The Unhappy Me thread

[rogue]

Our newly adopted cat, Hannah,has worms. Since we have no pets and have had no pets in this house and she doesn't go outside, they clearly came from the foster home she was living at..

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by rogue

Our newly adopted cat, Hannah has worms. Since we have no pets and have had no pets in this house and she doesn't go outside, they clearly came from the foster home she was living at..

This is actually good news.

Buy the worming drugs from your vet. Submit. Treat your wounds... You should only have to do this once or twice.

When Linda and I moved to our new place we had to treat each of our cats for worms once each (and then we had to treat our wounds -- I'm not joking, ripped clothing, scratched skin; it was kinda hot).

It took a little while to find this funny bit of language, which isn't actually that far off the mark.... I love the punchline about how to pill a dog! 8-)

[rogue]

She is a four paw declaw (not my doing). I found that she will take the medicine when put onto her wet food and cat treats.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by rogue

She is a four paw declaw (not my doing).

Oh, my!

For anyone who doesn't know, "declawing" of a cat is effectively amputating every digit at the first knuckle. The cat then becomes effectively defenceless, and this procedure should never be done; extremely cruel.

Originally Posted by rogue

I found that she will take the medicine when put onto her wet food and cat treats.

Good news.

My understanding is the worms require flees as a vector. If you keep the flees under control you should not have to de-worm your (lucky) cat again. Or, at worst case, once more.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Oh, my!

For anyone who doesn't know, "declawing" of a cat is effectively amputating every digit at the first knuckle. The cat then becomes effectively defenceless, and this procedure should never be done; extremely cruel.

Way back when, my father knew a vet (he was a neighbor), that kept an African lion at the practice. It was not declawed, nor defanged. It had the run of the back end of the facility. My understanding is that more than one large dog became momentarily incontinent with the lion walked by. My father describes one event when he was in an exam room wait to talk to the Doc. and the lion walked in. Even though he knew the lion it was still unsettling.

[rogue]

Originally Posted by chalsall

My understanding is the worms require flees as a vector. If you keep the flees under control you should not have to de-worm your (lucky) cat again. Or, at worst case, once more.

It could have been ticks or mosquitos as well. She doesn't have fleas, but it is possible that the dogs she was living with had them.

[MisterBitcoin]

My 32-GB usb-stick died today. On it back-ups from tower and Notebook and any progress from my S7 and S15 work.
Lucky me, I saved the found primes on the notebook, too. Only need to create new sieve-files and remove primed k´s.
About 4 days lost in a few minutes.

Sadly not only this. 12 GB of other important stuff are gone.

[Xyzzy]

We have recovered data from a "dead" USB stick before. It might be worth your time.

In our case, the chip was fine when we disassembled the stick. The interface part had a cracked lead, which we easily repaired.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by MisterBitcoin

My 32-GB usb-stick died today. On it back-ups from tower and Notebook and any progress from my S7 and S15 work.
Lucky me, I saved the found primes on the notebook, too. Only need to create new sieve-files and remove primed k´s.
About 4 days lost in a few minutes.

Sadly not only this. 12 GB of other important stuff are gone.

Is the flash drive totally inert? That is, not available to try recovery software?
I deeply sympathize. I have a couple of HDDs which ended life with unique information on them. I still hope to revive one, possibly via a circuit board transplant.

[MisterBitcoin]

Originally Posted by kladner

Is the flash drive totally inert? That is, not available to try recovery software?
I deeply sympathize. I have a couple of HDDs which ended life with unique information on them. I still hope to revive one, possibly via a circuit board transplant.

According to windows 10 the USB-device is unreadable. Only formatting is possible. [I tried using an recovery software, but it crushed multiple times when it reachs "G:"]
It self seems to be okay. No visual damage, but the OS can´t read or write. Not even getting any information about the stick. :/

Two days ago a very rare bug in the Game "Overwatch" called my Notebook to freeze. WinPFGW was running on the device, the progress must killed some data. I was able to save some data (pfgw.log, my prime-list) but the output and input files very empty.
I think I´m able to bring it back to life using some of my old Linux skills. Data maybe lost forever, but it looks like an software caused "short-time dead". (If not, an good friend, and IT-engineer, will get this task. )


All progress on S7 and S15 is restored, btw.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by MisterBitcoin

I think I´m able to bring it back to life using some of my old Linux skills. Data maybe lost forever, but it looks like an software caused "short-time dead". (If not, an good friend, and IT-engineer, will get this task. )

A good start will be to plug it in to a Linux box. If it is recognized as a disk drive, something like /dev/sde will appear. After that, sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=/flash-drive should extract everything extractable (assuming there's enough space on the root partition to store the entire flash drive in a single file, put it somewhere else as appropriate).

Then, and only then, should you try anything else. With luck you may be able to dd the disk image to another drive and then fsck it back into the real world. Otherwise what you do depends on how valuable the data is and how much effort you are prepared to put in to recovering it. There have been times when I've had to pull raw disk sectors into Emacs and/or od(1) to examine them; grep(1) can also be extremely useful The above is essentially what we did in OxCERT to examine any remaining evidence on a compromised system, including deleted files and the contents of the swap file or partition.