jaclaz

FACEPALM.(with.frown.&.no.arms) approved! The: is mostly OK The "kilroy" checking if ti safe to come up is perfect! Thanks to dencorso for providing the "facepalm" and to bphlt for the reupload of the cached images. Let's hope that the reboot.pro issue is just a temporary glitch in the matrix. jaclaz

Yep , the command is correct, but the result is far from "good". The first sector is the MBR (which you already have posted) with all it's code but with no DATA in the partition table. All the rest are 00's sectors . Here the A025 I mentioned has disappeared Questions: Is there any chance that that disk was originally partitioned under Vista or 7? Do you remember how it was partitioned originally? (Like a single NTFS volume, several volumes, which filesystems, etc.?) jaclaz

Well, no. Before 2000 there was NT 4.0 a "professional only" Operating System and 98 a "home only" Operating System. 2000 is substantially NT 4.0 with some betterings. Me is substantially 98 SE with some betterings (and of course with some new "features" - some of which actually worsening the OS - that would have needed time to "mature"). BOTH (of course Me was much more affected that 2K) were simply killed too young by the advent of XP which was for some aspects a bettered 2K, only worsened in many others. The real point that people sometimes forget is the utter stupidity of XP Home for Home use and of XP Professional for Professional use. You have a "professional only" Operating system (basically a NT 4.00 with a bettered filesystem and easier to install = Win2K betttered for some marginal aspects and with a lot of completely unneeded bells and whistles = XP) that you dumb down for professionals by adding all sorts of senseless graphical additions, wizards and what not (and this may - with a lot of tolerance be called "progress") but you force upon home users a senseless piece of bloat (compared to the previous 98/Me), normally pre-installed on senselessly underpowered machines, with a number of features that only make sense in Corporate/Office use (and some of which actually only useful on "servers"). Okay, raise your hands anyone that has set an XP (Home or Professional edition doesn't matter) on his/her own "home" laptop with: Admin + multiple non-admin account (and please state the number, besides "Power Users", of accounts that you have EVER set as "Backup Operator" ) GPO's Disk Quota's On the other hand, on the "professional" side they "hid" the "real" Administrator account (causing every kind of issues with LAN authentication for Admins) they added (finally) modern features (but provided not simple ways to use them, or mis- or under- documented them) such as streams, hard links, etc. XP was as a matter of fact the first sign of the concept of an "unified" OS, good for "everyone", and for "every use" on "every machine", the same concept that will make you have the same stupid tablet oriented OS on your desktop now... The nice thing is that since they seemingly understood how it made no sense to have (behind the bells and whistles) a "dumbed down" "server OS" on an underpowered, crappy tablet, they created a brand new OS, the RT, with the same bells and whistles, that will create each and every compatibility problem possible +1 (beside having succeeded in completely disorienting customers) jaclaz

I am not sure to get it (actually I am sure I don't get it). Your screenshot is of a windowed VM, what happens if you make the windows larger (or full-screen)? Which resolution is your "real" display? jaclaz

It seems to me like an overcomplex way. The batch can be much simplified, quick example: @echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION set fnm=HOSTNAME.txt set lnm=RESULT.txt del %lnm% if exist HOSTNAME.txt set fnm=HOSTNAME.txt if exist C:\NT\HOSTNAME.txt set fnm=C:\NT\HOSTNAME.txt if not exist %fnm% goto :error set SALES=3050 set DVR=9696 set VNC=5900 FOR %%A IN ( SALES DVR VNC ) DO ( ECHO %%A for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=," %%i in (%fnm%) do call :do_paping %%i %%j %%A ) ::GENERATE.BAT GOTO :EOF :do_paping set state=ONLINE echo Testing %1 for %3 paping %1 -p !%3! -c 1 if errorlevel 1 set state=**OFFLINE** echo %2,!%3!,%state% >> %lnm% goto :EOF :error echo. echo Cannot find %fnm% echo. Pause goto :EOF And most probably you can even remove the if errorlevel by using either of || or &&. jaclaz

Traitor! I casually found this emoticon, that may be of use : jaclaz

Everything is perfect BUT: 6R#2 is somehow disappointing (I mean the kind/quality of the emoticon, it's right arm is "static" and makes no sense and it seems like it is wearing gloves, it would be better if the emoticon's left hand appears from thin air before going to it's head in a "facepalm" like motion, more like these: (the way the "by definition" handless emoticon has it's hand appear I mean) in 7 the first "satisfied smile" could be better rendered with The #3R is perfect, maybe - but I fear that it would draw too much attention from the "main" character on the left - it could hit a few times it's head against the wall This could be an alternate source to get a few frames of the "disappointed, going away" Another (new, additional) idea could be to take the "whistling and walking away" from this one and have the L character "walk away" from the right (and re-enter form the left for the "cycle") About the "kilroy" character, see if this can be of inspiration: but I'll look for more.... jaclaz

