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Ah, unemployed patent lawyers with no scruples or knowledge. That answers everything. I guess they either sleep too soundly to hear ambulances, or aren't willing to make even that small effort toward justifying their existence. Thanks! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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"patent lawyers with no scruples or knowledge" - seems redundant to me...
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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CHill60 wrote: http://www.directorypatent.com/US/06502239.html[^]
"Elements from the original source code represented by the model are placed in a meta-model, and compared to a similar meta-model of the software model."
Holy Cr@p!
That's "functionality" that I added to my spoof COBOL '99 program!
They can't possibly be taking it seriously! Everything that it achieves is nothing useful!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Too many models for me! 
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Thanks for the link, now do you have a link that explains in plain English what round trip engineering is? It is amazing, you can get a patent by saying nothing that makes sense and anything that doesn't.
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Finding something in plain English on this topic is beyond me I'm afraid.
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CHill60 wrote: Finding something in plain English on this topic is beyond me I'm afraid.
Actually, finding any patent that initially makes sense seems like mission impossible. Usually they have to molder for years before someone sees the benefit of using it.
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Well, the obvious benefit is synchronization of models and the corresponding source code. Why else would you do it? 
/ravi
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Anyone used TestDisk or DiskInternals?
SSD drive went all bad and I need some stuff off of it badly.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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You need a time machine to back in time and don't do what you did to mess it all up. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I told you next Wednesday that won't work!
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Until next wednesday, I can expose this information and share it with everyone.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I don't know what kind of tools it will take, but it can be done. I lost a disk and paid some hack to put it in his 'system'... in his garage. Three days later he recovered everything except the OS installation (the reason it couldn't boot). We agreed to $200 for it (before he started)... it probably should have cost more considering the time it took. I gave him a very big tip after I verified everything was there.
This was after "Geek Squad" failed to diagnose anything... even claiming it was dead when I knew I could get it to spin up and read when slaved... I just couldn't recover enough info to determine file locations on the disk.
Oh, and the critical nature of the files on the disk... my wife hadn't backed up her pictures...
So now I bought her a $5 thumb drive... everything goes from the camera, to the computer, to the usb. And she never overwrites a picture on the camera disk (always get a new one)... that should do it... no more freaking out over pictures... triply backed up.
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So you don't use a cloud service for your photos?
That's the safest solution for your pictures -- once the cloud service is hacked, you can retrieve accidentally-deleted pictures from any torrent site.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So you don't use a cloud service for your photos?
I was getting ready to take you serious and explain several reasons why not!
Mark_Wallace wrote: That's the safest solution for your pictures -- once the cloud service is hacked, you can retrieve accidentally-deleted pictures from any torrent site.
And then I had a laugh 
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99.9% of photos I have are of interest only to me and the family, why should I care if they are hacked. The .1% would not be backed up to the cloud!.
I just bought in to the Office 365 eco system, PC died, so I get 1tb on MS servers, all my music and pictures are now backed up to the cloud. Not sure what to do about the documents I don't want out there!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Um... Ask your little brother if he detects any sardonicism in my posting.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Digital photos contain GIS information. If you give me enough photos, I can track your behavior, even without your social media posts...
It kind of opens up the door for being victimized. I have no idea, or trust for the cloud to strip this out. In fact, I bet they consume it as meta data for advertising. And even without that information, some people who are closer to me could figure out the same info just from viewing the picture.
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Pualee wrote: I bet they consume it as meta data for advertising
Yah so I can expect a flood of travel adds and how to annoy your grand kids. I already get more travel crap than I can handle and while I am quite proficient at annoying the little terrors, new ideas are always needed.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Wow $200, I did the same job for $50, still it was for a friend. Turns out linux could read the
drive that windows couldn't. I recovered all but a handful of his wife's photos.
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rnbergren wrote: SSD drive went all bad and I need some stuff off of it badly.
No back up? Bummer. Sometimes you can get SSDs to work for a short time after powering them off and restrarting, I don't know if you've done this already. I wish you luck.
Your sig has become very apropos. Good luck.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Ouch! That doesn't sound like anything that can be saved, though if you have any friends at NSA you might have some luck there. A regular hard drive can often be recovered because the magnetic domains persist, even if the drive electronics go south. But an SSD is, by definition, a solid state, integrated device. There's no disk you can remove and remount. Good luck with it, and please post the results. There are bound to be other here who want to know how to do this. [note to self - do backup tonight]
Will Rogers never met me.
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I have usually 2-3 backups of everything. But I am looking for one file that I seem to have saved somewhere else on this old computer. Probably didn't but who knows. Already I have spent more time than this whole thing is worth in the end.
oh well.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: SSD drive
Eek.
Be prepared for the worst. An HDD has physical magnetic discs that can be read, even if there's damage. An SSD is essentially a memory card, so there's nothing physical to recover data from.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, like the spinning HD, SSDs have controllers that can be replaced with the right technology. Just because there's no rust, doesn't mean "there's nothing physical to recover data from."
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