guys call "system") and a separate "system" partition/volume (what the good MS guys call "boot") for each of the Operating Systems installed. The first one must be a primary partition and active (and can be very small as the only *needed* things on it are NTLDR+NTDETECT.COM+BOOT.INI and, if you want to add a newish NT6 OS also BOOTMGR and the \boot\ folder and it's \boot\BCD, a 32 Mb FAT12 volume would be enough, but making it a FAT 16 100 Mb or so would allow ot add - say - FreeDOS or another DOS flavour and leave plenty of space), the other ones can be either primary or logical volumes inside extended (personally I prefer the choice of logical volume inside extended, because allows for using only one of the 4 available MBR partition table slot for n added Operating Systems, so that two entries are kept free in case of need, but in the case of just a 2K and a XP two primaries would do as well). jaclaz

The 400 and 800 connectors are different (Alpha vs. Beta) but worse than that, since there are adapters for the different connectors, the issue is that a Firewire 800 port (on the PC) can manage a Firewire 400 device (backward compatibility) but a Firewire 400 port cannot make use of a 800 device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394 There is little around about these readers, because they are almost exclusively used in the Macintosh world, you have to go more about "brand name" or reputation, Lexar, Sandisk or DeLock are "known" names (though I believe DeLock only made a Firewire 800 version), but as often happens with these kind of devices, it is more a hit and miss game than anything else. There are "multireaders" that can use both CF cards and SD cards but they are all AFAIK/AFAICR USB. There is however (JFYI) another option (example): http://www.amazon.com/SD-CF-II-Type-Adapter-Supports/dp/B000YZGCIU http://www.wired.com/2009/06/compact-flash-to-sd-adapters-provide-unneeded-solution/ jaclaz

You are aware of the can of worms you opened through these apparently innocent questions, don't you? Particularly if connected to this other thread? http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173657-which-fw400-cfcard-reader/ Can you elaborate on the "fixed flag" request? It seems that nowadays most if not all "industrial grade" CF cards are "Fixed" in True Ide mode (and "Removable" in PCMCIA/ATA memory mode), Transcend actually declares it as such: http://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-524 More or less this should mean that there are no issues with "direct" CF-to-IDE adapters (which should work in True IDE mode, though some of the adapters may need to be modified to get the UDMA speed), though USB card readers tend to operate only in PCMCIA/ATA memory mode, and - though they exist - USB card readers that work in True IDE mode are AFAIK very rare and more than that you will never know (as it seems like all manufacturers/sellers have become allergic to provide proper documentation and data sheets) how they are set. The controller in a USB bridge may well determine (by filtering or inverting) the status of Fixed vs. Removable, no matter what the CF card "says". Personally I would never risk to change the microcode on the (usually 8051 compatible ) processor inside the card, because as I see it more than risky is "almost certain failure". jaclaz

That's exactly what happens if you update Windows 8 to 8.1 from the Store. It downloads the entire OS and then ports everything over. It is not a method I would prefer. I know , but although the good MS guys call that "an update", that one is more like a "service pack" or a "system refresh", and definitely it is not one of the "patch tuesday" or "intermediate" released updates, i.e. it is something that happens - say - once a year or so. I was just kidding of course, but IF the trend of continuously updating the OS takes old, and since the new WIndows 10 thingy will be used on *whatever* device (from POS or Home Automation System Controller to Lumia phones, from desktop high end graphical workstations to more or less lousy TV-mini-PC's) IF the current update strategy continues botching otherwise perfectly working installs, they may decide to reinstall from scratch at every update. Every morning you will wake up to be greeted by a new install of Windows that was automagically installed during the night , but this will need a lot of bandwidth, and so it is only too human to think of making use of the unused one that every home/business with unlimited connection has, if you think about it, you pay a flat rate and large parts of what the cable/telephone company promised you are not actually used (let us put temporarily aside that if everyone drew from the internet the whole bandwidth he/she pays for the whole system would collapse in no time ). While I understand how this would create issues with rn10950's "pay per Gb" mobile connection, all in all NoelC's stance of not wanting to provide updates to his neighbours sounds a little selfish.... jaclaz

Maybe: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/page-24#entry884409 http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?444831-HOWTO-enable-AHCI-mode-after-installing-Windows jaclaz

These are at the same times good and bad news. Should it not be possible to recover data repairing the filesystem, usually the file based approach works fine for pictures (on a non-fragmented filesystem, and "data storage" volumes tend to be incrementally written and thus tend to be little fragmented) while videos or "recorded tv programs" are usually tougher to recover because they tend to be very large files and often they are fragmented. However, it was a single (BIG) volume, right? In the meantime do the following: get the dsfok toolkit: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/ extract it's contents in a "simple" path, let's say C:\dsfok\ open a command prompt as administrator in elevated mode and navigate to C:\dsfok extract first 2050 sectors, given that in Disk Manager the disk is Disk 1 run: dsfo \\.\PhysicalDrive1 0 1049600 C:\dsfok\disk1_begin.bin compress the resulting disk1_begin.bin in a .zip archive (it should compress very well, to a bunch of Kb) attach the .zip to your next post (or upload to a hosting site and provide a link to it) jaclaz

