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Jul 8 2009UPDATE: Highly Questionable, The USB Chainsaw
The i.Saw is allegedly the first USB-powered chainsaw. Supposedly it's real and available for $60 pre-order, but I dunno. I mean, a USB chainsaw would be handy to have around the office, I just question it being a real product. Because $60 sounds a little too good to be true. And with the amount of dead hookers
yours truly The Superficial Writer The IWatchStuff Writer disposes of on a weekly basis, this thing would practically pay for itself (but not literally so we'd still have to sell drugs).
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Seriously, who would use a pc and a chainsaw at the same time....
Daisy, this is surely photoshopped ain't it?
Another firstarded brutefag? When will you idiots give up?
Bill Gates.
Why? really? Why?
I mean that's cool ans all, but why?
I can't see this as a real product... I see no good coming from it. That being said... I love it! Lol. Speak softly but carry a portable USB powered chainsaw in your man purse.
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was chating with Baja's dad about the proper disposal of dead hookers. Pop's says that hooker meal is an important part of the soil in thir garden and lawn. He cautioned Max that the chipper uses regular gas, and the chainsaw uses 2 stroke. If you mix them up you are in trouble. He also mentioned that you should never use an electric chainsaw because they lack the torque necessary to grind through pelvic bones, and also if theres a power outage at an inopportune moment you're in trouble.
They then set to work on a bleach mister to pump cleansing bleach vapor through the wood chipper, and bleach soaked logs to remove any pesky chemical evidence from the chipper and chainsaw blades.
nothing good can come from this.....why would you put your mac at risk? If it was a PC, I would understand......but that's a new MBPro!
iAM really sick and tired of all the products starting with the lowercase i. iT really brings my piss to a boil.
Ya, considering how much you pay for a heap of junk that is the Mac...
Ya, considering how much you pay for a heap of junk that is the Mac...
Right. Heap of junk...
PCs are $499 now...
$499 straight to the trash.
I'd rather pay $999 if it's worth it.
And it is.
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@13, I was once a devoted PC user, but then I saw the light. After being a mac user for almost a year now, it makes so much more sense. PCs are garbage.
Perfect for slicing my sammich.
If I was given a Mac as a gift I wouldn't even open the package, just throw the damn thing on eBay...
@16, people say PCs are garbage when they mean Windows. The OS determines it, not the platform.
I'm still trying to think of a situation where I need a chainsaw so close to a computer. I guess you could shred documents with it.
Everyone laughed at me when I bought that office in the woods.
They said "Why the hell would you have your office in the middle of the woods!! Think about it!! What would you do if a log falls down?"
Now I know. Now I know.
This would look great on my desk, DO WANT
@12 ditto. iDIOT culture. PCs & Mac - bother great machines if you know how the hell to use them full round. I've worked on PCs all my life & rarely have problems, but I am an IT tech so......
@20 good point
Macs - it's the users most people can't stand once they're sucked into iWorld, not the machines
Awesome! I cannot tell you how many times I have been sitting at my desk when a herd of zombies crash through the window. My first though is always, "I wish I had an easily accessible chainsaw that could be powered with this spare USB adapter."
You're the one with the... candy... shell
I like my candy shell STOMPY & so do you mmMmmmm
PCs are just fine if you know how to use them, clean them etc. Now if you're looking for something that doesn't end up virus ridden from your pornographic curiousity then I would suggest sticking to a MAC. Both are capable of the same tasks
@26 indeed, all my dirty porn is virus clean
Has anyone noticed that the USB port on the chainsaw is the wrong type? Shouldn't be the more square Type-B tip or a mini-USB B tip?
And the problems with Macs are the users I made the switch to mac 2 years ago and my friends informed me the other day that I won't shut the hell up about macs now. Witch is true. The cult of mac is almost as bad as scientology...
@20, have you seen PC laptops? Compaq, Dell, Gateway etc....ew
@30 - First off... compaq and gateway make horrible computers and you can't put that fault on the OS. Dell's XPS series is a good off the shelf laptop, I have a toshiba that runs great, plays all my games and has never crashed on me even with vista. The difference between PC and MAC users is that a PC user with experience will custom order or build his own and a MAC user wants something they never have to fix, think about or upgrade. Off the shelf MAC has a slight advantage, but look at Alienware and your friends custom PC laptops before saying something that you buy off a rack at Walmart is what represents all PCs...
