Monthly Archives: October 2009

Hard Drive Crashes … foremost to the rescue

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If your hard drive crashes … you may use foremost to retrieve your documents, photographs and so on.

Foremost is a linux tool for conducting forensic examinations. Although intended for law enforcement purposes, it may be useful to other members of the community. Foremost reads through a file, such as a dd image file or a disk partition and extracts files.

Foremost is available for most *nix platforms and Windoze via CygWin. Foremost is useful when you can’t mount a ddrescue image.

Execute the following command:

foremost -t all -i my_crashed_harddrive.dd

… and all your documents should hopefully be rescued 🙂

Plum Jam Recipe

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Here is an easy recipe for Plum Jam…

Prep Time: a few min
Cook Time: 15 min

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg plums, split in four, seeds discarded
  • 1/2 dl water
  • 3-4 dl sugar
  • juice of 1 lemon

Preparation:

Rinse and split plums in four and discard the seeds.
Place plums, water, and lemon juice in a non-aluminum stockpot. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to low, and let simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until fruit is soft.
Stir in sugar and bring back to a rolling boil while constantly stirring.
Enjoy!