The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
St. Augustine
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Quoted
Posted by Dustin
on December 22, 2008
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Automatic MP3 organization using AutoIt
Posted by Dustin
on December 22, 2008
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Somebody on the Something Awful forums asked me about my code that automatically organizes MP3’s I download, so here’s how it works…
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How I recovered my photos and much of the metadata with a few tools (Part 2)
Posted by Dustin
on December 19, 2008
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This is a continuation of another post detailing how I recovered thousands of photos from an accidentally formatted hard drive. Read that post here.
The Problem – Part 2
At this point, I was definitely breathing easier, but there was still a lot of problems to deal with. The problem with what PhotoRec does is that, it doesn’t look at the data on your hard disk at the file/directory level. It looks at the raw data on the hard drive and recognizes if it’s a picture and then restores it to the location of your choice. This means that filenames and directory structure are lost. This also means, that nearly every jpeg file on the formatted hard drive was recoved…including tens of thousands of images from Firefox’s cache along with hundreds(thousands?) of other various images like wallpapers that I’ve downloaded over the years, with no obvious way to distinguish between them and actual photos.
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Spock is a lie
Posted by Dustin
on December 5, 2008
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Spock has done a horrible disservice to the rationalist. Let me explain…
I’ve had discussions with people who, after being shown their side of the argument didn’t hold, would respond with: “You’re just being too rational.” As if there can be such a thing. I suspect what they really mean is that they feel like I’m not addressing their emotional need.
Spock has convinced the world (or at least some of it’s inhabitants) that rationality is the flipside of emotion. This is far from the case. Being rational doesn’t mean being emotionless or disregarding other people’s emotion.
When deciding what to believe, or what course of action you should take, the rational thing to do is consider how other people would react, how you would react, how you would feel. Emotional responses are just another part of the environment in which we live, to not account for them in our reasoning is folly.