@31, I'm not one of those in-your-face, Mac enthusiasts. Whatever you choose to do your computing on is fine with me. I'm just saying in my personal experience, no one should knock the Mac OS until they've given it an honest try for themselves.
iSaw????....no it would be an EyeSore on my desk!
Man, if only it were real. Shame it isn't (USB-powered, that is)
If you spend 90% of your day playing graphically intense video games, like me, then a mac is one of the worst choices. And Macs aren't immune to viruses, it's simply that there aren't as many people out there targeting macs.
1. That's not something I'd readily admit to the crowd that frequents these comment sections.
2. Actually, you're wrong. I can bootcamp into Windows with a press of a button if I so choose to do so. There are countless articles that show that Windows XP/Vista actually run BETTER on Mac hardware than a PC with equivalent hardware specs.
3. You are right, a Mac isn't "immune" to getting a virus, and actually, no one here said or used the word "immune" except you, nor implied it. However, don't think lower market share has much of an affect on the OS vulnerabilities. it's better security (built in, mind you. I didn't have to buy a separate third party program suite), and a more solid OS all around.
I'm still gonna hold out the the usb plugged-in shotgun. The chainsaw will just have to do as a back up.
oh noes ! my wood!
Notice how when the woman goes to cut both objects with the saw, there is no USB cable anywhere. Furthermore, the camera closes in to a tight shot of a chain saw cutting the objects right before we see the same action be performed in the wider shot preceding it.
I call fake.
Troll detected - everytime they cut something you don't see that it's cut with that chainsaw and only see the blade.
But if it's real it's cool. Gonna carry it around with my Laptop and if someone attacks me I make use of "plug and pray"!
It's fake... click the 'find out why preorder is closed' button... It's just about being green
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I don't actually see much of the difference between macs and pcs. both are good OS's directed to a diffrent public. I like the PC because by years of using the Mac it always felt like I had my arms sawed off when it came to customizing and to handle 100% of the OS capacity,and I got off that feeling after using Windows XP (vista sucks),but that's just me.
what I always bitched of Apple is that those faggots initiated that silly war of "mac VS pc" with their faggot-im-cool-and-slick mascot. and so on,noone can never talk about a mac/pc/anything-to-do-with-computers without bringing that competition on.
PC sucks? awright. Mac sucks? awright. Is a personal opinion.


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Frankly, I just sold a bunch of vintage Campy parts and some nice vintage (Brooks, San Marco) saddles on eBay. I would have rather sold them to forum members, but you don't allow it here and I'm not going to waste my time posting in the "for sale" forum or trying to put links in my sig line.
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I like kurt's idea better even, but hasnt this been tried before?
Actually, this thread is a compromise from when I originally suggested it a year or two ago. Koffee Browm was a moderator at the time, and I remember her being very hard-ass from the get-go about it - bordering on uncivil. (Sure glad she's gone.)
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The present invention relates to telecommunications systems and, in particular, to voicemail and messaging systems.
In voicemail and other unified messaging systems, there is currently a means for indicating an availability status to an incoming caller. Often, this status is manually set by the called user using his or her voicemail or other similar system. Such systems are device specific in that the availability status is indicated for the device being called and not necessarily any other devices. Voice messaging systems typically use the following indications of user availability: 1) Forwarding for a particular reason: e.g. CFNR (Call Forward No Reply) indicates that the user did not answer the call, CFB (Call Forward Busy) indicates that the user is on another call with the same device, and CFDND (Call Forward Do Not Disturb) indicates that the user did not wish to be disturbed; 2) Time of Day: indicates that the user has probably left for the day 3) Holiday: indicates that the user is most likely not currently in the office; 4) User set availability: an alternate greeting (recorded and turned on by the user) is played such as "I am out of the office this week." Often, these indications must be manually set by the user.
