“The Islamic Republic of Iran has made up its mind, and on the nuclear program and other issues it is up against it will continue powerfully on its path, putting its faith in God and with patience and perseverance, and it will obtain its sweet fruit.”
Via Iran Focus
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I dont think oil is a biological byproduct of the decay of dinosaur carcasses. theres too much of it for that explanation and how did it get so deep in the ground in the same places? where did all the dirt come from? I think it was geological and chemical in origin. likewise all that natural gas aka methane.
if you dont agree, then explain why the atmosphere of Neptune is hydrogen helium and methane.
dinosaurs at 200 below zero? I dont think so.
but naturally the right wing christian traditionalists cling to the sacred cows and sling mud at the bearer of new thought……
clever hughmahs will manufacture it in a lab and then factories and refineries using biological raw materials. LOTS of inorganic compounds have organic cousins.
“my harddrive blew up so I gotta go get all this stuff again”
O/T technical tip recollected from mr Cosford’s posting:
if you ever lose the op. system on a HD, DONT reinstall.
instead, get a brand new HD, install the crashed drive as secondary, install the op. system on the brand new one, then systematically pluck what you want off the crashed drive.
when completed, if data loss was only a s/w issue then wipe the old drive clean and now it acts as a backup or secondary drive.
you can also use the opportunity to repartition to better format std NTFS I think its called.
ask me how I know …. !!!
Robertj, you don’t need to buy a new hd, just partition the old hd, save all your folders to “d” and keep the os on your “c”. If the pc crashes again, re-install your os, while your “d” is never touched. NTFS is correct.
multirec:
well thats a possibility too, as long as the repartition utility doesnt clobber the directory contents on the crashed drive.
Ive never seen files survive a Windows-origin (ie not 3rd party utility) partition operation, thats the most drastic thing you can do after a low level format, which itself became unnecessary with the advent of the ultra capacity IDE now in use.
I used to do this kind of stuff every day but so much has changed in the last decade.
technical quiz #2:
the last thing I tried was to see if I could put 2 HDs in the same box with completely diff OS’s. problem was, the boot select info still had to be secure on the primary drive to ever switch to the alternate. I would have had to disconnect and reconnect the drive cable each time in order to guarantee a loss of the boot select record would not prevent getting at the secondary drive. not acceptable.
technical quiz #3:
Ive also made enquiries and investigated any possibility of making a HD on an intel/microsoft architecture system ‘read only’, like in the old days on mainframes where flipping a toggle switch disabled the drive write cicuitry. I saw this as a really effective means of protecting critical info from viruses and other causes of data corruption. nada.
techical quiz #4:
and I have also searched hi and lo for a utility which tests the legibility of disks. you know, simply reads the entire file/folder/drive/etc WITHOUT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING WITH IT.
no need to unencrypt, decompress, install, process or anything; ‘we’re just checking if there are any unrecoverable read errors on the disk sir, we dont need to use it right now sir we just want to make sure its LEGIBLE when the time comes’.
couldnt find anything like THAT either.
I even had great difficulty convincing the future shop based geek sector of the wisdom of such a utility. they would get that ‘geez whut a dunce’ look on their face and loudly claim all I needed to do was install the software and make sure that way…. hello!!!! what if I ALREADY have that s/w on my system and dont want your precious geek solution to wipe out MY copy? what if I just want to make sure there are no pips and glitches on the CD Im holding BEFORE I mail it half way around the world to my associate????
they just didnt get it.