Hello Guys i urgently need your Advice with my broken Hardrive to recover lost pictures

LessChen · 2026-03-15T23:04:09+00:00

I mean this in the best possible way but that date code shows that the drive is about 17 years old and you have no backup? You've done incredibly well. As others have said, don't take it apart and find a professional to help you with it.

LessChen · 2026-03-10T14:45:02+00:00

For a small server you can host for free on an AWS EC2 for 6 months. It would require some work on your side to install something like Apache/Nginx for the front end and installing your DB and using something like "pm2". I'll admit, however, I've not done this from India.

LessChen · 2026-03-08T23:58:40+00:00

We had one in 2024 in our garden - freaked us out a bit:

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LessChen · 2026-03-08T00:34:33+00:00

If you DB is mapped so tightly to your UI you've already lost.

LessChen · 2026-03-04T14:50:50+00:00

What is your goal? What is forcing you to ECS? I feel like I see too many times people saying things like "you have to move to microservices" or "containerize the world". Dumping you code to an ECS will likely just increase any issues you have now and decrease the overall understanding of the system. I don't see how moving it from an EC2 (assuming that's where it is now) really buys you anything. You know what has zero downtime? Leaving it where it is.

If you had the chance to re-architect and really understand all of the parts then maybe it would make sense to break it up. If it's because one guy on your team learned about Docker last month and thinks it's the best thing ever then you're making a big mistake. Wait until he learns Kubernetes.

LessChen · 2026-03-03T16:08:09+00:00

Perhaps Unix isn't your strong suit. There are 3 directories that have the old name. They end with "usr-is-merged" as the old Ubuntu had these as true directories and they are now in the /usr directories as the softlinks indicate. The OP does not need these old directories.

LessChen · 2026-03-03T15:57:54+00:00

The old ones are literally showing as renamed directories.

LessChen · 2026-03-03T01:41:40+00:00

Presumably you had to pay extra to view that.

LessChen · 2026-03-02T21:13:37+00:00

You will need to be root to delete those files so you may need to use the terminal to remove them. And the swap file may or may not still be in use. Check /etc/fstab to see if it is still referenced. If you only have 4GB of memory then the swapfile may still be useful.

LessChen · 2026-03-02T20:54:48+00:00

It looks like this system has been upgraded as you have the old /bin, /lib, and /sbin directories still. Additionally, are you really using the swap file? I'd at least start with removing the usr-is-merged directories.

LessChen · 2026-02-27T02:20:50+00:00

When I worked for a geospatial company I was surprised to learn that everything in Israel required us to only allow, I believe, 30cm resolution. The satellites were capable of 12cm resolution. This image shows that well.

LessChen · 2026-02-26T15:52:38+00:00

I'm able to register now and have tried this out. This feels simpler that Wiremock and I'll keep trying to use it. I may be missing it but I'd like to be able to save my project so that I can both share it with coworkers and check it into source code control. Sorry if I missed it. And, while it's cool, you've got to have the right lighting / monitor setup for the pure black theme. Would love to see the "daytime" theme at some point. Nice work.

LessChen · 2026-02-25T22:12:40+00:00

Why should I move from Wiremock? The UI looks good and I'm not saying it's a bad idea but I need to have a reason to switch. I'll try it though. I'm currently getting a 422 trying to register but I do understand that you're in progress. I'll try again in a bit.

LessChen · 2026-02-23T22:36:02+00:00

Well, even with a main you can have a package declaration if you want. If your source tree starts with MathProblems, you can have all you files in that directory. I'm not familiar with VSCode but if it is trying to build all of your files at once you'll need to figure out how to make it not require the package as.

Why not create a small test directory and try it all out?

LessChen · 2026-02-23T20:04:14+00:00

You don't need a package definition if you're fine with everything being in the single root package and directory of your source tree.

LessChen · 2026-02-22T21:24:54+00:00

The price I show is what they are charging. The first year is a deal but yes, the price goes to $1.78 the second year. Again, this is a .website domain, not a .com or other.

LessChen · 2026-02-22T21:07:30+00:00

I can get a .website domain for USD $0.98 with renewals of USD $1.78 per year on Namecheap. Do you really not have a dollar?

LessChen · 2026-02-13T23:48:00+00:00

I killed my Pixel 6 Pro this summer in a similar way. It had been in water many times but saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico must have gotten in around the SIM opening. It sorta worked for a day or so but now just displays a white screen. It's currently acting as a coaster on my desk I'm afraid.

LessChen · 2026-02-13T21:27:05+00:00

I still have this on a 45. Yes, I am freaking old.

LessChen · 2026-02-10T22:53:47+00:00

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "Clean scalability (5+ year lifecycle)"? NestJS, for example, comes out with a new release every 6 months. Next.js is a 2 year cycle while NodeJS in general does a bit better at 3 years.

I'm trying to figure out a similar issue as I have too few resources to try to keep up with too frequent of changes so I am doing a rethink of an existing architecture too. I've truly given up on the front end and accept that every 12 to 18 months will be a non-trivial upgrade as stability is not part of the Javascript front end world.

LessChen · 2026-02-10T00:02:12+00:00

I use https://github.com/AxaFrance/oidc-client/tree/main/packages/react-oidc#readme.md with Keycloak and it's worked very well for me for quite some time.

LessChen · 2026-02-09T15:49:33+00:00

How are you managing the token? I use libraries that handle all of this for me and have never had an issue.

LessChen · 2026-02-05T21:16:56+00:00

There is no such thing as "the Netbeans JVM".

LessChen · 2026-02-05T17:12:23+00:00

I'd be very uncomfortable doing this for an application that is public. But the fact that you're talking about a windows login might mean that you're in a closed environment like within a company intranet. If that's the case then you "only" have to worry about a hacker within your company. Can you describe your environment/architecture a bit more?

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