These indications, while addressing availability, do not provide the type of dynamic information such as "Be right back" or "Out to lunch" that can be provided using presence status. Presence status is a semi-automated mechanism which allows for more granular and exact indications of a user's availability. There are currently many systems which track, monitor or poll for the presence status of users. The presence status can be sent using presence and instant messaging software on a user's computing device. The user may indicate the presence status to a presence server or similar mechanism. Presence status for a user is often relayed from the presence server to one or more requesting devices/users (called "watchers"). For presence status to make sense, however, it must be displayed to a user on a device capable of displaying and requesting such information. For instance, if a user on a land-line telephone wanted presence status information, it would typically not be available to them graphically (by text indication) since the land-line telephone is not equipped with that capability to request/handle presence status information. A prior patent application, System and Method for Presence Enabled Electronic Mail Folders, bearing Ser. No. 10/255,908, filed on Sep. 26, 2002, includes a thorough description of presence status operation, and is incorporated by reference herein.
Thus, there is a need for integrating presence status information with voice messaging systems and making information available to devices that are traditionally not capable of supporting presence status.
Turning now to the drawings and, with particular attention to
Communication devices 132 and 142 may each include one or more of the following devices or mechanisms: a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) device such as a traditional land-line telephone, a cellular telephone such as a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) based telephone, a satellite-based telephone or an IP (Internet Protocol) based telephone. Communication device 132 is complemented by a voice message system 120. Voice message system 120 may be accessible by a switch or PBX or the like or directly imbedded in device 132 such as in a answering machine or in a voice messaging system maintained by a service provider. The same switch or PBX may also route call traffic incoming to and outgoing from communication device 132. Voice message system 120 may include a plurality of voicemail in-boxes, one for a given user, and the like where calls to communication device 132 that are not answered are forwarded to. The voice message system 120 is exemplary of a store-and-forward system where messages from incoming callers can be stored and later retrieved by the intended called user. In this regard, voice message system 120 would maintain a voicemail inbox 136 for user 130 using communication device 132. The voicemail inbox 136 would include one or more "greetings" each of which can be played to callers who are forwarded to the in-box. Each in-box and the associated presence status can pertain to a user or a group of users, and in this regard, the application uses the term "user" to indicate whether an individual user or a group of users.
The greeting of the voicemail box 136 can be utilized to serve many different purposes. Chief among these is a user availability indication and instruction. For instance, the greeting may consist of "I am either on another call or away from my desk, please leave a message . . . ." This is exemplary of typical standard system greetings. Voice message system 120 may include the ability to program the inbox with a customized greeting, vacation greeting, alternate greeting and the like. Voice message system 120 may also typically play a "Busy" greeting when the called user is busy on another call. This is typical of what is available in today's voice message systems.
In accordance with the invention, however, the greeting played by voice message system 120 on behalf of user 130 can include a dynamic indication of actual presence status. Two primary functions are provided by the invention: 1) the ability to automatically provide a user's presence status and activate alternate or special greetings for a given inbox based on presence status; 2) the ability to play presence status information to incoming callers who are using devices that do not have access to a graphical display of presence status (such as in an instant messaging buddy list displayed on a computing device; and 3) the ability to reflect, in presence status information played to callers, aggregate presence information from multiple devices (which may indicate alternate user availability).
In at least one embodiment of the invention, the system 100 behaves as follows. Presence server 110 maintains a presence status for user 130. The allowed presence 'states' (possible status indications) will vary from user to user and application to application. Further, such states may be customized or user-defined. In some embodiments of the invention, the priority of greetings played to a caller to communication device 132 can be determined in part by the presence status as maintained in the presence server 110. In accordance with the invention, the presence server 110 and voice message system 120 are capable or accommodated with the capability to communicate with each other through a data network such as Intranet or a similar pathway. In some embodiments, a call is placed from user 140 (caller) using their communication device 142 to communication device 132 of user 130 (called user). If this call is answered the voice message system 120 is bypassed and does not operate. If the call is not answered for whatever reason, then it is forwarded to the voice message system 120.