This doesn't actually answer dencorso's question, I will try to translate it : Please get ChipGenius here: http://reboot.pro/topic/4661-chipgenius/ http://www.mydigit.cn/chipgenius.htm run it and post either a screenshot or copy and paste it's textual output. jaclaz

Of course I was joking , you compared the (IMHO) most stable NT based system ever made with the least stable DOS based one. Though - strangely enough - I am one of the very few people on Earth that considers Me as a largely misunderstood/underrated Operating System (i.e. in my opinion it is much better than most people think) you simply cannot compare it with 2K. A heavily modified (KernelEx) Me can actually run almost the same "last" version of some web browsers as an "untouched" 2K can, you are perfectly right on this . jaclaz

Unfortunately I have NO good news. That stick has seemingly and *somehow* got into what we highly specialized technicians call "bricked" status. The terms has been initially adopted for the Seagate 7200.11: but it applies to other devices as well. The issue is that is seen as 0 bytes. There is not any *known* method to exit this state without losing the data (and not necessarily it is possible to exit this state). It is *likely* (but not guaranteed) that data can still be recovered by doing either a "chip-off" reading or a transplant on another controller, but these procedures need tools and knowledge well outside the DIY field. If the scope is to recover the flash stick, you can try - if you are able to find the appropriate "Manufacturer Tool" to "reset" or "zap" (other highly specialized term) the stick, but in the procedure data will be lost in 99% of cases. Additionally something "very wrong" must have happened during previous attempts, as I can see in the sector (it seems like the .img is 100 times the same sector) the string "TestDisk" which I don't think it is a concidence (and I have never seen TESTDISK write that without user intervention). It looks like it was attempted to write TESTDISK bootsector but *somehow* the location was shifted 384 bytes In any case, and this is "aligned" with the "never ending" dsfo result, it seems like the reading goes in "loops" and the first sector only is read over and over. It is possible (but improbable) that using another tool you can actually get a proper image (or however not an endless repetition of first sector), but since PHOTOREC wasn't able to find anything, I really doubt it. Since it costs nothing, you can try datarescuedd. http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/v3/drdd.htm jaclaz

Well, I can't do that (I seem to gather that Chuck Norris can ) but I am quite good at darts : this should be more suited , some HOT fetish : jaclaz

Yep, and when making three wheeled cars there are - as always - two ways to do them, the "wrong" way (as the one depicted in the picture you posted): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler#Two_rear and the "right" way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler#Two_front See, as an example, some recent ones: http://www.diseno-art.com/news_content/2012/06/top-10-three-wheeled-vehicles/ (the "carver" being the only exception - gone to bankruptcy - that confirms the rule) Now, think a bit about which design would Mrs. Larson-Green would choose (and Mr. Ballmer would say that is the one preferred by users) jaclaz

Cannot say about battery life but anything between 900 and 1,000 bucks can get me TWO more than decent laptops, possibly THREE of them .... http://www.pcworld.com/article/2017398/microsoft-surface-with-windows-8-pro-pricing-899-and-up.html so I doubt that many "businesses" will choose to spend more to have a "compatible tablet". jaclaz

Not really, it's more like an editor blaming the printing company for not delivering the copies so that it cannot sell them (but wait , if the issue is with the printing company not able to deliver enough copies on time, it means that there is demand for the book... ). More loosely, in a business if you have an "internal projection" saying that you are going to sell (say) 1,000,000 pieces in first three months you should make d@mn sure - in theory - and after having verified the reliability of the projection - to have 1,000,000 pieces ( + or - 50,000 pieces or whatever is the confidence interval of the projection) ready over that period. OR (an alternative) the projections are completely wrong. In both cases, *someone* has f***ed up BIG *somewhere*. The bull**it about the ongoing world crisis is exactly that, it is not like you had plans to launch your brand new product on in late October 1929 and suddenly .... jaclaz

You are very, very lucky that you live in the 21st century and that there is democracy, saying that in the first decades of first century would have likely caused your crucifiixion! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes?qt=qt0471984 jaclaz

Oww, comeon guys, take it easy . It's only some fun, I called it a "small project" not because it is "easy" (if it was I would have already created the animated scene in .gif, in 17 different versions by myself), I called it "small" because it is nothing "vital", or "important" or "*needed*", it's just fun that hopefully we are having together . My view on point #2 is: the "sarcatic, naughty, snappy, provoking, catty etc." already happened BEFORE, in #1 (and as said I know how to make that quite well). Practical examples : #1: @bphlpt #2 @bhplt You might appreciate how in example #1 I have to duck when bhplt throws the brick, while in #2 I have to be really quick and dodge also the brick larryb123456 is likely to throw at me, the English proverb is "To get two birds with one stone" if I remember right ..... And now, an animated .gif where a character enters from the right and hugs the one on the left: We are friends , remember? jaclaz

Well, what testdisk may have found is a partition image formatted as FAT, the disk, should have been partitioned (how?, most probably in one big partition ) and that partition formatted as NTFS. It is like the FOURTH time that I am asking you to copy first 100 sectors and post them , I won't ask for them a fifth one . For the record, I asked for them: in post #21 on 22 August 2012 in post #35 on 02 November 2012 in post #39 on 05 November 2012 Maybe it's time you just do it. jaclaz

