OT: Help with Damaged data on a hard drive

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
my friend had a external hard (250GB) and the SATA plug broke he didn't know this for a while, so there is now corrupt data on the drive (broken partition table and some other stuff) I've finally backed up the data (69h copy time) with GNU ddrescue here's the problem, the best option is to

Re: CLUG meetings

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
On 06/07/10 15:45, Rik Tindall wrote: On 05/07/10 12:24, max podolian wrote: Hello everyone! Are there held any CLUG meetings? Best regards, Maksym Hello Maksym, Some local *nix users meet on the first Wednesday of each month (i.e. tomorrow) at 7.30pm-9.30pm in the South Learning Centre

Re: Handheld scanner recommendations

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
However, for scanning books, flatbeds have issues distortion in the center of thick books. Google solved this by calculating the curve and using some sort of 3D rendering to flatten out the image

Re: Handheld scanner recommendations

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
On 06/07/10 14:17, C. Falconer wrote: Andrew Errington wrote, On 07/06/2010 01:01 PM: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.33756 Oh, and I've never bought anything from DealExtreme, although I *sooo* want to. I have. The quality is about what you'd expect from mail-order. It looks

Re: CLUG meetings

2010-07-09 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Hill daniel.h...@orcon.net.nz wrote:  On 06/07/10 15:45, Rik Tindall wrote: Some local *nix users meet on the first Wednesday of each month (i.e. tomorrow) at 7.30pm-9.30pm in the South Learning Centre at South Library on Colombo Street in Beckenham