Q. I have a apple powerbook G4 laptop and it started messing up last night. It woulnd't come on, then today it did come on and it was running really slow. It was making this clicking noise. So I took it to the apple store and the guy said it was my hard drive. I have apple care on it, but they don't do hard drives. Please help me, thanks.
He said I would have to go a data recovery company cause apple doesn't do it, and see if my data can be retrieved. This is the only computer I have, and I didn't back it up with anything. Is there anyway I can fix this myself or does anyone know of a cheap place near Dallas/Fort Worth, Tx area that does it for a reasonable price?
#2, and #3, I have EVERYTHING on my laptop. So, yeah, ALL my information is VALUABLE. If you don't have a real justified answer, please don't answer. I need REAL help from anyome who can give it, thanks again.
Linix os, It was working up until a few hours ago, now when i turn it on, it just shows a white screen with the apple logo and that's it. It won't do anything now. Is there anything else I can do?
He said I would have to go a data recovery company cause apple doesn't do it, and see if my data can be retrieved. This is the only computer I have, and I didn't back it up with anything. Is there anyway I can fix this myself or does anyone know of a cheap place near Dallas/Fort Worth, Tx area that does it for a reasonable price?
#2, and #3, I have EVERYTHING on my laptop. So, yeah, ALL my information is VALUABLE. If you don't have a real justified answer, please don't answer. I need REAL help from anyome who can give it, thanks again.
Linix os, It was working up until a few hours ago, now when i turn it on, it just shows a white screen with the apple logo and that's it. It won't do anything now. Is there anything else I can do?
A. Can you get this laptop connected to a network and share your files? I took my important files off of a dying hard drive by doing that. This worked when nothing else would.
A usb flash stick might also work as long as you can access your computer. It wouldn't work in my case.
If the hard drive is dying then putting it in another machine won't work. Tried that once and nearly fried the working machine.
Taking the drive to a recovery company should not cost more than a couple hundred dollars. Have also had to go that route. I'm near Chicago and I know a company here that does this service.
A usb flash stick might also work as long as you can access your computer. It wouldn't work in my case.
If the hard drive is dying then putting it in another machine won't work. Tried that once and nearly fried the working machine.
Taking the drive to a recovery company should not cost more than a couple hundred dollars. Have also had to go that route. I'm near Chicago and I know a company here that does this service.
can someone tell me bout the 1947 Roswell alien sighting :)?
Q. no links please, just copy and paste the story somewere lol thanks.
A. sorry if this is a rather long answer
The story usually goes like this: It was a dark, stormy night in Roswell, around the Fourth of July weekend of 1947. An alien spaceship crashed on a ranch near the southeastern New Mexico town. A local rancher came across the wreck and took some of the debris to the sheriff, who brought in the Army Air Force in Roswell.
Maj. Jesse Marcel decided to accompany the rancher back to the site. After collecting some curious-looking debris with strange "alien" hieroglyphic markings, Marcel returned to the base. The Army Air Force announced the recovery in a news release.
Soon after, Marcel flew to Fort Worth, Texas, to show the material to Gen. Roger Ramey. But Ramey brought out a crummy old weather balloon and radar target for photographers, and tales of the cosmic cover-up began.
That wing of the story holds that, while the world placidly accepted the "flying saucer" as just a weather balloon, the government whisked the real alien ship and bodies (and, perhaps, even a living alien) to Wright Field in Ohio.
By studying the aliens' technology there, humans learned about lasers, integrated circuits and the like. President Truman formed a top-secret science commission to handle all matters alien, called "Majestic 12."
And now the aliens are living peaceably underground in Area 51, helping the United States reverse-engineer even more new gadgets. But the government has successfully and ruthlessly suppressed any official release of any information regarding these Earth-shaking events for more than five decades.
What really happened in Roswell
Something fell from the sky and landed near Roswell in the summer of 1947. But it didn't come from outer space. It came from . . . Alamogordo!