Well, with all due respect , you should NOT post - and expecially in response to someone evidently not famiiar with the command line or batches - an untested script with such a potential destructive power. You do understand that if the user would have run that crappy batch in System directory or in Root he would likely have made the system unbootable/unrecoverable, do you? jaclaz

I thought you were a "computer audiophile" , and assumed you knew VST, however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology The two pages are a list of VST based Oscilloscopes and FrequenceAnalyzers, but there are also more non-VST ones, examples: http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/scope_en http://zelscope.com/ http://www.virtins.com/page2.html (there are tens of these) Some "generic" intro can be found here: http://www.ledametrix.com/oscope/index.html http://www.sciencetronics.com/geocities/electronics/projects/soundcard_osci.html You asked for a cheap way to measure signals, while some of these are completely Free, a few - more "robust" or "featured" ones can be bought for some ten bucks, and an optional buffered probe for - say - another ten bucks at the most: http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/hardware/hardware.html or a "direct" one with a few components you can get from *any* electronic device you were going to throw away or that you can recover from the waste bin: http://www.ladyada.net/library/equipt/diyaudioprobe.html which I consider "cheap" . FAQ #1 here is possibly the plainer explanation: http://www.zelscope.com/faq.html jaclaz

Well, IMHO the chances of the posted batch to work on any of the two systems are pretty dim anyway, and the BAD news are that is potentially HIGHLY destructive . What happens if the directories are not empty? A /s parameter may be of use: http://ss64.com/nt/rd.html And I do have some BIG perplexities on the PATHs/filenames given to the del command: http://ss64.com/nt/del.html I would try with something like: i.e. with the full path inside the quotes and a single asterisk, but as a matter of fact if you try on a command line: md C:\mytest md C:\mytest\mytestsub echo test1>C:\mytest\mytestsub\mytest1.txt echo test2>C:\mytest\mytestsub\mytest2.txt echo test3>C:\mytest\mytest3.txt del "C:\mytest" you will see how you will be prompted with something like: (press N to the prompt). Now try issuing: CD /D C:\mytest del "C:\mytest\mytestsub" *.* You are now prompted with: this time press Y to the prompt, you will be immediately prompted: del accepts a LIST of files to be deleted, a line like this: will quietly delete all files in "%windir%\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" and then delete ALL FILES in CURRENT DIRECTORY . jaclaz

I am by far more flexible than you and I am prepared to take my shoes off , but though increasing by 100% the capability of the counter , I doubt it makes a big difference in absolute terms.... jaclaz

Well the re-skinned FIAT 500 would still be better than my Porsche.... , JFYI : http://reboot.pro/topic/14487-free-microsoft-safety-scanner-portable-antivirus-program/#entry130169 jaclaz

Strangely enough , a few cheap ways exist, and even more strangely, they make use of (another) sound card . Check : http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2011/06/24/bpb-freeware-studio-best-free-spectrum-analyzer-vst-plugins/ http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2011/07/05/bpb-freeware-studio-best-free-oscilloscope-vstau-plugins/ jaclaz

Post a description of the actual hardware it is. As a General rule of thumb, open the case, remove each and every piece of hardware connected to it that is detachable (ALL add on cards and disks). Re-connect only the minimum needed things: some RAM a floppy drive a video card besides a keyboard and a mouse. Try booting from floppy, possibly run from it some DOS hardware tests. Then try again re-connecting ONLY the "system" hard disk, and try to boot in "safe mode". Then try again "normally". If everything works, forget about anything else but the SCSI card you *need* to access the back-up. (which specific card is it? One of those cheap "Iomega" ones or a "good" one?) How exactly was the "backup made"? Are you sure there isn't a way to restore it from "pure DOS"? Report what happens. jaclaz

Just for the record, the version: is only listed on many sources as being a set of 3" 1/2 floppies (and NO CD-ROM) example: http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/mswin95v.htm Could you share the MS part number and (possibly) a photo of the actual CD? And/or additionally the file dates: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158238/en-us Does it look *like* this one (which seemingly is the French version) - but this seems an OEM one: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-95-PCs-without/dp/B008FSOVPE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Compare with: http://thebuyonlinecom.appspot.com/buy-windows-online--20/detail/B000NRY05G/183-6121017-4226423 This could be it? - still seems to me an OEM one http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Software-Windows-95/dp/B000NRY05G/ref=?ie=UTF8&m=A2LGHWXS2DEZ7I This one could be it (the box) but if you zoom in on the image you see in top left that it is the 3.5" floppy version: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windows-95-For-PCs-Without-Windows-Retail-Big-Box-3-5-Floppy-EUC-/321017778870?pt=US_Operating_Systems_Software&ssPageName=RSS:B:STORE:US:101&hash=item4abe2692b6&nma=true&si=FwwFAzwjL58Ot%2FguEM89YfQZYHk%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 it is possible that this same version was made on CD. jaclaz