Head Fi update, full blown advertisement site

Worse, the description of the problem is usually unrelated to what's actually wrong. "Is there something wrong with Word?" in a nasal whine could sometimes translate to a certain web site not working, while "my hard drive's broken!" could mean anything from "my monitor won't power on" to "I spilled coffee in my computer".

Don't get me started on "memory", either, which was invariably disk space on an unspecified filesystem.

I'd like to claim that those days taught me patience and inner tranquillity, but who am I trying to kid?

 

I hated the marketing-speak (ass-hat catches up with the Blahdac: don't miss his impressions) before. Come to think of it, maybe not somuch because it is marketing, but because it is so amateur.

Oh god, I got more of that from my boss than anyone else. Supposed to be an IT professional. Yep: he was fond of management jargon too.

 

Corrupted HDD data are totally recoverable.

 

Not for reasonable cost (both fiscal and temporal) for typical causes of HDD failure, and not something IT would offer to do. Whatever IT department offers those services are either doing sensitive work in governments or massively overfunded.

 

Depends. I stuck my dead HDD in the freezer for a few hours. Popped it back out & it worked like a charm. I was able to transfer the data to another HDD before it crocked again. Though having a IT specialist telling a customer to put their hard drive in a freezer might seem awkward.

Also something like this works as well for transferring corrupted files.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E7EPKUO/ref=dp_cerb_1

 

Now you tell me!

Was quoted a huge amount of money for recovering data from a physically-failed disk, here in India, a few years back. Turned into an expensive lesson on backup strategy: as important in the home as it ever was in the office.

Whether that lady's data could have been recovered or not... I don't know. But this was personal between two colleagues, not a company matter. Perhaps it was just out of our depth. This was not like file or filesystem corruption: it was multiple user-f'ing-up. Like encrypting something multiple times with multiple methods and forgetting the order. Not the sort of thing you cure with an hour in the freezer or some fancy transfer cable.

It reminds me of one of my last boss's regular demands: "I want to know why this happened." Sure: if you're still interested once I have the system running, we'll ship the dump off to IBM for analysis. And pay for that. And for now, can I just get on with making it all work again, please?

Oh, wait... Minds back on topic! Standby to repel borders!

 

When I was recovering 'lost data' or pulling files from a dying or dead disk, there were 2 levels of possible recovery.
The 1st level, where I could operate on, was to use the many disk utilities in some combination to recover the files.
Some were usable, and some weren't, but most of the files were 'recovered' though not necessarily intact.

The 2nd level was the send it in, pay $$$$'s and get what you get back, which was similar to what I'd recover only usually there more files and sometimes they were in better shape (as in actually usable files) vs having to use an editor and extract some of the meaningful data and toss the rest.

And this was for both Mac and PC.
But that was then and now days what with the shear number and size of the files, the task of combing thru GB's of data files is much more of a PIA.

JJ

 

This derailment is fascinating. From Hype-Fi we talk about data recovery because that is more interesting.



P.S. Moss would approve this derailment...

 

I've used a cold stone wall in upstate NY in late fall successfully once.

 

heAD-fi

 

I can't find the bump button on my classified. W H A T? this update is so confusing!

 

User quote: "Dont discuss blocking ads. Your posts will be deleted like mine were."

 

yeah, I saw that. You would have to block the whole head-fi dot org if you want to block ads lmao. Everything there are ads.

 

That's kind of why I thought that it wouldn't be such a shock to people. Too in your face now, maybe.

 

I like how people haven't figured out the "Conversations" set up over there. So we see all these "Private Messages" as Public Messages. The beat goes on.

 

Privacy badger takes care of all right side of page ads for some reason, oh could they be trackers, hahahaha

 

So, Jude made a post yesterday as to why HF is the way it is. Reading between the lines seems he knows pretty well that there are problems:

https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/new-head-fi-update.845500/page-42#post-13458354

The main problem I see is that the new setup isn't user friendly and user focused, it's hard for users to find their own and others content. The homepage for each user isn't nearly as good as the old layout. Meanwhile editorial and advertising content has the chance to take centerstage... which is a dangerous game. Sure you could win a few bucks but your users could also do a mass exodus to other sites. The old site did a pretty good job of making the individual user feel empowered, the new site makes you as an individual user feel like an afterthought. I don't spend that much time over there these days so it doesn't matter so much for me, but just some observations..

 

Can't close threads to mark them as sold either. That was one of only redeeming feat Head-fi had.

 

That's quite a decent statement. The migration must have been a nightmare. Perhaps close-on actually impossible.

Loyal headfi members should stay loyal headfi members and stick with headfi and Jude. What kind of members are they if they bail out now, just because of a bit of discomfort. But hey, my account there is idle: I just don't know how I would feel about what seems to be an excessive increase in advertising.