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NO. Rubix cube is an INTELLIGENT device. jaclaz

Internal: http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/monju/item/228-1031/ or External: http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/monju/item/290-0106/ thread correction? jaclaz

Cannot say if it is connected, but in Europe "Metro" is since what, forty years or more, a store chain (a particular one, cash&carry., half way between "retail" and "wholesale" here in Italy). Metro AG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG http://www.metrogroup.de/internet/site/metrogroup/node/METROGROUP_INTERNET_HOME/Lde/index.html http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La_Spezia_-_Magazzino_Metro.JPG AND it has since 2006 the "Metro" as a Registred Trademark, btw through a rather reknown EU court decision: http://www.just-food.com/news/tesco-loses-metro-trademark-case_id95994.aspx It would not surprise me if our German friends decided to defend their trademark, for people in a number of EU countries Metro did actually sound like it would in the US have an OS called "Sears" or "Walmart" Who knows if the original Simon name is now available? (or Hasbro still holds it ? Or if it was registered in the EU or in the US? ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game) ...after all the good MS guys already used "Bob" jaclaz

opiuman With all due respect , you are doing silly things . The idea is: hopefully be able to access the contents of the data and copy them elsewhere (which means don't EVEN THINK of attempting booting from it) once data is safe, carry BOTH Seagate "short" and "long" tests if BOTH are successful, then wipe and reformat (and in any case the drive is to be considered "not reliable" or actually "less reliable than the usually non-reliable level of ANY disk") if a new firmware is availabel decide whether trying to update the disk or leave it as is If any of the two tests fails, then the disk drive is "gone", you can use it to do experiments, try weird and dangerous things or use it a door holder, but DO NOT EVEN THINK to put data again on it, let alone installing an OS to it. BUT, as it has come out in time, the "m0, etc". constitutes a sort of "reset" of the disk, so, ONCE you have: got back the data performed the two tests and one or both have failed you can TRY doing anyway the procedure, and IF you are lucky AND you try again the two Seagate tests AND BOTH are OK, then you have a working disk drive. Conversely, if you cannot access the data AND you have not enough money for professional data recovery OR you already have the data copied safely elsewhere OR they simply do not represent for you a several hundred dollars value, THEN you have nothing to lose in try reviving the hard disk anyway. jaclaz

Which particular 32 GB Format limitation are you referring to? jaclaz

And why can't you run them 32 bit apps? I mean : Anyway : http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=667&Itemid=55 http://firesage.com/mbrwizard.php jaclaz

WHY would you "go read the forum rules again"? You should have learned them by heart by now . jaclaz

This topic has been ALREADY been covered : The good news are that you can save the few bucks for the OCR app if you want to save it as a simple JPG. The bad news are that of course the image will be saved in the new TJPG format, and you will only be able to view it after connecting to MS servers and digitally sign an affidavit about you believing in good faith that the actual image is a product of yours, displaying it does not infringe any Copyright and represents NOT any nudity, obscene or anyway offending material and additionally an agreement to held MS indemn from any damage, so that you can get the 48 character long alphanumeric key that you need to digit on the keyboard rectius tap on the stoopid touchscreen of your stupid tablet) in order to allow (once) the Trusted JPG viewer to display the image. This service will cost you a mere US$ 0.20 (+ local taxes where applicable) jaclaz

Hmmm. Some pet therapy would probably do miracles to your social attitudes ..... jaclaz

I see. BUT the cdob's version needs not the mountvol.exe: MOUNTVOL is actually used ONLY to limit the number of loops, but since all in all 26-2=24 can be categorized if not as "a few", at least as "not that many" . Try this (let's call it "findTAG.cmd") : @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET Tagfile=test.txt FOR %%D IN (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO ( SET mymessage=Looking for "%%D:\%Tagfile%" .... Not found. DIR "%%D:\%Tagfile%"> nul 2>&1 && SET mymessage=!mymessage:Not found.=FOUND.! ECHO !mymessage! ) or this (let's call it ListEdrives.cmd): @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR %%D IN (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO ( SET mymessage=Looking for drive %%D: .... Not Existing. DIR %%D:\> nul 2>&1 && SET mymessage=!mymessage:Not Existing.=EXISTING.! ECHO !mymessage! ) And yes, in Explorer I have: Output of ListEdrives.cmd: C:\batches>ListEdrives.cmd Looking for drive C: .... EXISTING. Looking for drive D: .... EXISTING. Looking for drive E: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive F: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive G: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive H: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive I: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive J: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive K: .... EXISTING. Looking for drive L: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive M: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive N: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive O: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive P: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive Q: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive R: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive S: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive T: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive U: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive V: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive W: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive X: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive Y: .... Not Existing. Looking for drive Z: .... Not Existing. jaclaz

