Undelete Utilities

I helped recover some lost files this weekend for some friends.

• A DVD-R Disk - Corrupted as additional files where added to it.
• The files where being copied from a USB Pen drive - it also was corrupted
• The original files where cut and paste onto the pen drive, so they were in effect "deleted" from the source drive

These where the utilities which seemed to work best.

Photorec for getting to the Pen Drive Contents - Free (I possibly could have just ran a check disk in windows initially, but I wanted to start with some specialized software first). No GUI just text based but it worked.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

IsoBuster for getting to the DVD-R Contents - $29 (Very nice software. No other software I tested worked at all for this - free or commercial.)
http://www.isobuster.com/isobuster.php

Recuva - For Recovering Large Numbers of deleted files by directory or file type off of the second hard drive - Free (Other programs didn't let you select the file type, or the folder).
http://www.recuva.com/

We also removed the IDE hard drive from the system where the files had been deleted, put it in a external USB IDE Hard Drive enclosure, so we were not writing/booting off of it. Then I attached it to my laptop computer and ran the recovery software from there. This is quick/easy way to attempt various software recovery techniques without degrading the lost files more.


This is the list of software I was testing with http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/datarecovery.shtml

Modern Thinker's Creed

I can't find a link to the original but this is all over the internet. I heard it quoted from Ravi's talk on "Why I'm not an atheist". In his closing remarks he was quoting an opinion piece in a secular paper which was a satire/sarcastic look at society without a moral foundation (ie this is not a real creed ;-).

Modern Thinker's Creed
Steve Turner, English journalist


Here is the creed for the modern thinker.


We believe in Marx, Freud and Darwin.

We believe everything is okay, as long as you don’t hurt anyone to the best of your definition of hurt and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during and after marriage.

We believe in the therapy of sin.

We believe that adultery is fun.

We believe that sodomy is okay.

We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything is getting better despite evidence to the contrary.

The evidence must be investigated and you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there is something in horoscopes, UFO’s, and bent spoons.

Jesus was a good man just like Buddha, Mohammad and ourselves.

He was a good moral teacher, although we think basically his good morals were really bad.

We believe that all religions are the basically the same, at least the ones we read were.

They all believe in love and goodness.

They only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God and salvation.

We believe that after death comes nothing because when you ask the dead what happens they say nothing.

If death is not the end, and if the dead have lied, then it’s compulsively heaven for all except perhaps Hitler, Stalin and Chingis Khan.

We believe in Masters and Johnson.

What is selected is average, what’s average is normal, and what’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.

We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.

Americans should beat their guns into tractors and the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good - it’s only his behavior that lets him down.

This is the fault of society; society’s the fault of conditions; and conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him and reality will adapt accordingly; the universe will readjust and history will alter.

We believe that there is no absolute truth, except the truth that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds and the flowering of individual thought.


If Chance be the Father of all flesh, disaster is His rainbow in the sky.
And when you hear: “State of Emergency,” “Sniper Kills Ten,” “Troops on Rampage,” “Youths go Looting,” “Bomb Blasts School,” it is but the sound of man worshipping his maker.

Christian Apologetics

I know several of my friends like "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis and have been listening to the audio version of the book. If you like the philosophical take on Christianity, but are also interested in a more modern (and less dry) style, listen to Ravi Zacharias podcast "Let My People Think"

http://www.rzim.org/radio/

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