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My sincerest condolences Ken. Sounds like your dad lived a very full and fullfilling life. I know what you are saying regarding cheating death. My father-in-law was in the Army during WWII in the Phillipines and was slated to invade Japan. He always said if that had happened he knew he wouldn't be coming back... it sure gave him a different outlook on the rest of his life.

Sure. What's your address? Ohh, wait.... I don't see any Proctor and Gamble toothpaste labeled RF15

Fastener Express? Or MacMaster-Carr? I've never ordered anything from McMaster. I don't recall Fastener Express being that bad on shipping or was it Bolt Depot that I've used? Or both? I forget

Yeah. Unfortunately the Ace Hardware stores around here only carry standard 4-40 machine screws in slotted head, which I refuse to buy. If I want to splurge, they do carry some hex head. Like you say, more than a small few, then Fastener Express or something else. Never used McMaster-Carr yet. Those taps someone showed from awhile back were interesting though...

You mean as in they actually carry some 4-40 stuff? And know that there is stuff smaller than that? And may actually have some? Hehe. Home Depot used to have a decent fastener supplier (plastic parts blister packs) compared to their current supplier who absolutely sucks.

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Hehe. Very nice of you to host this Marc, and nice of all to share.

Happy Birthday!

Yes.

I'll have to see if Comcast supports imap. Might not be an issue since I am getting very tired of their pricing and it appears I can get uverse with lower pricing now, though I dislike them even more... :basement: for both of them Maybe do Dish for TV, and keep comcast for internet.

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Just a follow-up. Got the Datarescue II / Drive Genius package the other day. I had already done a scan of the drive and saved it (to another drive). I checked by doing a new scan to see if anything changed; it didn't. So I went ahead and started recovery of what it could find. The results were all loose files without the correct filenames and directory structure. A shitload (~10,000 files) of jpegs consisting of both pictures (iPhoto) and what must be browser cache data. An equal shitload of email messages. All of which must be gone thru by hand. Since many of these were already present from the 2/2008 backup, I'm only doing these as needed. I also bought a copy of iLife '08; hopefully the newer version of iPhoto will deal with duplicates better than the version (v4?) I have now. My computer (dual G5 1.8GHz, OSX Tiger) won't run iLife '09, so this is the best I can do. And a huge amount of iTunes files (23Gb), all of which isn't needed (at least according to my sons who also use the computer). Things it didn't recover (that I know of): Firefox bookmarks Pain in the ass, and of course a self-inflicted wound Another package I looked at that could be better than Data Rescue II is FileSalvage by subrosasoft. This may have a better knowledge of filetypes than Data Rescue does, and has a built-in preview app that seems to work pretty well. Since I already bought Data Rescue, I'm sticking with it and hopefully won't do something stupid like this again.

Played golf for the first time in a year and a half. Was nice, had a great time.

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great one.

Happy Birthday Kevin!

OWC had DataRescueII for $58 or a package deal on DataRescue II and Drive Genius for $99, so I ordered the package. My brother sent a link to the procedure to do the move correctly, so once I have the drive restored and backed up, I'll go ahead and do that. Koos Kaspers.nl :: Howto: Moving Home directory to another volume

I was hoping that Amb would pop in to help you You might take your DMM on ohms mode and measure the V+ and V- to ground on your 3 amp boards with them disconnected. They should not measure shorted (0 ohms), but I'm not sure what a good reading would be, and it would probably depend on probe polarity.

Does this change between the demo version and registered? I scanned the entire new drive for deleted files, but from what I see of the results, the filenames are not preserved and I don't think the directory structure was either.

This might help: http://www.amb.org/audio/sigma22/s22_30v_voltages.pdf The AC voltage going in is somewhat immaterial. As was pointed out, 30Vac * 1.414 = 42.42Vdc - 1.4Vdc drop across rect. diodes = ~41Vdc which is then regulated down to 30Vdc. Checking thru the operating points should get you pretty close to isolating where the problem is. The PSU should put out +/-30V unloaded, and should be put to that point before any of the b22 boards are hooked up. Then as was suggested, one at a time for troubleshooting.

Thanks for the opinions Reks. I was having a hard time getting a warm and fuzzy about the crippled demo modes of most of these (one to the tune of $199 for the version that could actually recover anything). The Data Rescue was the first one that looked like it might actually be worth a shit and not a total pain in the ass. It helps that it is inside the amount that I would consider paying ($99).

I am using it and have been all day. I have not done anything with the new drive however. I also have a firewire drive hooked up which I am using for the scan data destination. I know, not the best but is the only way I can do it (don't have another computer to use). Since I didn't lose anything critical (that I am aware of) this will have to do.

Since i was moving most of it from the boot drive to the 2nd drive, I am questioning whether I should scan the boot drive or the new one? Most of the data had moved to the new drive when my problem occurred, so I initially thought that would be the one to look at. I would like to end up with the boot drive restored more or less where it was at (with the User data on it), and then go about doing this the right way with a current backup.

Unfortunately no. I was moving the entire Users folder over to a new HD when it appeared to freeze. I restarted the Finder, and then moved the Users folder again, telling it to overwrite the existing Users folder I wound up with a Users folder of about 300k (for 4 users)... and nothing in the recycle bin. No current backup, insufficient research in best way to do this (that wasn't it), etc. A comedy of errors today.

Looking at DataRescue II which looks like it could be a winner... but still open to suggestions.

I did something incredibly stupid today and lost most of the Users folder on my system while transferring them to my other hard drive (Move, not copy). My last backup was a year ago, so I am looking for a utility to undelete deleted files. Any suggestions? I don't really want to spend $100-$200 for one as there isn't anything that is really that critical; more of a nice to have. Ones I have looked at so far are: FileSalvage (6.1.7) AppleXsoft File Recovery for Mac (2.0) Boomerang-MacOSX-2.1.9 StellarPhoenix 3.5 Any recommendations?