Remembering that Analysts on average did NOT forecast (lately) the whole world crisis, and that IMHO what they say is often in no way more accurate than waht an average joe says, From: http://www.pcworld.com/article/260217/microsoft_calls_windows_8_complete_but_analysts_are_concerned.html Highlighted the IMHO interesting parts. Once removed the SERIOUS English and logical errors (you CANNOT use "very-high-quality", NOR "exciting" "in the same sentence with "Metro Apps", let alone attributing these adjectives to them), there is IMHO an issue of some kind . I consider myself (all in all) a rather knowledgeable PC user, and also think I have a rather good memory . I thought a little bit to the number of programs I actually use. There are no more than 20 that I use on a daily basis. And no more than 200 that I use once in a while (very often to do very specific and "advanced" things). I don't think to have ever run in my whole computing life 5,000 programs, or maybe I did, but forgot about 4,000 of them (as they were useless, didn't work or had a much better alternative). If the trend is towards hundreds or thousands of (nonsense) apps, each doing only a very specific thing, the new frontier should be an app that helps the user to find the app he needs to do something, a user friendly database kind of thingy. jaclaz

Ilko, cannot say if it applies specifically, but do check these: jaclaz

Like: Seriously, a title like: would IMHO do nicely . @N30N To clarify. IDE/PATA drives work on *any* machine, even before installing specific motherboard/chipset and bus drivers because the hardware is supported by a basic "one-size-fits-all" set of drivers already included in the OS CD. SATA/AHCI drives need in most cases a set of specific drivers integrated to the OS CD (or loaded through the "F6 floppy" provision). Installing on another machine and "porting" the install is the MOST difficult thing you could have attempted (please read as "it won't work") due to the HAL, XP installs are deeply linked to the hardware and "moving" an install, while doable, is "advanced-advanced". You have five options (in order of difficulty according to my view): access the BIOS and set the hard disks as "IDE emulation mode" and install normaly (but you will lose some speed in disk operations) make a "F6 floppy disk" with the appropriate driver and use it at install integrate the whole set of BTS Driverspack for XP (i.e. burn a new CD with the added set of drivers) integrate the specific driver to the install CD (i.e. burn a new CD with the added driver) See option #1:access the BIOS and set the hard disks as "IDE emulation mode" and install normaly BUT later install the appropriate driver and change the setting in BIOS Choose one and ask for help on that one, if needed . jaclaz

Very, very, very difficult (speaking of NTFS). The whole point of using a "captive" solution is that you need not to know (much) about the actual target filesystem (but you need to know very well how the "native" drivers/structure parser/etc. work) and all you have to do is to "interface" to a given set of (other OS) tools files, but you give a rather heavy "bundle" on the user, the need to have a license for the "other OS" (to be "kosher"). But the situation has changed in these years and the Linux driver is now also "native" (and open source). Still, in a scale 0 to 10 of difficulty, writing a kernel driver should be between 8 and 9 . jaclaz

I normally use the dsfok toolkit and/or hexalter and/or gsar and/or echoo.com. Though not .iso related, you can have a look at Mbrbatch/mkimg and/or makebs to have an idea of the usage. http://reboot.pro/3191/ <- the version here: http://reboot.pro/5000/#entry45422 has been modified to use bpatcher instead so that it works on 64 bit OS also http://reboot.pro/2362/ You will need to be careful with maht, as in "plain batch" anything above 7FFFFFFF or 2147483647 may become "a suffusion of yellow". Some (hopefully) useful routines are here: http://reboot.pro/2986/ An .iso oriented batch is here: http://reboot.pro/12406/ (again only useful to get a general idea) jaclaz

Sure I did , but by "nice", I meant "nice" , not that I personally liked it I mean, no offence intended, but to do similar things in NT based systems I have always used a few lines in one of my half@§§ed batches, example: @ECHO OFF CLS SET to_ping=8.8.8.8 SET Today=%Date% SET Today=%Today:/=_% :loop FOR /F "tokens=5 delims==, " %%A IN ('ping -n 1 %to_ping% ^|FIND "Pacchetti"') DO ( ECHO. IF %%A.==0. ( ECHO %Date%-%time% NO_PING %to_ping% REM Optional log REM ECHO %Date%-%time% NO_PING %to_ping%>>%Today%.log ) ::Poorman's WAIT ::Very roughly 60 second intervals ::it would be much beeter to use AT, SCHTASKS or any of the n third party "WAIT" tools FOR /L %%B in (0,1,4100) DO PING -n 1 127.0.1.1>nul GOTO :loop JFYI, Win9x/Me have the PING command allright : http://www.computerhope.com/pinghlp.htm "real" DOS misses alltogether the TCP/IP stack , BUT : http://wisdomtree.info/dos/dostcpip.htm#Kernel http://web.archive.org/web/20050223103309/http://www.smashco.com/wattcp.asp http://www.bootablecd.de/fdhelp-dos/en/hhstndrd/network/msclient.htm http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS_-_MS_Client http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/samba/dos.html jaclaz

