From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: OT: slang (was RE: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery)
I fall further off topic…sorry. You think English is easy?? Let’s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And, why is it that time flies like an eagle, but fruit flies like a banana? PS. – Why doesn't ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’ ? Get caught behind a few of them in traffic, and you may see. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:10 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT: slang (was RE: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery) Whereas our G-rated version is "bee's knees". How we got that from "stands out like the bollocks on a dog" I'll never know. :) On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: One of my favourite phrases, meaning outstanding.... Which naturally comes from "dog's bollocks", which was derived from the phrase "stands out like the bollocks on a dog", and adapted into an alternative for "outstanding" On 18 June 2013 17:00, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Mutt’s nuts? Really? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:53 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery Yes, I've got it out and mounted in a PC. The UFS recovery tool Richard pointed me to seems like the mutt's nuts - even though it wasn't free, but it's ripping through the data recovery in no time at all Cheers, JR On 18 June 2013 16:50, Daniel Chenault <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: When I have a problem with an external drive I remove the drive from the housing (sometimes destroys the housing) and work with the drive directly on its native interface. These days that’s going to be SATA. From: Richard Stovall<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:00 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery http://www.ufsexplorer.com/inf_terastation.php perhaps? On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:43 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Anyone know a (free, ideally) utility that can read the filesystem on a TeraStation from under Windows? -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. 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