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Fresh news: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/faa-certifies-first-two-drones-for-commercial-use?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A1348820&page=1 And no, you wont' need any particular device to notice one of these . And another (nice? ) approach: http://actu.epfl.ch/news/latest-video-of-the-daler-project-shows-a-walkin-2/ fly-and-crawl jaclaz

Let's say that "accuracy" is not particularly seen as an ESSENTIAL requisite by the good guys @nsslabs. On the report overview: https://www.nsslabs.com/reports/2013-browser-security-comparative-analysis-privacy-0 Too bad that in the actual report there is NO trace of Opera, let alone of Mr. Orlando Barrera: It's usually not a good idea to judge a book by it's cover, but still .... But let's see the actual content: Basically imagine that Philips (say) starts implementing in all it's domestic appliances a new additional protection against short circuits that depends on compatibility with the mains line (and that NO provider of electricity on Earth implements). Panasonic (say) has not this additional protection circuit (as it is NOT required by current standards). WHEN (and IF) the standard WILL BE changed AND the electricity provider WILL provide compatible electricity/lines, THEN the Philips' thingies WILL HAVE additional protection when compared to Panasonic's. NOW and UNTIL THEN, NO additional protection of ANY KIND is provided. By that time, most probably, the products will be end of line/obsolete. And BTW, I lied in the above example, it is not that the circuit is not already present in the Panasonic appliance, only, in order to save some electricity NOW, it is turned off and can be turned on by simply setting a little switch. I have rarely seen a report as worthless as that one. Among the other things, I am quite perplexed by the new, innovative definition of "honest compliance" in all my years I thought that you could put no qualification to "compliance", something is either compliant or it is not, and no one cares if such compliance is reached honestly, dishonestly, with good will or bad will, etc.) as long it is reached . jaclaz

Well, what about a flying shark jet drone? http://easytigermodels.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=28 jaclaz

From pi§§ed-off ranting to Zen in three steps, it must be a world record! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest http://www.101zenstories.com/index.php?story=21 jaclaz

Nowadays the issue is all about "quality". The quality of floppy discs is "very poor". The quality of floppy drives is "very poor". The original floppy discs for DOS or Win 3.x had not any particular "copy protection scheme", but in any case, what I would use (if the scope is that of making a set of backup floppy disc or floppy images) is a pure DOS program, one that would have been used at the time. Winimage is not a particularly good idea, not because it is not a good program, but it would be like shooting at flies with a cannon , Winimage is a tool to manipulate floppy images, in the hands of an unexperienced user it has the power to (inadvertedly) corrupt/change the floppy. Under DOS, I would personally use Venus: http://retro.icequake.net/dob/ or d.bosman's nice Dcopy program: http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html The dcopy program exists in a Windows (NT and later) version and though it won't be able to duplicate some "peculiar" formats under these OS's, it is "good enough" for "standard" floppies like the MS ones. In any case there is a pretty much exhaustive thread dedicated to the "specific matter": http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/136856-how-to-archive-old-floppies-for-access-under-win98/ including some info on 720 Kb/1.44 Mb floppy discs. jaclaz

I would add that data recovery is an "art" (or at least artisan work ). NO way *any* program will automagically recover *everything* and in any case they are ONLY tools, it's the hand that drives the tools that may make a difference between a total loss and a (almost) total success in data recovery. In any case, the FIRST thing to do is to make a "dd-like" or "forensic sound" image of the disk "as is", BEFORE *any* and I really mean *any* further step/attempt/whatever, as any and all tools, particularly CHKDSK and the like, may recover *something* but at same time prevent *forever* the recovery of *something* else, this way there is a "second chance". jaclaz

But you see, all Female connectors have odd numbers (evil) and all male have even ones (good), so they actually failed at failing! jaclaz

BUT IF they actually were after you, you would already have been pwned. WHY exactly do you think most exploits are called "zero-day" ? AFAICR all attempts to produce and sell the magazine "exploits monthly" failed miserably By the time you publish (or patch) something you are already dead . For NO apparent reason, a lolcat: jaclaz

Well, to be picky that is C6 (male) adapter to a C7 (female), i.e. a way to use a mains cable terminating with a C5 on a device that has a C8 ("Appliance inlet"). And yes, the good guys at IEC missed the lessons about "making easy mnemonics" at school..... The socket on the device is always male (and then maybe it's not even a "socket") while the plug at the other end of the cable connected to mains is alway female (and then maybe it is not even a "plug") , represented like this starts to make motre sense then with words: mains socket -< <- plug ----cable ---- <- C5 -< <-C6 device mains socket -< <- plug ----cable ---- <- C7 -< <- C8 device jaclaz

There is no such thing as 24 bit LBA , only 22 (never or rarely implemented) and 28 bit LBA! (and later of course 48) Some answers/things to read are provided on the other thread started by ROTS: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163554-48-lba-and-sata-drives-in-windows-9x/ jaclaz

Maybe down under , where they look at it upside down : o_o_o_it's name is "C5", actually IEC "60320-C5": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/IEC_60320_C5.svg but a number of laptop mains adapters/charger are in "double insulation" and may use the 2 connector one (without earth), called "C7" or "IEC60320-C7": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/IEC_60320_C7.svg More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320 jaclaz P.S.: Among the nice features of the board it seems like .svg images are prohibited.