In some embodiments of the invention, the voice message system 120 contacts the presence server 110 and queries the presence status of the called user, user 130. Based on the presence status, the voice message system 120 selects an appropriate greeting that is played to the caller, user 140. The greeting can include an indication of the presence status, as described below. For instance, the greeting that is played could be "I am out to lunch, and will attend to your request on my return". With such a message, the presence status is indicated in the greeting. This allows the presence status to be heard by the caller (user 140) even if the communication device 142 used to place the call does not have the capacity to display presence status. For instance, if communication device 142 were an ordinary land-line telephone, there may not be a means of retrieving and displaying the presence status of the called user. However, with the voice message greeting containing the presence status, it can be heard by the caller. Also, the presence status is in approximate real time since the presence server 120 is contacted and queried when the call is placed. In some embodiments of the invention, the presence server 110 can query or retrieve the current presence status from the called user's presence and instant messaging software, GPS or other presence indication/forwarding mechanism, or can simply use the current stored presence status when responding to the query from the voice message system 120.
As mentioned above, the voice message system will typically maintain a current greeting selection which is to be played from a list of available greetings which follow a particular priority order. The greeting selected to be played will change based upon circumstances and system indications, and in accordance with the invention, can also change if there is a change in presence status necessitating it (block 320). Other than a change in presence status the current greeting selection may be set to particular greeting because the called user is busy on another call or because the called user has manually set a particular overriding greeting. If there is no change in presence status which necessitates a change in greeting selection, the current or previous greeting selection is maintained (block 340). If a change is greeting selection is deemed required due to presence status change (block 320) then the greeting selected to be played is changed (block 330). Examples and a description are set forth below. Finally, in either case, the voice message system will play the inbox greeting which corresponds to the selection that is currently set (block 350).
As mentioned above, voice message systems typically have a fixed greeting priority order. In accordance with the invention, however, a variety of presence states (status indications) may be used to modify the priority order. For instance, in an Xpressions™ messaging system (a product of Siemens AG), the priority order is usually as follows:
Set By
Phone system
Closed/After Hours
By time/schedule
Phone system to other users in
Message system
Typically, the "Alternate" greeting is a vacation or out of office message which is set manually by the user to indicate absentia. The "Busy" greeting is usually played when the user is on another call using the same phone/device to which a call is being placed. The "Standard" greeting covers all other situations when the user is not answering, but does not reflect actual presence status and is a function of the message system. The "Internal" greeting is used when the caller and called user belong to the same company, organization or group, and this can be identified by the phone system. The "Closed/After Hours" is not always used but can be used to play a greeting to indicate that business hours are over.
However, in accordance with the invention, the voice message system can take advantage of presence states in determining greeting priority and in playing greetings reflective of presence status, where applicable. As only one example of an endless possible combination of presence states, the following presence states could be used:
Out to Lunch
On the Phone
Be right back
These presence states can be incorporated into greetings played by a voice message system to callers. The presence states also have the effect of modifying the priority order of greetings and adding new greetings not conventionally possible. Using the above exemplary list of presence states, the following priority order is possible:
Set By
Phone system/presence status
Out to Lunch
Presence status
Be right back
Presence status
Phone system to other users in
Message system
Again, the Alternate greeting which is a manually indicated state trumps and takes highest priority over other greetings. The Busy greeting, which indicates the user is on another call can either be set to play by the phone system automatically (since it knows the user's phone is engaged) or by a presence status indicating that the user is on another call. The use of presence status to indicate that a Busy greeting be played enables the voice message system to take account of alternate communication devices such as a mobile phone which are not linked to the voice message system handling the call (though they may be linked to their own voice message system).
There are two "active" presence states, namely, "Out to Lunch" and "Be Right Back". These active presence states are incorporated into the priority order for greetings and have corresponding greeting messages that can be played to callers. For instance, in the case of the active state "Out to Lunch", the greeting message played could be "I am currently out to lunch, I will attend to your request shortly." Likewise, in the case of the active state "Be Right Back", the greeting message played could be "I am away from my desk and will be right back, please leave a brief message." The user can modify these greetings or record custom greetings for each of the active presence states if desired and if so enabled by the voice message system.
The other two presence states mentioned above, namely "idle" or "offline" are indeterminate as to actual presence status. For instance, if a presence and instant messaging application is used to provide presence status, an "idle" indication would be indeterminate. It could indicate that the user is away from the office or there, but not using the instant messaging or not using the computer. "Offline" is also indeterminate since it offers no actual presence information, other than that the presence status providing application is not running or not connected. If these two presence states are encountered, presence state is ignored (2, 3 a and 3 b) and the typical priority order takes hold (1-2, 4-6).
