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Comment on Don't Buy Macs of Hurrocks Fardel
wavycleft, 01 Sep 2007 06:48 pm
Amazingly paranoid and interesting, IMHO.
As it is, glad the IT people can fix your computer and recover your data!
wavycleft, 01 Sep 2007 06:48 pm
Amazingly paranoid and interesting, IMHO.As it is, glad the IT people can fix your computer and recover your data!
Comment on Don't Buy Macs of Hurrocks Fardel
wavycleft, 01 Sep 2007 06:47 pm
To quote the manpage for "shred":
"The best way to remove something irretrievably is to destroy the
media it's on with acid, melt it down, or the like. For cheap
removable media like floppy disks, this is the preferred method.
However, hard drives are expensive and hard to melt, so the `shred'
utility tries to achieve a similar effect non-destructively."
GNU Coreutils 6.9, manual section 11.6.
wavycleft, 01 Sep 2007 06:47 pm
To quote the manpage for "shred":"The best way to remove something irretrievably is to destroy the
media it's on with acid, melt it down, or the like. For cheap
removable media like floppy disks, this is the preferred method.
However, hard drives are expensive and hard to melt, so the `shred'
utility tries to achieve a similar effect non-destructively."
GNU Coreutils 6.9, manual section 11.6.
Comment on Don't Buy Macs of Hurrocks Fardel
wavycleft, 01 Sep 2007 06:46 pm
From what I've read (and correct me if I'm wrong) it is theoretically more a problem
destroying than recovering data, but it takes specialized equipment to do so. Even if
part of a drive is broken, other magnetized parts won't necessarily have lost their
polarities. Add to this that a drive does not write as exactly as readers can pick up on
magnetic information, so even overwritten files (much less deleted) might be recoverable.
That's what I've heard anyway.
wavycleft, 01 Sep 2007 06:46 pm
From what I've read (and correct me if I'm wrong) it is theoretically more a problem
destroying than recovering data, but it takes specialized equipment to do so. Even if
part of a drive is broken, other magnetized parts won't necessarily have lost their
polarities. Add to this that a drive does not write as exactly as readers can pick up on
magnetic information, so even overwritten files (much less deleted) might be recoverable.
That's what I've heard anyway.Comment on Don't Buy Macs of Hurrocks Fardel
wavycleft, 31 Aug 2007 09:22 am
That's terrible! I sure hope whoever is fixing it makes sure to try to recover / protect
any data first.
wavycleft, 31 Aug 2007 09:22 am
That's terrible! I sure hope whoever is fixing it makes sure to try to recover / protect
any data first.Comment on Chapter 8: Page 8 of I Come From Mars
wavycleft, 23 Aug 2007 09:02 am
I remember the kiss. Thanks for the update!
wavycleft, 23 Aug 2007 09:02 am
I remember the kiss. Thanks for the update!Comment on Chapter 8: Page 5 of I Come From Mars
wavycleft, 18 Aug 2007 11:20 am
Very nice exposition. Nice phrases.
As for the minor detail of grammar, it appears that previous comments covered a good deal. There were still some things that caught my eye, however:
The word "environment" should be plural in the third panel, to generalize the concept:
"... orchids are durable flowers that can withstand harsh environments".
Third panel, second paragraph. The pronoun "it" should be "them" as it refers to a plural antecedent:
"And some can bloom beautifully even when you plant them..."
Final panel, first paragraph. There is a repeat pronoun. One of the instances of "him" should probably be dropped.
"... the doctors said it would take several months for him to recover."
or
"... it would take him several months to recover."
I agree that "taught" is used properly, although "would teach" works as well. I too think the spelling in "catalogue" is acceptable and also believe it to be British.
wavycleft, 18 Aug 2007 11:20 am
Very nice exposition. Nice phrases.As for the minor detail of grammar, it appears that previous comments covered a good deal. There were still some things that caught my eye, however:
The word "environment" should be plural in the third panel, to generalize the concept:
"... orchids are durable flowers that can withstand harsh environments".
Third panel, second paragraph. The pronoun "it" should be "them" as it refers to a plural antecedent:
"And some can bloom beautifully even when you plant them..."
Final panel, first paragraph. There is a repeat pronoun. One of the instances of "him" should probably be dropped.
"... the doctors said it would take several months for him to recover."
or
"... it would take him several months to recover."
I agree that "taught" is used properly, although "would teach" works as well. I too think the spelling in "catalogue" is acceptable and also believe it to be British.
Comment on Chapter 7: Page 17 of I Come From Mars
wavycleft, 11 Aug 2007 01:21 pm
Wow, the story is getting even more neat. :-)
wavycleft, 11 Aug 2007 01:21 pm
Wow, the story is getting even more neat. :-)Comment on Chapter 7: Page 10 of I Come From Mars
wavycleft, 30 May 2007 06:02 pm
Any grammatical errors present are quite minor and subject to dispute. At any rate, I
really love your comic, and think your English is quite good. :-)
I'm no grammar expert, by the way, so I welcome critiques, contrariwise, of my critiques.
Here are my thoughts:
1) In panel 4, you use the phrase "to conscious level" at one point and later the phrase "at the conscious level". I think the second example sounds more natural because of the use of "the". I speculate that the first example sounds something like "go to code red", in which "code red" is more of a unit idea and the use is contextually more terse.
2) In panel 5, you wrote, "I will be forced to push you down further to the subconscious level", which makes it sound like Unbi is not yet at the subconscious level. You might write, "futher down into the ...", or perhaps, "deeper into the ... ".
3) In panel 6, the phrase "I do not require to be" sounds really strange because of the infinitive used as a noun. If you substitute "need" for "require", it will work, though. If you still want to use "require", you should use some noun, maybe something like "I do not require access at the conscious level ..."?
wavycleft, 30 May 2007 06:02 pm
Any grammatical errors present are quite minor and subject to dispute. At any rate, I
really love your comic, and think your English is quite good. :-)I'm no grammar expert, by the way, so I welcome critiques, contrariwise, of my critiques.
Here are my thoughts:
1) In panel 4, you use the phrase "to conscious level" at one point and later the phrase "at the conscious level". I think the second example sounds more natural because of the use of "the". I speculate that the first example sounds something like "go to code red", in which "code red" is more of a unit idea and the use is contextually more terse.
2) In panel 5, you wrote, "I will be forced to push you down further to the subconscious level", which makes it sound like Unbi is not yet at the subconscious level. You might write, "futher down into the ...", or perhaps, "deeper into the ... ".
3) In panel 6, the phrase "I do not require to be" sounds really strange because of the infinitive used as a noun. If you substitute "need" for "require", it will work, though. If you still want to use "require", you should use some noun, maybe something like "I do not require access at the conscious level ..."?
wavycleft, 09 Dec 2007 06:02 pm