In fact, the legend of Roswell can be traced directly to a series of top-secret physics experiments designed to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.
The real story of the Roswell Incident actually begins on Aug. 27, 1883, the day that the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa blew its top with a blast literally heard around the world. Time-of-flight analyses were performed on the volcanic rumbles for several different cities, and it turned out that the sound waves must have traveled in very cold air -- such as can be found 50,000 feet up, between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere, where we live) and the stratosphere (the upper atmosphere).
Indeed, that part of the sky acts as a natural wave guide for very loud sounds, such as are produced by volcanoes -- or by nuclear bombs.
In the days after World War II, U.S. scientists were rightfully concerned about the Soviets getting The Bomb. Desperate for a way to monitor possible Soviet bomb tests, the scientists began Project Mogul, with the goal of using high-altitude microphones to triangulate the positions of bomb tests. Mogul was the secret name for the program, which involved getting the microphones placed in the upper atmosphere for long periods of time.
That turned out to be very difficult. At night, for example, it gets cold, and normal balloons drop like stones.
And so it was that an unclassified part of the program, "Constant-Level Balloons," was carried out by graduate students from New York University. The first launches of the elaborate microphone-carriers -- long trains of balloons, radar reflectors and parachutes -- were done on the East Coast. They failed miserably.
The project moved to Alamogordo.
Charles B. Moore, a New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology professor emeritus of physics, was then one of those NYU graduate students. He has made public many of his recollections of those days.
The NYU group's first launch from Alamogordo, on June 4, 1947, was lost somewhere around Arabela, N.M. "Chase crews" in those days didn't fly jaunty pickup trucks but flew B-17s that followed the balloon trains, listening for data.
The complex, 600-foot-long assemblage of Flight No. 4 included two dozen balloons, three radar reflectors, some parachutes and black boxes. The reflectors were shaped like jacks -- eight-sided structures made of balsa wood and tough, shiny, metallic-coated paper. A toy company in Manhattan made them on the side, and the company chose a curiously decorated tape to reinforce the reflectors.
Moore launched hundreds of these targets and marveled time and again at the unknown purpose of the strange hieroglyphic-like markings on the reflectors.
Ten days after the June 4 launch, rancher Mac Brazel came across a field strewn with remnants of balloons and bits of metallic foil -- almost certainly the remains of NYU Flight No. 4. Ten days after that, on June 24, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of strange flying objects that "skipped like saucers."
This event plunged the nation into a brief but intense "flying disk" craze, with frantic new reports of sightings of the "disks" coming every day. There was even a total of $3,000 offered for the recovery of a real disk. For weeks, the story was every bit as intense as
The story usually goes like this: It was a dark, stormy night in Roswell, around the Fourth of July weekend of 1947. An alien spaceship crashed on a ranch near the southeastern New Mexico town. A local rancher came across the wreck and took some of the debris to the sheriff, who brought in the Army Air Force in Roswell.
Maj. Jesse Marcel decided to accompany the rancher back to the site. After collecting some curious-looking debris with strange "alien" hieroglyphic markings, Marcel returned to the base. The Army Air Force announced the recovery in a news release.
Soon after, Marcel flew to Fort Worth, Texas, to show the material to Gen. Roger Ramey. But Ramey brought out a crummy old weather balloon and radar target for photographers, and tales of the cosmic cover-up began.
That wing of the story holds that, while the world placidly accepted the "flying saucer" as just a weather balloon, the government whisked the real alien ship and bodies (and, perhaps, even a living alien) to Wright Field in Ohio.
By studying the aliens' technology there, humans learned about lasers, integrated circuits and the like. President Truman formed a top-secret science commission to handle all matters alien, called "Majestic 12."
And now the aliens are living peaceably underground in Area 51, helping the United States reverse-engineer even more new gadgets. But the government has successfully and ruthlessly suppressed any official release of any information regarding these Earth-shaking events for more than five decades.
What really happened in Roswell
Something fell from the sky and landed near Roswell in the summer of 1947. But it didn't come from outer space. It came from . . . Alamogordo!