I would have sweared that we are in : on a thread titled: Dos does not mean "command line", nor CLI, it means DOS. XP and 7, last time I checked, were part of the NT family of OS and not of the 9x/Me one (DOS based). So, nice tool , but maybe posted in the "wrong" place jaclaz

You are welcome An interesting one. Possibly adapting the example snippet to what you want to do . I took the original request as: I want to write a new batch file, similar to the one I already wrote, but I don't know how to get the Last Modified date/time of file; how can I do this? And not as: I had someone write for me a batch file. I need someone to write a new one for me with these other features: ...... Had you actually READ the given thread, you might have read also this post : Since "your" batch already uses variable expansion: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.php and the t element of an expanded variable represents date/time (last modified one). "Your" batch becomes nicely: The general idea was to give you some missing pieces (of various puzzles ) but let you find the way to re-compose the puzzle.... jaclaz

I am sorry , unfortunately I don't keep in stock 27" Viewsonic displays anymore. I am working on hacking a few screens salvaged from devices like these: http://www.ebay.it/itm/Lotto-stock-di-10-lettori-MP4-Mediacom-Video-AVI-Slim-Player-8GB-ME-XS808GN-TG-/220955785162?pt=Lettori_audio_portatili_digitali_MP3_e_video_MP4_&hash=item3371fdb7ca I can assure you that one of these 1.8" inch screens will provide a much better experience with the brand new Windows®8 as compared to a 27" inch screen. I conducted a research, and though everyone with a numbers of neurons n>=2 insisted pointlessly that they had to actually work and that they wanted large screens and lots of open windows/programs in them, the vast majority with n=1 ( or less ) were very convincing is stating that all you need is as many open windows/apps as neurons you possess and working is something they simply want to be payed for, not what they actually do or want to do or are capable to do, so, on average, for the vast majority of users, a 1.8" display with one big window (big is to be intended as relative to the screen size) is enough. Large displays are intended (possibly at least 100 Hz and HD) exclusively as means to look at lousy low-resolution supposedly funny videos downloaded from YouTube. Which of course calls for a spoiler : jaclaz

I know that, as often happens , this is off topic , but not too much . I happened to land here: http://www.fybertech.com/forums/index.php?topic=1020.0 and this is the "better" place to put it I can think of . Useless? Maybe yes, maybe no. jaclaz

Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Easier to get the "last modified date" is to actually DIR the file. Say that you have a file c:\test.txt Dir C:\test.txt will show you something like (this is my Italian interface): C:\>dir test.txt Il volume nell'unità C non ha etichetta. Numero di serie del volume: C08C-CFD9 Directory di C:\ 19/12/2011 12:05 62 Test.txt 1 File 62 byte 0 Directory 147.178.754.048 byte disponibili Then try: to get the Creation date) This is the (last) Access date. Same goes for /TW for (last) Write date Parsing any of these three commands results amounts more or less to: @ECHO OFF FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/ " %%A IN ('DIR /TA C:\test.txt ^| FIND /I "test.txt"') DO ( SET A_Day=%%A SET A_Month=%%B SET A_Year=%%C ) SET A_ But see this thread also : jaclaz

Off topic , but not much , you can have view/print support for the stoopid docx and xlsx through a couple of nice proggies, each one only around 4 Mb: http://www.officeviewers.com/ The good guys at Softmaker also provide for FREE BOTH a Linux and a Windows version of their (old) 2008 office-like suite /current is "2012"): http://www.softmakeroffice.com/ jaclaz

Think Octopus : jaclaz

Misunderstanding . The Sysynternals/Winternals utility/tool is called "NTFSDOS" or "NTFSDOS Professional", as in: The Sysinternal/WInternal other one is/was called "NTFS for Windows 98" and came into a Free Read Only version that is still around and into a "Professional" version (Commercial). As well as NTFSDOS, it uses the "captive" approach, i.e. uses "regular" NT/2K (cannot say if XP) files. The Datapol/Avira Tool is called "NTFS4DOS" or "NTFS4DOS Personal": The Paragon app/tool is called "NTFS for Win98": http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-win98/download.html There is also a NTFS reader by Diskinternals called "NTFS Reader for Windows 95, 98, Me" http://www.diskinternals.com/ntfs-reader/ And a NTFS reader from NTFS.COM called "NTFS Reader for DOS": http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm Fantasy in naming apps is usually not the most relevant capability programmers have.... jaclaz

Better: PROBLEMCHYLD: You write in a rather good English for a Frenchmen How comes your nick is ALL CAPITALS? jaclaz