Re: SpinRite (was: FYI)

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Bilow
On 2013-04-28 11:19 ET, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: If the disk is failing, perhaps what it needs in SpinRight to recover the iffy blocks. Not Free, not Open, but good stuff and not expensive. Oh boy. This is going to get into

Re: From failed drive to hero in many steps

2012-12-11 Thread Mike Bilow
It may have been helpful for you to know about SysRescueCD, a live Linux distribution optimized specifically for data recovery. It is based on Gentoo and is available as a simple ISO file that is intended to be burned to CD, although it can also be put onto a bootable USB stick. More

Re: drive recovery of dual-boot system

2012-01-25 Thread Mike Bilow
Filesystems (and therefore fsck targets) reside on partitions of the disk, something like /dev/sdc3, rather than the entire device (or an image of it). This is inherent in the design of the system and is independent of the types of filesystems or how they are mixed. In order to access

Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

2011-11-06 Thread Mike Bilow
It is important to understand that the message itself, including both the headers (such as From and To) and the body, can be transmitted in multiple ways other than Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and many of these systems, such as UUCP, were in widespread use historically. Because of

Re: Representative Seth Cohn

2010-11-03 Thread Mike Bilow
Open source software is all well and good, but if you want to really scare the crap out of people and shake things up in a state legislature, start talking about open source _textbooks_ as well: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/09/open-source-tex/ -- Mike On 2010-11-03 16:44, Seth Cohn

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Bilow
For ARM, CodeSourcery: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/platforms.html They use the GNU tool chain to target EABI (bare metal), uClinux, or GNU/Linux. -- Mike On 2010-08-25 10:58, Tyson Sawyer wrote: An excerpt from an email exchange where I work: A tool I just found out they spent