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"In addition to finding awesome things like porn and cat macros and, um, porn and, um, cat macros (basically [the internet is] a lot of porn and cat macros), but you can find other things too! [...] But even though it's not exactly like real life (where you can easily find porn, but not cat macros), there are still some standards of human interaction that apply." -- callmecaito, 2007-10-11

"In addition to finding awesome things like porn and cat macros and, um, porn and, um, cat macros (basically [the internet is] a lot of porn and cat macros), but you can find other things too! [...] But even though it's not exactly like real life (where you can easily find porn, but not cat macros), there are still some standards of human interaction that apply." -- callmecaito, 2007-10-11

I'm looking at web sites for data-recovery places. Most don't list prices; a few advertise flat-rate services. On one, I got to the page where they ask what OS you use, and there are prices next to the answers ...

... and it got me wondering why it costs three and a half times as much to recover data from an disk formatted with ext2 than one formatted with FAT32 or NTFS.

I'm guessing that what they're going to have to do no matter what the filesystem, is replace the drive motor in a clean room and read the data off. Ext2 doesn't strike me as being that much harder to read. Right? Hmm. Maybe "flat rate" isn't the way to go here, if their price-by-OS has to do with whether they need to run Norton or something. (Or maybe I'm way off base here and the fact that I'm not in the drive-recovery business is showing.)

I just had to wince "aloud" at that 3.5x factor just for running Linux. Ouch. Not that I can really afford the Windows-user price either, but ... ouch.

I'm looking at web sites for data-recovery places. Most don't list prices; a few advertise flat-rate services. On one, I got to the page where they ask what OS you use, and there are prices next to the answers ...

... and it got me wondering why it costs three and a half times as much to recover data from an disk formatted with ext2 than one formatted with FAT32 or NTFS.

I'm guessing that what they're going to have to do no matter what the filesystem, is replace the drive motor in a clean room and read the data off. Ext2 doesn't strike me as being that much harder to read. Right? Hmm. Maybe "flat rate" isn't the way to go here, if their price-by-OS has to do with whether they need to run Norton or something. (Or maybe I'm way off base here and the fact that I'm not in the drive-recovery business is showing.)

I just had to wince "aloud" at that 3.5x factor just for running Linux. Ouch. Not that I can really afford the Windows-user price either, but ... ouch.