In fact, the legend of Roswell can be traced directly to a series of top-secret physics experiments designed to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.
The real story of the Roswell Incident actually begins on Aug. 27, 1883, the day that the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa blew its top with a blast literally heard around the world. Time-of-flight analyses were performed on the volcanic rumbles for several different cities, and it turned out that the sound waves must have traveled in very cold air -- such as can be found 50,000 feet up, between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere, where we live) and the stratosphere (the upper atmosphere).
Indeed, that part of the sky acts as a natural wave guide for very loud sounds, such as are produced by volcanoes -- or by nuclear bombs.
In the days after World War II, U.S. scientists were rightfully concerned about the Soviets getting The Bomb. Desperate for a way to monitor possible Soviet bomb tests, the scientists began Project Mogul, with the goal of using high-altitude microphones to triangulate the positions of bomb tests. Mogul was the secret name for the program, which involved getting the microphones placed in the upper atmosphere for long periods of time.
That turned out to be very difficult. At night, for example, it gets cold, and normal balloons drop like stones.
And so it was that an unclassified part of the program, "Constant-Level Balloons," was carried out by graduate students from New York University. The first launches of the elaborate microphone-carriers -- long trains of balloons, radar reflectors and parachutes -- were done on the East Coast. They failed miserably.
The project moved to Alamogordo.
Charles B. Moore, a New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology professor emeritus of physics, was then one of those NYU graduate students. He has made public many of his recollections of those days.
The NYU group's first launch from Alamogordo, on June 4, 1947, was lost somewhere around Arabela, N.M. "Chase crews" in those days didn't fly jaunty pickup trucks but flew B-17s that followed the balloon trains, listening for data.
The complex, 600-foot-long assemblage of Flight No. 4 included two dozen balloons, three radar reflectors, some parachutes and black boxes. The reflectors were shaped like jacks -- eight-sided structures made of balsa wood and tough, shiny, metallic-coated paper. A toy company in Manhattan made them on the side, and the company chose a curiously decorated tape to reinforce the reflectors.
Moore launched hundreds of these targets and marveled time and again at the unknown purpose of the strange hieroglyphic-like markings on the reflectors.
Ten days after the June 4 launch, rancher Mac Brazel came across a field strewn with remnants of balloons and bits of metallic foil -- almost certainly the remains of NYU Flight No. 4. Ten days after that, on June 24, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of strange flying objects that "skipped like saucers."
This event plunged the nation into a brief but intense "flying disk" craze, with frantic new reports of sightings of the "disks" coming every day. There was even a total of $3,000 offered for the recovery of a real disk. For weeks, the story was every bit as intense as
Can internet history be recovered even after it has been deleted?
Q. I'm in an argument with my mother because she believes that I have been watching... Naughty things. Well, she's right. I have clicked into some bad things every now and again on my laptop which is always connected to my home's WiFi router. I have always cleared my history at the end of each browsing session, and on top of that I use CCleaner to wipe my index.dat files, temporary files, and even registry, so I know she hasn't been snooping through my laptop. Can she ask our Internet Provider (Local company, nothing big like AT&T or Charter) for a list of the websites or their IPs? Can she be using a software to view my history from her computer from which the router is connected? Or is she just bluffing that she's seen some of the sites I've been on?
Furthermore, she says that she can have my laptop taken and âHacked intoâ to find out what I've been on. Can she really, legally do this? And even if she could, would it matter seeing as how I've got the temporary files, .dat files, and history files cleared clean?
I'm not addicted to the stuff, it's just every once in awhile, but I just don't think I could take the stress of the embarrassment. Permitting she could/has done any of this, what can I do to lock my laptop and its secrets up like a fort? A software, a hardware configuration even. Again, I am NOT addicted to anything, my mother is just very invasive when it comes to privacy and I would probably have a breakdown if I was ever embarrassed like that; I get closer to stopping completely everyday.
Thanks All!
