{"id":468,"date":"2006-07-27T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T05:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/07\/2006_07_27_1343.php"},"modified":"2006-07-27T13:43:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T05:43:26","slug":"deathday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/27\/deathday","title":{"rendered":"Deathday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today doesn&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s my birthday. Actually, as my friends would attest to, I never gave my birthday that much thought. Often I even forget all about it &#8211; even if it was just around the corner (like today). Regardless, today was <em>especially<\/em> irritating because, aside from the fact that I&#8217;m one year closer to the day I die, a bunch of&#8230; <em>not-so-happy-events<\/em> also occured.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<h2>The Church<\/h2>\n<p>First was being woken up at 6:00am for mass. Yes, as rarely as I attend mass, going to church is required when it&#8217;s an <em>immediate<\/em> family member&#8217;s birthday. Mine was no exception. But I&#8217;ve made my peace with that. What got on my nerves was <strong>the priest!<\/strong> <em>oh the priest&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Tim Henson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distortedview.com\" title=\"View site\">Distorted View Daily<\/a> says: <em>Sometimes, people just have to know when to throw in the towel.<\/em> This is precisely what had happened in church a while ago: The priest kept on stalling because he couldn&#8217;t read the text properly. At one point he stopped for a good 3 mins flipping pages because he &#8220;got lost&#8221; in the order of the mass. You&#8217;d think that as a priest, you&#8217;re required to say at least one mass daily &#8211; that you&#8217;d remember enough to not rely on the text so much. But what if it was alzheimers&#8230; <strong>more reason to stop doing it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The Laptop<\/h2>\n<p>Acutally, before the whole mass thingie, I pressed turned on my Powerbook to check mail. It wouldn&#8217;t boot! I could get to reset the <code>NVRAM<\/code>, the <code>PMU<\/code>, even go to open firmware mode, but cannot get past the Apple logo and spinner.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up passing for Stevie and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightpompe.com\" title=\"Visit Juan's blog\">Juan<\/a>&#8216;s Tiger CD (cuz I lent mine to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.622design.com\/weblog\" title=\"visit happy's blog\">Happy<\/a>) to boot from it (the CD). Thankfully, it did boot and allowed me to isolate the problem: the hard disk. I couldn&#8217;t repair it at all. The repair utility kept on failing. I&#8217;m not sure though if it&#8217;s because the hard drive is has been physically damaged <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">As to how is beyond me<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> or that it&#8217;s simply being an <code>HFS<\/code> <em>bitch<\/em> &#8211; as you know the HFS filesystem, while people swear by it, is one of the suckiest filesystems to recover. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">2 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">I remember a past post where I was able to recall data from an HFS partition using MacDrive on a PC when the Mac itself wouldn&#8217;t even mount the drive at all. How&#8217;s that for an irony?<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> For one thing, you can only rely on limited software utilities &#8211; and most of them only are effective when you&#8217;re doing basic maintenance <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">3 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">simply rebuilding\/replacing the catalog tree or something.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> There&#8217;s no Mac counterpart for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/spinrite.htm\" title=\"What is SpinRite\">SpinRite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightpompe.com\" title=\"Visit Juan's blog\">Juan<\/a> told me about his adventure wherein his drive couldn&#8217;t be accessed, and therefore had to be reformatted, which magically fixed the problem. Now what does that tell us? Nothing was wrong with the drive <em>physically<\/em> because a reformat fixed it. But it also meant that despite not having physical defects, there was no other way to recover that data in the Mac front. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">4 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">I guess it was worth a try to use a PC with MacDrive like I did, but alas that wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> It&#8217;s beyond me why there is no mac utility that is able to read data directly from a hard disk without having to mount them. We need some sort of brute force utility, because there are a lot of cases that you can&#8217;t access a perfectly healthy disk simply because the catalog tree or whatever the hell they call it got corrupt beyond restoration.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I thank Stevie and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightpompe.com\" title=\"Visit Juan's blog\">Juan<\/a> for making that CD available at the last minute as I couldn&#8217;t get my own copy back because of another mishap:<\/p>\n<h2>The Phone<\/h2>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t call <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.622design.com\/weblog\" title=\"visit happy's blog\">Happy<\/a> because my outgoing calls\/texts were deactivated! Without any warning. No notification to settle any balance, nada. Suddenly I couldn&#8217;t call or text. Couldn&#8217;t thank anyone (not that I thank everyone who texts me, but still) couldn&#8217;t confirm with Cris the plans later.<\/p>\n<p>I always paid my bills promptly when reminded, it&#8217;s a simple matter of doing it online. So it really irks me when something that should&#8217;ve never been a problem suddenly come up and bites me in the ass. And of all days it had to happen, it just <em>had<\/em> to be today.<\/p>\n<p>So I went online and tried to log-in my banking page&#8230; I got this message:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You have entered incorrect information, your account has been disabled. Please contact&#8230; blah blah fucking blah!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><em>I was on a roll!<\/em><\/h3>\n<h2>The Bank<\/h2>\n<p>So I called the bank, and sorted that out (someone must&#8217;ve been trying to get into my account and deactivated it by entering the wrong password. A tip to whoever tried this: <strong>Just don&#8217;t.<\/strong> You can&#8217;t possibly guess my password, <em>trust me.<\/em> My banking password literally looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><code>CAZWBaaZ3SQC22mEsPzzmiIqi9qwBzpM20wJzlT6o2Zr3L64kh95RDmU2mO09RL<\/code>\n<em>Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grc.com\/passwords.htm\">https:\/\/www.grc.com\/passwords.htm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I guess you gathered that I myself have to cut and paste it &#8211; which means I didn&#8217;t make a mistake in inputting a password. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">5 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">And incidentally, yes I&#8217;m screwed if I lost the file which contains that password.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_468_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, I sorted that out with the bank, and was able to pay my bill. I called Globe informing them of the payment and my outgoing messages\/calls should be active again in a couple of hours. Still, it all had to happen today.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;d rather be living in any other day but today. Is there a skip button in life? 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How&#8217;s that for an irony?<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_3');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_3\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8673;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">simply rebuilding\/replacing the catalog tree or something.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_4');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_4\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8673;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">I guess it was worth a try to use a PC with MacDrive like I did, but alas that wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_468_1_5');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_468_1_5\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8673;<\/span>5<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">And incidentally, yes I&#8217;m screwed if I lost the file which contains that password.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function footnote_expand_reference_container_468_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_468_1').show(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_468_1').text('\u2212'); } function footnote_collapse_reference_container_468_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_468_1').hide(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_468_1').text('+'); } function footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_468_1() { if (jQuery('#footnote_references_container_468_1').is(':hidden')) { footnote_expand_reference_container_468_1(); } else { footnote_collapse_reference_container_468_1(); } } function footnote_moveToReference_468_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_468_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } } function footnote_moveToAnchor_468_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_468_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today doesn&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s my birthday. 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