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I'm still thinking if you've got away with it or not...
still...
still...
Nah, I'm a man, you are completely safe... 
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Hey... have a good one Murty.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Thank you grralph! 
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Thank you Bassam! 
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Belated wishes Joan.
Hope now you know how to play defense with karate 
thatrajaNobody remains a virgin, Life screws everyone 
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Nope thatraja... I've not learnt, but I still run faster... 
thank you!
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I don't think Walter is dead, but: [^].
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
modified 6-Oct-13 9:45am.
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Lol. 
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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Hey Bill,
Please change the subject of this thread, also add [Spoiler Alert]. It might be a massive spoiler for lot of people. 
Other than that...
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Rutvik Dave wrote: also add [Spoiler Alert]
That show has absolutely no need of further spoiling.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Q: How many government employee does it takes to change a light bulb?
A: We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate!
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Super Lloyd wrote: A: We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate!
And a budget!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Q: How many government employee does it takes to change a light bulb?
The president wants to put into law that it requires one person to change a lightbulb, claiming this improves employment and manufacturing in the US, never mind that the bulbs are actually made in China. However, because changing a light bulb often requires climbing a ladder, the bill includes the Changing Light Bulb Health Insurance Act (CLBHI), otherwise known as ObamaLite. The bill easily passes the Senate, being controlled by Democrats. Unfortunately, the House, controlled by Republicans, wants to defund ObamaLite, resulting in a government shutdown when it comes time to pass the federal budget. All government agencies slowly go dark because nobody is being paid to change lightbulbs anymore, and the media has a field day with headlines such as "Obama is a dimwit", "The Complex DIMensions of ObamaLite", and "Lighten Up, Congress!"
Marc
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priceless and clever.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That shouldn't be under the heading "Joke Of The Day"... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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True. It's neither "of the day" nor a joke.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A friend of mine has taken his laptop to me to get a check.
It looks like he got a virus: everything is slow and so.
I've recovered all t'he information he got inside and when I tried to restart t'he computer a warning message appeared: SMART failure predicted on hard disk x. Immediately backup all your data has a hard disk failure is imminent.
Reached that point what would you do?
It is any old dell vostro 1000 laptop and has many today my friend is not willing to spend money...
As always thank you in advance!
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Sounds more like it's slow because it's failing rather than a virus.
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Joan Murt wrote: what would you do?
Boot a live cd/whatever (to avoid boot failure / OS corruption due to failed sectors) of linux and backup all data. Carefully. Taking the most valuable data first and avoiding any unnecessary access.
Joan Murt wrote: my friend is not willing to spend money...
Soon he won't really have a choice. That's his problem, though.
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harold aptroot wrote: Boot a live cd/whatever (to avoid boot failure / OS corruption due to failed
sectors) of linux and backup all data. Carefully. Taking the most valuable data
first and avoiding any unnecessary access.
Exactly what I would do too.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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Lloyd is completely right, it's slow because it's failing.
Don't use the harddrive. The more you use it, the more info you're going to lose.
Get the broken harddrive over to another computer and make a sector by sector copy to a harddrive image or another HDD using Symantec Ghost or a similar program. (Norton Ghost isn't a similar program, it's garbage)
Depending on how destroyed the harddrive is you have to decide on whether you reinstall the operating system on the new harddrive and copy the important stuff from the backup, or if you simply copy the entire content of the old harddrive to the new harddrive.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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No it's not a virus, SMART failure means hard-drive is facing mechanical problems, means (most of the time) it can't be fixed. And it will get worse as you use it. So don't try to remove anything, do not defrag or run scan disk. Otherwise it will fail even sooner. Copy the most important data (or at-least copy that data first) to another hard drive. and replace the current hard drive with the new one.
After the replacement you could scan the hard-drive for bad-sectors, but IMO you should not use/trust that hard-drive.
All the hard-drives have 100% failure rate, so sooner or later this kind of issues will occur.
Also advise your friend to not shock/drop the laptop while it's running. (it might not be the only cause, but it is very likely if the laptop is not older than 6-7 years)
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Joan Murt wrote: I tried to restart t'he computer a warning message appeared: SMART failure predicted on hard disk x. Immediately backup all your data has a hard disk failure is imminent.
Reached that point what would you do?
I would back up the hard drive
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