J’Accuse, Sort Of – You never know where you’re going to find anti-Semitic propaganda. By Michael Kinsley

Nevertheless, you shouldn’t brag about how influential you are if you want to get hysterically indignant when someone suggests that government policy is affected by your influence.

Yahoo! News – Bush Will Push U.N. for Iraq Vote This Week

Bush will oppose any effort to extend the proposed March 17 deadline for Iraqi compliance by a month as some undecided Security Council members have suggested, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer (news – web sites) told reporters, calling the idea a “non-starter.”

I really don’t get it. Fleischer dismissed the idea of extending the deadline by 30-45 days. What do they think is going to happen in that time frame? Somehow, I don’t think they are going to make any progress with any weapons programs. It’s not like the issue is going to drift off the international agenda again in that time frame (a legitimate concern if we were talking about another 6-12 months).

The only thing I can imagine happening in 30-45 days is that the US might regain some of the credibility that Bush & co have been working so damn hard to squander. I can see why that would be a non-starter with “Rumstud” and King George.

Bastards!!!

Win2K professional doesn’t support any fault tolerant disk schemes. I should be bloody able to mirror a disk on a workstation. How stupid.

R-Studio – Data Recovery software for Windows OS and Linux
Seems to share UI and some underlying code with the previous product (similar diag/error messages).

Update: After running through the scan, this one demostrated much much better results. I think I am going to buy it. The NTFS-only version is $49.95.

Now I have to install the new drive so I have a place to recover to.

Update2: New huge-ish (80GB, 1000x larger than the drive in the Mac I bought a decade ago) drive is installed. I should have my files recovered by now, but I am being slow and indirect.

I want to add right here that R-studio did a much better job of recovering the directory structure on my dry run than any of the others I tried. It actually shows the original directory structure more-or-less intact and with the original names. The others (if they got anything at all) have a bunch of generic directory names at the root of the hierarchy and nothing that resembles a deep folder like “Documents and Settings” in terms of its contents.

Data Recovery Software.File Recovery & Undelete Software.FAT.NTFS Recovery from Bitmart Inc.
Trying this one right now.

Only $49 for a version that handles NTFS and FAT and $29 for one that handles just NTFS. Tempting

Update: A bit twitchy about errors, I think after a while I think it gave up and acted like everything was fine. I ran it again and it seemed to run to completion, but the partitions it came up with for recovery made no sense. There were about 19 of them. None the right size, and most containing linux files which is odd, because if this drive ever had linux on it, it has long since been filled with NTFS files, almost to the brim, as well as defragged. It would be suprising if their were old traces of ext2fs around.

Active@ File Recovery Software. Undelete. Unerase. Unformat. NTFS FAT32.
The next recovery package I tried. This one doesn’t seem to work with the problem my drive has. I gave up and moved on.