You must have a defect on your keyboard. After you press the "." full stop or "period", you should also press the [ENTER] key, which will provide a Carriage Returne (or CR+LF) that will make your posts much more readable. Hey, you actually asked to be corrected . LBA is about "addressing", not about "cache". Traditionally hard disks had an addressing scheme called CHS that hit a limit at around 8Gb in size (1024*255*63*512). Then the LBA addressing scheme was widely adopted, but originally the LBA address had a size of 22 bits, in practice never used, and later of 28 bits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing This limited the max addressable size to around 128 Gb. Then the addressing scheme was extended to use 48 bits instead. To have a bigger than 128 Gb disk in Win9x/Me quite a number of things are needed/must be taken care of. You will need to go through here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/129027-big-hdd-48-bit-lba-thread-index/ Yes, all given links are related, but on second post dencorso put together a nice, simple "How to" that covers most cases. For a SATA disk you might need additional "special" tools, like Rloew's SATA DDO/driver (or whatever). You should post the specific make/model of the motherboard in order to get more "targeted" support. jaclaz

You mean old and rich people, nice chicks in bikini and decent weather also from Idaho to Michigan? jaclaz

It's meme time! The "us" is to be intended as "US" . jaclaz

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It must be a particular kind of telemetry. I mean, IF they had provided the option to use EITHER the Start Button (AND Menu) OR the NCI, they might have been able to count how many users actually preferred the one over the other, but since they forced everyone to use the NCI, I wonder WHAT THE HECK they registered through telemetry. jaclaz

Are we talking of this? http://www.pdfforge.org/content/using-pdfcreator http://www.pdfforge.org/content/auto-save-mode It seems to me like the possibility is right into the tool. jaclaz

I missed it at first. OP put the software name in a thread tag: Paragon Partition Manager 12. Good , but ALL the other questions and the "general advice" still stand, without my crystal ball (it's in the shop, again ) there is nothing I can do to help . jaclaz

Well, seemingly they also cannot (or don't care to provide this technology to FBI) what should be a much simpler core (for people possessing super-computers) i.e. decrypt a hard disk: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/brazil_banker_crypto_lock_out/ There is something else that it is sometimes not highlighted (IMNSHO) enough. Since a lot of time, the world is a tower of Babel, there are more languages and dialects than stars in the sky, there was a recent criminal case in Italy where a communication (a normal, cellular phone call) has been intercepted (fully legally, i.e. in accordance to a Court order) in which a suspect, talking in an arabic/maghreb dialect supposedly said something to the effect of: "May God forgive me, she is not the one I killed!" That is according to the interpreter that was initially called to translate and transcribe the recording. According to another interpreter, the sentence was actually meaning something to the effect of: "May God make him answer the call!" and another one: "God, why doesn't the call go through?" and another one: "Why, why doesn't he answer the phone, why God?" and some 4 (four) other different versions similar to the last three ones. Now you can understand how the first equates to a confession, and all the others to some form of cursing from someone that tries to talk to someone and doesn't manage to do that and is consequently annoyed. On the other hand, even in a litlle country like Italy, still some dialects survive that are understood and talked ONLY in a very limited area. With all due respect for the NSA and the US military, I never had the impression they are - generally speaking - particularly versed in polyglotism, and allow me to doubt that computer aided analysis is that much effective when it comes to "spoken language" (anyone that ever trained a voice interface will know what I mean). jaclaz

That is IF the computer manages to boot again after the "combined effect" of MS updates and Norton. , there is actually nothing preventing (excluded some proper testing procedures) something like this from happening again: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/118290-sp3-registry-corruption-bandaid-solution/ Please consider how the above happened with a (long due) "full" Service Pack (i.e. giving all the time needed for proper checking) and not with the usual MS update, which might be issued quickly. jaclaz

Most modern laptop mains adapters/battery chargers are "auto-ranging" from 110 to 240 V Ac (and 50 to 60 Hz). Check the actual adapter. You will need a physical adapter from the "US" plug to the AUS one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_3112 . But even if the power adapter is only 110V/60Hz, you'd better (easier, faster, more economical and "safer") get a replacement charger/adpater for the laptop capable of covering the range ( or a spare 240V/50Hz one) rather than a "generic" converter from 230/240V to 110V. jaclaz

Who said "remote access"? The KB talks of "user views". Typically, someone sends you a "specially crafted" document of some kind embedding a special True Type font that vectors the exploit (or sets up a website for it). Read: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/bulletin/ms13-053 the part titled: TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability - CVE-2013-3129 Mitigating Factors jaclaz

Well, with all due respect : A new idea would be a OS that can measure instantly the IQ of the user (through some specialized hardware, face recognition or something like that). Something like (pseudocode ): IF user IS NOT LIKE "demented" THEN GOTO :StartMenu ELSE GOTO :NCIjaclaz

Previous version of WHAT? Converting WHAT? What has Paragon to do with this? How/Why/What company would be allowed to have a Paragon software without serial? "other pc" really helps to understand the differences when compared to the "one pc". Standard litany: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

Well, just for the record, ALMOST all (if not ALL) links jaclaz gives tend to function properly. jaclaz