It’s Monday. Have a day.

There’s a band called The Happy Mondays. Whoever came up with that name is sick. And yes, I know I’m a curmudgeon.
I had too much stuff to think about this weekend, very little of it involving me, and talking about most of it here is totally inappropriate. A bunch of different things culminated into me starting to write a long diatribe about discerning God’s will. The problem with it is, there are books of the Bible shorter than what I’ve written, and all I’ve said is a couple of ways not to do it.

The other thing I did yesterday was to get the data recovered off that laptop hard drive I was working on Saturday. After a 14-hour SpinRite session, the drive was readable again under both Win98 and Linux. The drive is still slow and headed for early retirement, but now it’s a whole lot more sound than it was and it looks like it’ll be our decision when the drive retires, not the drive’s decision. I don’t know everything that SpinRite does and I know even less about how it works, but in this case SpinRite didn’t claim to have done anything at all but suddenly, after running it, a hard drive that had been all but unusable is readable again. At $89 for a single license, SpinRite is expensive, but I don’t know how I ever got along without it.

I wish Steve Gibson would quit being the Don Quixote of Internet security and get back to what he does better than anyone else. Not many people in business environments format their hard drives FAT anymore, and SpinRite does nothing for NTFS drives. How about a SpinRite 6.0 that supports NTFS, Steve?

Windows XP has much greater implications for Steve Gibson than just raw sockets. It brings with it the consumerization of NTFS, which means his bread-and-butter product is going to be mostly obsolete. I format all of my drives FAT, partly so that SpinRite remains an option for me, but Gibson can’t count on everyone doing that.

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3 thoughts on “It’s Monday. Have a day.

  • August 6, 2001 at 12:41 pm
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    I second Dave’s views on Gibson. He always seems to have several things (many of them, by his account, major changes in the computing landscape) "coming soon". We’ve been waiting for many moons for updates to virtually ANYTHING. I’m starting to think his main goal is to just stay noticed, so he sniffs packets and does this Internet investigative reporting deal. Much beneath his capabilities. He should keep his software current instead of worrying about how he’ll stream his next TechTV interview.

  • August 6, 2001 at 1:56 pm
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    I second the above.

  • August 6, 2001 at 2:00 pm
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    I desperately need SpinRite for the problem I’m facing today, but alas, the drive is formatted NTFS.

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