And wait until the new Word and it's corrector comes out ... jaclaz

I would define that surprisingly, after some 4 years. However, Wayback Machine to the rescue , here: https://web.archive.org/web/20100523002458/http://www.winprj.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=216 and with the usual amount of trickery (mostly smoke and mirrrors ) https://web.archive.org/web/20120415000000*/http://damian666.boot-land.net/downloads/UXTender.zip (should be it, though I haven't actually checked the version). jaclaz

Well, when from kbytes or mbytes updates will become gbytes (i.e. at every update the whole OS will be replaced entirely ) they could use some added bandwidth... All in all if the files are more "granular" (i.e. not monolithic packages) digitally signed and tamper-proof, the overall plan/architecture may even work, though probably some serious management should be needed to avoid versioning conflicts due to botched or overcomplex numbering of the things or time zone conflicts and similar? Think global! Think connected! Just imagine if all the files that are now wasting space as simil-duplicate between your System and your WinSXS would actually reside 3/984th on your neighborhood's machine, while 1/1578th of them will be on a Lumia in Lahore, and 2/759th on a POS in Romania and your smart Windows 1n will load them from their location on demand.... What could go wrong? jaclaz

OT, , but as expected: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/03/18/the-lumia-story-continues/ http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/03/19/lumia-430-dual-sim/ jaclaz

Your disk is a 7200.14 series, not a 7200.11. The HDDScan is more or less meaningless (in this context), those are readouts from the S.M.A.R.T. a technology that I personally call D.U.M.B. that was devised to prevent (actually forecast) drive failures and never did so (flippism is approximately as accurate as SMART). The Disk Manager view instead seems to be meaning that the disk is functional (good) but that has lost (partially or totally) the volume informations. What you should do (advised) before anything else is: procure yourself a similar (or bigger ) disk drive "clone" i.e. make a "forensic sound" or "dd-like" copy of the "failed" diskThe above represents the "commonly recommended approach", providing a way out (or way back) if the recovery attempts fail, while it is optional, it is STRONGLY recommended. Since the disk seems fully functional, it should be possible to attempt both a "filesystem" recovery (i.e. recover the indexing informations for the volumes, please read as "TESTDISK" or similar) and a (usually less satisfactorily) "file based" recovery (please read as "PHOTOREC" or similar). A "file based" recovery (IF as it seems the disk is still functional) won't in any way "damage" or change the disk, as it merely consists of reading from it (but you will need anyway enough storage space to store the result of the extraction), whilst a "filesystem" recovery will need to write to key sectors of the disk, and thus the need for a "clone" should something "go bad" in the process. The more information you remember how volumes on the disk were setup (how it was partitioned) the better. Additionally provide these informations: Which OS are you running? Is it an internal or external disk? How exactly (under which OS and with which tool) was it originally partitioned? Which was it's use (i.e. a backup drive, a "main" drive, almost empty, almost full, recently defragged, etc)? jaclaz

In my experience "anything goes". I have seen companies where the user is free to use his/her own devised password (the same BTW that he/she uses for Facebook, Gmail and to access online forums), which is evidently wrong, and that given the user is called John Doe and is born in 1978 ends up in any of "johnny78", "johnnyiscool78", "mabel08202006" (mabel is the daughter of John Doe, born on 20th August 2006), etc. This password is usually asked by the IT Admin for *anything* even when it is not at all needed, and not only it is exchanged by telephone, e-mail, sms or post-it, but it is jolted down, together with the identification of the machine/workstation/terminal to which it belongs and with the login/user on either a blackboard or on a notes on the IT Admin desk, in the IT Admin office (which is accessible by everyone inside the building). I have seen companies where the user passwords are actually issued by the IT Admin and the user CANNOT change them (which is more or less the way the thing should be managed) but among them I have seen *anything*: the password is (given that the user is called John Doe and is born in 1978) "jdoe78". the password is (for the same user) generated by a pseudo-random-hyper-mega-secure-algorithm and is "=)#§rWtGGoo04056-/66xA+"In case #1 there is an Excel Spreadsheet listing all machines/login/users and passwords on the corporate server in a folder open to everyone and a printout of the same worksheet either on the IT Admin desk or pinned to the blackboard in his room. In case #2, since the user cannot possibly remember it, the password can be found neatly handwritten on a post-it in the left-hand folder of the user's desk. Once every three to four months a document accessible exclusively from the given user PC is urgently needed and since the user is on holidays or the like, the password is spelt (spelled ) c-l-e-a-r-l-y and very aloud on the telephone, and jolted down on a post-it that is pinned on the user monitor until he/she comes back and removes it. Of course exist a lot of "security oriented" companies, which manage the matter more properly, usually adding to a good password management some hardware form of authentication, like badges, fingerprints or similar, but they are not usually the "norm". jaclaz

