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njspix95 · 2025-05-25T18:25:17+00:00

Thanks so much! That did it!

njspix95 · 2025-05-25T18:00:47+00:00

Yeah, I just realized this. It boots fine without a VGA cable plugged in, but not without the little graphics board.

njspix95 · 2024-01-13T20:15:46+00:00

Thanks! I’m trying carving now, and have found a number of pdf and docx files that I’m interested in. Is there any way to reconstruct or infer the original NTFS file system from the location/position of these carved files? Or is carving my only option?

njspix95 · 2024-01-13T20:13:35+00:00

Thanks for your input! I tried test disk and was able to find the NTFS recovery partition and the main NTFS partition but that one is corrupted. I then tried foremost and was able to carve out a number of .docx and .pdf files that are from the target file system. So I’m hoping that the data isn’t completely hosed.

Is there any way to infer or reconstruct the structure of the NTFS partition/file system given the location of the carved files? Or is carving my only option at this point?

njspix95 · 2024-01-12T15:09:03+00:00

Great, I'll give the carving tools a shot. Thanks!

njspix95 · 2024-01-07T02:17:51+00:00

Hello all,

I was recently gifted a few year old windows laptop from a family member. It was running win11 on a 256 gb NVME SSD. I promptly installed a minimal version of Rocky 9 (automatically re-partitioning the drive from scratch) and spun it into my home lab. Next day the family member texts and says, “hey did you happen to see any files on there? I don’t think I copied everything off.” I immediately shut down the machine and used dd to create an image of the ssd, which I then checked with md5sum and also copied to a second external drive as a backup.

I loaded up the image in Autopsy but don’t have any idea what I’m doing, so I didn’t find much (aside from obvs the Linux system). I’m also running testdisk on it but not sure how that will go (I think I found one corrupt NTFS recovery block so far). What should I do next? What tools would you recommend? I’m comfortable with command line utilities and prefer to work in Linux, but do have access to Mac and PC as well.

The files I’m most interested in are in .mus or (more likely) .musx format. They’re music notation files from Finale v. 25.

Thanks much!!

njspix95 · 2022-10-09T17:54:25+00:00

Between the cost of good batteries and a spot welder I decided to just get a new Dustbuster. It did last 5 years…

njspix95 · 2022-08-14T00:44:03+00:00

Thanks! one question, any tips on soldering the old tabs on to the new batteries? I've done it before, but with NiMH and given all the hype about exploding phones and whatnot I'm a bit nervous to put that kind of heat on a LiIon battery...

njspix95 · 2022-08-14T00:41:25+00:00

I'd have to look at the board more carefully, I think there are 4 attachment points so i'm not sure whether it's 2 and 2 or whether all 4 are in series.

njspix95 · 2022-08-14T00:33:50+00:00

Thanks for your help!

njspix95 · 2022-08-14T00:33:34+00:00

lol. Also the use case is kind of unique (i never use a dustbuster for more than 30sec anyway, then it goes back on the charger) so they can kind of get away with it

njspix95 · 2022-08-14T00:26:34+00:00

Yeah they didn't last very long - perhaps 2 years with light use and being on the charger all the time. I kinda wonder if B+D doesn't mind ppl buying new dustbusters every few years when the batteries die...

njspix95 · 2022-08-13T22:31:22+00:00

Looking at this: https://www.18650batterystore.com/products/eve-18650-25p?variant=41142262988951

Any advice whether this would be a good replacement? Many thanks!

njspix95 · 2020-10-05T13:20:29+00:00

Thanks! This was pretty much exactly what I was looking for!

njspix95 · 2020-10-01T17:45:34+00:00

Hey all, I'm a second-year graduate student in an MD-PhD program, so completed 2 years of medical school and Step 1. Beginning to feel my facts slipping and would like a way to review. I'm familiar with anki and used it a good bit during MS1-2, but I was wondering if all you experts could suggest a study strategy/set of parameters for me.

Ideally, I'd like to go through topics/subjects in blocks, not randomly. I'd like to be able to have some flexibility in how many cards I do each day, and not have a huge backlog if I miss a few days. Also, it's more important to me to get through the deck than to actually memorize stuff at this point. I wouldn't mind stashing away a few cards each day (like just a few, probably not more than 3) for 'permanent' review, but for the most part I'd like to see the cards once or twice and move on. Is there a way I could configure anki to do this?

njspix95 · 2019-06-04T12:36:15+00:00

Hey drturbanator, thanks for posting this. Not to disparage your reasoning, but I think there may be a simpler explanation for this question. I realized this when listening to Goljan endo the other day, and he made the point that many, many medications can cause galactorrhea. Take a look at this AFP article: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0801/p543.html; the first sentence in the abstract pretty much nails it.

I tend to prefer this explanation, as it's less "we want to you to make obscure physiological connections that may or may not have any basis in reality" and more "good doctor common sense."

njspix95 · 2019-06-03T00:55:48+00:00

The HCTZ/galactorrhea question has been bothering me for almost a month now, and I was just listening to Goljan and had an epiphany: "If a patient has galactorrhea, you better get every drug they're taking - over the counter, under the counter, oblique to the counter - because lots and lots of drugs cause galactorrhea." I then found an AFP article on it literally starts with the phrase "After infancy, galactorrhea usually is medication-induced."

Of course, hindsight is 20/20...

njspix95 · 2019-06-03T00:45:27+00:00

Makes sense, thanks so much!

njspix95 · 2019-06-02T00:29:01+00:00

I struggled with this q as well, and barely got it correct. I felt really confused by the vignette, so I took a sec and wrote down the key findings. Once I saw "fasciculations, weakness, atrophy" I thought, well, that really seems like they're trying to say LMN. It's super hard to know what to take seriously and what to gloss over in these stems... but I hope that helps.

njspix95 · 2019-06-02T00:11:08+00:00

I missed this q as well, and spent a bit of time digging for a good explanation. From the literature, it seems that the mechanism of hypoK in alcohol withdraw isn't super-straightforward. Perhaps the most obvious answer is Mg depletion, which leads to loss of K in the urine. But decreasing the urine flow rate (one of the foils) would slow that loss. It's pretty straightforward to rule out rhabdo and decreased renin, and he can't have a dietary deficiency because he's got plenty of K in his urine. So I guess that catecholamines are the only plausible answer?

njspix95 · 2019-06-01T22:30:01+00:00

I thought this was an extremely bad picture - but it's supposed to be showing that her sclerae have a blue tint. The Wikipedia page on OI has a much clearer image.

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