Who has no local copy of important information, but relies on cloud storage?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/spar...X7RWZPIWE/

What's the chance of it taking the lives of two people and injuring another?
I think people underestimate how dangerous these creatures can be.
Quite a tragic situation for the family involved. 
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ram-believ...HMJ6ORM6I/

Well, as best he can since he appears to believe they won't cause any problems at all ever, for anyone...



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Quote:ACT leader David Seymour is calling for a 'reality check' after outcry over the latest round of job cuts.   

The Associate Education Minister says they dwindle in comparison to growth across the public service under the previous Government.

School's out at Porirua College as the Government continues its clean-out of public service workers, which could include members of the school lunches team.   

"We know that Māori and Pasifika students are in the lower-socio-economic groups and school lunches target those groups," said deputy principal John Topp.  

Newshub's also obtained documents showing the Ministry of Education's Te Hurihanganui team, which supports communities to address racism, is also in the firing line. The ministry won't say which roles could go, but changes "have been designed to avoid direct impacts on services to children, teachers and principals/leaders".     

Topp said the education system needs to honour Te Tiriti.  

"If we don't confront our unconscious bias with third-party support, because you can't do it on your own, we are not going to be able to do that," he said.   

But Seymour said: "Having public servants sticking their beaks into how people treat each other has made us a more complicated and divided country."  

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...utcry.html

Second time this has happened.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/17/mum-w...lia-named/

Thousands have been told to leave after a volcano erupted several times.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/35024...-thousands

Quote:"Indonesian authorities have issued a tsunami alert after eruptions at Mount Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of metres high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area.
The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large eruptions in the past 24 hours, IndonesiaÔÇÖs Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said. Authorities raised their volcano alert to its highest level.
At least 800 residents left the area earlier on Wednesday (local time).

Authorities urged tourists and others to stay at least 6km from the 725m Ruang volcano.
Officials worry that part of the volcano could collapse into the sea and cause a tsunami as in a 1871 eruption there."

What's your goto recovery software for those especially broken HDDs and SSDs?  Today's experience follows...

I had my first Samsung fail today, an 860EVO, which Macrium choked on every time, multiple bad sectors, disabled error checking in Macrium, connected via SATA, still kept failing (error 483)

CHKDSK /R was unhelpful, bad sectors, no free space on the drive to copy data messages etc

I came across this software called hddsuperclone which has a live cd here which managed to do the job quite nicely, the cloned target drive is now up and running, it noted a lot of bad sectors, couldn't really tell how many were recovered and how many were simply filled in, but on the whole I am pleased to have the system up and running without needing to reinstall everything... It Did a good job... 

from their website...

Quote:HDDSuperClone - An advanced Linux based hard drive cloning/imaging tool
Up until now, gnu ddrescue has been widely known to be the best free hard drive cloning tool for failing hard drives. It is open source and cross platform. But being cross platform has some limitations, as there are some specialized ways for Linux to send commands to a drive that have some advantages over standard techniques. So I would like to introduce HDDSuperClone, which is not open source and only works on Linux. There is a free version, and also a more advanced PRO version available for purchase.
The free version uses SCSI passthrough commands to communicate with the device. This offers more feedback than traditional communication methods, and it can be possible to detect when a drive is no longer responding properly. Ddrescue can have trouble knowing when a drive is no longer responding as the OS just reports a read error with no way to tell what is wrong.
The PRO version has the ability to use direct I/O for IDE and SATA connected drives, along with some other advanced features.
Another feature of HDDSuperClone is that it has an advanced self learning head skipping algorithm that will attempt to skip out of a bad head in about 7 bad reads. This can make getting the data from the good heads much faster. Hardware imagers can ÔÇ£turn offÔÇØ a head and only read data from the good heads which is ideal, but that requires using special vendor specific commands.┬á The head skipping algorithm of HDDSuperClone is about as close as one can hope to get to that without special commands.
HDDSuperClone can import and export ddrescue map (log) files, so it you can switch between the two if needed.

Continuous notifications about something I don't know much about. There is "Don't show again" option but I'd like to understand what it's over. Should I be concerned?
Please advise. thanks.

Windows 10 22H2

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Even for David Seymour this is well out of order & just shows how little he understands about small children & parenting.
As well as the former PM.

Quote:The government has announced changes to the early childhood education sector, which it says will make it easier for new centres to be set up.

ACT leader David Seymour has announced the moves at a Wellington ECE centre, where he read to children while sitting next to a book featuring Jacinda Ardern, before telling reporters the former prime minister was an authoritarian.

He has also signalled plans to introduce mandatory child abuse reporting, while noting the government has not yet made a firm decision on that fraught debate.

The changes will revoke legislative changes allowing the government to decide where early learning services should be, and requirements for ECE centres to have a highly-trained teacher in charge before being allowed to open.

The government is also cancelling a change that would have taken effect in August, requiring any ECE centre to have a more highly qualified teacher to be in charge to be permitted to open.
It would have meant at least one teacher with a Full Practising Certificate (category one or two) would need to be on site. Seymour said the current setting - requiring any registered teacher - would now remain.

"Theoretically you would have to close while that one person went to the bathroom, if that one person you might have was sick you would have to pay a very expensive reliever in order to open.


Ahead of his announcement at a centre in Wellington, Seymour read Oi Frog! to the children there. Another book,Taking the Lead: How Jacinda Ardern wowed the world had been placed prominently alongside him.

Seymour would "absolutely" have read the Jacinda Ardern book to the children, but said "Oi Frog! was a lot more entertaining and ironically Oi Frog! seemed to be a warning to children about authoritarian people that tell you what to do all the time.

"Maybe that's why they have the Jacinda book - for a similar purpose - who knows?"

He defended his characterisation of Ardern as authoritarian.

"I think the way that she used power through the Covid era was excessive, it didn't properly balance New Zealanders rights and their welfare and in some cases it actually was found to be illegal."

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, speaking to reporters in Singapore as part of his trip to Southeast Asia, said he did not agree with Seymour's characterisation.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...LMH8o0RTss

Might prove interesting. A 6pm bulletin one hour long & 1/2 an hour on weekends. To start July 6th, the day after the final broadcast from Three with the loss of 300jobs.



https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news...4SF6EVRIA/

Screened last night on One. Those poor little boys were abused in a place which was supposed to be helping them get an education - & their poor parents, who thought they were doing the best possible thing for their sons, which turned out to be the exact opposite.
At least 175 boys have been identified as having suffered abuse but the actual figure is believed to be much higher.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/35023906...-dark-past