[ale] Fwd: Hard Drive Death Spiral -- AKA Recovery Software?

[Ed Cashin]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:00 PM, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  http://noserose.net/e/code/seekrw.tar.gz
>
> How cool is that. Makes me want to blow-up another partition just so I
> can give it a try :)

Maybe not as cool as you think!  :)

That seekrw program was just the thing transferring the bytes.

Scripts actually decided how much to move, where to get it, and
where to put it.  It's a collection of (modular
but) unpublishable ad hoc ruby and Bourne shell snippets.

-- 
  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>