The voice message system will point to or make active a particular greeting by matching indications and circumstances with the priority order. This matching process is shown in
If the user is not busy on another call, then the presence state is considered. As mentioned above, the voice message system obtains presence status information from a presence server. The presence states include those that are "active" and "inactive". Inactive presence states are those such as "offline" or "inactive". These states are indeterminate as to the user's actual presence status. Active states on the other hand indicate a meaningful presence status, such as "out to lunch" or "be right back". There may be many possible active presence states. Each of these active states may have their own corresponding special greeting played from the voice message system or some states may share a special greeting. The expandability of possible presence states and corresponding greetings is limited only by system constraints both in the voice message system and presence server. If an active presence state is indicated by the presence server (checked at block 640), then the appropriate corresponding greeting is played (block 645).
If no active presence state is indicated, then decision flow proceeds to see if there is an after-hours or company closed indication (checked at 650). If so, the Closed greeting is played (block 655). This indication is often just a date/time event when it is expected that most users will be out of the office. Active presence states for a user would trump this greeting however. If the call is from another in the organization (and it is still office hours) (checked at block 660), then an internal company greeting is played (block 665). If none of these cases are true, then a standard system greeting, or the user's standard greeting would be played (block 670). Many of these blocks may or may not be in the decision flow of a particular voice message system and are merely exemplary. For instance, the Closed greeting may not exist at all, in which case, blocks 650 and 655 would not be present in the decision flow.
Further while the invention is described primarily in terms of "presence" states or status, it may also include the concept of availability states, and the voice message system also or alternatively queries (or subscribes and receives notification from) an availability server. An availability state can be a presence indication as well as an indication of what devices a user can be reached on. For instance, the user may be out of office, but still available on his cell phone (not connected to the voice message system of interest). Availability information provides yet more user status information and can also be dynamically used to determine what greeting to play. The table below illustrates an exemplary availability ordering:
Availability State
Available on cell phone
At my desk
On phone
At lunch
In meeting
Not in the office
On vacation
If there is an indication from the availability server that the user is available on the cell phone, then a corresponding greeting message "I can be reached on my cell phone at XXX-XXXX" could be played when a call is made to the user's land-line phone or other device. Many different availability states are possible, and as shown in the above table, availability can combine implicitly and explicitly what are ordinarily presence states. The interaction between an availability server and a voice message system may be similar to that of a presence server and a voice message system described above.
The invention described in the above detailed description is not intended to be limited to the specific form set forth herein, but is intended to cover such alternatives, modifications and equivalents as can reasonably be included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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Question 3: Am I doing my part?
Ephesians 2:14-22 and/or 4:11-16 (A sermon starter for each passage is provided)
Sermon Introduction
Doing your part might be compared to each a piece of the puzzle. Like to do puzzles? Favorite types of puzzles? When or where you tend to do puzzles? Frustration of missing pieces.
Sometimes doing our part is connected to relational unity (as is emphasized in 2:14-18), other times it is more connected to the functional contribution (the "works of service" - 4:12). God desires both - some of us tend to be more relational, others more task-oriented.
Sermon outline #1: Ephesians 2:14-22
"reconcile" (16) is a strong term (apokatallasso) meaning turning from hostility to friendship. The double prepositions (apo, kata) emphasize the totality of this reconciliation. The concept of "peace"- used repeatedly in this passage (14, 15, 17) - brings to mind Christ's beatitude "blessed are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9) and Paul's call for peace (Romans 12:18)
- Christ's Peace - the Destruction (14-16)
- "has destroyed the barrier" (14). Usually don't think of "peace" and "destruction" together. Churches having problems with being barrier- free, usually think of physical obstacles (VISUAL?) but here it is relational and specifically racial obstacles. "dividing wall of hostility" is racially based (14) and undermines the goal of ONE that Jesus prayed for (John 17:20-23) and paid for through the cross (Ephesians 2:16).
- Such strong language in this passage to describe the situation sin has created ("barrier," "dividing wall of hostility"- 14), and to describe the solution the cross created - ("destroyed" - 14, "abolishing" in 15 means "invalidated" or "rendered ineffective," "put to death their hostility" - 16)
- Christ's Peace - the Creation (15-22)
- The Process of the new creation (15-18). Through the work of the cross, we are individually a "new creation" (II Corinthians 5:17), but equally important collectively a new creation - "His purpose was to create one new man out of the two…" (Ephesians 2:15). It is a creative act that brings into existence something that did not exist before - a "new humanity." Idea of "access" (18) ties in with concept of being barrier-free, i.e. equal access laws, etc.
