Archive for March 24th, 2009

Today’s Business: 2009-03-24

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Today we watched the movie:   The Death of the Incredible Hulk.  It surprised me that   [Mentat]   enjoyed it as much as he did, because he used to rib me for being such a big hulk fan back in 1979, when we lived together at McKee Place.  But he said it was a great movie although he didn’t think his girlfriend would like it, since it has a sadder-than-expected ending. 

Then, I showed him the 4th generation iPod Nano and he liked the speech.  He picked up how to use the thing quickly and within less than ten minutes, he knew enough to use it on his own.  The built-in speech helped a great deal there. 

I also showed him my Victor Reader Stream, and he liked that device so much that he’s talking about buying one himself so he can download NLS digital talking books.

Then, in the evening, we watched President Obama’s press conference, and I was glad to see that   [Mentat]   is not today the staunch republican that he was in the 80s.  Yep.  He’s finally coming around.  :-)

03:00 PM: I had my last visit with the “love doctor” therapist.

10:00 PM: Worked   Mentat’s Corrupt Mail File   problem. 

Tom Hesley

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Mentat’s Corrupt Mail File

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

[Mentat] and I finished the evening trying to import some mail files he had saved from an older computer running Outlook Express 6, into Windows Mail on his new Dell, which he brought here with him.  Once we got past the missing folders.dbx file issue, we were able to see approximately 50 of the 500 messages that were in the file originally.  Unfortunately however, we weren’t able to retrieve the others because the file appeared to be corrupt.  I pulled it into UltraEdit and found that all but the top tenth of the file contained nothing but zeros.  He did say that the hard drive on the original computer was going bad when he made copies of these files.  So it’s possible that the copy he got was a bad one also.  He was sad and so was I.  I really wanted to help him more.  But with so much of the file blanked out, I couldn’t do anymore than I did.  Too bad.  We couldn’t get the messages from the mail server either because most of them came in on a now-cancelled account.  So we no longer have access to that mail server. Well, I guess he’ll have to make more frequent backups in the future and check them often for integrity.

Tom Hesley

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