Back from Vacation and I officially HATE MAC's and Vista!

[Airbozo]

OK, I just got back into town on late monday from a wonderful vacation to Cabo San Lucas at the bottom of the Baja peninsula, Baja Mexico. I took over 150 pictures with my new digital camera and over a dozen video's as well. I had some great shots of my friend surfing (I sat that day out due to a broken toe), some wonderful shots of our fishing trip, the Hotel, etc...

Here's why I hate Mac's; At the end of the trip, my friend came over to our suite to download the pictures to his mac. I popped out the digital card from the camera and put it in the handy usb adapter and plugged it into his mac, whereupon it completely erased ALL of my photos. ALL gone! Blank. The whole trip's worth of photos, blasted into /dev/null by that crappy mac and the OS that runs on it (Sorry Jordan...). I just want to scream!

Here's why I hate Vista; As we arrived at Phoenix, we had to go through customs, which normally takes just a few minutes, and when we got there, the place was backed up all the way to the escalator and it took us over an hour to make it to the counter. Turns out they were having computer problems and they were having to reboot each station after one or two minutes worth of checking documents. They had just upgraded to Vista. We barely made it to the plane after I sprinted through the airport to get to the gate where our connecting flight was (of course it was at the end on the terminal), and the door was closed. I pleaded my case and he checked me in and then I persuaded him to wait until the rest of my party had gotten there along with some others that had the same immigration issues. I found out later that day that they were holding planes on the tarmac for over an hour and a half because of the computer issues at immigration, and it held up several flight for _hours_! Thanks Bill, for releasing BETA software into critical systems!

AAAHHHH!

Thanks for listening/reading...

[AJ@PR]

I feel for you man... sorry Ab... :(


I know that if anybody has thought of this it's you, but, have you tried some of the file recovery programs?

Sorry man.... but, on a positive note, it could be worse...

:) :) :) Smile my man! You just came back from a vacation in Mexico! w00t

[nil8]

Mac's are the devil and you might be able to recover that data. I don't know flash card architecture well enough to tell you that you definitely can, but it's something worth looking into. You can't be the first person to delete important things off of a memory card.

As for Vista, that was the airlines fault, not Microsoft. Companies should test their equipment for faults with software upgrades before deployment. Any good analyst can tell you that. Dumb company, dumb problems. I would have raised hell and see if I could get a refund or upgrade.

Still, you went fishing in Cabo San Lucas. Your week couldn't have been all bad.

[Airbozo]

Thanks for the kind words...

I am going to try some data recovery stuff today to see if I can revive the card. Funny thing is, there was never any message about formatting on the mac. We popped the xd card into the usb adapter, plugged it into his mac, it showed up on his desktop, we opened the folder and clicked on the file that was _supposed_ to be the folder with the images, and OS-X came back saying it did not know how to open that file. (it was supposed to be a folder not a file), then put the card back into my camera to see if I grabbed the right one, and all the pictures and videos were gone. (I had used the usb adapter before on my pc with no issues...)

RE: Vista, (this was a government system and not any particular airline) The Immigration department worked with M$ engineers directly to update and configure the entire network system to switch over to Vista. Worked fine until they put a load on the system (more than 10 workstations online at once (or so they said)). Then even though only one or two workstations would connect to the main server, something was happening to the credentials that would make a reboot necessary. I have to admit that I am forever the sysadmin, sticking my nose in computer related issues that are none of my business... Hehe

It was my first time deep sea fishing and even though we did not catch anything, it was fun. Most everybody that went out that day got skunked. Only one ship came back flying any flags, and they had 2 marlin flags. I did not get to see the catch though. Next time I am fishing from the beach. The beach right in front of the resort we stayed at, drops off pretty fast to a couple hundred feet. So deep that Humpback whales swim about 100' off the beach.

[Airbozo]

UPDATE: I have found a couple of tools to recover the data from the Xd card and am running one now, and it SEES my photos! Trying to find the best one now, since it looks like I will have to purchase one for it to actually work.