- The Picture of the new creation (19-22) "new" (kainos) does not refer to something recently completed (i.e. new car rolling off the assembly line, new and improved) but new in kind and quality (something that did not exist previously). Picture album (word pictures) - "fellow citizens," "God's household," "holy temple of the Lord."
VISUAL of cross - vertical bar (salvation, reconciliation with God) and horizontal bar - reconciliation with others, oneness (reconciliation took a "cross" - 16).
Sermon outline #2: Ephesians 4:11-16
Paul was writing to believers to help them grow, and their church to mature.
- Building Up (11-12)
- Equipping - different roles (4:11 - apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors & teachers) all with a similar goal - to "prepare" or "equip" (refers to a situation in which a person or thing is in need either of completion - achieving wholeness or restoration - overcoming brokenness).
- Engaging - similar goal (4:12) - "God's people" (not some of God's people, not even most of God's people, but everyone of us who are followers of Christ). VISUAL of dominoes lined up to knock each other down - what if you remove one or two? The ripple effect breaks down, momentum is lost. Works of "service" (diakonia) - applies broadly to whatever is done in the name of Jesus. Different roles on a team, but all working toward a common goal - "so that the body of Christ may be built up"
- Growing Up (read 13-14)
Move from infancy > maturity. VISUAL of a highchair - how do we know if a person or church is growing up? Signs of growth / development:
- You're maturing when you're getting beyond yourself (13a) - "until we all reach unity in the faith." Spiritual maturity moves us from being Self-centered > Christ-centered ("…in the Son of God"), from being a consumer (spectator-critic) to being a contributor.
- You're maturing when you can feed yourself (13b) - "reach unity…in the knowledge of the Son of God…" Mature believers can feed themselves (Hebrews 5:11-6:1)
- You're maturing when you know better (14). Say to kids as they grow, "you ought to know better." Not manipulated ("deceitful scheming", not distracted ("back and forth," "here and there").
Sermon Conclusion
Base your final challenge on the passage and sermon starter that you selected - the first might be a commitment to do something to build relationships, the second something to serve.
Reflection & Action
Use the guide for either personal devotions or group discussion.
© Wayne Schmidt


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Date: ca. 1435 – 1440
Description: The MS German Quarto 16, titled Gladiatoria, is a German fencing manual probably created between 1435 and 1440.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland. The MS German Quarto 16 is part of the Gladiatoria group, a series of several German manuscripts from the 15th century that share the same art style and cover the same material, and is the manuscript for which the complex is named. The Gladiatoria manuals are interesting texts in that they seem to be contemporary with the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer, but not directly influenced by it.
Located: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Krakow Poland
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I'm trying to recover a corrupt VDI using
vdfuse to mount the VDI and using
dd_rescue to rescue the borked partition.
dd_rescue seems to be working fine but once it reached about half of the partition, it just STOPs and gives the following error:
ddrescue: write error: Read-only file system
Wait.. what? It suddenly turns the FS it is writing the recovered partition to into a read-only file system. Well... why? Will I never be able to finish this? What's going on?
Update - December 2, 2012
My computer was running VBox when it lost power, when I started it back up and tried to run the vbox instance, it told me that the HDD has no operating system.
So, after checking BIOS options and VBox settings for that profile, I created a new profile using that VDI and got the same error, proving that the VDI is indeed unreadable and that the profile was not just screwed up.
The VDI is a 500GB disk with 4 partitions on it. When I use
vdfuse to mount the VDI to a folder, it contains the 4 partition as loopback devices (
Partition2, etc)
When I try to mount the first partition, it works fine. It was the boot partition so it contains nothing useful. But when I try to mount
Partition4, my user home partition, it says
Bad superblock at offset ###### a few times and fails to mount.
So, I run
ddrescue Partition4 ../partition4_restore.img and that works fine until it reaches ("rescues") about 260 GB, when it just stops and gives the "Read-only file system" error.
The location that putting the img file has 660GB free.