daneel_w

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601.
by daneel_w 3y ago
US/UK didn't install the current ruling set of islamists.
602.
by daneel_w 3y ago
No discernable sound of the heads moving. Drive just spins up and that's it. Last I searched was back in 2012-2013 and I didn't find any other advice than trying a PCB swap.
603.
by daneel_w 3y ago
>"Reading through the other comments - you have a very low chance to succeed, because if you want to swap controller boards then you need to move adaptive data too, as other had said." I'm pretty decent with soldering ir
604.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Well, it's written in Go, so...
605.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Why the snark? I will survive without the data, but I'm curious about alternatives to throwing $4000 at the problem and forfeiting my privacy and my data's integrity.
606.
by daneel_w 3y ago
I have a third drive, working and unused, with same PCB model number. Others in this thread have said that my chances are good if I bring the DIP-8 EEPROM from the broken drives over to the working PCB.
607.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Exploring the Fish Disks was an adventure when I was growing up with the Amiga in the early 90s. An endless amount of curious, useful, useless, great, poor, fun and boring applications, utilities and games.
608.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Not a typo, they've been powered off for around a decade. But HDDs (just like floppies) don't lose their magnetized property in just 3 years, or even 10 years, barring the very rare case of an extreme fluke or environmental exposu
609.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Doesn't ring a bell for me, but given the highly questionable tiering/marketing methods from HDD manufacturers these days and the fact that they have been reducing warranty durations by some 50%, that type of planned obsolescence
610.
by daneel_w 3y ago
The PCBs are of the exact same model. My fear is a DRM type scheme connected to serial numbers etc. stored on the platters having to match those of the controller.
611.
by daneel_w 3y ago
It's my suspicion, at least. In fact I have two of those drives, bought at the same time, and both died in the same sudden way with no more than two weeks between.
612.
by daneel_w 3y ago
I fear this is the case...
613.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Does anyone have any advice (other than sending to a professional data recovery service) for how to access data on an HDD whose controller card stopped working, and refuse to accept a spare controller card taken from a brand new identical H
614.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Foreverywhere Chemicals.
615.
by daneel_w 3y ago
That's the opposite of my experience. BASSMOD (XMPlay) is, second to actually running the original replayers on the Amiga, the most accurate MOD replayer I've ever come across. Unlike e.g. Milky~ and MikMod, it already ages ago ma
616.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Yeah Delitracker is a great choice, too, since it runs practically every replay routine ever made.
617.
by daneel_w 3y ago
The term probably arose from the naming, starting with the very first one: Soundtracker (1987) on the Amiga, obviously a play on the word soundtrack . From there we got Noisetracker, Startrekker, Protracker, Fasttracker (MS-DOS) and so on.
618.
by daneel_w 3y ago
It's not the right tool for that job. What you want is e.g. XMPlay/BASS ( https://www.un4seen.com/ ) or MikMod ( https://mikmod.sourceforge.net/ ).
619.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Yeah, some 5-10 years ago. I just don't know if there's anything specific in the applied techniques/methods that some troll can still somehow manage to leverage in, say, a court in Texas.
620.
by daneel_w 3y ago
That in terms of quality per any bitrate it comes nowhere near ubiquitous formats like AAC or MP3 when produced with good encoders. But it's good to have (possibly) patent-free solutions available.
621.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Microsoft provides updates for just the GPU driver through Windows Update if you tick the box for that.
622.
by daneel_w 3y ago
I never install it myself, since I don't need it for anything. Would love to get a confirmation that tossing "GFE" disables their telemetry drone.
623.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Though that wasn't their statement. Of course there's value in it. The question is if it's value for the customer or just plain abuse.
624.
by daneel_w 3y ago
While Nvidia's driver installer doesn't ask permission, does anyone happen to know if there's a way after installation to disable their telemetry collection?
625.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Same foods, same amounts, but the time span was more typical and covered about 14 hours starting with breakfast around 9 in the morning and ending with a small snack around 11 in the evening (though never close to bedtime). What I do now is
626.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Would be interesting to see another study with people who do both breakfast skipping and skipping late-night eating. When I was in my 30s I was a typical woefully sedentary "IT potato" with more than a few extra kilograms around
627.
by daneel_w 3y ago
We have very different perspectives of frugality. My first impression was also, "that's a lot of ingredients".
628.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Their whole business is lending other people's deposits. For the most part they have no money of their own. They use your money lend and speculate with.
629.
by daneel_w 3y ago
This video shows the flake standing up in the same orientation (on its pointiest tip) for both applied polarities of the magnet: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ex4y1X7ix/
630.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Yep, stringing together control characters, or setting the cursor position in the screen editor's memory with two POKEs.

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