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Submission + - HFS+ Bit Rot (barthe.ph)

Submitted by jackjeff on Saturday June 14, 2014 @01:59AM

jackjeff writes: HFS+ lost a total of 28 files over the course of 6 years.

Most of the corrupted files are completely unreadable. The JPEGs typically decode partially, up to the point of failure. The raw .CR2 files usually turn out to be totally unreadable: either completely black or having a large color overlay on significant portions of the photo. Most of these shots are not so important, but a handful of them are. One of the CR2 files in particular, is a very good picture of my son when he was a baby. I printed and framed that photo, so I am glad that I did not lose the original.

Comment Savannah down too (unrelated) (Score -1, Offtopic) 919

by jackjeff on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @11:13AM (#34388486) Attached to: DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing

Savannah is down too... but no one cares :)
http://savannah.gnu.org/

Comment Re:Follow Apple's Lead Already! (Score 1) 1365

by jackjeff on Monday May 18, 2009 @09:24AM (#27994829) Attached to: Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop

From what I heard, it has been done before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#Vendor_support

Comment Re:Why OSX isn't ready for the desktop. (Score 1) 1365

by jackjeff on Monday May 18, 2009 @09:00AM (#27994419) Attached to: Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop

I did my research and found a TV tuner that would work under Linux so that I could run MythTV. How many tuner cards work with OSX?

Many TV tuners are supported on the Mac, so if you do you research well, you could probably find one that works on Mac, Windows and Linux, and maybe even Linux on non i386 hardware
http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/software/EyeTV3/product3.en.html

Webcam drivers are bit irrelevant on the Mac, considered that Apple bundle WebCams with many of their hardware nowadays. But anyway:
http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/cameras/index.php
http://www.ioxperts.com/devices/supportedvideo.html

I stopped reading halfway through. Its a troll. I could say Windows isn't ready for the desktop because there are no CLI utilities or scripting languages built in.

Windows has PowerShell. It has some features which I have never heard of on Linux (but I'd like to be proven wrong): the pipeline support typed objects and not just text streams that Unix tools spend their time parsing; powershell allows full access to the DotNET api.

If you want to do something in batch like resize and auto-rotate a bunch of digital camera pictures you need to search for and download a program that does exactly what you want and hopefully not get a virus.

You could use Powershell and jhead to accomplish the same thing on Windows. (Or even cygwin!) Or use jhead on MacOS X :)

Or you use powershell, access the DotNet image framework, even create a CmdLet encapsulating the hard nifty tricky details...

Comment Re:I have a question... (Score 1) 630

by jackjeff on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @08:52AM (#26278909) Attached to: Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords

Additionally this is stupid.

Have access to the offender email?
-> Offender can encrypt all his emails. So that no-one would pose as him, nor anyone read his emails. Effect of having the password => absolutely none.

What kind of monitoring anyway?
-> Offender can open hundreds and hundreds of accounts, send the password, register to a huge amount of spam. He would comply with the rules, but who would have time to read/process the emails anyway???
-> Offender could change passwords of his accounts on a daily fashion or open an account every day.
-> Once email has been deleted, what good can "have the password" do. Let's say. A. Open new account on yahoo + send password B. Send email to prey, asking to reply on another email (not yet created). C. Erase traces of first email.... Seriously?

Totally ineffective way to achieve i don't know what.

Windows 7 Benchmarks Show Little Improvement On Vista 369

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @06:23AM from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy examines Windows 7 from the kernel up, subjecting the 'pre-beta' to a battery of benchmarks to find any signs that the OS will be faster, more responsive, and less resource-intensive than the bloated Vista, as Microsoft suggests. Identical thread counts at the kernel level suggest to Kennedy that Windows 7 is a 'minor point-type of release, as opposed to a major update or rewrite.' Memory footprint for the kernel proved eerily similar to that of Vista as well. 'In fact, as I worked my way through the process lists of the two operating systems, I was struck by the extent of the similarities,' Kennedy writes, before discussing the results of a nine-way workload test scenario he performed on Windows 7 — the same scenario that showed Vista was 40 percent slower than Windows XP. 'In a nutshell, Windows 7 M3 is a virtual twin of Vista when it comes to performance,' Kennedy concludes. 'In other words, Microsoft's follow-up to its most unpopular OS release since Windows Me threatens to deliver zero measurable performance benefits while introducing new and potentially crippling compatibility issues.'"

Comment Re:I'm guessing... (Score 1) 298

by jackjeff on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @07:08AM (#24565907) Attached to: IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner?

J-1 visas are the way to go, but a company will not invest time if you are not planning to stay for at least 6 months...

I did this for a 6 months internship, in a small company in SC. They had some europeans employees (1 french, 1 german now naturalized) which helped the process. I did not know them personally but I tried to convince them that it would be a good idea to hire me...

In the end they wanted to keep me, but other visas that J-1 are hard to get. I ended up in a partner company in Germany for nearly 2 yrs, before I quitted for a much more interesting offer back in France.

Now I am planning to move to the UK, Canada or the US...

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