Helped my folks do it several times, before I had them install CrashPlan.
Worked in the software industry, and know the MFT format for FAT; how they extended FAT32 to have long file names using multiple entries in the MFT; --
@Bartmadness@iL_MJG0spel --and how they change two characters of the file name when it's deleted. THAT'S IT! Just two characters, in the file name, are not recoverable (but a db file's name is generally in other places as well, so can be put back together, like Humpty Dumpty).--
@Bartmadness@iL_MJG0spel --As long as a) no data is written after the deletion, or b) there's enough free space prior to the space that was freed, that the data doesn't get overwritten.
These people really ARE stupid! Entry-level IT admins can securely wipe a file. It's not rocket scientology.
Just had an idea. Been learning gematria, and have some of the words/phrases, and corresponding numbers, memorized to some extent.
I just said in a reply that perhaps God spoke in numbers.
Then I read an article.
And then had an idea.
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If I write a browser plug-in, I can have it convert the words to numbers for me. Could hover over a number to see the word it really means, and others, like at gematrix.org .
Could also change what it maps to, as there's Jewish, English, and Simple there.
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And there are also others which I haven't had as much exposure to, like Strong's Numbers.
Another feature: switch back-and-forth between words and numbers, with a toggle for both mouse and keyboard.
Watching a 19-minute interview of Frank Zappa, from 1984. Great info about the recording industry!
5 min in, he mentions a video he likes, so I found and watched it -- Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love", in next.
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He said he liked it because it's animated and clever, so I checked it out.
I know the song, from Talking Heads's remake of Stop Making Sense in 1999 (album originally from 1984 -- when the Zappa interview above was; numbers are interesting to me).
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8 min in he gives his philosophy -- he makes music for those who like it, and doesn't want to impose it on those who don't -- and she says "What a great attitude; that's neat" and starts to ask "do you" and he interrupts with "It's called 'rational thinking.'"
@yogibear951 This is a Mac Mini; saves HTML to ~/Downloads, and I configured the screenshot to save to ~/Desktop (or it was like that?).
I start the Terminal application, type "cd Downloads", and then to find it I tried a few greps; now that I know what to look for, I'll walk through it:
@yogibear951 First, see if there's anything: "grep -i fasting *.htm*", and that gives a ton of output.
So add something else: "grep -i fasting *.htm* | grep -i two"; still lots of output (sometimes very little and I get the answer then).
So, narrow further; let's remove the file names. --