Well, seemingly tomorrow they are going to present a new Lumia: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/03/18/the-lumia-story-continues/ That, according to some interpretations might even be cheaper than the (here in Italy) Lumia 435, sold (in theory) for € 90, but actually obtainable for around € 75, which debuted very recently: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new-product/mobile-phone/3593950/lumia-435-release-date-price-specs/ jaclaz

My bad , it's here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173642-mkprilog-batch-to-access-a-same-disk-under-two-different-interfaces/ (also corrected previous post) jaclaz

Ok. 0.99 version (more or less "final unless something new comes out") is out, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173642-mkprilog-batch-to-access-a-same-disk-under-two-different-interfaces/ jaclaz

Once upon a time in a not-so-far away forum, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173265-formatting-an-external-drive-using-different-interfaces/ someone found himself in a "queer" situation with an external hard disk case that provided two connections, a USB one and a e-SATA one. This specific enclosure worked fine with the disk it originally came with as that was a "real" 512 bytes/sector disk and both interfaces exposed a 512 bytes/sector device. But, once the disk was changed to a "new" one that is one of the so called "Advanced Format" kind, something strange happened. The e-SATA interface exposed a 512 bytes/sector device The USB interface exposed a 4096 bytes/sector device. The net result was that the disk was unreadable when connected through the "other" interface. Provided "solutions" involved one or more of the following: buy a new diskbuy a new enclosure/interfacegive up and buy a new external diskbuy new PC's and have everything USB3....Being, besides old and grumpy, also cheap, I proposed instead a "workaround" that after quite a bit of experimenting (thanks to the OP Dave-H) seems like being "good enough" to be useful to other (I hope few) people being affected by the same issue, and that (possibly) may become useful when/if similar issues will present themselves. Basically the disk is divided into two partitions, the first one being a small FAT12 volume that will always be accessible (both when connected through the 512 bytes/sector interface and when connected through the 4096 bytes/sector one) on which a small batch (and a few needed command line executable used by the batch) resides. The second partition is a (large or main) NTFS one that can be accessed from the one or the other interface but that needs to be "switched" every time the connection is changed to the "other" interface. All is needed when you connect the disk is to run the switcher.cmd from the first (FAT) small partition and it will "switch" the second (NTFS) main partition to the appropriate byte/sectors settings. Though the scope of the thingy is quite "narrow", probably the underlying "principles" may be useful in other situations, we will see. The attached is version 0.99 which more or less means that all the various batches which were at various releases like 0.06 , 0.07 or 0.09 mod3, since they seemed to work, were suddenly - after very little and mostly esthetical changes - promoted to 0.99 which should give the impression of "not really final, yet almost there". Have fun. jaclaz Version0.99.zip

At least in Italian "Spartan" is an adjective which is a somewhat "false pair" with English, besides the obvious meaning of "citizen of Sparta", the main meaning in Italian (in common use) is NOT that of "person of courage", but rather that of "extremely strict or rigid" or "extremely simple, with no frills or feature" with a negative connotation of "uncomfortable" or "below current common standards". As an example you would say a "spartan accomodation" to describe without being too harsh a hotel room scarcely furnitured where you felt NOT comfortable. If actually nomen est omen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism it doesn't seem like a very good start to revamp a (previously failed) "brand". jaclaz

Sure, tin foil is so '90's, we are much ahead of that : http://reboot.pro/topic/13177-an-improved-electromagnetical-shielding-device/ and be aware of light bulbs and plastic coffee cups : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/168921-lightbulbs-that-emit-wi-fi/ http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=10944/ jaclaz

AFAIK and JFYI, that key is a "switch": http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-improvements-in-the-windows-10-technical-preview/ "ForceV2"=0 means "use the old, traditional console, which many programs know and that they can - if needed - hide" "ForceV2"=1 means "use the new, *somewhat* different console, i.e. something that existing programs cannot (yet) recognize, let alone hide. jaclaz

How would Clover behave? Can it load from CD/DVD? jaclaz

Or, provided that the contents are redistributable, upload the file to somewhere and someone may have a look at it and see if it is (at least partially) recoverable. jaclaz

Yes/No. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html There are several other possibilities, whether they work or not depends on the specific archive, on the specific tool that was used to make it and from a number of other factors, including the "specific" kind of corruption the archive has. A few programs that worked in the past: http://reboot.pro/topic/12255-need-help-with-virtual-floppy/?p=106682 http://reboot.pro/topic/12255-need-help-with-virtual-floppy/?p=106684 jaclaz