[AJ@PR]

UPDATE: I have found a couple of tools to recover the data from the Xd card and am running one now, and it SEES my photos! Trying to find the best one now, since it looks like I will have to purchase one for it to actually work.
When I did my Photo destruction fiasco, FileScavenger (http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm) worked SUPERBLY.
:) :)

Vista in the airport:::

You're trying to land an airplane, are you sure?

This passport appears to be fake, do you want to continue?

You're connecting to the CIA network, Allow or Deny?

lol

[Omega]

Vista in the airport:::

You're trying to land an airplane, are you sure?

This passport appears to be fake, do you want to continue?

You're connecting to the CIA network, Allow or Deny?

lol

I ****ING ROFLED.

I've ran vista. Or rather, played around on a vista machine.

"UT2004 Editor is trying to run. Allow?"
"UT2004 Editor is trying to access (insert file here). Allow?"
*Repeat above 10 times.*


Just to open UED. For ****s sake, Microsoft.

[simon275]

Usual conversation in the computer club room at my University when people come for help.

A: "I can't get my wireless internet to work on my new laptop"
B: "You running vista?"
A: "Ya' ha"
B: "Go away install xp and come back"

And variations on the theme.

Oh and Airbozo TFM mate.

[DaveW]

As for Vista, that was the airlines fault, not Microsoft.

Damn straight.

-Dave

[Airbozo]

Damn straight.

-Dave
(BTW it was NOT any airline, but the Immigration Dept. of the government)
It was mostly M$ fault since _their_ engineers did the eval and upgrade. Guess I should not specifically lay blame on M$ though, since the government should have some foresight to investigate any potential problems and institute a backup plan in case of situations like this. Piss poor planning on the part of the government (big surprise!). Being in the IT world, I know that I ALWAYS have a backup plan or two (ok 95% of the time anyway).


Welcome back terry! How'd you break you're friggin toe??

I just got my copy of Vista Business. Will fresh install tonight on my gaming rig probably... Got a lot of backing up to do. I'm hoping a fresh OS install will somehow remedy my problems with my BF2142 crashing to the desktop (since the latest patch - worked fine before....)

-Jeremy

P.S. SEND THE BOARDD!!!!

Hehe Broke my toe surfing...

P.S. Sending board today with some extra goodies!

[Drum Thumper]

I've got to ask...did you visit the Cabo Wabo?

[Airbozo]

I've got to ask...did you visit the Cabo Wabo?

I have been there before. Mediocre food, sub-par tequila, and I was with the in-laws so the SO and I could not sneak upstairs...

But no we did not visit this time. Kept out of town mainly, except for a few dinner trips and a fishing expedition (got skunked). I am not one for large crowds, especially americans in a foreign country, so I stay away mostly. That is one of my main gripes about Cabo. I go on vacation to get away from obnoxious americans, not congregate with them. That and the fact that Cabo is just as expensive as being in the states unless you get out of the main cities. Damn, I must be getting old! (actually I have always been that way). My favorite place in Mexico to visit so far is Zihuatanejo.

Here is a view of the resort from the fishing boat;
http://www.lotechdesigns.com/host/images/8926CONVAR97.JPG

and one out of the balcony;
http://www.lotechdesigns.com/host/images/2812CONVAR62.JPG

I have some more, thanks to a few data recovery tools, that restored most of the photos and half the videos.

[AJ@PR]

^^^^ Gorgeous pictures man :) :)

Cool thing that you surf!
w00t w00t :D :D

Any more... I'm-on-vacation-Ha-Ha pictures?

[Airbozo]

^^^^ Gorgeous pictures man :) :)

Cool thing that you surf!
w00t w00t :D :D

Any more... I'm-on-vacation-Ha-Ha pictures?

Thanks, getting some good practice on my new camera. I have a lot more (took over 100 photos, some of my thumb, but hey, easy enough to delete...). Never realized how tough it is to shoot stills on a moving/rocking/pitching boat...

I used to surf alot, and was hoping this trip would inspire me to surf more. I live in northern california and the water is a little too cold for me to take it up seriously. Can anyone say "shrinkage"? The friend I went with is a Malibu brat living in northern CA. and surfs almost daily (in between coding sessions at the beach). He has grown accustomed to the cold water over the last 20+ years here.