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Badly scrambled, is my guess. An error during shutdown, or storage, or reboot, may have damaged the disk’s MBR or Boot Sector or GUID table (depending on how the disk was set up). If there were files on the disk, they’re still there, but the OS can’t see or access them. Hard drives in long-term,…
For one thing, car windshields would be much harder to keep clean. (And yes, I get some very offbeat questions… š ) Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=1667 Want to ask Fred a question? Have a comment? Click here! Want free notification of new content like this? Click here!
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The answer is: 17. Or 674. Or 2. Or 4,237. Not all āprograms, tasks, and gamesā are equal. A handful of resource-hungry apps might bring even a top-of-the-line PC to its figurative knees. But you could run hundreds or even thousands of tiny, efficient apps on the same machine. Sorry, thereās no way to answer…
You have four choices: a safe and ethically positive one; a probably-safe but ethically murky one; a maybe-kinda-sorta-safe one, also with murky ethics; and a totally unsafe one, with murky ethics. The 100% safe choice is not to keep the drive. For one thing, the person who lost the drive might need it or its…
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Win7 has been on life-support for a long time. But yesterday, it entered its final year: On January 14, 2020, Microsoft will stop all support for Win7. If you’re still running Win7, it’s really time to move on! See this Tom’s Hardware article for a good overview. Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=1678 Want to ask Fred a question?…
The files will then be doubly-encrypted; once by TrueCrypt, and once by the ransomware. The good news is that the malware can’t read the contents of your TrueCrypt-encrypted files. That’s not what ransomware is really about anyway: It’s not designed to snoop; it’s just designed to take your files hostage. But the bad news is…
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If you can remove the batteries, then an e-bike is just like any other bike, and is subject to the same rules. A battery-less, totally inert e-bike can be shipped by almost any means. Li-ion batteries, if damaged or defective, can cause a very serious, very energetic chemical fire. That’s why shipping Li-ion batteries require…