Furthermore, she says that she can have my laptop taken and âHacked intoâ to find out what I've been on. Can she really, legally do this? And even if she could, would it matter seeing as how I've got the temporary files, .dat files, and history files cleared clean?
I'm not addicted to the stuff, it's just every once in awhile, but I just don't think I could take the stress of the embarrassment. Permitting she could/has done any of this, what can I do to lock my laptop and its secrets up like a fort? A software, a hardware configuration even. Again, I am NOT addicted to anything, my mother is just very invasive when it comes to privacy and I would probably have a breakdown if I was ever embarrassed like that; I get closer to stopping completely everyday.
Thanks All!
A. You're probably safe as far as history and the like go considering you delete it and use CCleaner. There are certain ways to recover deleted data, but it's not foolproof, usually involves certain third party recovery programs. The more you use a computer after deleting the data, the harder it is to recover. CCleaner may make it impossible to recover that data anyway, not sure. But I doubt she's doing this, would know how to do this, or would get results if she did do this, so I wouldn't worry about this one.
As for the ISP. I doubt they'd take the time to find her the logs. Maybe. Browsers like Tor help encrypt traffic, though that's not a foolproof defense against ISP logs. For the most part, you're probably safe here anyway. And ISPs typically only keep logs for up to six months, and only for legal reasons. You should be safe.
The fact that she uses the term "hacked into" tells me she's not too computer savvy so I especially wouldn't worry about the above two issues, but anyone she took the computer to would likely try the recovery thing I mentioned above. Check into Eraser tool, provided here: eraser.heidi.ie/
She can legally do whatever she wants, especially if she paid for the laptop. Unless you're not a minor. Even if you aren't a minor she could always kick you out of her house. But I doubt it would come to that.
Keep a password on your computer. Use encrypting software. Use Tor. Set firefox to delete all data from the session whenever you exit. You should be fine. Of course, it is worth mentioning that legally to enjoy adult entertainment you must be of a certain age. While I doubt the FBI is going to kick down your door for watching porn as a teenager, it's always important to keep your legal rights in mind.
One more thing to look out for. SOME routers carry logs of internet traffic for short periods of time. If you know your router password (NOT your wireless password, but the router administrative password), you can check for this by going to your default gateway. To find the link to your default gateway using Windows, go to the start menu, search. Type cmd. In the black box that appears, type "ipconfig". Type the numbers across from default gateway into your browser.
Actually, I'd just (discretely) see what model your router is, and google rather or not it carries logs of internet traffic.
As for the ISP. I doubt they'd take the time to find her the logs. Maybe. Browsers like Tor help encrypt traffic, though that's not a foolproof defense against ISP logs. For the most part, you're probably safe here anyway. And ISPs typically only keep logs for up to six months, and only for legal reasons. You should be safe.
The fact that she uses the term "hacked into" tells me she's not too computer savvy so I especially wouldn't worry about the above two issues, but anyone she took the computer to would likely try the recovery thing I mentioned above. Check into Eraser tool, provided here: eraser.heidi.ie/
She can legally do whatever she wants, especially if she paid for the laptop. Unless you're not a minor. Even if you aren't a minor she could always kick you out of her house. But I doubt it would come to that.
Keep a password on your computer. Use encrypting software. Use Tor. Set firefox to delete all data from the session whenever you exit. You should be fine. Of course, it is worth mentioning that legally to enjoy adult entertainment you must be of a certain age. While I doubt the FBI is going to kick down your door for watching porn as a teenager, it's always important to keep your legal rights in mind.
One more thing to look out for. SOME routers carry logs of internet traffic for short periods of time. If you know your router password (NOT your wireless password, but the router administrative password), you can check for this by going to your default gateway. To find the link to your default gateway using Windows, go to the start menu, search. Type cmd. In the black box that appears, type "ipconfig". Type the numbers across from default gateway into your browser.
Actually, I'd just (discretely) see what model your router is, and google rather or not it carries logs of internet traffic.
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