Somebody's got a good sense of humour in putting this Twitter video together. Maybe he's planning on playing the insanity card to avoid prison?

Worth a look for anyone interested. Mainly 19th century stuff found after the quakes.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5196...cal-museum



https://www.museumofarchaeology.org/

not much to say really is there - there's always a price to pay...

Quote:A judge ordered the liquidation of Infowars host Alex Jones' personal assets, clearing the way for potential payouts to families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.
However, US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez ruled against a liquidation of Mr JonesÔÇÖ company Free Speech Systems, which owns the Infowars brand.
Relatives of the victims have won a total of $1.5bn (£1.2bn) in defamation judgements against Mr Jones and his company over his false statements about the attack.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj55v57v2z2o

Just had a bloody sharp earthquake down here in CHCH, bunch of less than fond memories come flooding back...

Presumably meant as an extremely bad joke, this was a comment from a person calling himself 'Donny boy'

Quote:https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertain...a-pet.html
Tiki Taane says he is willing to "invite" over a commenter who said on his social media that 'every Kiwi male should have M─üori as a pet'.
Taane shared a screenshot of the comment made by "Donny Boy" on his Facebook page, saying that he was "here" for the original poster to talk to.
"Although 'Donny Boy' is clearly a fake page, I'd still like to invite him over to my whare for a korero and a kai. I'm interested in unpacking what has happened to Donny for him to think and feel this way," he wrote."Is this kind of thinking generational and passed down to him by his wh─ünau, or was he hurt or mistreated by someone of M─üori descent which has manifested into this type of thinking.

WD MyBook (Green) 1.5TB, badly buggered, raw read errors - the data is now recovered as best can be and returned to client.

However, in the process of recovery I noticed some oddities with reported disk space

From the outset the recovered data was 335GB obtained by using testdisk on the original drive

TreeSize showed me the disk should have had around 5000GB, in fact two of the largest folders respectively reported 250GB and 150GB each, yet test disk was only able to recover 150GB and 50GB respectively for each

I imaged the original disk with HDDsuperclone to a 4tb external drive (30 odd hours to complete), test disk was then able to recover more, from those two folders 250gb and 150GB iirc.  I have also run a free space scan with Photorec on the cloned drive to recover any missing/deleted files etc 

at this point I also took a Macrium Reflect image of the cloned drive. 
 
and here is where it gets weird, the Macrium Reflect image is reporting around 500GB in size when mounted in windows (893GB free of 1.36TB) when Macrium Reflect is supposed to image only the data  and ignores free space.  The image file itself is also 500GB

But when I open that MR image and get the size of all contents it is only around the 335GB mark, same as testdisk recovered. Somewhere there is 150GB+ unaccounted for in that image file... Recycle bin and system volume info are negligible and  accounted for 

So somehow or rather MR must know that the extra data is there and including it even though it isn't there...
I ran photorec freespace scan on the mounted MR image just in case but it found no files in that extra space?

I'm not sure if this is likely to be real data and how to go about finding it in a more meaningful way than Photorec which bastardised the file names, or is it just the reporting of the partition sizes that has got a  bit messed up... 

Sorry its a bit rambling but wouldn't mind any thoughts on this, client is happy with the data, I just wouldn't mind some clarity around this extra/missing space

A strange thing happened today !
I have a Lenova G2 laptop running Phoenix Windows XLite 10. It is used for work only, and is very reliable. For some time it has displayed two grumpy faces in the Start Menu. Today I installed the latest version of Rufus, and pinned it to the Start Menu (so I thought). I pinned it to "Start" by mistake. When Rufus didn't show in the Start Menu, I realised my mistake, removed it from "Start" & pinned it to the Start Menu -no problem. 
To my surprise the grumpy faces vanished. 

It looks as though the reward for information may have paid off, if it has then I hope he has the sense to give himself up so the kids are safe & aren't traumatised by him refusing to do so.

Quote:https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-checkpoints-set-up-around-marokopa-as-tom-phillips-search-intensifies
Police have set up checkpoints around the rural town of Marokopa in the search for fugitive Tom Phillips and his three children.
At least four checkpoints are in place at intersections outside the Waikato township and a police command centre has been set up at the local community centre.
At one checkpoint, 11km from Marokopa, police were stopping all motorists and checking their driver licenses.
Police said earlier today they had received emails, calls and visits after offering an $80,000 reward for information on Phillips and his three children, Ember, 8, Maverick, 9, and Jayda, 10.
The family has been on the run since December 2021, and police believe they are in the western Waikato or near Marokopa.

These apparently conscience-less MP's are merrily claiming up to $45 thousand a year to live in their own homes...

I think its time for change when it comes to their perks.

Quote:https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3503045...rs-expense
At least 20 MPs are claiming up to $45,000 a year allowance to stay in their own Wellington homes, a perk that sees the taxpayer help politicians pay off their mortgages.
Four ministers (Duncan Webb, Jan Tinetti, Deborah Russell and Willie Jackson) claimed the capped allowance, of up to $45,000 a year, to cover living costs in the city. They then use it to pay rent on property they already own.
Four Government MPs (Arena Williams, Jenny Salesa, Jamie Strange and Sarah Pallet) claim an entitlement of up to $31,000 per year.
Twelve National Party MPs, including leader Christopher Luxon, do the same. They are: Andrew Bayly; Gerry Brownlee; Judith Collins; Jacqui Dean; Barbara Kuriger; Melissa Lee; Ian McKelvie; Mark Mitchell; Simon OÔÇÖConnor; Stuart Smith; Louise Upston and Michael Woodhouse.
ACTÔÇÖs Simon Court also claims the allowance and owns property in the Capital, but the party did not respond to a request for comment.
No current Green Party or Te Pāti Māori MPs from outside of Wellington listed a property on their pecuniary interest register.
The arrangements are entirely within ParliamentÔÇÖs rules. And neither Labour nor National have plans to change them. In fact, MPs may soon be in line for a boost to their pay and perks.
The Remuneration Authority, the independent body which sets the rates, is required to review politiciansÔÇÖ pay within three months of the official outcome of SaturdayÔÇÖs general election.

Another little delight from our wonderful govt, Bryan Bruce....

Quote:https://bryanbruce.substack.com/p/uninformed-policy-making
Something I have noticed about government policies over the years is that while they claim to be evidence based, when you actually ask for that evidence you discover it is not there.
The answer I received yesterday by email from Energy Minister Simeon Brown was:
ÔÇ£To date, the Government has not undertaken any analysis on the use of solar panels as a power generation option in the manner you refer to. Therefore, I am refusing your request under section 18(e) of the Act, that the information requested does not exist.ÔÇØ
So, the CoalitionÔÇÖs energy policy is not informed by evidence because they simply have not bothered to collect the data and do the analysis.
Yet Simeon Brown is one of the three Cabinet Ministers who will have the power to do whatever he likes without consultation if the Fast Track Bill becomes law.
Even when the data┬áis┬áavailable ÔÇô as in the effect of repealing our world-leading Smoke- Free legislation ÔÇô this government has chosen politics and donor support over the well-being of people.